• Awareness: Work with your community representative to plan a public exhibition or meeting to explain why ancestral remains have been returned to traditional custodians, and the need to continue the effort to return remains. • Promotion: Write to local government or museum administrators to express your understanding of the reasons why ancestral remains should be returned to the traditional custodians. Step 4 Reporting Your group can put your findings together as a report, organised into the following sections: • Introduction: A brief history of the removal and return of ancestral remains • Overview of current efforts and challenges: Findings from your case study research and interviews • Traditional Custodians’ beliefs: The understanding gained through your interviews with community members of the continuing spiritual and cultural connection with ancestral remains, and the responsibility to honour ancestors • Recommendations for continuing action: The steps museums and archaeologists need to make to improve relationships, build opportunities to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples,
and assist in the return of ancestral remains to Country Complete your self-assessment using the Inquiry rubric .
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