Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation launches protest opposing reburial of ancestral remains – MBC Radio
May 8, 2026
Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation has launched a sit-in protest opposing the proposed reburial of ancestral remains connected to the Cypress Hills Massacre.
In a media release issued May 7, the Nation says the remains were discovered near Cypress Hills and Medicine Hat in 1967 and later stored at the University of Alberta without notification to likely descendants.
The Nation alleges the Métis Nation of Alberta Association, along with the university and a friendship centre, planned a reburial using Cree customs near Edmonton without proper consultation.
