First Nation angered by B.C. inland port's failure to have ancestral remains reburied where they were found

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A First Nation in B.C.’s southern Interior is accusing a major inland port of “spiritual desecration” for failing to return ancestral remains to where they were unearthed during expansion work late last year. 

Since the discovery by staff at the Ashcroft Terminal, the remains — which could be more than 3,000 years old — have been kept stored onsite in a locked modular trailer.

Last week, elders of the Stucuws First Nation met in their

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