Indigenous people want Denmark to return a sacred drum from a 17th century witch trial

A scared drum was stolen from the Sámíipeople during the Vardø witch trials in the seventeenth century, one of the first major witch trials in the Scandinavian region. Now, the indigenous people of the area want their artifact back — as the few that still exist are all in the hands of European institutions. — Read the rest

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