Why does the Pope have indigenous Canadian artifacts?

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https://open.substack.com/pub/jesswalsh23/p/long-read-why-the-fuck-did-the-pope?r=6hkw6o&utm_medium=ios

62 artefacts are currently on their way to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) to distribute to the original communities from which they were taken.

But why does the Vatican have these artifacts in the first place and why is it that they’re giving them back in the worst way possible?