Natural History museum in New York City returns ancestral remains to Canadian tribe

For one Canadian native tribe's members, the history they found at the museum was their own.

Members of the Tseycum First Nation visited the American Museum of Natural History in New York City this week to reclaim the remains of ancestors taken from their land about a century ago.

The group planned to take the remains late Wednesday back to Vancouver Island in Canada's British Columbia. An interment is planned for Friday, Chief Vern Jacks said.

"Our people don't belong in boxes in a museum," he said. "This is our life, we still respect our dead."

The quest started years ago, when Jacks' wife, Cora, was going through …