Can digital repatriation assist indigenous groups from the Brazilian Amazon to strengthen cultural revitalization and reinforce their historical identity, following centuries of colonization? Is it possible to empower indigenous groups through indigenous students’ engagement in a digital repatriation project? This presentation will focus on the experience of digital repatriation of the vast Amazonian ethnographic collections of the Swedish National Museum of World Cultures (Världskulturmuseerna) to and in collaboration with four indigenous groups in Brazil, the Waiwai, Palikur, Munduruku and Tikuna. The project aim, more than simply enabling open access to the collections, is to fosters symmetrical, trans-disciplinary theoretical exchanges between evidence and experiential-based positions on the meaning and nature of the past as evoked by the multi-spectral examination and interpretation of these collections. Through the development of a robust framework for the digital repatriation of collections of material and immaterial cultural heritage from the Global South deposited in museums in the Global North, the project intends to support the empowerment of indigenous communities to value their historical material culture on their own terms and frames of reference.

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