RCMP work with First Nations to repatriate human bones found near Thompson

Human bones found in northern Manitoba earlier this month are believed to belong to an Indigenous person and RCMPwant to see them get aproper burial.

Arrangements are currently underway with local First Nations and the provincial Historic Resources Branch to return thebones to their proper community.

A group of hunters found the bonesnear Cauchon Lake,about 90 kilometres southeast of Thompson, on Oct. 2.

An investigation was undertaken with the RCMP's forensic identification unitandthe province's chief medical examiner and it was determined the bones are archeological, not criminal, in nature,RCMP said.

Now it's a matter of determining where they belong.