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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2789939, member: 19463&quot;]I guess this means that the trade goods items found in the US and Canada previously thought of as American Indian artifacts but actually what they received in trade for furs will have to be returned to France and England where they were produced.&nbsp; Early ships beginning with Columbus brought a variety of trade goods: trinkets, iron knives, guns, kettles, hatchets, broadcloth and beads by the million.&nbsp; Coins are the definition of trade goods and expected to travel where the economy dictates.&nbsp; Roman Imperial coins minted in Syria and found in England may never even have passed through Italy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If we declare invalid trade between governments and cultures no longer in existence in their original form, we open a giant can of worms.&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly this is a matter of current/modern politics not cultural rights.&nbsp;&nbsp; Who knows who will control any of these nations/regions next?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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