The nation wants Chief Ahan's remains returned to his homeland in B.C.'s Cariboo region.

Chief Ahan was hanged in the city's downtown on July 18, 1865, and a ceremony memorializing his exoneration was held at a high school where the Tsilhqot'in Nation believes its ancestor could be buried.

Judge Matthew Begbie oversaw the wrongful conviction and hanging of six Tsilhqot'in chiefs in 1864.