Notice2025-04613
Notice of Intended Repatriation: John James Audubon State Park of Kentucky State Parks, Henderson, KY
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Published
March 19, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the John James Audubon State Park intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12787-12788]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04613]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039565; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: John James Audubon State Park of
Kentucky State Parks, Henderson, KY
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the John James Audubon State Park intends to
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after April 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Connor Humphrey, John James Audubon State Park, 3100 US
Highway 41 North, Henderson, KY 42420, telephone (502) 782-9716, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4b28242525243965233e263b23392e320b2032652c243d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="22414d4c4c4d500c4a574f524a50475b62495b0c454d54">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
John James Audubon State Park, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of one cultural item has been requested for repatriation by
the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana. The
one object of cultural patrimony is a Blackfeet Hairlock Shirt. It was
given to the artist and naturalist John James Audubon by James Kipp of
the American Fur Trade Company at Fort Union near Williston, North
Dakota. The Hairlock Shirt was passed down in Audubon's family and
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came to John James Audubon State Park in 1938. The Commonwealth of
Kentucky purchased the shirt from Audubon's descendants in 1994. The
shirt is Blackfeet as it bears the Blackfeet symbol on both the obverse
and reverse of the shirt in addition to Audubon's documentation of
receiving the shirt in his journal. No hazardous materials were used to
treat the shirt that are known.
Determinations
The John James Audubon State Park has determined that:
<bullet> The one object of cultural patrimony described in this
notice has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of
Montana based on the tribe's Native American traditional knowledge.
There is a strong connection between the cultural items described in
this notice and the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation
of Montana.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after April 18, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the John James Audubon State Park must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The John James Audubon State
Park is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and
to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 19, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04613 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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