Notice2025-05223
Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Published
March 27, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 58 (Thursday, March 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13868-13869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05223]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039770; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale
University, New Haven, CT
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 Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this
notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 28, 2025.
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ADDRESSES: Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, P.O.
Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, telephone (203) 432-3752, email
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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
Yale Peabody Museum, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, 29 individuals have been
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are one lot ceramics,
one lot faunal remains implements, one lot metal, one lot shell, one
lot stone implements, one lot unmodified faunal remains, and one lot
historic items. George Langford, Yale University class of 1897,
excavated collections from the Fisher Village and Mounds Site circa
1924-1929. A portion of the collection was purchased and received in
1947 by the Yale Peabody Museum.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 29 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The seven objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk
Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
(Fond du Lac Band and Mille Lacs Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the
Potawatomi, Michigan; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi
Nation; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox
Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Shawnee
Tribe; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
2. 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 28,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Yale
Peabody Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Yale Peabody Museum is responsible for sending
a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: March 17, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05223 Filed 3-26-25; 8:45 am]
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