Notice2025-05607
Notice of Intended Repatriation: National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, Jackson, WY
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Published
April 2, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14469-14470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05607]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039812; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: National Museum of Wildlife Art
of the United States, Jackson, WY
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 National Museum of Wildlife Art of the
United States intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet
the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or
objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after May 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Tammi Hanawalt, Curator of Art, National Museum of Wildlife
Art, P.O. Box 6825, Jackson, WY 83002, telephone (307) 732-5451, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#55213d343b342234392115223c3931393c33303427217b3a2732"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="27534f46494650464b5367504e4b434b4e414246555309485540">[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
National Museum of Wildlife of the United States, 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 four cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. One sacred object, a red catlinite buffalo effigy
pipehead, and three objects of cultural patrimony, including a plains
style beaded man's vest and two beaded effigy pipe bags, one with
buffalo (1885) and the second with deer and elk (1885). The sacred
object and those of cultural patrimony, listed herein, were purchased
by the Museum's founder, which were in turn donated to the Museum. We
have little provenance on these objects and question their origin.
The motifs on the pipe bags show to be parallel to Lakota bands;
Mni Counjou, Two Kettle, and San Arc, based on other referenced pieces
identified. Cultural affiliation of the cultural items to the Fort Peck
Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes is identified clearly by understanding the
``SIOUX'' organizational structure and government placement. Fort Peck
became the home to a variety of Siouan subdivision bands under the
Lakota, Dakota and Nakoda peoples. Fort Peck Tribes are closely related
and associated with (if not all) other Siouan Reservations throughout
the North/South Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, as well as Canadian
reserves.
Determinations
The National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States has
determined that:
<bullet> The one sacred object described in this notice are
specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> The three objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-
group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other
subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of
the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
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 items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after May 2, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the
United States must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The National
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Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States 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: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05607 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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