Notice2025-07420
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Kansas City, Kansas Public Library, Kansas City, KS
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Published
April 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library 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 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 17967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07420]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040019; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Kansas City, Kansas Public
Library, Kansas City, KS
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 Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
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 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Anne Lacey, Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 625
Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66101, telephone (913) 295-8250,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3e5f525f5d5b477e555d554e5210514c59"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89e8e5e8eaecf0c9e2eae2f9e5a7e6fbee">[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
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library 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 seven cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The seven sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony
are one conch shell, traditionally used to call meetings to order, and
six strings of wampum, stored in a small wooden box labeled ``Wampum of
the Wyandott.''
The items were purchased by the USD 500 Board of Education from the
estate of William E. Connelley in 1935 to be housed in the local
history collections of the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library.
Determinations
The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library has determined that:
<bullet> The seven sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony
described in this notice are, according to the Native American
traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional
Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice
traditional Native American religion, and 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).
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Wyandotte Nation.
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 30, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library 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 Kansas City, Kansas
Public Library 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: April 15, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07420 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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