Notice2025-07430
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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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 Hood Museum of Art has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17968-17969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07430]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040021; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
College, Hanover, NH
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 Hood Museum of Art has completed an
inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after May 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jami C. Powell, Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street,
Hanover, NH 03755, telephone (603) 646-2822, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9df5f2f2f9b3f3fcfaedeffcddf9fcefe9f0f2e8e9f5b3f8f9e8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="650d0a0a014b0b04021517042501041711080a10110d4b000110">[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
Hood Museum of Art 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, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. This ancestor
was brought to Dartmouth College in 1939 by Professor F.D. Lord, who
stated that it was ``given to [him] by a man in Iowa.'' No further
information about that ancestor has been uncovered in archival records.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains described in this
notice.
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Determinations
The Hood Museum of Art has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of at least one individual of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the 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; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians,
Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac &
Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa;
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota;
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 or Native Hawaiian
organizations 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after May 30, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Hood Museum of Art must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Hood Museum of Art is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations 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: April 15, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07430 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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