Notice2025-07431

Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

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Published
April 30, 2025

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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service

Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has amended a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on May 2, 1996. This notice amends the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation.

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 17953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07431]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040022; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Hood Museum of Art, 
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 
has amended a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal 
Register on May 2, 1996. This notice amends the Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains may occur on or after May 30, 
2025.

ADDRESSES: Jami C. Powell, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & 
Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street 
Hanover, NH 03755, telephone (603) 646.2822, email 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3c5453535812727d7b6c6e7d7c585d4e48515349485412595849"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="234b4c4c470d6d626473716263474251574e4c56574b0d464756">[email&#160;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, Dartmouth College, 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.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determination of cultural affiliation 
published in a notice of inventory completion in the Federal Register 
(61 FR 19635, May 2, 1996). Repatriation of the human remains in the 
original notice of inventory completion has not occurred.

Determinations

    The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has determined that:
    <bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described 
in the original notice and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Poarch Band 
of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The Muscogee (Creek) 
Nation; and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in the 
original 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 the original notice 
to a requestor may occur on or after May 30, 2025. If competing 
requests for repatriation are received, the Hood Museum of Art, 
Dartmouth College 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 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College 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. 2025-07431 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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