Notice2025-08781
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Institute for American Indian Studies, Washington, CT
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Published
May 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Institute for American Indian Studies intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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 94 (Friday, May 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21074-21075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08781]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040155; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Institute for American Indian
Studies, Washington, 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 Institute for American Indian Studies
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of 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 June 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Meryl Shriver-Rice, Institute for American Indian Studies,
38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT 06793, telephone (203) 868-0518, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f499879c869d829186d9869d9791b49d959d87998187918199da9b8693"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cfa2bca7bda6b9aabde2bda6acaa8fa6aea6bca2babcaabaa2e1a0bda8">[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
Institute for American Indian Studies, 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 three cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The three objects of cultural patrimony are False Face
masks. Masks were donated by the Winders family (Oneida) for an
exhibition to showcase how masks were constructed. This connection was
made through Alephena Logan (Onondaga), who worked closely with Ned
Swigart, the founder of the museum. It was noted by Ned that these
masks were potentially used in ceremony.
Determinations
The Institute for American Indian Studies has determined that:
<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 Oneida Indian 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 June 16, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Institute for American Indian Studies
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 Institute for American
Indian Studies 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,
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U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: May 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08781 Filed 5-15-25; 8:45 am]
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