Notice2025-11150
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, Golden, CO
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Published
June 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 25632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11150]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040364; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave,
Golden, CO
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 Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave intends to
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural item in this notice to Rebecca Jacobs, Buffalo Bill Museum and
Grave, 987 \1/2\ Lookout Mountain Road, Golden, CO 80401, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aedccbcccbcdcdcf80c4cfcdc1ccddeecacbc0d8cbdcc9c1d880c1dcc9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="186a7d7a7d7b7b793672797b777a6b587c7d766e7d6a7f776e36776a7f">[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
Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, 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 one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The one object of cultural patrimony is a double ball (T2023.1.1). This
double ball was recently donated to the museum by a relative of
Reverend George Allen Beecher. Beecher was a bishop who developed a
friendship with William F. ``Buffalo Bill'' Cody and Cody's family
including Johnny Baker, Cody's foster son, who later became, along with
his wife, Olive Baker, founder of the museum. Beecher spent most of his
life in Nebraska working in a religious capacity. He worked at the Fort
Sidney Mission in Sidney, Nebraska; the Church of Our Survivors in
North Platte, Nebraska; St. Luke's Church in Kearney, Nebraska; he
became Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska; and then became
Bishop of the Missionary District of Western Nebraska. According to his
autobiography, through his time as a religious leader, he developed
relationships with people he referred to as Sioux. A close friend of
Cody, he attended Buffalo Bill's Wild West as a guest in 1901 and
traveled with the show for the 1905 season where he interacted with the
Lakota performers employed with the show. To the current knowledge of
museum staff there is no known presence of any potentially hazardous
substances used to treat the double ball.
Determinations
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave has determined that:
<bullet> The one object of cultural patrimony described in this
notice has 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 item
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 item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after July 17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural item are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave 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: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11150 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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