Notice2025-14532
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Historic Indian Agency House Association, Inc., Portage, WI
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Published
August 1, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Historic Indian Agency House Association, Inc. intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of a sacred object 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 146 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36180-36181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14532]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6379; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040666; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Historic Indian Agency House
Association, Inc., Portage, WI
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 Historic Indian Agency House
Association, Inc. intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that
meets the definition of a sacred object 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 September 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Adam Novey, Historic Indian Agency
House Association, Inc., 1490 Agency House Road, Portage, WI 53901,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d9b1b0aaadb6abb0bab0b7bdb0b8b7b8bebcb7baa0b1b6acaabc99beb4b8b0b5f7bab6b4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80e8e9f3f4eff2e9e3e9eee4e9e1eee1e7e5eee3f9e8eff5f3e5c0e7ede1e9ecaee3efed">[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
Historic Indian Agency House Association, Inc., 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 sacred object is a ceremonial leather headband (numbered M832
in museum records) with carved abalone shell
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``hooks'' affixed to it. The object has been determined as having a
geographic connection to nations which are indigenous to northwest
California. It was gifted to the Historic Indian Agency House
Association, Inc., in October 2024, in accordance with the dissolution
of its predecessor (the National Society of Colonial Dames of America--
State of Wisconsin). Its original acquisition by the Historic Indian
Agency House Association, Inc.'s predecessor appears to have occurred
prior to 1982 from an unknown source. No cultural affiliation is
identified in museum records, and no known potentially hazardous
substances have been used to treat this cultural item.
Determinations
The Historic Indian Agency House Association, Inc. has determined
that:
<bullet> The one sacred object described in this notice is a
specific ceremonial object needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural item described
in this notice and the Wiyot Tribe, California.
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 September 2, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Historic Indian Agency House
Association, Inc., 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
Historic Indian Agency House Association, Inc., 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: July 15, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14532 Filed 7-31-25; 8:45 am]
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