Notice2025-14793
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
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Published
August 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Minnesota Historical Society intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects 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 148 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 37557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14793]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6393; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040765; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Minnesota Historical Society,
St. Paul, MN
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 Minnesota Historical Society intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects 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 September 4, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Jennifer C. Rankin, Minnesota
Historical Society, 345 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN 55102,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#96fcf3f8f8fff0f3e4b8e4f7f8fdfff8d6fbf8fee5b8f9e4f1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1c76797272757a796e326e7d727775725c7172746f32736e7b">[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
Minnesota Historical Society, 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 seven cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The seven unassociated funerary objects are four metal
ornaments, two metal rings, and one pair of spectacles that were
removed from Lee County, Mississippi at an unknown date. They are part
of the personal collection of Gilbert L. Wilson, an ethnographer and
minister, and were donated to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1931
by Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson. No potentially hazardous substances are
known to have been used to treat the cultural items.
Determinations
The Minnesota Historical Society has determined that:
<bullet> The seven unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with
or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance
of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and The Chickasaw 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 September 4, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Minnesota Historical Society 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 Minnesota Historical
Society 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 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14793 Filed 8-4-25; 8:45 am]
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