Notice2025-16127
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, and University of North Dakota, Alumni Association & Foundation, Grand Forks, ND
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Published
August 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of North Dakota and the University of North Dakota (UND) Alumni Association & Foundation intend to repatriate certain a 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 161 (Friday, August 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41122-41123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16127]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6472; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040891; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND, and University of North Dakota, Alumni Association &
Foundation, Grand Forks, ND
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 University of North Dakota and the
University of North Dakota (UND) Alumni Association & Foundation intend
to repatriate certain a 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 September 22, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural item in this notice to Dr. Crystal Alberts, University of
North Dakota, Carnegie Hall 1st Floor, 250 Centennial Drive, Stop 8193,
Grand Forks, ND 58202, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d8adb6bcf6b6b9bfa8aab998adb6bcf6bdbcad"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dbaeb5bff5b5babcaba9ba9baeb5bff5bebfae">[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
University of North Dakota and the UND Alumni Association & Foundation,
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 item is one eagle feather headdress (33 eagle feathers on a grey
felt hat crown; trimmed crown feather; light blue and grey fluffs;
yellow felt bases to the feathers; headband trimmed with lazy stitch
beadwork, a row of brass bells and painted rawhide rosettes and strips
of fur or streamers). The headdress has not been treated with
potentially hazardous substances to the best of the institutions'
knowledge.
This item is part of the Victor A. Corbett Collection, gifted to
the UND Alumni Association & Foundation (UNDAAF) circa February 1988.
According to New York City-based appraisers consulted by UNDAAF in the
1980s, most of these items are estimated to date from the 1890s through
the 1950s with most acquired by Corbett in the 1940s and 50s and appear
to be from tribes in what is now North Dakota and surrounding states.
Victor A. Corbett, a dentist in Minot, ND, from 1931-1984, was
reported to accept artifacts from Native Americans in the surrounding
area, namely the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the residents of the
nearby Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation. Collection
records do not provide any additional information regarding the
objects' provenience or provenance.
Included in this collection is the headdress described above.
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Determinations
The University of North Dakota and the UND Alumni Association &
Foundation has determined that:
<bullet> The one object 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 item
described in this notice and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the
Northern Cheyenne 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 September 22, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the University of North Dakota and the UND
Alumni Association & Foundation 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 University of North Dakota and the UND Alumni Association
& Foundation are 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: August 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-16127 Filed 8-21-25; 8:45 am]
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