Notice2025-20102
Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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Published
November 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Illinois State Museum has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51781-51782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20102]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6584; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041293; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum,
Springfield, IL
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 Illinois State Museum has completed an
inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Brooke M.
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Morgan, Illinois State Museum Research & Collections Center, 1011 East
Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6d4c4d9d9ddd398dbd9c4d1d7d8f6dfdadadfd8d9dfc598d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7416061b1b1f115a191b0613151a341d18181d1a1b1d075a131b02">[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
Illinois State Museum, and additional information on the determinations
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in
the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, two associated funerary objects
have been identified. The two funerary objects are two lots of skunk
bones removed from Yokem Mound in Pike County, IL, in 1967 by Gregory
Perino. They transferred to the Illinois State Museum in 1967. To our
knowledge, no hazardous substances have been used to treat the funerary
objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Illinois State Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The two objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and Citizen Potawatomi
Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County
Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Kaw
Nation, Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
of Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-
Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana;
Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie
Band Potawatomi Nation; Quapaw Nation; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac
& Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Shawnee Tribe; The Osage
Nation; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative
identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after December 18, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the Illinois State Museum must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Illinois
State Museum is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: September 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-20102 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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