Notice2025-23205
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
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Published
December 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony 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 241 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59181-59182]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23205]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6763; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041528; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Fine Arts Center at Colorado
College, Colorado Springs, 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 Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of objects of cultural patrimony 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 January 20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Michael Christiano, Fine Arts Center
at Colorado College, 30 W Dale Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5a141b1d0a081b1a39353635283b3e35393536363f3d3f743f3e2f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b5fbf4f2e5e7f4f5d6dad9dac7d4d1dad6dad9d9d0d2d09bd0d1c0">[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
Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, 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 two cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The two objects of cultural patrimony are baskets. The baskets (TM 1722
and TM 1725) originated from Kern County, California. The baskets were
obtained by Mrs. E.G. Weimer, who transferred them to Alice Bemis
Taylor, who donated them to the Taylor Museum (now the Fine Arts Center
at Colorado College) in
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1935. These cultural items are attributed to the Tejon Indian Tribe.
The Fine Arts Center has no records of these cultural items having been
treated by, or exposed to, any potentially hazardous substances.
Determinations
The Fine Arts Center at Colorado College has determined that:
<bullet> The two objects 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 connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Tejon Indian Tribe.
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 January 20, 2026. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
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 Fine Arts Center at
Colorado College 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: December 3, 2025
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23205 Filed 12-17-25; 8:45 am]
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