Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Federal Register Notices

Federal Register Notices

Federal Register notices are published by the National Park Service in the Federal Register when a museum or federal agency determines the appropriate person or group to repatriate the cultural items. There are two kinds of notices, a Notice of Inventory Completion and a Notice of Intent to Repatriate.

 

A Notice of Inventory Completion (NIC) is published when a museum or Federal agency has consulted with appropriate tribal groups and made a determination of cultural affiliation for human remains and associated funerary objects. As of January 2024, cultural affiliation can be made based on either a clear (exp., based on information available) or reasonable (exp., based on geographical location or acquisition history) connection of shared group identity. Notice must also be given if the museum determines after consultation that no lineal descendant or any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation can be clearly or reasonably identified. The inventory must in that case briefly describe the information considered and the criteria identified to explain how the determination was made. Such notice is required pursuant to 25 USC 3003 (d), 43 CFR 10.9 (e), 43 CFR 10.11(d), and 43 CFR 10.13.

A Notice of Intent to Repatriate (NIR) is published when a museum or Federal agency receives, reviews, and accepts a claim by a tribe for sacred objects, unassociated funerary objects, or objects of cultural patrimony. Such notice is required pursuant to 43 CFR 10.8 (f).

Up-to-date Federal Register notices can always be found by searching for institutional or tribal names in the Federal Register (https://www.federalregister.gov/).

Thirty days after a Notice is published, if there are no counter claims, transfer of legal control happens when the museum issues a Repatriation Statement of subject collections to the requestor(s). Physical repatriation may then proceed. After disposition or repatriation statements are sent to claimants or requestors, the museum or federal agency must:

  1. Consult on custody and physical transfer,
  2. Document any physical transfer, and
  3. Protect sensitive information, as identified by the claimant or requestor, from disclosure to the general public to the extent consistent with applicable law.

See the National Park Service's page on Notices and Statements for more information (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/notices-and-statements.htm).

HMA has posted Federal Register notices for the following Indian Tribes.

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, NIC 2024

Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, NIC 2024

Ak-Chin Indian Community, Gila River Indian Community of Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'Odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico), NIC 2023

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, NIC 2023

Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe of Indians, NIR 2022

Narragansett Tribe of Indians, NIC 2018

Wabanaki Tribes of Maine, NIC 2000

Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation, NIC 2000

Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation, NIR 2000

 

Federal Notices - Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management has posted Federal Register notices for federal collections held at HMA for the following Alaska Native Villages.

Native Village of Kotzebue, NIC 2023

Native Village of Ambler, NIC 2023

Native Village of Shaktoolik, NIC 2023

Native Village of Wales, NIR 2023

Native Village of Kotzebue, NIC 2000

Native Village of Kotzebue, NIR 2000