90 FR 52 pgs. 12774-12775 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 52Pages: 12774 - 12775
Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039566; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-04619 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
Official PDF Version:  PDF Version
Pages: 12774, 12775

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039566; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT

AGENCY:

National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale Peabody Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes in this notice.

DATES:

Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or after April 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES:

Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, telephone (203) 432-3752, email david.skelly@yale.edu.

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 Yale Peabody Museum, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available


[top] Human remains representing, at least, six individuals have been identified. No associated funerary objects are present. page 12775 This collection was received by the Yale Peabody Museum in 1871 and was collected by members of the Yale College Scientific Expedition. The human remains were collected from an unknown location in Kansas and were shipped to the Yale Peabody Museum, among other collections, from Fort Wallace, Kansas. Additional collecting notes attribute the collection to Monument, Kansas.

Cultural Affiliation

Based on the information available and the results of consultation, cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical location and acquisition history of the human remains described in this notice.

Determinations

The Yale Peabody Museum has determined that:

• The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of six individuals of Native American ancestry.

• There is a connection between the human remains described in this notice and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana.

Requests for Repatriation

Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.

Repatriation of the human remains described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Yale Peabody Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Yale Peabody Museum is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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: February 19, 2025.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2025-04619 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]

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