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Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

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Document Number2025-07431
TypeNotice
PublishedApr 30, 2025
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Docket IDNPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040022
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<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <SUBAGY>National Park Service</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040022; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> National Park Service, Interior. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notice; amendment. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has amended a notice of inventory completion published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> on May 2, 1996. This notice amends the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Repatriation of the human remains may occur on or after May 30, 2025. </DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> Jami C. Powell, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs & Curator of Indigenous Art, Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street Hanover, NH 03755, telephone (603) 646.2822, email <E T="03">hood.NAGPRA@dartmouth.edu.</E> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> 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 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 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. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Amendment</HD> This notice amends the determination of cultural affiliation published in a notice of inventory completion in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> (61 FR 19635, May 2, 1996). Repatriation of the human remains in the original notice of inventory completion has not occurred. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Determinations</HD> The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has determined that: • There is a connection between the human remains described in the original notice and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Requests for Repatriation</HD> Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in the original notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this notice under <E T="02">ADDRESSES</E> . 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation. Repatriation of the human remains described in the original notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 30, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing requests. The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice. <E T="03">Authority:</E> Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. <SIG> <DATED>Dated: April 15, 2025.</DATED> <NAME>Melanie O'Brien,</NAME> Manager, National NAGPRA Program. </SIG> </SUPLINF> <FRDOC>[FR Doc. 2025-07431 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]</FRDOC> </NOTICE>
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