Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
Published Date: 1/16/2025
Notice
Summary
The Sam Noble Museum in Oklahoma has finished checking and listing 281 Native American human remains and 169 related items found at a historic site. These remains are linked to specific tribes, and starting February 18, 2025, they can be returned to their rightful communities. This important step respects Native cultures and helps museums do the right thing without costing anyone money.
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281 Remains and 169 Objects Eligible for Return
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum completed an inventory finding 281 Native American human remains and 169 associated funerary objects from the Raymond Mackey site (34Lf29). The museum determined a cultural affiliation with the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), and these remains and objects may be repatriated on or after February 18, 2025. The items were interred during the Woodland Period (300 B.C.–A.D. 900).
Who Can Request and How Repatriation Works
Written requests for repatriation must be sent to the Sam Noble Museum contact (Dr. Marc Levine at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK 73072-7029). Requests may be submitted by any one or more of the tribes named in the notice or by a lineal descendant or Indian Tribe not named who shows by a preponderance of the evidence that they are affiliated; if competing requests are received the museum must decide the most appropriate requestor, and joint repatriation requests are treated as a single request. Repatriation may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
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