# 2025-08474: Chicago's Field Museum Prepares Ancestors and Cultural Items for Return

2025-08474, Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-05-14 (as of 2026-10-20).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08474
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum, Chicago, IL
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 20492
- Published: 2025-05-14
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-20

## In one line

Chicago's Field Museum Prepares Ancestors and Cultural Items for Return

## Summary

The Field Museum in Chicago has finished checking its collection and found human remains and special objects linked to Native American tribes. Starting June 13, 2025, these remains and items can be returned to the tribes. This is a big step in respecting Native American heritage and making things right.

## Abstract

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

## Effects PRIA read

- Field Museum to Repatriate Remains: benefit, low. The Field Museum finished an inventory of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and determined there is a cultural affiliation with certain Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. The museum is prepared to work on returning those remains and objects to the affiliate…

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## Sources
- [2025-08474 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/14/2025-08474/notice-of-inventory-completion-field-museum-chicago-il)
- [2025-08474 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-14/pdf/2025-08474.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08474 (as of 2026-10-20).