# 2025-11016: Dartmouth Museum Prepares to Return Ancestors and Cultural Items

2025-11016, Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-06-16, effective 2025-07-16 (as of 2026-11-02).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11016
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25366
- Published: 2025-06-16
- Effective: 2025-07-16
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-02

## In one line

Dartmouth Museum Prepares to Return Ancestors and Cultural Items

## Summary

The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has finished checking its collection and found Native American human remains and related items that belong to certain tribes. Starting July 16, 2025, these remains and objects can be returned to the tribes. This is a respectful step to honor Native American heritage and follows important laws protecting their ancestors.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hood Museum of Art 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

- Nine Native Ancestors and 108 Items Identified: benefit, medium. The Hood Museum of Art has identified human remains representing at least nine Native American individuals and 108 associated funerary objects. These remains and objects are documented as eligible for repatriation and may be returned to affiliated tribes or claimants on or after July 16, 2025.
- Tribes Identified as Culturally Affiliated: benefit, low. The notice names specific Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations as having a cultural affiliation with the identified remains and objects; the list includes the Ak-Chin Indian Community; Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Colorado River Indian Tribes; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation; Fort Mohave India…
- Who Can Request Repatriation and How Requests Are Handled: benefit, low. Repatriation requests may be submitted by any one or more of the tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations named in the notice, or by any lineal descendant, tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization (not named) that shows by a preponderance of the evidence a cultural affiliation. If competing requests a…

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## Sources
- [2025-11016 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/16/2025-11016/notice-of-inventory-completion-hood-museum-of-art-dartmouth-college-hanover-nh)
- [2025-11016 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-16/pdf/2025-11016.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11016 (as of 2026-11-02).