# 2025-11139: Yale Museum Begins Process to Return Native Ancestors and Objects

2025-11139, Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-06-17, effective 2025-07-17 (as of 2026-11-03).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11139
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25633
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: 2025-07-17
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

Yale Museum Begins Process to Return Native Ancestors and Objects

## Summary

Yale Peabody Museum has finished checking its collection and found Native American human remains and related items from New Jersey. These remains and objects can be returned to the affiliated tribes starting July 17, 2025. If you want to request repatriation, contact the museum soon—no money changes hands, just respect and care for history.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University 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 in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

- Museum Identifies Remains and Affiliated Tribes: benefit, low. The Yale Peabody Museum identified human remains representing at least one Native American individual and four associated funerary object lots (unmodified faunal remains, shell, stone, ceramics) removed before 1897 from the North Shrewsbury (Navesink) River bank in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The…
- Repatriation Available Beginning July 17, 2025: benefit, low. Repatriation of the identified human remains and associated funerary objects may occur on or after July 17, 2025. Written repatriation requests must be sent to Professor David Skelly, Director, Yale Peabody Museum, P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118, or by the museum email address provided i…
- Who Can Request and How Competing Requests Are Handled: benefit, low. Repatriation requests may be submitted by any one or more of the three tribes named in the notice, or by any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not named that shows cultural affiliation by a preponderance of the evidence. If competing requests are received, the Yale Pe…

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## Sources
- [2025-11139 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11139/notice-of-inventory-completion-yale-peabody-museum-yale-university-new-haven-ct)
- [2025-11139 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11139.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11139 (as of 2026-11-03).