# 2025-11141: Idaho Repository Prepares Ancient Remains and Burial Items for Repatriation

2025-11141, Notice of Inventory Completion: Archaeological Survey of Idaho Western Repository, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-06-17, effective 2025-07-17 (as of 2026-11-03).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11141
- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11141
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: Archaeological Survey of Idaho Western Repository, Idaho State Historical Society, Boise, ID
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25626
- 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

Idaho Repository Prepares Ancient Remains and Burial Items for Repatriation

## Summary

The Archaeological Survey of Idaho Western Repository has finished checking and listing 19 ancient human remains and 26 burial items found in Idaho. These remains are linked to Native American tribes, and starting July 17, 2025, they can be returned to those tribes. This is a big step in respecting Native heritage and following important laws.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Archaeological Survey of Idaho Western Repository, Idaho State Historical Society (ASI-WR), 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

- Tribes Eligible to Receive Remains: benefit, low. If you are a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, the Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, or the Shoshone Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada, the Archaeological Survey of Idaho–Western Repository (ASI-WR) has identified a cultural affiliation and may return 19 Native A…
- Who May Request Repatriation and How: benefit, low. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any one or more of the three named Indian Tribes, or by any lineal descendant or Indian Tribe/Native Hawaiian organization not named that shows by a preponderance of the evidence a cultural affiliation. ASI-WR will accept written requests (sent to the c…

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## Sources
- [2025-11141 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11141/notice-of-inventory-completion-archaeological-survey-of-idaho-western-repository-idaho-state)
- [2025-11141 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11141.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11141 (as of 2026-11-03).