# 2025-11148: Health Museum Identifies Five Chumash Ancestors for Return to California

2025-11148, Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, MD, 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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- As of: 2026-11-03
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11148
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, MD
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 25630
- 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

Health Museum Identifies Five Chumash Ancestors for Return to California

## Summary

The National Museum of Health and Medicine has finished checking and identifying five Native American human remains linked to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians in California. These remains, found in the late 1800s, can be returned to the tribe starting July 17, 2025. If you want to request the return, contact the museum soon—no money changes hands, just respect and care.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency, National Museum of Health and Medicine has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

- Five Native American remains identified: benefit, low. You can request the return of five Native American human remains that the National Museum of Health and Medicine has identified as affiliated with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians. The remains were inventoried by the museum and repatriation may occur on or after July 17, 2025.
- Who may request repatriation: benefit, low. Written repatriation requests may be submitted by any of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations named in the notice, or by lineal descendants or other tribes/organizations that show by a preponderance of the evidence they have cultural affiliation. If competing requests are received, th…
- No associated funerary objects available: cost, low. The inventory notes that no associated funerary objects are present with the five human remains, so only the human remains are available for repatriation in this notice.

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## Sources
- [2025-11148 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11148/notice-of-inventory-completion-us-department-of-defense-defense-health-agency-national-museum-of)
- [2025-11148 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11148.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11148 (as of 2026-11-03).