# 2025-15849: Michigan U. to Repatriate Native Artifacts: Heritage Handover

2025-15849, Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-08-20 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15849
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15849
- Title: Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 40642
- Published: 2025-08-20
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Michigan U. to Repatriate Native Artifacts: Heritage Handover

## Summary

The University of Michigan is planning to return some Native American cultural items that are connected to certain tribes and Native Hawaiian groups. This is part of a law that helps protect and respect Native heritage. The process will happen soon, making sure these important objects go back to their rightful communities without any cost to them.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Michigan intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

- University returns Native items under NAGPRA: benefit, medium. The University of Michigan intends to return certain unassociated funerary objects to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations named in this notice under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). If you are a member of one of those Tribes or Native Hawaiian org…

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## Sources
- [2025-15849 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/20/2025-15849/notice-of-intended-repatriation-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-mi)
- [2025-15849 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-20/pdf/2025-15849.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15849 (as of 2026-06-08).