# 2025-19958: Interior Dept. Fixes Inventory to Return Tribal Artifacts Properly

2025-19958, Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, is a Federal Register notice from Interior Department, National Park Service published 2025-11-17, effective 2025-12-17 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-19958
- Title: Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Interior Department; National Park Service
- Citation: 90 FR 51397
- Published: 2025-11-17
- Effective: 2025-12-17
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Interior Dept. Fixes Inventory to Return Tribal Artifacts Properly

## Summary

The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Museum of Northern Arizona have finished checking some ancient objects found on the Hualapai Reservation in Arizona. These items, linked to Native American tribes, are ready to be returned starting December 17, 2025. This update fixes earlier reports and helps honor Native cultures by giving back their ancestral belongings.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Museum of Northern Arizona have completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and have determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

## Effects PRIA read

- Repatriation of Four Hualapai Funerary Objects: benefit, low. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Museum of Northern Arizona will return four associated funerary objects — one basalt scraper, one chert biface, and two ceramic sherds from site NA5998 on the Hualapai Reservation — to affiliated parties. The objects are dated A.D. 900–1175, the Bureau determine…

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## Sources
- [2025-19958 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/17/2025-19958/notice-of-inventory-completion-us-department-of-the-interior-bureau-of-indian-affairs-washington-dc)
- [2025-19958 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-17/pdf/2025-19958.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-19958 (as of 2026-06-08).