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Notices
About NAGPRA Notices
As
part of the NAGPRA compliance process, the National NAGPRA Program
assists museums and Federal agencies in publishing Notices of Inventory
Completion and Notices of Intent to Repatriate in the Federal
Register. Below is an explanation of the Federal Register notices, process, templates, and the published notices databases. The National NAGPRA Program also provides a template and database of all Notices of Intended Disposition published in newspapers by Federal agencies for cultural items excavated or removed from Federal or tribal lands after November 16, 1990. The responsible Federal agency official must send copies of published Notices of Intended Disposition to National NAGPRA.
A
Notice of Inventory Completion is published:
- when a museum
or Federal agency has made a determination of cultural affiliation
for Native American human remains and associated funerary objects
in its possession or control. By law these were due November 1995.
- when a museum or Federal agency has culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains in its possession or control that were removed from tribal or aboriginal land.
- When a museum or Federal agency has culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains in its possession or control and transfers them with approval from the Secretary.
A
Notice of Intent to Repatriate is published when a museum
or Federal agency, in consultation with tribes, receives, reviews, and accepts a claim by a tribe
for sacred objects, unassociated funerary objects, or objects of
cultural patrimony.
Notice Process
To be in compliance with the law, museums and federal agencies must consult with tribes and submit notices for publication. Submission of notices for Federal Register publication starts the publication process, and this initial submission is considered a draft. After a museum or agency submits the draft notice, a receipt of confirmation with a temporary tracking ID number is sent to the museum/agency. The draft notice is compared to the Inventory or Summary records of the submitting museum/agency. It is reviewed to ensure it meets the Government Printing Office Style Manual and conforms to the most recent template. Clarification or questions will be sent to the museum/agency. Once the draft has completed the comparison and review, it is then sent to the museum/agency for approval to publish in the Federal Register. Without this final approval of the draft by a museum/agency, the notice is not submitted for Federal Register publication, and the museum/agency has not completed the notice process.
The responsible Federal agency official must send copies of published Notices of Intended Disposition to the National NAGPRA program.
Notice
Templates
Notice templates
are available in Word, and may be downloaded for use in preparing
draft Federal Register notices to be sent to National NAGPRA. Draft Federal Register notices may be sent via mail or delivery service as an electronic file on disk and should also be sent as an e-mail attachment to Melanie O'Brien. The responsible Federal agency official must send copies of published Notices of Intended Disposition to the National NAGPRA program.
Notice of Inventory Completion Template for culturally affiliated inventories of Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and Disposition with Approval from the Secretary of the Interior in situations not covered by 43 CFR 10.11. updated 8/5/2011
Notice of Inventory Completion Template for culturally unidentifiable inventories (CUI) of Native American human remains from tribal or aboriginal land to tribal/aboriginal land Indian tribes, 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1) updated 6/28/2011
Notice of Inventory Completion Template for culturally unidentifiable inventories (CUI) Native American human remains from tribal or aboriginal land to Indian tribes that are not the tribal or aboriginal land Indian tribe, 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i)
Notice of Inventory Completion Template for culturally unidentifiable inventories (CUI) of Native American human remains from tribal or aboriginal land with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior to disposition to Indian groups that are non-federally recognized or for reinterment under state law, 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii). See here for more information on the process.
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Template for culturally affiliated unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony. updated 6/22/2011
Correction
Template
(used to correct a previously published notice) updated 12/21/2009
Notice of Intended Disposition Template for Native American human remains and cultural items removed from Federal or tribal land after November 16, 1990.
Many of the terms that are used in notices have specialized meanings under NAGPRA. See the NAGPRA Glossary for terms.
Published
Notices
The text of published
Federal Register notices may be viewed in either HTML or PDF formats.
Select from:
A database of published Notices of Intended Disposition may be viewed by agency or by state/area.
For more information
regarding notices and the NAGPRA compliance process, see Law
and Regulations.
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