WASHINGTON, April 16 -- National Park Service has issued a notice called: Notice of Intended Repatriation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Tonto National Forest, Phoenix, AZ.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on April 16 by Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Summary: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Tonto National Forest (Tonto National Forest) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizatio...