Type:Notice
Citation:86 FR 7410
Reading Time:about 5 minutes
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) plans to return cultural items, identified as unassociated funerary objects, to Native American tribes. These items, found during excavations in the 1930s on McKee Island, Alabama, include black and blue glass beads. Tribes that are culturally linked to these artifacts, such as the Cherokee Nation and Muscogee (Creek) Nation, have been notified. Others who wish to make a claim must do so by March 1, 2021.
Simple Explanation
The Tennessee Valley Authority found some special beads on an island in Alabama long ago and wants to give them back to the Native American tribes that once owned them. If more people or tribes think they should get the beads, they need to say so by March 1, 2021.