2.65.402    DEFINITIONS

In addition to the definitions found in 22-3-903, MCA, the following definitions apply in this subchapter:

(1) "Culturally unidentifiable human skeletal remains or funerary objects" means human remains and funerary objects in a museum or an agency's possession for which no lineal descendant or cultural affiliation has been identified in the inventory process described in 22-3-911, MCA.

(2) "Group" means a "tribal group" as defined in 22-3-803, MCA, or a "cultural group" as defined in 22-3-805, MCA.

(3) "Identifiable earlier tribe" means:

(a) Blackfeet;

(b) Gros Ventres;

(c) Crow;

(d) Sioux;

(e) Kootenai (Flathead Reservation);

(f) Assiniboine (Fort Belknap Reservation);

(g) Assiniboine (Fort Peck Reservation);

(h) Chippewa (Rocky Boy's Reservation and Little Shell Tribe);

(i) Pend d'Oreille or Upper Kalispell (Flathead Reservation);

(j) Salish or Flathead (Flathead Reservation);

(k) Cheyenne;

(l) Cree (Rocky Boy's Reservation);

(m) Kiowa;

(n) Shoshone;

(o) Bannock; and

(p) Apachean.

History: 22-3-904, MCA; IMP, 22-3-904, 22-3-911, 22-3-912, MCA; NEW, 2013 MAR p. 785, Eff. 5/10/13.