Notice2025-01010
Notice of Inventory Completion: No Man's Land Museum, Goodwell, OK
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Published
January 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the No Man's Land Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4795-4796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01010]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039317; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: No Man's Land Museum, Goodwell,
OK
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the No Man's Land Museum has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Sue Weissinger, No Man's Land Museum, 214 E Avenue,
Goodwell, OK 73939, telephone (580) 349-2670, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#88e6e5e4e0fbc8e7fdfce4e7e7e3a6ebe7e5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e6888b8a8e95a68993928a89898dc885898b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the No
Man's Land Museum, and additional information on the determinations in
this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The six associated funerary objects are five harrell points
and one stone knife blade. The individual was excavated by an unknown
party on the Sprowles Ranch near Cheyenne, Oklahoma in Roger Mills
County and loaned to the No Man's Land Museum on January 22, 1965. It
was in a cairn as evidenced by two photographs that were loaned along
with five Harrell points and one stone knife blade.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is horse bones. The
individual was excavated one mile west and one-half mile south of Four
Corners on Highway 64 in Texas County, Oklahoma. It was loaned to the
No Man's Land Museum on August 10, 1936.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The individual
adult was removed from a site near Felt, Cimarron County, Oklahoma and
donated on May 4, 1974.
It is unknown if harmful substances were used.
Consultation
Invitations to consult were sent to the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma;
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; The
Osage Nation; and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi,
Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes,
Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; The Osage Nation; and the Wichita
and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma
agreed to consult. The Quapaw Nation declined to comment.
Cultural Affiliation
The following types of information about the cultural affiliation
of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice are
available: anthropological, archaeological, geographical, and expert
opinion. The information, including the results of consultation,
identified:
1. No earlier group connected to the human remains or associated
funerary object.
2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization connected to the
human remains or associated funerary objects.
3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that can be
reasonably traced through time.
Determinations
The No Man's Land Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The seven objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice has been
identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice has been clearly or reasonably identified.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native
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Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice may occur on or after
February 18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received,
the No Man's Land Museum must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request
and not competing requests. The No Man's Land Museum is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to any consulting lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: January 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01010 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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