Notice2025-05610
Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: No Man's Land Historical Society, Goodwell, OK
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Published
April 2, 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 Historical Society proposes to transfer human remains listed in a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14462-14463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05610]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039815; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: No Man's Land
Historical Society, 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 Historical Society
proposes to transfer human remains listed in a notice of inventory
completion published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025.
DATES: Repatriation, transfer, or reinterment of the human remains in
this notice may occur on or after May 2, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Weissinger, No Man's Land
Historical Society, telephone 580-349 (2670), email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b3dddedfdbc0f3dcc6c7dfdcdcd89dd0dcde"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3b55565753487b544e4f5754545015585456">[email protected]</span></a>.
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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 Historical Society, 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
This notice follows publication of a notice of inventory completion
in the Federal Register (90 FR 5995, January 17, 2025). Human remains
representing, at least, two individuals have been identified. No
associated funerary objects are present. One individual adult was
removed from a site six miles west of Texhoma Texas County, Oklahoma
and donated on May 11, 1976. The second adult was uncovered while
excavating sand for construction in a sand pit north of Guymon, Texas
County, Oklahoma. The individual was 6' to 7' deep in the sand. Donated
to No Man's Land Museum on May 28, 1976.
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 & Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi,
Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation,
Oklahoma; The Osage Nation; and the Wichita & 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 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.
2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization connected to the
human remains.
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 Historical Society has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains in this notice has been identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains in this notice has been
clearly or reasonably identified.
<bullet> The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma have requested
transfer of the human remains described in this notice.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this
notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 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
Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
Repatriation, transfer, or reinterment of the human remains
described in this notice may occur on or after May 2, 2025. If requests
for repatriation are received, the No Man's Land Museum must evaluate
the requests and respond in writing to the requestors. 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: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05610 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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