Notice2025-07425
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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Published
April 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17955-17956]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07425]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040010; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Florida, Florida
Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
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 University of Florida, Florida Museum of
Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Megan Fry, University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural
History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, telephone (352) 273-
1921, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e68b83818788c880949fa6808a89948f82878b939583938bc893808ac8838293"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="503d3537313e7e36222910363c3f223934313d252335253d7e25363c7e353425">[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
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, 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, two individuals have been
identified from the Unknown Name (8SO16), in Sarasota County, Florida.
The 196 associated funerary objects are pottery, lithics, shell, and
fossilized faunal bone. The site is located in Englewood, Sarasota
County, Florida. It is an unnamed site that contains a shell midden
that lies on the shore near Palm Grove Ave. This site was excavated by
J. M. Goggin. The midden was referred to Goggin by a local, Fred Kruea.
This collection was a part of a bulk transfer from the University of
Florida Anthropology department in 1971. The artifacts consist of
pottery, lithics, and fossilized faunal bone. The Florida Master Site
File (FMSF) has the site listed as being subsumed by 8SO23, Paulsen
Point site. That site is described as a ``rare multi-component
midden''. Immediately adjacent to the 8SO16/8SO23 site is Paulsen
Cemetery 8SO1360, a prehistoric cemetery site.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice to be associated with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.
Determinations
The University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 196 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have
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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> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Seminole
Tribe of Florida.
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:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice 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 of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 30,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History 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
University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History is responsible
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: April 15, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07425 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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