Notice2025-08483
Notice of Inventory Completion: Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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Published
May 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 20495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08483]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040129; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Office of the State
Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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 Office of the State Archaeologist
Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) has completed an inventory of human
remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between
the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after June 13, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Lara Noldner, Office of the State Archaeologist
Bioarchaeology Program, University of Iowa, 700 S Clinton Street, Iowa
City, IA 52242, telephone (319) 384-0740, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a0ccc1d2c18dcecfccc4cec5d2e0d5c9cfd7c18ec5c4d5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5834392a39753637343c363d2a182d31372f39763d3c2d">[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
OSA BP and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, two individuals were removed from an unknown location in
Northern Wyoming, in the vicinity of the Big Horn Mountains. At some
point, the human remains came into the possession of private collector
John Morrie of Fort Madison, IA. After the collector's death in 1994,
the remains were transferred to the OSA BP. Two adults, one middle-aged
male and one of indeterminate sex, are represented by the cranial and
dental remains (OSA Burial Project 785). No associated funerary objects
are present. No potentially hazardous substances were used to treat the
human remains.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location and acquisition history of the human remains described in this
notice.
Determinations
The OSA BP has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
described in this notice and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma;
Crow Tribe of Montana; and the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming.
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 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after June 13, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the OSA BP must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains are considered a single request and not competing requests. The
OSA BP 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 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08483 Filed 5-13-25; 8:45 am]
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