Notice2025-10010
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
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Published
June 3, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Lewis College 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 105 (Tuesday, June 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23553-23554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10010]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040185; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
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ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Lewis College 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 July 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Amy Cao, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO
81301, telephone (970) 247-7030, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9a8bbaaa8a689afa6bbbda5acbea0bae7acadbc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bfdecddcded0ffd9d0cdcbd3dac8d6cc91dadbca">[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 Fort
Lewis College, 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, four individuals have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
In May 1975, human remains representing at minimum one individual
were removed during a survey conducted on private land on Blue Mesa
(WA-6, BM-005), south of Durango, Colorado in La Plata County under the
direction of Dr. John Ives as part of a Fort Lewis College field
school. This specific site within the survey was referred to as ``WA-6
(BM-005)''. Collections from the survey have been held at Fort Lewis
College since 1975.
At an unknown time, human remains representing at minimum one
individual were removed from an unknown site in La Plata County,
Colorado. The remains were identified in a box labeled ``WLP (No other
information available).'' WLP refers to ``West La Plata,'' but no
additional or specific site information is known. The remains have been
in storage at Fort Lewis College since an unknown time before 2014,
when the box containing them was noted on a general room inventory.
At an unknown time, human remains representing at minimum two
individuals were removed from unknown sites. Remains representing one
of the individuals were identified in a box holding miscellaneous
archaeological materials from unknown sites. The other remains
representing at minimum one individual were identified in another box
labeled ``Misc. Artifacts from Misc. and Unknown Sites.'' The remains
have been in collections storage at Fort Lewis College since an unknown
time before 2014, when the boxes containing them were noted on a
general room inventory.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains described in this
notice.
Determinations
Fort Lewis College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation,
New Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New
Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Southern Ute Indian
Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of
the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; Ysleta
del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after July 3, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Fort Lewis College 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. Fort Lewis College 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: May 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-10010 Filed 6-2-25; 8:45 am]
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