Notice2025-11011
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
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Published
June 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science (LSUMNS) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2022. This notice amends the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25362-25363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11011]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040358; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Louisiana State
University, Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Louisiana State University, Museum of
Natural Science (LSUMNS) has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion
published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2022. This notice
amends the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations with cultural
affiliation.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects may occur on or after July 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Irene
Mart[iacute] Gil, LSU Museum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, LSU,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#70191d1102044243301c03055e151405"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="771e1a1605034544371b040259121302">[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
LSUMNS, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Amendment
This notice amends the determination of cultural affiliation
published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register
(87 FR 69307-69313, November 18, 2022). Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects in the original notice of
inventory completion has not occurred.
After further consultation with the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana,
they do not wish to be exclusively affiliated with these remains but
wish to acknowledge that there is a relationship of shared group
identity and geographic and cultural affiliation that can be reasonably
traced between the Native American human remains and the Caddo Nation
of Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, The Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana,
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe
of Louisiana. Representatives of any other Indian Tribe that believes
itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should contact Dr. Irene Mart[iacute] Gil
before August 1, 2025. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects may proceed after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
Determinations
The LSUMNS has determined that:
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in the original notice and the
Caddo Nation of Oklahoma; Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana; Coushatta
Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band of Choctaw Indians; Mississippi Band of
Choctaw Indians; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; and the Tunica-Biloxi
Indian Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in the original 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 the original notice to a requestor may occur on or after
July 16, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
LSUMNS 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 LSUMNS is responsible for sending a copy of
this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice and any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11011 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
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