Notice2025-11015
Notice of Intended Repatriation: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview District Office, Lakeview, OR
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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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview District Office (BLM Lakeview District Office) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 114 (Monday, June 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25368-25369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11015]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040368; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview
District Office, Lakeview, OR
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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management, Oregon/Washington State Office, Lakeview District
Office
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(BLM Lakeview District Office) intends to repatriate certain cultural
items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred
objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after July 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to James Todd Forbes, Lakeview District
Manager, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), 1301 S G Street, Lakeview, OR 97630, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ccb8aaa3beaea9bf8caea0a1e2aba3ba"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8afeece5f8e8eff9cae8e6e7a4ede5fc">[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
BLM Lakeview District Office, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Five stemmed point fragments and a total of 116 lots of cultural
items have been requested for repatriation. The five stemmed point
fragments are unassociated funerary objects, and the 116 boxes include
sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony consisting of shell
fragments, soil, faunal remains and stone tools and tool fragments made
from obsidian, basalt and cryptocrystalline silicate (CCS). The
cultural items were removed from archaeological sites on BLM lands in
Lake County, OR and Harney County, OR and were collected during
University of Nevada Reno (UNR) field schools and other research
oriented archaeological investigations. The cultural items are housed
at UNR.
Determinations
The BLM Lakeview District Office has determined that:
<bullet> The five unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with
or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance
of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> The 116 lots of sacred objects/objects of cultural
patrimony described in this notice are, according to the Native
American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional
Native American religious leader for present-day adherents to practice
traditional Native American religion, and have ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American
group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band, clan,
lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision).
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Fort Bidwell Indian
Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of California; and the
Klamath Tribes.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after July 16, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the BLM Lakeview District Office must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The BLM Lakeview District
Office is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and
to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: June 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11015 Filed 6-13-25; 8:45 am]
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