Notice2025-11929
Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Published
June 27, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH), 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 122 (Friday, June 27, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27673-27674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11929]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040428; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of
Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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 Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History (SNOMNH), 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 July 28, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Zachary Garrett, NAGPRA
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Program Coordinator, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History,
University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Avenue, Norman, OK 73072-7029,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a6dcc7c5c1c7d4d4c3d2d2e6c9d388c3c2d3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1b617a787c7a69697e6f6f5b746e357e7f6e">[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
SNOMNH, 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, 216 individuals have been
identified. The 258 associated funerary objects are 54 lots of stone
projectile points, 51 lots of pottery sherds, eight lots of manos, 53
lots of faunal remains, three lots of faunal beads, 16 lots of stone
bifaces, five lots of faunal pins, nine lots of groundstone, four lots
of stone axes, four lots of hematite, six lots of worked animal bone,
four lots of paintstone, three lots of modified stone, two lots of bone
awls, one lot of groundstone ornaments, one lot of metates, five lots
of boatstones, one lot of ceramic pipes, four lots of worked shell, two
lots of stone celts, four lots of shell beads, one lot of dog burials,
two lots of stone hoes, five lots of shell, one lot of stone drills,
three lots of unmodified stone, one lot of charred botanical material,
one lot of hair pins, one lot of hammerstone, two lots of shell
gorgets, and one lot of bear tooth beads.
These individuals and associated funerary objects were removed from
34Lf38, the W.O. Brewer site in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, by members of
the Works Progress Administration in 1941. They were then transferred
to SNOMNH, where they have remained since. This site was occupied
during the Fourche Maline phase (A.D. 300-800). Cultural affiliation
between these human remains and associated funerary objects, and the
Indian Tribes listed in this notice was established via tribal
consultation and archaeological information. To our knowledge, no
potentially hazardous substances were used to treat any of the human
remains or associated funerary objects.
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.
Determinations
SNOMNH has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 216 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 258 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have 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 Caddo
Nation of Oklahoma and the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita,
Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
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 July 28,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, SNOMNH 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. SNOMNH 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 17, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-11929 Filed 6-26-25; 8:45 am]
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