Notice2025-14150
Notice of Inventory Completion: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Published
July 28, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Indiana University 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 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35543-35544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14150]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6242; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040529; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Indiana University 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 August 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Jayne-Leigh
Thomas, NAGPRA Executive Director, Indiana University, Student Building
318, 701 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6e1a0601030f040f172e071b400b0a1b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0d796562606c676c744d647823686978">[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
Indiana University 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, three individuals have been
identified in total from the McKinnan site in Pike County, Illinois.
There are no AFOs present. There is no collection history aside from
that the collection likely came to Indiana University from Gregory
Perino.
From the Swartz Mound and Village site in Pike County, Illinois,
human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
identified. There are no AFOs present. There is no collection history
aside from that the collection likely came to Indiana University from
Gregory Perino.
Human remains representing, at least, 71 individuals have been
identified from the Lawrence Gay Mound Group in Pike County, Illinois.
There are two AFOs present--one lot of shell and one lot of lithics).
These materials were excavated by Gregory Perino and Della C. Cook in
1970-1971.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified from the Schaffner site in Pike County, Illinois. There are
no AFOs present. This site was excavated in 1968 by Gregory Perino.
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified from the Stilwell II site in Pike County, Illinois. There
are no AFOs present. Gregory Perino conducted salvage work at the site
in 1962, documenting intact Early Archaic deposits and this collection
likely arrived with other material from Perino.
Human remains representing, at least, 260 individuals have been
identified from the Joe Gay Mound Group in Pike County, Illinois. There
are seven AFOs present--one lot of lithics, one lot of shell, one lot
of faunal bone, one lot of beads, one lot of sandstone, one lot of
daub, and one lot of ceramics. These materials were by Gregory Perino
and Della Cook in 1970.
Human remains representing, at least, 154 individuals have been
identified from the Homer Adams Mound Group in Pike County, Illinois.
There are three AFOs present--one lot of ceramics, one lot of charcoal,
and one lot of lithics. These materials were excavated by Gregory
Perino and Della C. Cook in 1971.
There are no known pesticide contaminants on any of these
collections.
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
Indiana University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 492 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 12 associated funerary 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 Citizen
Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest
County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and
Nebraska; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of
Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Omaha Tribe
of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Quapaw Nation; Sac & Fox Nation,
Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Shawnee Tribe;
and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
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.
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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 August
27, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Indiana
University 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. Indiana University 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: July 1, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14150 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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