Notice2025-14373
Notice of Inventory Completion: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Published
July 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
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 144 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35929-35930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14373]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6375; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040662; 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 August 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Zachary Garrett, 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#403a212327213232253434002f356e252435"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a2d8c3c1c5c3d0d0c7d6d6e2cdd78cc7c6d7">[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, 80 individuals have been
identified. The 93 associated funerary objects are 14 lots of stone
projectile points, 25 lots of ceramic pottery sherds, one lot of
ceramic beads, one lot of manos, 13 lots of faunal remains, four lots
of stone bifaces, two lots of faunal pins, two lots of stone flakes,
five lots of hematite, three lots of worked faunal remains, one lot of
worked stone, one lot of boatstone, one lot of worked shell, one lot of
stone celts, three lots of stone hoes, 10 lots of shell, one lot of
stone drills, four lots of unmodified stone, and one lot of
hammerstones. These individuals and
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associated funerary objects were removed from the Phillips Site,
(34LF43). This mound site is located on the north side of Redwine Lake,
in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, and was excavated by the Works Progress
Administration in 1941-42, after which the individuals and objects
removed from the site were deposited at SNOMNH. This site was occupied
during the Fourche Maline phase (300-800 CE), and possibly through the
Spiro Phase. 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 80 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 93 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 August
29, 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: July 15, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14373 Filed 7-29-25; 8:45 am]
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