Notice2025-14796
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR
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Published
August 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History 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 148 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37561-37562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14796]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6396; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040768; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, 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 University of Oregon Museum of Natural
and Cultural History 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 September 4, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Pamela Endzweig,
Director of Anthropological Collections, University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and
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Cultural History, 1224 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1224,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#32575c564845575b5572475d4057555d5c1c575647"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="670209031d10020e00271208150200080949020312">[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
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History 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. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Curry County, OR.
Abstract of Information Available
In 1935, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals,
were removed from Gwesa'L-henten, also known as the Euchre Creek site
(35CU20), a village, burial ground, and midden, in Curry County, OR
that is named as the principal village of the Euquachee band of
southern Oregon Coast Athabascans. It is unknown when the site was
first used, but the village was occupied by 102 individuals in when
visited by Rev. Josiah Parrish in 1854. The remains were removed by J.
Berreman of Stanford University in 1935 and later transferred to the
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Skeletal
analyses indicate that the fragmentary remains include one adult female
and one adult of indeterminate sex. No known individuals were
identified. The 86 associated funerary objects include 85 pine nut
beads and one projectile point. A second projectile point was not
transferred to the Museum.
Historical Documents, ethnographic sources, and oral history
indicate that the Tututni people have occupied this area of the
southern Oregon coast since pre-contact times. Based on archaeological
context and/or skeletal evidence, the two individuals above were
determined to be Native American, of possible Tututni cultural
affiliation.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
have determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 86 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed 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
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon and the Coquille Indian
Tribe.
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 September
4, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History 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 University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
History 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 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14796 Filed 8-4-25; 8:45 am]
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