Notice2025-14804
Notice of Inventory Completion: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX; University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, Austin, TX; and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Austin, TX
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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), Trinity University (Trinity); University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL); and and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have 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]
[Page 37554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14804]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6405; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040777; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Trinity University, San Antonio,
TX; University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory, Austin, TX; and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate
Paleontology Laboratory, Austin, TX
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Trinity University (Trinity); University of
Texas at Austin, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL); and
and University of Texas at Austin, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory
(VPL) have completed an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects and have 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 Maggie Moore, Trinity
University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 1 Trinity Place,
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b0dddddfdfc2d583f0c4c2d9ded9c4c99ed5d4c5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d3bebebcbca1b6e093a7a1babdbaa7aafdb6b7a6">[email protected]</span></a>; Jessica Ulmer,
The University of Texas at Austin Texas Archaeological Research
Laboratory, 1 University Station, R7500, Austin, TX 78712, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#670d0214140e040649120b0a021527061214130e09491213021f061449020312"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cfa5aabcbca6acaee1baa3a2aabd8faebabcbba6a1e1babbaab7aebce1aaabba">[email protected]</span></a>; and Chris Sagebiel, The University of
Texas at Austin Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, J.J. Pickle
Research Campus, The University of Texas, 3333 Read Granberry Trl.
(VPL, bldg. 6), Austin, TX 78758, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7201131517101b171e32130701061b1c5c0706170a13015c171607"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="83f0e2e4e6e1eae6efc3e2f6f0f7eaedadf6f7e6fbe2f0ade6e7f6">[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
Trinity, TARL, and VPL, 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, 24 individuals have been
identified. The 7,047 associated funerary objects are faunal remains.
In 1965-1968, Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from site 41BX26 in Bexar County, Texas. By
various circumstances, these human remains and associated funerary
objects came to be split between Trinity, TARL, VPL, California State
University, Dominguez Hills, Our Lady of the Lake University in San
Antonio, and University of Texas at San Antonio Center for
Archaeological Research. Many of the human remains have been labeled
with ink, and shellac or other preservative was used on some remains.
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
Trinity, TARL, and VPL have determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 24 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 7,047 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 Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of
Texas; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico;
Shawnee Tribe; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal
Town; 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 September
4, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Trinity,
TARL, and VPL 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. Trinity, TARL, and VPL are 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 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14804 Filed 8-4-25; 8:45 am]
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