Notice2025-15406
Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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Published
August 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Office of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) proposes to reinter human remains and associated funerary objects listed in a notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39214-39215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15406]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6407; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040821; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: Office of the State
Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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 Office of the State Archaeologist
Bioarchaeology Program (OSA BP) proposes to reinter human remains and
associated funerary objects listed in a notice of inventory completion
published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2024.
DATES: Reinterment of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after September 15, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written claims for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Lara Noldner, Office
of the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology Program, University of Iowa,
700 S Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52242, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#107c7162713d7e7f7c747e75625065797f67713e757465"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e488859685c98a8b88808a8196a4918d8b9385ca818091">[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
OSA BP, 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
This notice follows publication of a notice of inventory completion
in the Federal Register (89 FR 58756), on July 19, 2024. Human remains
representing, at least, 132 individuals have been identified. The 21
associated funerary objects are 16 pieces of faunal bones, four pieces
of charcoal, and one piece of shell.
Consultation
Invitations to consult were sent to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck
Indian Reservation, Montana; Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe
of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota;
Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville
Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of
Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma;
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of
the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lac
Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin;
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du
Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the
State of Minnesota; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe,
Minnesota (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake);
Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band;
White Earth Band); Oglala Sioux Tribe; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-
Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Peoria
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca
Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Quapaw Nation; Red Cliff
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and
Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of
the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North
Dakota; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe of North & South Dakota; The Osage Nation; Three Affiliated
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Upper Sioux
Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. No lineal descendant, or Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation can be clearly
or reasonably identified for the human remains and/or associated
funerary objects in this notice. This determination was made based on
lack of associated provenience documentation provided by collectors
and/or their proclivity for taking both human remains and funerary
objects from regions throughout the United States. The Lower Sioux
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota and the Ho-Chunk Nation of
Wisconsin have responded in support of this proposed reinterment.
Cultural Affiliation
The following types of information about the cultural affiliation
of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice are
available: anthropological, archaeological, biological, other relevant
information, and expert opinion. The information, including the results
of consultation, identified:
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1. No earlier group connected to the human remains and associated
funerary objects.
2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization connected to the
human remains and associated funerary objects.
3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that can be
reasonably traced through time.
Determinations
The OSA BP has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 132 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 21 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> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice has been
identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice has been clearly or reasonably identified.
<bullet> The human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice will be reinterred according to applicable
laws and policies.
Claims for Disposition
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 any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 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.
Reinterment of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice may occur on or after September 15, 2025. If
requests for repatriation are received, the OSA BP must evaluate the
requests and respond in writing to the requestors. The OSA BP is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes or
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: August 5, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-15406 Filed 8-13-25; 8:45 am]
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