Notice2025-15669
Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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Published
August 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Kansas has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 157 (Monday, August 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40081-40082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15669]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6453; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040862; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS
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 Kansas has completed an
inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after September 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Thomas Torma, Repatriation
Program Manager, The University of Kansas, Office of Audit, Risk, and
Compliance, 1450 Jayhawk Boulevard, 351 Strong Hall, Lawrence, KS
66045, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7d095009120f101c3d160853181908"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a2e772e3528373b1a312f743f3e2f">[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 Kansas, 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
Objects associated with human remains previously listed in a Notice
of Inventory Completion published in the
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Federal Register on April 30, 2025 (90 FR 17958) have been identified.
The one associated funerary object includes one lot of artifacts. The
items come from the Pawnee Indian Village Site, also known as the
Kansas Monument Site (14RP1), which was occupied by the Kitkahahki Band
of Pawnee from at least 1770 to 1830. Multiple excavations have taken
place from 1926 to 2018, the items in this notice were excavated by
Carlyle Smith in 1949. In 1971, the human remains associated with these
funerary objects were brought to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
by Bill Bass.
To our knowledge, no potentially hazardous substances were used to
treat any of these associated funerary objects.
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 associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The University of Kansas has determined that:
<bullet> The one lot of objects described in this notice is
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 associated funerary objects
described in this notice and the Kaw Nation, Oklahoma and the Pawnee
Nation of Oklahoma.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 associated funerary objects described in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or after September 17, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
Kansas must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The University of Kansas 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: August 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-15669 Filed 8-15-25; 8:45 am]
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