Notice2025-17011
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, Anchorage, AK
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Published
September 5, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office (BLM), 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 170 (Friday, September 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 42983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17011]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6489; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041012; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, Anchorage, AK
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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management, Alaska State Office (BLM), 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 October 6, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Robin O. Mills,
Bureau of Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, AK 99513,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9deff0f4f1f1eeddfff1f0b3faf2eb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="32405f5b5e5e4172505e5f1c555d44">[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
BLM, and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, two individuals have been reasonably identified. The 195
associated funerary objects include a lamp, potsherds, matting, a birch
bark container, glass beads, bracelets, animal teeth, a boot creaser,
an ulu handle, and a lump of agate. The remains of two ancestors were
collected by archaeologist Frederica de Laguna in 1935 at two locations
along the Anvik River. One ancestor (an adult woman) was collected from
an old habitation site called Red Stone Village, located 8.6 miles due
west of the modern village of Anvik, up the Anvik River. A total of 149
funerary objects were found and collected with this ancestor. The
second ancestor (an adult, probably male) was collected from the Anvik
Point site, overlooking the Yukon River directly across from modern
Anvik, on the north side of the mouth of the Anvik River. A total of 46
funerary objects were found with this ancestor. The remains and
associated funerary objects were placed in the University of
Pennsylvania Museum, in Philadelphia, PA, in 1935, where they have
remained ever since.
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 BLM Alaska State Office has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 195 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near the two
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the
death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and Anvik
Village.
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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 6, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM 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 BLM 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: August 26, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-17011 Filed 9-4-25; 8:45 am]
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