Notice2025-18167
Notice of Intended Repatriation: San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
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Published
September 19, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Diego State University (SDSU) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 180 (Friday, September 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 45242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18167]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6525; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041078; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: San Diego State University, San
Diego, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Diego State University (SDSU) intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects
of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after October 20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Jaime Lennox, San Diego State
University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#afc5c3cac1c1c0d7efdccbdcda81cacbda"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3852545d56565740784b5c4b4d165d5c4d">[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 SDSU,
and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of four lots of cultural items (approximately 70 cultural
items) have been requested for repatriation. The four lots of objects
of cultural patrimony are one lot of lithics, one lot of groundstone,
one lot of pottery sherds, and one lot of worked non-human faunal
remains. In 1964, SDSU graduate student William R. James collected
cultural items from within the states of Iowa, Missouri, and North
Dakota for a project under the University of Wisconsin funded by the
National Science Foundation; shortly thereafter, the resulting
collection was received by SDSU as a gift from the Sioux City Public
Museum. It is unknown whether any potentially hazardous substances were
used to treat the objects of cultural patrimony.
Determinations
SDSU has determined that:
<bullet> The four lots of objects of cultural patrimony described
in this notice have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural
importance central to the Native American group, including any
constituent sub-group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial
society, or other subdivision), according to the Native American
traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> There is a connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
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 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after October 20, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, SDSU must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing
requests. SDSU is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice and to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: September 4, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-18167 Filed 9-18-25; 8:45 am]
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