Notice2025-19969
Notice of Inventory Completion: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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Published
November 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Temple University 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 219 (Monday, November 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51393-51394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19969]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6605; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041198; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Temple University, Philadelphia,
PA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Temple University 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 December 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Leslie Reeder-
Myers, Temple University, 1115 Pollett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b171e0817121e55091e1e1f1e095616021e09083b0f1e160b171e551e1f0e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="167a73657a7f73386473737273643b7b6f7364655662737b667a7338737263">[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 Temple
University, 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
Human remains representing, at least, five individuals have been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are two projectile
points. In the 1960s, the Frances Dorrance Chapter of the Society for
Pennsylvania Archaeology excavated from the Schacht Site (36LU1) in
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with assistance from Jacob Gruber, an
archaeologist from Temple University, and John Witthoft of the
Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission. The human remains and
funerary objects were acquired by Temple University in 1968. Based on
the available information, a relationship of shared group identity can
be identified reasonably between the geographical location and the
culturally affiliated Indian Tribes. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, is
within the aboriginal and ancestral homeland of the culturally
affiliated Indian Tribes. Temple University has no knowledge or record
of the presence of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat
the human remains or associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects described
in this notice.
Determinations
Temple University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The two 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; Cayuga Nation; Delaware Nation,
Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis
Mohawk Tribe; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee
Tribe; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of
Seneca; and the Tuscarora Nation.
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
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December
17, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Temple
University 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. Temple University is responsible for sending a copy
of this
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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: September 18, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-19969 Filed 11-14-25; 8:45 am]
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