Notice2025-20109
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
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Published
November 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) 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 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 51777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20109]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6591; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041305; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
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 Tennessee at Chattanooga
(UTC) 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 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Kylie Williamson, The
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Dept.
2101, Chattanooga, TN 37403, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3f515e584f4d5e7f4a4b5c115a5b4a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7b151a1c0b091a3b0e0f18551e1f0e">[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
UTC, 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
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
identified. The 41 lots of associated funerary objects are ceramics,
lithics, shell, bone, soil samples, organics, radiocarbon samples, and
daub. The materials associated with 40HA210, Lupton Site, Heritage
Place Tract were excavated in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee,
by Dr. Nicholas Honerkamp and R. Bruce Council of UTC's Jeffrey L.
Brown Institute of Archaeology in two phases of excavations in November
1984 and April 1985. Excavated materials, not including Ancestral
remains were housed at UTC. Project reports from 1985 and 1990 indicate
Ancestral remains were transferred to the McClung Museum of Natural
History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK),
where they were housed until they were transferred to UTC on May 15,
2025. There are no known potentially hazardous substances used to treat
any of the Ancestral remains or associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The UTC has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 41 lots of 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 Cherokee
Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; and The Muscogee (Creek)
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after December
18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the UTC
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 UTC 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: September 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-20109 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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