Notice2025-20121
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, Columbia, MO
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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 Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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 51781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20121]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6581; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041289; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology, Columbia, MO
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 Missouri, Museum of
Anthropology 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 Dr. Candace Sall,
University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, 101 Museum Support
Center, Columbia, MO 65211, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a1cfc0c6d1d3c0e1ccc8d2d2ced4d3c88fc4c5d4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dbb5babcaba9ba9bb6b2a8a8b4aea9b2f5bebfae">[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 Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, 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, 22 individuals have been
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are one obsidian
flake and six ceramic sherds. Prior to 1996, the University of
Missouri, Museum of Anthropology, became responsible for the care of 22
ancestors (seven adult females, eight adult males, four adults of
unknown sex, and three children of unknown sex) and their funerary
belongings. These individuals and associated funerary objects were
removed from burials in the Montezuma Mound Group (11PK1245; Pike
County, Illinois): Mounds 1-B, 1-C, 7, 7-A, 7-C, 7-F, 8-B, 8-D, and
other, unknown locations at Montezuma Mounds on an unknown date by Dr.
Parks and the Missouri Historical Society. To our knowledge, no
hazardous substances have been used to treat the human remains or
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 human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 22 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The seven 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and
Nebraska; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of
Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Omaha Tribe
of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Quapaw Nation; Sac & Fox Nation,
Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Shawnee Tribe;
and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
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 December 18, 2025.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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 University of Missouri, Museum
of Anthropology 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: September 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-20121 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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