Notice2025-22909
Notice of Inventory Completion: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
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Published
December 16, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Gilcrease Museum 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 239 (Tuesday, December 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58279-58280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22909]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6637; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041369; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
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 Gilcrease Museum 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 January 15, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Laura Bryant,
Gilcrease Museum, 800 S Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74104, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dbb7baaea9baf6b9a9a2bab5af9baeafaeb7a8baf5bebfae"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ff3feeaedfeb2fdede6fef1ebdfeaebeaf3ecfeb1fafbea">[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
Gilcrease Museum, 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, 28 individuals have been
reasonably identified. The 286 associated funerary objects are 60 lots
of ceramic vessels and sherds, seven lots of faunal remains, one carved
shell gorget, 27 lots of shell beads, 16 lots of shell spoons, five
lots of shell, six lots of pipe bowls, 136 lots of lithic tools, two
lots of chunkey stones, one lot of bone beads, one lot of pebbles, five
lots of charcoal, one lot of galena, one lot of worked copper, one lot
of worked faunal teeth, one mud dauber's nest, nine lots of pigment,
one lot of pot fill, two lots of bone tools, one lot of lead bullet
fragments, one lot of petrified wood, and one lot of ear spools. The
Yokem site (11PK89) is located in Pike County, Illinois. In 1968,
avocational archaeologist Gregory Perino excavated at the Yokem Site
under the auspices of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation.
Most of the ancestral remains and funerary objects came directly to
Thomas Gilcrease following excavation, though Gregory Perino did keep
some in personal collection. Perino's collection was purchased by the
Gilcrease Foundation in the 1960s. Thomas Gilcrease transferred his
collection to the City of Tulsa in 1955 and 1963-64
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to form Gilcrease Museum. To our knowledge, no known hazardous
substances were used to treat any of the 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
Gilcrease Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 28 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 286 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; Shawnee Tribe; The Osage Nation; 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 January 15, 2026.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Gilcrease
Museum 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 Gilcrease Museum 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: November 19, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-22909 Filed 12-15-25; 8:45 am]
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