Notice2025-23010
Notice of Inventory Completion: Claremont Colleges Services, Claremont, CA
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Published
December 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Claremont Colleges Services has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58582-58583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23010]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6692; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041402; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Claremont Colleges Services,
Claremont, 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), the Claremont Colleges Services has
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes
or
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Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 16, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Stig Lanesskog, Claremont Colleges Services,
Administrative Campus Center, 101 South Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA
91711, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fb888f929cd5979a959e888890949cbb98979a899e9694958fd59e9f8e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="95e6e1fcf2bbf9f4fbf0e6e6fefaf2d5f6f9f4e7f0f8fafbe1bbf0f1e0">[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
Claremont Colleges Services 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, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. In 1968,
construction workers uncovered a burial site in Ganesha Park, Pomona,
CA. The Los Angeles County coroner determined the remains to be Native
American. Following this inadvertent discovery, two professors, Thomas
Blackburn of Cal Poly Pomona and John S. Belmont of Pitzer College,
Claremont, excavated the site. Later that year, Professor Belmont asked
the coroner to release the remains to the Claremont Colleges Museum
``in order that all material from this site be brought together in one
institution for study.'' The following year, Professor Belmont left
Pitzer College, and the remains were lost until discovered in a hidden
cabinet in the Professor's former office in June of 2025.
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 described in this
notice.
Determinations
The Claremont Colleges Services has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation (previously
listed as San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California).
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after January 16, 2026. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the Claremont Colleges Services must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Claremont Colleges
Services 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: November 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23010 Filed 12-16-25; 8:45 am]
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