Notice2025-23023
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, Tulsa, OK
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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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District (USACE Tulsa) intends to carry out the disposition of human remains and associated funerary objects removed from Federal or Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58609-58610]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23023]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6672; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041411; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Tulsa District, 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa
District (USACE Tulsa) intends to carry out the disposition of human
remains and associated funerary objects removed from Federal or Tribal
lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after January 16, 2026. If no claim for
disposition is received by December 17, 2026, the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human
remains and associated funerary objects.
ADDRESSES: Send written claims for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice to Jacqueline Rodgers, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, 2488 East 81st Street, Tulsa,
OK 74137, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#533932302226363f3a3d367d213c37343621201326203230367d32213e2a7d3e3a3f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="82e8e3e1f3f7e7eeebece7acf0ede6e5e7f0f1c2f7f1e3e1e7ace3f0effbacefebee">[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
USACE Tulsa, and additional information on the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the identifications in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The 90
associated funerary objects are one lot of unidentified metal, six
cutlery fragments, one iron buckle, two gunflints, three metal tools,
one lot of lead ammunition, two lots of plain whiteware, one lot of
transferprint whiteware, one lot of blue hand-painted whiteware, one
lot of flow blue feather-edged whiteware, one lot of annularware, one
ceramic toy doll plate, one lot of green hand-blown glass, one lot of
aqua hand-blown glass, one transferprint whiteware child's cup, one
clay ball, three pieces of petrified wood, one lot of worked glass, one
lot of iron nails, two metal buttons, two pipe fragments, two arrow
shaft straighteners, three pieces of burned slate, one lot of biface
fragments, four scrapers, three lots of flakes, one lot of cores, four
lots of non-cultural stone, one lot of grinding stones, one chopper,
one lot of daub, one lot of shell, eight lots of faunal remains, 15
lots of plain Native ceramics, one lot of incised Native ceramics, and
ten lots of McIntosh Roughened Native ceramics. On May 28, 1993, human
remains representing one individual were recovered with a large surface
scatter of artifacts along the shoreline of Eufaula Lake in McIntosh
County, Oklahoma. All human remains and objects were recovered from the
surface and no subsurface investigations were attempted. No additional
information was recorded about this recovery. This location lies within
the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation.
Determinations
The USACE Tulsa has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 90 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> The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has priority for disposition
of the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this
notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the appropriate
official identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for
disposition is received by December 17, 2026, the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human
remains and associated funerary objects. Claims for disposition may be
submitted by:
1. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization 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 they have priority for disposition.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in
this notice
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may occur on or after January 16, 2026. If competing claims for
disposition are received, the USACE Tulsa must determine the most
appropriate claimant prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The USACE Tulsa
is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the lineal
descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice and to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.7.
Dated: November 24, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23023 Filed 12-16-25; 8:45 am]
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