Notice2025-23192
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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Published
December 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Kansas has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary object and has determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 241 (Thursday, December 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59177-59179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23192]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6741; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041501; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS
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 Kansas has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary object and has
determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary object in this notice may occur on or after January 20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary object in this notice to Thomas Torma, The
University of Kansas, Office of Audit Risk and Compliance, 1450 Jayhawk
Blvd., 351 Strong Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d4a0f9a0bba6b9b594bfa1fab1b0a1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6d194019021f000c2d061843080918">[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 Kansas, 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, 52 individuals have been
identified. The one funerary object is one lot of artifacts. These
ancestors and belongings are currently housed in the University of
Kansas's Biodiversity Institute without any known provenience.
Consultation
Invitations to consult were sent to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux
Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Caddo Nation of
Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma;
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South
Dakota; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma;
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma;
Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of the Kickapoo
Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Kiowa Indian Tribe
of Oklahoma; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan;
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota;
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Nez Perce Tribe; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the
Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe;
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma;
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi
Nation; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota;
Quapaw Nation; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation,
South Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac
& Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox of the Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shakopee
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Shawnee Tribe; Sisseton-
Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Stockbridge Munsee Community,
Wisconsin; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Osage Nation; Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma;
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie),
Oklahoma; Wyandotte Nation; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota.
The following Tribes accepted the invitation to consult on these
ancestors: Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux
Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Citizen
Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa
Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kaw Nation,
Oklahoma; Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation;
Quapaw Nation; Shawnee Tribe; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North &
South Dakota; The Osage Nation; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town; Wichita and
Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma;
Wyandotte Nation; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
The Kaw Nation, Oklahoma has agreed to accept responsibility for
the reburial of these individuals.
Cultural Affiliation
The following types of information about the cultural affiliation
of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice are
available: biological, historical, and museum documentation and
records. The information, including the results of consultation,
identified:
1. No earlier group connected to the human remains and associated
funerary object.
2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization connected to the
human remains and associated funerary object.
3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that can be
reasonably traced through time.
Determinations
The University of Kansas has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 52 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one object 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> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains and associated funerary object in this notice has been
identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
object in this notice has been clearly or reasonably identified.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 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.
Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary object described in this notice may occur on or after January
20, 2026. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Kansas must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary object
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are considered a single request and not competing requests. The
University of Kansas is responsible for sending a copy of this notice
to any consulting lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: December 2, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23192 Filed 12-17-25; 8:45 am]
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