Notice2026-03556
Notice of Inventory Completion: Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
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Published
February 23, 2026
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Missouri Historical Society (MHS) 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 91, Number 35 (Monday, February 23, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8509-8510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03556]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6932; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0042038; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Missouri Historical Society, St.
Louis, 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 Missouri Historical Society (MHS) 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 March 25, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Brady Wolf, Missouri
Historical Society, 225 S Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63105, email
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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
MHS, 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 two individuals from Sacramento
County, CA, have been identified. The 34 associated funerary objects
are: six lots of baked clay, four bird bone whistles or ``sucking
tubes'', two worked bird bones, three lots of strung shell beads, three
bone awls, two ceramic ear plugs, two baked clay bird effigies, three
baked clay spools, two stone projectile points, one obsidian projectile
point, one stone ball, one baked clay net sinker, one shell pendant,
one stone spindle whorl, one lot of milk glass beads, and one large
drilled abalone shell.
At an unknown time prior to 1958, an unknown person or persons
disinterred two Ancestors and 33 associated funerary objects from
multiple burial sites in Sacramento County, CA including but not
limited to: CA-SAC-006, CA-SAC-085, CA-SAC-88,89, or 90, CA-SAC-113,
Cliff Mound, and Vernon Mound. At an unknown time, these Ancestors and
associated funerary objects were transferred to Dr. Max Goldstein of
St. Louis, MO where they were stored and possibly displayed at his
private museum within the Central Institute for the Deaf. Following the
death of Dr. Goldstein, his estate transferred control of the Ancestors
and associated funerary objects to the Missouri Historical Society in
1958.
At an unknown time prior to 1993, an unknown person or persons
removed one carved stone spindle whorl from CA-SAC-006 and transferred
to the Missouri Historical Society. The whorl was catalogued during a
1993 internal inventory.
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 MHS has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 34 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Buena
Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California;
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria
(Verona Tract), California; United Auburn Indian Community of the
Auburn Rancheria of California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after March 25,
2026. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the MHS 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 MHS 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: February 13, 2026.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2026-03556 Filed 2-20-26; 8:45 am]
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