90 FR 130 pgs. 30670-30671 - Notice of Intended Repatriation: Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 130Pages: 30670 - 30671
Pages: 30670, 30671Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040476; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-12830 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
Official PDF Version: PDF Version
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040476; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, AZ
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Center for Archaeology and Society Repository (acting in place of the Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES:
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or after August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to Allisen Dahlstedt, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, email Allisen.Dahlstedt@asu.edu and Christopher Caseldine, Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, P.O. Box 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402, email Christopher.Caseldine@asu.edu.
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 Arizona State University Center for Archaeology and Society Repository, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of 22 cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The 10 unassociated funerary objects are one lot of shell objects, one lot of ceramic objects, two lots of chipped stone objects, one lot of glass objects, one lot of ground stone objects, two lots of daub objects, one other stone object, and one lot of fragmentary faunal bone.
The 12 sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony are one ceramic vessel, two lots of ceramic objects, one lot of worked faunal bone, one lot of unworked faunal bone, one lot of other stone objects, and six lots of shell objects.
All of these cultural items were removed from the Las Colinas site in Maricopa County, AZ, some at an unknown date in 1959, by an undergraduate student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Arizona State University (ASU), and others in a separate undertaking in March of 1967 by personnel from ASU's Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The collections were curated by what was then the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, now the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, at ASU's Center for Archaeology and Society Repository.
Determinations
The Arizona State University, SHESC, CASR, Tempe, AZ, has determined that:
• The 10 unassociated funerary objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
[top] • The 12 sacred objects/objects of cultural patrimony described in this notice are, according to the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American religious leader for present-day
• There is a reasonable connection between the cultural items described in this notice and the Ak Chin Indian Community; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 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 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 11, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society Repository must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and not competing requests. The ASU Center for Archaeology and Society Repository is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the 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. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: June 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-12830 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
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