90 FR 142 pg. 35552 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, Anchorage, AK
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 142Page: 35552
Page: 35552Docket number: [N6324; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040514; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-14157 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6324; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040514; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, Anchorage, AK
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office (BLM Alaska) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES:
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after August 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Send written requests for repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to Robin O. Mills, Bureau of Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, AK 99513, email rmills@blm.gov.
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 BLM Alaska, and additional information on the determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A Notice of Inventory Completion, published in the Federal Register on July 21, 2000 (65 FR 45401), repatriated a minimum number of 49 ancestors and 387 associated funerary objects to the Native Village of Kotzebue, that were located at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, at Brown University, and originating from burials excavated by Louis Giddings in the 1950s and 1960s at Cape Krusenstern and other sites in Alaska. The new data reported here include additional associated funerary objects at the Haffenreffer originating from the burials at Cape Krusenstern whose remains were repatriated in 2000.
Based on the information available, these 65 associated funerary objects include lithics, lithic blades and biface fragments, an antler handle, and worked bone from Giddings' Burials 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, and 13.
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 associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The BLM Alaska has determined that:
• The 65 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.
• There is a connection between the associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Native Village of Kotzebue.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 27, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM Alaska must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing requests. The BLM Alaska is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: July 1, 2025
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14157 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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