[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24805-24806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-07457]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Notice of Intended Disinterment From Carlisle Barracks Post 
Cemetery

AGENCY:  Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of intended disinterment.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC) is honoring the requests 
of the family members and Tribes to disinter the human remains of 
eleven Native American students from the Carlisle Barracks Post 
Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The decedent names are: William 
Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. 
Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap 
Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield, James Cornman, and Samuel 
Flying Horse from the Oglala Sioux Tribe; Leonidas Chawa from the 
Pechanga Band of Indians; Albert Mekko from the Seminole Nation of 
Oklahoma; and Alfred Charko and Kati Rosskidwits from the Wichita and 
Affiliated Tribes. These students died between 1880 and 1910 while 
attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. See the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section for more details.

DATES: The Army intends to begin disinterment activities on September 
3, 2024. Transportation to and reinterment in private cemeteries will 
take place as soon as practical after the disinterment. If other living 
relatives object to the disinterment of these remains, please provide 
written objection to MAJ Andrew Clark at the email addresses listed 
below prior to July 1st, 2024. Such objections may delay the 
disinterment for the decedent in question.

ADDRESSES: Public comments or objections may be mailed to MAJ Andrew 
Clark, OAC Project Manager, 1 Memorial Avenue, Arlington, VA 22211 or 
emailed to usarmy.pentagon.hqda-anc-osa.mbx.carlisle-barracks-operations@army.mil (preferred).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: MAJ Andrew Clark OAC Project Manager 
at

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703-346-8015 or the email address listed above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OAC has received written requests for 
disinterment from the closest living descendent of each of the eleven 
individuals. OAC will disinter and facilitate the transport and 
reinterment of the remains to private cemeteries chosen by the families 
and Tribes at government expense. This disinterment will be conducted 
under the authority of Army Regulation 290-5, in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) savings 
clauses at 25 U.S. Code Sec.  3009. Additional information related to 
Native Americans buried at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery can be 
found at https://armycemeteries.army.mil/Cemeteries/Carlisle-Barracks-Main-Post-Cemetery.

James W. Satterwhite, Jr.,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-07457 Filed 4-8-24; 8:45 am]
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