[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 40 (Monday, March 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11046-11047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03357]


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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 
nineteen Native American students from the Carlisle Barracks Post 
Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The decedent names are: Wallace 
Perryman from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Belle Cahoe, Wash E. He, 
Tabitha Carroll, Jane Lumpfoot, Leah Road Traveler, Percy Whitebear, 
George Harrison, Charles Whiteshield, Matavito Horse, Nannie Little 
Robe, Dora Morning, Louise Thunder, Giles Hands, Ruben Tanpeds, Henry 
Morning, William Sammers, Abe Lincoln, and Elsie Davis from the 
Cheyenne and Arapaho 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, 2025. 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 Oluwaseun Adedeji at the email addresses 
listed below prior to May 1st, 2025. Such objections may

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delay the disinterment for the decedent in question.

ADDRESSES: Public comments or objections may be mailed to MAJ Oluwaseun 
Adedeji, 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 Oluwaseun Adedeji, OAC Project 
Manager at (703) 614-0612 or the email address listed above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OAC has received written requests for 
disinterment from the closest living descendent of each of the nineteen 
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.C. 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. 2025-03357 Filed 2-28-25; 8:45 am]
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