[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14462-14463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05610]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039815; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Proposed Transfer or Reinterment: No Man's Land 
Historical Society, Goodwell, OK

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 No Man's Land Historical Society 
proposes to transfer human remains listed in a notice of inventory 
completion published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2025.

DATES: Repatriation, transfer, or reinterment of the human remains in 
this notice may occur on or after May 2, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue Weissinger, No Man's Land 
Historical Society, telephone 580-349 (2670), email [email protected]. 
Individuals

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who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability 
may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications 
relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the 
relay services offered within their country to make international calls 
to the point-of-contact in the United States.

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 No 
Man's Land Historical Society, 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

    This notice follows publication of a notice of inventory completion 
in the Federal Register (90 FR 5995, January 17, 2025). Human remains 
representing, at least, two individuals have been identified. No 
associated funerary objects are present. One individual adult was 
removed from a site six miles west of Texhoma Texas County, Oklahoma 
and donated on May 11, 1976. The second adult was uncovered while 
excavating sand for construction in a sand pit north of Guymon, Texas 
County, Oklahoma. The individual was 6' to 7' deep in the sand. Donated 
to No Man's Land Museum on May 28, 1976.

Consultation

    Invitations to consult were sent to the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; The 
Osage Nation; and the Wichita & Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, 
Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
    The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Comanche Nation, 
Oklahoma; The Osage Nation; and the Wichita & Affiliated Tribes 
(Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma agreed to consult. The 
Quapaw Nation declined to comment.

Cultural Affiliation

    The following types of information about the cultural affiliation 
of the human remains in this notice are available: anthropological, 
archaeological, geographical, and expert opinion. The information, 
including the results of consultation, identified:
    1. No earlier group connected to the human remains.
    2. No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization connected to the 
human remains.
    3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier 
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that can be 
reasonably traced through time.

Determinations

    The No Man's Land Historical Society has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the 
human remains in this notice has been identified.
     No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation to the human remains in this notice has been 
clearly or reasonably identified.
     The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma have requested 
transfer of the human remains described in this notice.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified in this 
notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native 
Hawaiian organization 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, transfer, or reinterment of the human remains 
described in this notice may occur on or after May 2, 2025. If requests 
for repatriation are received, the No Man's Land Museum must evaluate 
the requests and respond in writing to the requestors. The No Man's 
Land Museum is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to any 
consulting lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05610 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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