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associated funerary objects described in 

this notice. 

Determinations 

The California State University, 

Sacramento has determined that: 

• The one lot of 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 Ione Band of Miwok 

Indians of California; Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

the Wilton Rancheria, California. 

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 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization with cultural affiliation. 

Repatriation of the associated 

funerary objects described in this notice 

to a requestor may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. If competing requests 

for repatriation are received, the 

California State University, Sacramento 

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 

California State University, Sacramento 

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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31282 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039257; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Repatriation: The 

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of Kansas intends to 

repatriate a certain cultural item that 

meets the definition of an unassociated 

funerary object and that has a cultural 

affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas Torma, 

University of Kansas, Office of Audit, 

Risk & Compliance, The University of 

Kansas, 1450 Jayhawk Boulevard, 351 

Strong Hall Lawrence, KS 66045, 

telephone (406) 850–2220, email ttorma@ku.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 University of 

Kansas, 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 one cultural item has been 

requested for repatriation. The one 

unassociated funerary object is a silver 

ring. The ring was taken from an 

Arapaho man named Wox-Ei-Bet’, also 

known as Walks-a-Bed, after having 

been killed by an individual known 

only as ‘‘K-’’in 1874 at Camp Supply, 

Indian Country—present day Fort 

Supply, Oklahoma. Wox-Ei-Bet’ had a 

great-great-great-grandson who is related 

to the Birdshead Family of the Southern 

Arapaho in Oklahoma. The Birdshead 

family has deferred to the Cheyenne and 

Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma on this 

repatriation. 

The ring was given to the Benedictine 

College Museum in Atchison, KS by a 

person identified as R. Kitching, likely 

in the 1920s. Father Felix Nolte was the 

curator of the Benedictine College 

Museum and the items collected during 

his tenure are referred to as the Father 

Felix Nolte collection. The collections 

from Benedictine College were 

transferred to the University of Kansas 

Museum of Anthropology (KUMA) in 

1998. KUMA closed to the public in 

August 2002 and the collections were 

renamed the Anthropological Research 

and Cultural Collections (ARCC) in July 

2005. The collections were then 

transferred internally within the 

University of Kansas from the ARCC to 

the Spencer Museum of Art in January 

2007. 

There is no known presence of any 

potentially hazardous substances used 

to treat the cultural item mentioned in 

this notice. 

Determinations 

The University of Kansas has 

determined that: 

• The one unassociated funerary 

object described in this notice is 

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 object has 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. 

• There is a reasonable connection 

between the cultural item described in 

this notice and the Cheyenne and 

Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 29, 2025. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of Kansas must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 


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for joint repatriation of the cultural item 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The University of 

Kansas 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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31304 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039250; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Carson National Forest, Taos, 

NM 

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 Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Carson National Forest (CAF), 

intends to carry out the disposition of 

human remains removed from Federal 

or Tribal lands to the lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native 

Hawaiian organization with priority for 

disposition in this notice. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 29, 2025. If no claim for 

disposition is received by December 30, 

2025, the human remains in this notice 

will become unclaimed human remains. 

ADDRESSES: Erin E. Brown, Forest 

Archeologist, USDA Forest Service, 

Carson National Forest, 208 Cruz Alta 

Road, Taos, NM 87571, telephone (575) 

779–4827, email erin.brown@usda.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 CAF, and 

additional information on the human 

remains in this notice, including the 

results of consultation, can be found in 

the related records. The National Park 

Service is not responsible for the 

identifications in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Based on the information available, 

human remains representing, at least, 

one individual have been reasonably 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. A single human 

tooth was mailed to the Jicarilla Ranger 

District of the Carson National Forest in 

August 2002 by a private individual. 

While hiking the individual 

encountered what was initially thought 

to be the bottom of a ceramic vessel near 

a fallen log. The individual removed 

soil around the ‘‘vessel’’ and found the 

vessel was actually a human skull. The 

individual explained the tooth was 

removed so the Forest Service could 

‘‘date’’ the site. Attempts to locate the 

source of the tooth were unsuccessful. 

Known archeological sites in the area of 

the discovery are a mix of Ancestral 

Puebloan Pueblo I and Early Navajo 

sites. The Jicarilla Ranger District is 

located in Rio Arriba County, NM. 

Determinations 

The CAF has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• Based on geographic affiliation, the 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Cheyenne 

and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; 

Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Fort Sill 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, 

New Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of 

the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & 

Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; 

Santo Domingo Pueblo; Southern Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 

Reservation, Colorado; Ute Mountain 

Ute Tribe; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 

(Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), 

Oklahoma; Yselta del Sur Pueblo; and 

the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico have priority for 

disposition of the human remains 

described in this notice. 

Claims for Disposition 

Written claims for disposition of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the appropriate official identified 

in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no 

claim for disposition is received by 

December 30, 2025, the human remains 

in this notice will become unclaimed 

human remains. Claims for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

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 

they have priority for disposition. 

Disposition of the human remains in 

this notice may occur on or after January 

29, 2025. If competing claims for 

disposition are received, the CAF must 

determine the most appropriate 

claimant prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. The CAF is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the lineal descendants, 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. 3002, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.7. 

Dated: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31287 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039264; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Mendocino National Forest, 

Willows, CA 

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 Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Mendocino National Forest 

intends to carry out the disposition of 

human remains or objects of cultural 

patrimony removed from Federal or 

Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization with priority for 

disposition in this notice. 


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