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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5991-5992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01189]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039349; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Tulsa District, Tulsa, 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa 
District (USACE Tulsa) intends to carry out the disposition of human 
remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025. If no claim for 
disposition is received by January 20, 2026, the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human 
remains or cultural items.

ADDRESSES: Jacqueline Rodgers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa 
District, 2488 East 81st Street, Tulsa, OK 74137, telephone (918) 669-
4964, email [email protected].

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 
USACE Tulsa, and additional information on the human remains and 
associated funerary objects 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. The one lot of 
associated funerary objects consist of coffin hardware. In the 1870s, 
the Kaw Nation founded the community of Washunga along the Arkansas 
River in what became Kay County, Oklahoma. The Washunga Cemetery was 
established was in use from approximately 1872 until the 1970s. In the 
1970s USACE Tulsa relocated known internments from this cemetery prior 
to the inundation of Kaw Lake. In 1997, human remains representing one 
individual and funerary objects including one lot of coffin hardware 
were collected from the site of the original Washunga Cemetery, now 
located along the shoreline of Kaw Lake. Currently the individual and 
all funerary objects are located at the Tulsa District Archaeological 
Repository.

Determinations

    The USACE Tulsa has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     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.
     The Kaw Nation, Oklahoma has priority for disposition of 
the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this 
notice.

Claims for Disposition

    Written claims for disposition of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the appropriate 
official identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for 
disposition is received by January 20, 2026, the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice will become unclaimed human 
remains and associated funerary objects. 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 and associated funerary objects in 
this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025. If competing 
claims for disposition are received, the USACE Tulsa must determine the 
most appropriate claimant prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects are 
considered a single request and not competing requests. The USACE Tulsa 
is responsible for sending a copy of this

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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: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01189 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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