According to the filing, in January 2025 the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository notified BLM Wyoming that it had in its custody collections from seven BLM archaeological sites where human remains had been discovered, and that the human remains and related items were not included in its collections.
In June 2025, the BLM published a Notice of Inventory Completion and a Notice of Intended Disposition regarding the human remains in question and thousands of items within UWAR's possession claimed to be associated funerary objects.
Then, in July 2025, the BLM sent a letter stating that in consultation with 15 tribes it had determined that the entirety of the archaeological collections from seven sites, including four sites named in the lawsuit, are funerary objects associated with NAGPRA human remains housed in the University of Wyoming Human Remains Repository. The BLM stated that it intended to repatriate the objects and human remains to claimant tribes and asked that the items identified be moved to the Human Remains Repository.
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