[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 40373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19789]



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items From Jackson 
County, KS in the Possession of the Kansas State Historical Society, 
Topeka, KS

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice..

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
cultural items in the possession of the Kansas State Historical Society 
which meet the definition of ``unassociated funerary objects'' under 
Section 2 of the Act.
    The fourteen cultural items include silver conchos, silver 
pendents, a conch shell, two bead necklaces, a cowrie shell necklace, a 
powder horn, two pieces of beaded cloth, two leather tobacco pouches, 
and a distinctively shaped piece of limestone.
    In 1969, these items were donated to the Kansas State Historical 
Society by T.W. McDonald of Carbondale, KS. Information provided by the 
donor states the items were removed ``from graves approximately three 
miles southwest of Mayetta, Kans.'' The cultural items most likely date 
from the 1850s through the 1860s. The land that is three miles 
southwest of Mayetta, KS is within the Prairie Band Potawatomi 
Reservation which has been exclusively occupied by the Potawatomi since 
1848.
    Officials of the Kansas State Historical Society have determined 
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), these fourteen cultural items 
are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to 
have been removed from a specific burial site of an Native American 
individual. Officials of the Kansas State Historical Society have also 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced 
between these items and the Citizen Band of Potawatomi and the Prairie 
Band of Potawatomi Indians.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Citizen Band of 
Potawatomi and the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians. Representatives 
of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally 
affiliated with these objects should contact Randy Thies, Archeologist, 
Kansas State Historical Society, 6425 SW Sixth, Topeka, KS 66606-1099; 
telephone (913) 272-8681 ext. 267 before August 27, 1997. Repatriation 
of these objects to the Citizen Band of Potawatomi and the Prairie Band 
of Potawatomi Indians may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.
Dated: July 21, 1997.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 97-19789 Filed 7-25-97 ; 8:45 am]
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