[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 183 (Friday, September 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44459-44460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20307]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0023919; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Kentucky Historical Society, 
Frankfort, KY

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Kentucky Historical Society has completed an inventory of 
human remains in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is no 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-day 
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Representatives of any 
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this 
notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains 
should submit a written request to the Kentucky Historical Society. If 
no additional requestors

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come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may 
proceed.

DATES: Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written 
request with information in support of the request to the Kentucky 
Historical Society at the address in this notice by October 23, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Beth Caffery Carter, Kentucky Historical Society, 100 West 
Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601, telephone (502) 564-1792, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY. The 
human remains were removed from Fox Field, Mason County, KY and 
Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the sole 
responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has 
control of the Native American human remains. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Kentucky 
Historical Society professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The Chickasaw 
Nation responded by letter and deferred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians. The following Indian Tribes and groups were invited to consult 
but did not participate: Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 
Cherokee Nation; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian 
Reservation, Montana; Georgia Tribe of the Eastern Cherokee, a non-
federally recognized Indian group; Shawnee Tribe; The Quapaw Tribe of 
Indians; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; and the 
Wisconsin Inter-Tribal Repatriation Committee, representing federally 
recognized Indian Tribes.

History and Description of the Remains

    At some time prior to 1964, human remains representing, at minimum, 
2 individuals were removed from Fox Field in Mason County, KY, and 
Steubenville in Jefferson County, OH. The human remains were loaned and 
then donated to the Kentucky Historical Society by Charles Johnson. The 
Kentucky Historical Society has no other information about the 
excavation of these human remains. The human remains include a skull of 
an adult female from the Fox Field site in Mason County, KY, and a 
skull of an adult male from Steubenville in Jefferson County, OH. No 
known individuals were identified. There are no associated funerary 
objects present.

Determinations Made by the Kentucky Historical Society

    Officials of the Kentucky Historical Society have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on the minimal provenance that 
came in with them.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 2 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian Tribe.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders, indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains were removed 
is the aboriginal land of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian 
Reservation, Montana; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The Quapaw Tribe of 
Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian 
Reservation, Montana; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The Quapaw Tribe of 
Indians; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 
not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control 
of these human remains should submit a written request with information 
in support of the request to Beth Caffery Carter, Kentucky Historical 
Society, 100 West Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601, telephone (502) 564-
1792, email [email protected], by October 23, 2017. After that date, 
if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of 
the human remains to Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Shawnee 
Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The Quapaw Tribe of Indians; United 
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; and, if joined to one 
or more of the Indian Tribes above, the following non-federally 
recognized Indian groups: The Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama; Georgia 
Tribe of the Eastern Cherokee; and the Wisconsin Inter-Tribal 
Repatriation Committee may proceed.
    The Kentucky Historical Society is responsible for notifying the 
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux 
Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Cherokee Nation; 
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; 
The Quapaw Tribe of Indians; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 
in Oklahoma; Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama; Georgia Tribe of the 
Eastern Cherokee; and the Wisconsin Inter-Tribal Repatriation Committee 
that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 31, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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