[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68361-68362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-23828]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031018; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Laboratory of Anthropology at the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign has completed an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects 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 associated 
funerary objects and any present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice

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that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NAGPRA Office. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request with information in support of 
the request to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NAGPRA 
Office at the address in this notice by November 27, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Krystiana Krupa, NAGPRA Program Officer, University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 412 Swanlund Administration Building, 601 
E John Street, MC-304, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone (217) 244-2587, 
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 and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Laboratory of 
Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
Champaign, IL. The human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed from Nickajack Cave, Marion County, TN.
    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 and associated funerary 
objects. 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 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of 
Texas (previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); 
Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; The Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the 
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (hereafter 
referred to as ``The Consulted Tribes'').

History and Description of the Remains

    On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Nickajack Cave in Marion County, TN. 
According to an accession card (Nickajack Cave A4782) dated November 
1979, the Nickajack Cave materials were found by L.S. Ashley a few 
hundred yards from the cave entrance, on the margin of a creek flowing 
through Nickajack Cave, and comprised a collection of Virginia deer leg 
bones. In 2018, Laboratory of Anthropology staff located and identified 
a single human right humerus, likely from an adult of unknown sex, and 
two deer long bones associated with Nickajack Cave A4782. No known 
individuals were identified. The two associated funerary objects are 
two deer long bones.

Determinations Made by the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Officials of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on osteological evidence and 
collection history.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two objects 
described in this notice 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.
     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 associated funerary objects and any present-day 
Indian Tribe.
     The 1817 Treaty with the Cherokee (Land Cessions 84) and 
the 1819 Treaty with the Cherokee (Land Cessions 101 and 102) indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the 
Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee 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 and associated funerary objects may be to the Cherokee 
Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; and United Keetoowah Band of 
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma (hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').

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 and associated funerary objects should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Krystiana 
Krupa, NAGPRA Program Officer, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 412 Swanlund Administration Building, 601 E John Street, MC-
304, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone (217) 244-2587, email 
[email protected], by November 27, 2020. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to The Tribes may 
proceed.
    The Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign is responsible for notifying The Consulted Tribes that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 9, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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