[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8033-8034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02979]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033383; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Anniston Museum of Natural 
History, Anniston, AL; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

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ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Anniston Museum of Natural History has corrected an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, published 
in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on August 
10, 2018. This notice corrects the cultural affiliation. Lineal 
descendants or 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 to the Anniston Museum of 
Natural History. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the 
lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations 
stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or 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 Anniston Museum of Natural History at the 
address in this notice by March 14, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel D. Spaulding, Anniston Museum 
of Natural History, 800 Museum Drive, Anniston, AL 36206, telephone 
(256) 237-6766, 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 correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Anniston Museum of 
Natural History, Anniston, AL. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Moundville in Tuscaloosa County, AL.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). 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.
    This notice corrects the cultural affiliation published in a Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (83 FR 39776-39777, 
August 10, 2018). Transfer of control of the items in this correction 
notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 39776, August 10, 2018), column 3, 
sentence 1 under the heading ``Summary'' is corrected by substituting 
the following sentence:

    The Anniston Museum of Natural History 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 a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 39777, August 10, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 4, under the heading ``Determinations Made by the Anniston 
Museum of Natural History,'' is corrected by substituting the following 
paragraph:

    Officials of the Anniston Museum of Natural History have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains 
described in this notice represent the physical remains of two 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 10 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), there is a relationship 
of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and 
the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas [previously listed as Alabama-
Coushatta Tribes of Texas]; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band 
of Choctaw Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida [previously listed as 
Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood, 
& Tampa Reservations)]; The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of 
Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and The Seminole Nation of 
Oklahoma (hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or 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 Daniel D. Spaulding, Anniston Museum of 
Natural History, 800 Museum Drive, Anniston, AL 36206, telephone (256) 
237-6766, email [email protected], by March 14, 2022. 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 Anniston Museum of Natural History is responsible for notifying 
the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; United Keetoowah 
Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; and The Tribes that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: February 3, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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