[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19700-19701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07172]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033675; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Nebraska State 
Historical Society DBA History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: History Nebraska, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the 
cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or

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representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items 
should submit a written request to History Nebraska. If no additional 
claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items 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 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to History Nebraska at the address 
in this notice by May 5, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Williams, History Nebraska, 
Nebraska State Archeology Office, 5050 North 32nd Street, Lincoln, NE 
68504, telephone (402) 219-2759, 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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    In October of 1991, two cultural items were removed from 
archeological site 25ST21 in Stanton County, NE. The objects were 
collected from the surface of the site during an archeological research 
survey conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of 
Anthropology. Site 25ST21 is a known cemetery associated with a village 
occupied by members of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska in the 1820s and 
1830s. At an unknown date, these objects were transferred to History 
Nebraska. The two unassociated funerary objects include one lot of 
glass beads (13 beads) and one lot of wampum beads (three beads).
    The age of the bead types is consistent for the period when the 
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska was interring their dead at this cemetery site. 
Consequently, these objects are reasonably believed to be funerary 
objects that were disinterred from subsurface graves through animal 
activity or cultivation.

Determinations Made by History Nebraska

    Officials of History Nebraska have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the two cultural items 
described above 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 a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Dave Williams, History Nebraska, Nebraska 
State Archeology Office, 5050 North 32nd Street, Lincoln, NE 68504, 
telephone (402) 219-2759, email [email protected], by May 5, 
2022. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, 
transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Omaha 
Tribe of Nebraska may proceed.
    History Nebraska is responsible for notifying the Omaha Tribe of 
Nebraska that this notice has been published.

    Dated: March 30, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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