[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 134 (Thursday, July 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42204-42205]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15041]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034194; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Mississippi Department of 
Archives and History, Jackson, MS

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Mississippi Department of Archives and 
History (MDAH) has completed an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from DeSoto, 
Lee, Tunica, Union, and/or Coahoma counties in MS.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 15, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Meg Cook, Director of Archaeology Collections, Mississippi

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Department of Archives and History, Museum Division, 222 North Street, 
P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205, telephone (601) 576-6927, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
MDAH. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the MDAH.

Description

    On July 30, 2021, the MDAH acquired the following collections from 
the University of Mississippi.
    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, five 
individuals were removed from the Walls (22DS500) and Woodlyn (22DS517) 
sites in DeSoto County, MS. The one associated funerary object is one 
lot faunal bone.
    In 1990, two individuals, at minimum, were removed from Meadowbrook 
site (22LE912) in Lee County, MS. The one associated funerary object is 
one lot of burial matrix.
    In 2001, two individuals, at minimum, were removed from Hollywood 
(22TU500) and Perry (22TU514) in Tunica County, MS. The one associated 
funerary object is one lot of ceramics.
    At an unknown date, one individual, at minimum, was removed from 
Ingomar (22UN500) in Union County, MS. The one associated funerary 
object is one lot of faunal bone.
    At an unknown date, one individual, at minimum, was removed from 
``22DS517 or CO19 or Grenada Lake Survey'' in an unknown county, MS. 
The three associated funerary objects include one lot of faunal bone, 
one lot of ceramics, and one lot of matrix.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, Tribes, 
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity 
between the identifiable earlier groups, Tribes, peoples, or cultures 
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The 
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: archeological information, biological information, and 
geographical information.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the MDAH has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 11 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The seven 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of 
Texas (previously listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); 
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern 
Band of Cherokee Indians; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Mississippi Band of 
Choctaw Indians; Quapaw Nation (previously listed as The Quapaw Tribe 
of Indians); The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The 
Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Osage Nation (previously listed as Osage 
Tribe); and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 
15, 2022. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the MDAH 
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The MDAH is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this 
notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: July 6, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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