[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56440-56441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19830]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034498; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Missouri, Museum of 
Anthropology, Columbia, MO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

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ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Missouri, Museum of 
Anthropology 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 Tupelo 
in Lee County, MS.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 14, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Candace Sall, Director; Museum of Anthropology, 
University of Missouri, 101 Museum Support Center, Columbia, MO 65211, 
telephone (573) 882-3764, 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 
University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology. 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 University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology.

Description

    In 1960 and 1961, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from the surface of a washed-out burial labeled 
Site 2, Chickasaw Old Village, near Highway 78 North in Lee County, MS, 
by William Philyaw. The individual is of unknown age and sex and is 
from the ``washed out area'' of the site at that time. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects remained in Philyaw's custody 
until his son, William Philyaw Jr., donated the collection to the 
Museum of Anthropology in 2018. No known individual was identified. The 
207 associated funerary objects are one iron gun part, one iron 
fragment, two copper gun parts, two copper fragments, two copper 
tinklers, two miscellaneous metal fragments, three metal musket balls, 
one copper ``S'' hook, 26 brass buttons, six gun flints, three glass 
bottle fragments, seven small blue beads, one large blue bead, 18 small 
black beads, 16 small white beads, 64 iron fragments, one gun barrel, 
five copper fragments, one gun flint, eight glass fragments, 13 pottery 
fragments, three soapstone pipe fragments, six projectile points, nine 
hafted bifaces, four drills, one hammerstone, and one nutting stone.

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 University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The 207 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 Chickasaw Nation.

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 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 14, 2022. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
Missouri, Museum of Anthropology 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 University of Missouri, Museum 
of Anthropology 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, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: September 1, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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