[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77881-77882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27529]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035037; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Oberlin College has completed an inventory 
of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed 
from the City of Ashton, Spink County, South Dakota.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after January 19, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Amy Margaris, Oberlin College, Department of 
Anthropology, King Building, 10 N Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, 
telephone (440) 775-5173, 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 
Oberlin College. 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 Oberlin 
College.

Description

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, two 
individuals were removed from Spink County, SD. Accession # 236 in the 
accession book of the former Oberlin College Museum records that the 
Museum received ``1 Stone Hammer,'' ``1 Buffalo Molar,'' ``1 Incrusted 
[illegible]'' and ``2 femurs, Sioux Indians'' acquired from Ashton, 
South Dakota and accessioned in the year 188 [number illegible]. Prior 
and later accessions in the book place this accession in the year 1889. 
``Geo. L. Williams'' is listed as the donor. According to records of 
the Oberlin College Archives, George Louis Williams was an Oberlin 
graduate who served as an itinerant preacher in Jerauld County, South 
Dakota from June to December 1890, and was killed in China's Boxer 
Rebellion in 1900. The human remains were retained by Oberlin College 
after the Museum's closure in the 1950s and are currently in the care 
of the College's Department of Anthropology. Osteological analysis of 
the human remains indicates they belong to two adults approximately 20-
45 years old. No known individuals were identified. As the relationship 
between these human remains and the three other components of Accession 
#236 is unknown, no associated funerary objects are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains 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: geographical and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, Oberlin College has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice 
and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South 
Dakota.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:

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    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 in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after January 19, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, Oberlin College must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. Oberlin College is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 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: December 13, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-27529 Filed 12-19-22; 8:45 am]
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