[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6772-6773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02059]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035224; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Omaha District, Omaha, NE, and the University of Tennessee, Department 
of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN

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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha 
District, and the University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, 
have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects and have 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 Buffalo 
County, SD.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 3, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha 
District, ATTN: CENWO-PMA-C, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, 
telephone (402) 995-2674, email [email protected] and Dr. 
Robert Hinde, University of Tennessee, Office of the Provost, 527 Andy 
Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone (865) 974-2445, email 
[email protected] and [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the

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National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District. 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals were 
removed from Buffalo County, SD. The human remains were recovered in 
1961 from Sitting Crow Mounds (39BF225), a Woodland and Historic site, 
likely by Robert Neuman of the Smithsonian's River Basin Survey. No 
known individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object 
is one lot of faunal remains.

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: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical, 
and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object described in this notice is 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 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the 
Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota.

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 March 3, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers, Omaha District, 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Omaha District, 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: January 25, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-02059 Filed 1-31-23; 8:45 am]
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