[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9906-9907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03238]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035340; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, 
Chicago, IL

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 Field Museum of Natural History has 
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there 
is no cultural affiliation between the

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human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were removed from 
an unknown location in Montana.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after March 17, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation Director, Field Museum of 
Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone 
(312) 665-7317, 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 
Field Museum. 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 Field 
Museum.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from an unknown location in Montana. Sometime prior to December 1936, 
the mummified remains of an infant of unknown sex and age were removed 
from a tree burial. The human remains were donated by the Chicago 
Historical Society to the Field Museum in 1936. No known individual was 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. A detailed 
assessment of the human remains was made by Field Museum staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians of Montana, which requested disposition of the human remains.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains in this notice were removed from a known 
geographic location. This location is the aboriginal land of one or 
more Indian Tribes. The following information was used to identify the 
aboriginal land: a treaty and an Act of Congress.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Field Museum has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains described in this notice were removed 
from the aboriginal land of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the 
Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet 
Indian Reservation of Montana; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's 
Reservation, Montana; Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the 
Flathead Reservation; Crow Tribe of Montana; Fort Belknap Indian 
Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana; Little Shell 
Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe 
of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains described in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after March 17, 2023. If competing requests 
for disposition are received, the Field Museum must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. The Field Museum is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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 and Sec.  
10.11.

    Dated: February 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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