[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19985-19986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06911]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035576; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, 
St. Paul, MN

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 Minnesota Indian Affairs Council 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 Pipestone County, MN.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 4, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dylan Goetsch, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, 161 St. 
Anthony Avenue, Suite 919, St. Paul, MN 55103, 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 
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. 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 Minnesota Indian Affairs Council.

Description

    Around 1900, human remains representing, at minimum, two 
individuals were removed by Charles Bennet while excavating a mound at 
the base of the Leaping Rock Site in the Pipestone National Monument in 
Pipestone County, MN. Subsequently, these human remains were donated to 
the Pipestone County Historical Society. The human remains were 
attached to a board that bore the inscription ``Fragments of skeletal 
bones and clothing of body from a grave of a distinguished son of a 
Dakota (Sioux) Chief who was killed in 1834 in attempting to leap from 
the Pipestone Cliffs to the Maitou [[sic]] or Leaping Rock. (See 
account in Catlin's North American Indians.).'' On July 10th, 1990, the 
human remains were transferred to the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council 
(H178). No known individuals were identified. The three associated 
funerary objects are one woven fabric piece with green patina and two 
small, brown felt pieces.

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, 
oral traditional, and other relevant information.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian

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organizations, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council has determined 
that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The three 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 Yankton Sioux Tribe of 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 May 4, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Minnesota Indian 
Affairs Council 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 Minnesota Indian Affairs Council 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: March 22, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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