[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 73 (Monday, April 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23461-23462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-08057]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035668; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Pioneer Museum, Blue Licks 
Battlefield State Resort, Kentucky Department of Parks, Carlisle, KY

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 Pioneer Museum, Blue Licks Battlefield 
State Resort Park, Kentucky Department of Parks has completed an 
inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human 
remains were removed from Franklin County, KY.

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

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Spence, Parks Museum Curator, Kentucky Department 
of Parks, 500 Mero Street, 5th Floor, Frankfort, KY 40601, telephone 
(502) 892-3339, 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 
Kentucky Department of Parks. 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 Kentucky Department of Parks.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were 
removed from Franklin County, KY. The human remains were collected from 
an unknown site in Franklin County, KY, sometime between May 29 and May 
31, 1966, based on a handwritten note found with the human remains 
during an inventory project at the Pioneer Museum in January of 2021. 
No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects 
are present.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains in this notice were removed from known geographic 
locations. These locations are the aboriginal lands of one or more 
Indian Tribes. The following information was used to identify the 
aboriginal land: a treaty.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Kentucky 
Department of Parks has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals 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 Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern 
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe; The Osage Nation; and the 
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.

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 and described in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after May 17, 2023. If competing requests for 
disposition are

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received, the Kentucky Department of Parks 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 Kentucky Department of Parks 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 
10.11.

    Dated: April 5, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-08057 Filed 4-14-23; 8:45 am]
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