[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 76 (Thursday, April 20, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24441-24442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-08335]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035689; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 
Ticonderoga, NY

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 Fort Ticonderoga Association 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 in this 
notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from Addison County, VT.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Margaret Staudter, The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 30 Fort 
Ti Rd., Ticonderoga, NY 12883, telephone (518) 585-1015, email 
ticonderoga.org">mstaudter@fort-ticonderoga.org.

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 
Fort Ticonderoga Association. 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association.

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Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals were 
removed from the East Creek site (VT-AD-0012) in Addison County, VT. 
From 1933 to 1935, and possibly in 1936, Godfrey Olsen led summer 
excavations on behalf of the Heye Foundation/Museum of the American 
Indian (MAI) at the East Creek site. In 1933 and 1937, George Heye 
gifted Fort Ticonderoga's co-founder Stephen Pell a selection of items 
from the Olsen excavation. In 1937, the Champlain Valley Archaeological 
Society (CVAS), under H. Jermain Slocum, returned to the site and 
removed the human remains and additional associated funerary objects 
from areas that had been excavated during the Heye Foundation 
excavations. The 36 associated funerary objects are one lot of acorns 
(EC.49.1), one lot of alligator teeth (EC.1.1), one lot of bifaces 
(EC.24; EC.25; EC.26; EC.27; EC.28; EC.29; EC.30; EC.31; EC.32; EC.33; 
EC.34; EC.35; EC.36; EC.37; EC.38; EC.39; EC.40; EC.41; EC.42; EC.43; 
EC.45; EC.46; EC.63), one fragment of birch bark (EC.15.1), one stone 
celt (EC.64), three lots of copper beads (EC.16.1; EC.18.1; EC.19; 
EC.21.1), one lot of copper wires (EC.16.2), one lot of debitage 
(EC.47; EC.48), one deer bone (EC.51.4), one deer skull (EC.4.1), one 
lot of chert drills (EC.53.1; EC.9), one lot of fish vertebrae 
(EC.50.1), one lot of stone flakes (EC.12.1), one lot of hammerstones 
(EC.2.1; EC.59; EC.61.1; EC.62), one fragment of hickory bark 
(EC.15.2), one lot of mammal bone (EC.51.1; EC.65.1), one lot of mixed 
material (EC.11), one paint stone (EC.58.1), one lot of stone 
projectile points (EC.13; EC.2.3; EC.22.1; EC.22.2; EC.22.3; EC.22.4; 
EC.22.5; EC.22.6; EC.22.7; EC.22.8; EC.22.9; EC.23.1; EC.23.2; EC.23.3; 
EC.23.4; EC.23.5; EC.23.6; EC.3.1; EC.54.1; EC.55.1; EC.55.2; EC.55.3; 
EC.55.4; EC.55.5; EC.55.6; EC.56.1; EC.56.10; EC.56.11; EC.56.12; 
EC.56.13; EC.56.14; EC.56.15; EC.56.17; EC.56.18; EC.56.19; EC.56.2; 
EC.56.20; EC.56.21; EC.56.3; EC.56.4; EC.56.5; EC.56.6; EC.56.7; 
EC.56.8; EC.56.9), four lots of red ochre (EC.14.1; EC.17.1; EC.6.1; 
EC.6.2), one sandstone object (EC.2.2), one lot of scrapers (EC.52; 
EC.56.16), one lot of shark teeth (EC.8), one lot of clay sherds 
(EC.12.3; EC.5.1; EC.5.2; EC.5.3; EC.66; EC.67; EC.68; EC.69.1; 
EC.69.3; EC.69.4; EC.69.5; EC.69.6; EC.69.7; EC.69.8), one squirrel 
bone (EC.51.2), one lot of stone fragments (EC.3.2), one tube pipe 
(EC.7.1), one tube pipe plug (EC.20.1), one lot of turtle bones 
(EC.51.3), one lot of utilized lithics (EC.44), and one whetstone 
(EC.57.1).

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. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological, geographical, 
historical, oral traditional, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, The Fort Ticonderoga 
Association has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 36 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 Cayuga Nation; Delaware 
Nation, Oklahoma; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; 
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga 
Nation; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of 
Seneca; and the Tuscarora Nation.

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 identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant or Indian Tribe 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.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 22, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Fort Ticonderoga 
Association 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association 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, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: April 10, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-08335 Filed 4-19-23; 8:45 am]
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