[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 119 (Thursday, June 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40858-40859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13297]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036059; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Penn State University, Matson 
Museum of Anthropology, University Park, PA

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 Matson Museum of Anthropology, Penn 
State University has completed an inventory of human remains and has 
determined

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that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any 
Indian Tribe. The human remains were removed from Cass County, MN.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after July 24, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. James Doyle, Director, Matson Museum of Anthropology, 
Penn State University, 410 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 
16802, telephone (814) 865-2033, 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 
Matson Museum of Anthropology, Penn State University. 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 Matson Museum of Anthropology, Penn State 
University.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, eight individuals were 
removed from the Leech River area in Cass County, MN. In 1978, Mrs. 
Bertha H. Lucas donated these human remains to Pennsylvania State 
University. Since 1902, her husband, Mr. Howard K. Lucas, had been 
collecting prehistoric items, and during the 1920s and 1930s, he 
purchased some items from other collectors. The human remains (Penn 
State Lot 27), consisting of seven skulls, one unassociated mandible, 
and disarticulated teeth, belong to two adult females (PSU27:130, 
PSU27:131), one young adult female (PSU27:112), two elderly adult males 
(PSU27:114; PSU27:164), one adult male (PSU27:149), one adult of 
indeterminate sex (PSU27:113), and one individual of indeterminate age 
and sex (no PSU number). 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: the 1837 Pine Tree Treaty and the 1855 Treaty of 
Washington.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Matson Museum of 
Anthropology, Penn State University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of, at minimum, eight 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 Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota 
(Leech Lake Band).

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 July 24, 2023. If competing requests 
for disposition are received, the Matson Museum of Anthropology, Penn 
State University 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 Matson 
Museum of Anthropology, Penn State University 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 and 
10.11.

    Dated: June 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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