[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 124 (Thursday, June 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42097-42098]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13814]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036095; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology, Beloit, WI

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 Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology (LMA) has completed an inventory of human remains and an 
associated funerary object and has determined that there is no cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary object 
and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary object 
were removed from Logan County, Kentucky.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary object 
in this notice may occur on or after July 31, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Nicolette B. Meister, Logan Museum of Anthropology, 700 
College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone (608) 363-2305, 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 
LMA. 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 LMA.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals were 
removed from mounds in Lewisburg in Logan County, KY. These human 
remains (lot numbers 1851; 1852; 1853; 1854; 1855; 1856; 1857; 1858; 
1859; 1860; 1861) were purchased from Warren K. Moorehead in 1926. 
Moorehead was Curator (1901-1924) and Director (1924-1938) of the 
Phillips Academy Department of Archaeology. Lot 1860 is currently 
missing. No known individuals were identified. The one associated 
funerary object (15488) is a plainware jar removed from a mound in 
Lewisburg in Logan County, KY.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains and associated funerary object 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 final judgment 
of the Indian Claims Commission or the United States Court of Claims, a 
treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive Order.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the LMA has determined 
that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object described in this notice is 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.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains and associated funerary object 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; Miami Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Quapaw Nation; 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 and 
associated funerary object in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in

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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 associated funerary object 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 31, 
2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, the LMA must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests 
for joint disposition of the human remains and associated funerary 
object are considered a single request and not competing requests. The 
LMA 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: June 21, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-13814 Filed 6-28-23; 8:45 am]
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