[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47170-47171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15524]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036226; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Lyon County 
Historical Society, Marshall, 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 Lyon County Historical Society intends 
to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an 
unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with 
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The 
cultural item was removed from Lyon County, MN.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or 
after August 21, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Andries, Lyon County Historical Society, 301 West 
Lyon Street, Marshall, MN 56258, telephone (507) 537-6580, 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 
Lyon County Historical Society. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the

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determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the summary or related records held by the Lyon County 
Historical Society.

Description

    The one cultural item was removed from Lyon County, MN. Known as 
the Camden Vase, this unassociated funerary object is a small, shell-
tempered pottery vessel. It was removed by George Chamberlain from a 
burial mound in 1934, near what is today, Camden State Park, in 
southwestern Minnesota. In 1972, Chamberlain's son, Horace Chamberlain, 
donated the object to the Lyon County Historical Society.
    The mound from which the unassociated funerary object was removed 
belonged to a group of mounds, all of which were completely obliterated 
from the landscape during road construction in the mid-1960s. 
Archeologists associate these mounds with the Oneota cultural tradition 
(circa A.D. 1000-1500), The Oneota, an agricultural society linked to 
the Mississippian culture at Cahokia, in southern Illinois, is thought 
to be ancestral to the present-day Otoe and Iowa.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural item in this notice is 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 type of information was 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Lyon County Historical Society has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above 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 and 
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed 
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Iowa Tribe of 
Kansas and Nebraska.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural item in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after August 21, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Lyon County Historical Society must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a 
single request and not competing requests. The Lyon County Historical 
Society 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 10.8, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

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