[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 153 (Thursday, August 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54346-54347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-17132]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036326; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Oberlin College has completed an inventory 
of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed 
from the Hawaiian Islands, HI.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after September 11, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Amy V. Margaris, Oberlin College, King Building, 10 N. 
Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074, telephone (440) 775-5173, 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 
Oberlin College. 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 Oberlin 
College.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from the Hawaiian Islands, HI. Accession #65 in the accession book of 
the former Oberlin College Museum records that in August of 1875, Mr. 
E. P. Church of Greenville, Michigan donated to the Museum one ``Skull 
of Hawaiian, Cave Burial Place, Hawaiian Islands.'' According to 
records of the Oberlin College Archives, E. P. Church was an 1863 
graduate of Oberlin College who lived on O'ahu from 1865-1875. He 
served as Professor of Mathematics at Oahu College (now Punahou School) 
in Honolulu, Hawaii (1865-1871) and as President of Oahu College (1871-
1875). The human remains were retained by Oberlin College after the 
Museum's closure in the 1950s, and they are now in the care of the 
Oberlin College Department of Anthropology. The human remains consist 
of a skull belonging to an adult of indeterminate age and sex. No 
associated funerary remains are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains 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 or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological, biological, 
cultural, geographical, and historical.

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Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, Oberlin College has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice 
and the Hui Iwi Kuamo'o.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 or Native Hawaiian 
organizations 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.
    Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after September 11, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, Oberlin College must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. Oberlin College is responsible for sending a 
copy of this notice to the Native Hawaiian organization 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: August 2, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-17132 Filed 8-9-23; 8:45 am]
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