[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 72784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23280]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036760; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Staten Island Institute of Arts 
and Sciences, Staten Island, 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 Staten Island Institute of Arts and 
Sciences (SIIAS) 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 Richmond County, NY.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after November 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Colleen Evans, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
1000 Richmond Terrace Building A, Staten Island, NY 10301, telephone 
(718) 483-7104, 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 
SIIAS. 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 SIIAS.

Description

    In 1897, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals 
were removed from Burial Ridge in Tottenville, Staten Island, Richmond 
County, NY, during excavations led by Colonel Robert D. Wainwright. One 
skull was given to William T. Davis, who donated the individual to 
SIIAS in 1942. Stored along with this skull are five bags and three 
boxes containing the fragmentary human remains of at least one 
additional individual. Most likely, these human remains, too, derive 
from Col. Wainwright's excavation. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    In June 1927, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Burial Ridge in Tottenville, Staten 
Island, Richmond County, NY, by J. Otis Swift, who gave them to the 
SIIAS. The human remains consist of 16 human bone fragments. No 
associated funerary objects are present.
    During the spring of 1960, human remains representing, at minimum, 
one individual were removed from Burial Ridge in Tottenville, Staten 
Island, Richmond County, NY, by Jerome Jacobsen, an archeologist 
working with Columbia University. The University donated the individual 
to SIIAS in 1961. The human remains belong to an adult female. No 
associated funerary objects 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: geographical, oral 
traditional, and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the SIIAS has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of four individuals 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 Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the 
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin.

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 November 22, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the SIIAS 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. The SIIAS 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: October 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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