[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 949-950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00128]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037199; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 
Ticonderoga, 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Essex County, NY.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 7, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Margaret Staudter, The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 30 Fort 
Ti Rd., Ticonderoga, NY 12883, telephone (518) 585-1015, email 
ticonderoga.org">mstaudter@fort-ticonderoga.org.

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 
Fort Ticonderoga Association. 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were 
removed from the Ticonderoga Rock Shelter #2 in Essex County, NY. In 
September 1936, members of the Champlain Valley Archaeology Society led 
an excavation of a rock shelter near ``Sentinel Rock'', a point on the 
Ticonderoga peninsula. The individuals (FT HR-01; FT HR-03; FT HR-08), 
and associated funerary objects were removed during the excavations 
were brought to Fort Ticonderoga. The 73 associated funerary objects 
are two bone awls, one lot of beaver teeth, one lot of bird bones, one 
lot of bear bones, one lot of bobcat bones, one lot of unidentified 
bones, one lot of nutshell fragments, one bullfrog pelvis, one lot of 
Canadian goose bones, one carnivore mandible, one lot of catfish/
bullhead bones, one lot of Cervidae bones, one lot of chipmunk bones, 
one antler chisel, two bone claws, one lot of Colubridae (snake) bones, 
one lot of debitage, one lot of dog bones, one lot of duck bones, one 
lot of bone engravers, one lot of fish bones, one lot of fisher bones, 
one bone fishhook, one lot of bone flakers, one freshwater drum, two 
freshwater

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mussels, one lot of gar scales, one lot of gray fox bones, one lot of 
gray squirrel bones, one bone harpoon barb, one lot of snail shells, 
one lot of large mammal bones, one lynx mandible, one lot of mammal 
bones, one lot of mink bones, one lot of assorted objects, one lot of 
muskrat bones, one lot of mussel shell, one bone perforator/pin, one 
lot of porcupine bones, one lot of projectile points, one lot of 
pumpkinseed (fish) cranial fragments, one lot of antler punches, one 
lot of racoon bones, one lot of rattlesnake bones, one lot of rodent 
bones, one lot of bone scrapers, one lot of clay rim sherds, one clay 
collar sherd, one lot of clay body sherds, one undecorated clay sherd, 
one lot of small mammal bones, one lot of snail shell fragments, one 
lot of antler spikes, one lot of stinkpot bones, one limestone 
fragment, one unworked jasper pebble, one lot of sunfish bones, one lot 
of stone tools, one lot of turkey bones, one lot of turtle bones, one 
lot of unidentified bone, one lot of unidentified fish bone, one lot of 
unidentified mineral objects, one lot of vertebrate bones, one lot of 
walleye bones, two white perch cranial fragments, one lot of white tail 
deer bones, and one lot of yellow perch cranial fragments.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects 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. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological and 
geographical evidence.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, The Fort Ticonderoga Association has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 73 objects described in this notice 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Cayuga Nation; Oneida Indian 
Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; 
Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Stockbridge Munsee 
Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; and the Tuscarora 
Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 7, 2024. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Fort 
Ticonderoga Association must determine the most appropriate requestor 
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single request 
and not competing requests. The Fort Ticonderoga Association 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: December 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00128 Filed 1-5-24; 8:45 am]
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