[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 948-949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00129]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037200; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Portland State University, 
Portland, OR

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Portland State University (PSU) 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 southwest Florida.

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

ADDRESSES: Reno Nims, Portland State University, Research & Graduate 
Studies, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, telephone (503) 725-6611, 
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 PSU. 
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 PSU.

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Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, six individuals were 
removed from unknown locations in southwest Florida at an unknown date. 
PSU faculty members encountered these human remains in the Anthropology 
Department's archeology holdings at an unknown date between 1990 and 
2002 in a box labeled ``Arch-2 Burial.'' Some of the human remains in 
this box were kept in a bag labeled ``Florida,'' and they were 
associated with other Native American human remains that were removed 
from Galt's Kay in Sarasota County, FL (Smithsonian catalog number: 
292.763) and Casey Key in Lee County, FL (Smithsonian catalog numbers: 
229.311, 229.316, 229.319, 229.320, 229.324, 229.328, 229.330, 229.334, 
229.253, 229.259, and 229.844) by Ale[scaron] Hrdli[ccaron]ka in 1916 
or 1917 that are under the control of the Smithsonian National Museum 
of Natural History. These human remains are all reasonably believed to 
have been brought to PSU by Marshall ``Bud'' Newman in 1962 when he 
left his position as Associate Curator of Physical Anthropology at the 
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to join the Anthropology 
Department at PSU. The 11 associated funerary objects are six pieces of 
worked faunal remains, two stone projectile points, one stone drill, 
one metal fragment, and one stone bowl fragment.

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

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, PSU has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of six individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 11 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 Seminole Tribe of Florida and 
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

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, PSU 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. PSU is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and 
Native Hawaiian organizations 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.
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