[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 2642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00610]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037240; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Longyear Museum of Anthropology, 
Colgate University, Hamilton, 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 Longyear Museum of Anthropology (LMA) 
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 St. Mary's County, MD.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after February 15, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Kelsey Olney-Wall, Repatriation Manager, Longyear Museum of 
Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, 
telephone (315) 228-7677, 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 
LMA. 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 LMA.

Description

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from St. Mary's County, MD. Writing on the 
cranium states ``Indian-White Mixture, St. Mary's County, Maryland.'' 
The exact site is uncertain. The human remains were acquired by 
Professor Frederick Hulse of the Sociology and Anthropology Department 
at Colgate University through a transfer from T.D. Stewart, Curator of 
Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum 
of Natural History (formally the U.S. National Museum) Physical 
Anthropology department in 1948. It is not known how the Smithsonian 
Institution acquired this individual prior to 1948. 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 information, 
historical information, kinship, oral tradition, other relevant 
information, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the LMA 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 Upper Mattaponi Tribe.

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 and, if joined to a request 
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Choptico Band of Indians, 
Piscataway Conoy Tribe, and the Piscataway Indian Nation, non-federally 
recognized Indian groups.
    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 February 15, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the LMA 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 LMA 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: January 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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