[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8712-8713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02552]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037345; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Ohio History Connection, 
Columbus, 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), the Ohio History Connection 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 Fulton, Henry, and Williams 
Counties, Ohio.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 11, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Nekole Alligood, NAGPRA Specialist, Ohio History Connection, 
800 E 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211, telephone (614) 297-2300, 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 
Ohio History Connection. 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 Ohio 
History Connection.

Description

    The following were recovered from three counties in northwest Ohio, 
Fulton, Henry, and Williams Counties.
    33 FU 5, Patyi-Dowling Site, Fulton Township, Fulton County, Ohio. 
There are two individuals who were exhumed by Robert Cufr and reported 
by David Stothers with the University of Toledo in 1972. The remains 
were retained by the Firelands Archaeological Research Center and 
donated by them to the Ohio History Connection in 2021. There are three 
associated funerary objects included; one coral or shell piece with 
yellowish staining and two small animal long bone fragments.
    33 FU 101, Fish Site, Royalton Township, Fulton County, Ohio. One 
adult human tooth was found at this site. The 70 associated funerary 
objects consist of several components ranging from the Early Archaic to 
the Late Woodland period. Specific provenience of the objects is 
unknown, they were surface finds collected at the same location.
    Pioneer, Madison Township, Williams County, Ohio. This one 
individual was received from the Lucas County Coroner's Office in 2020 
and was brought to Ohio History Connection in 2021.
    33 HY 127, Brown Site No. 1, Damascus Township, Henry County, Ohio. 
There are two individuals who were likely exhumed in the early 1980s 
from a site along the Maumee River bank and were donated to the 
Firelands Archaeological Research Center who then donated them to the 
Ohio History Connection in 2021. There are eight lots of various 
affiliated objects consisting of ceramic sherds, faunal remains, shell 
fragments, debitage and soil.
    Ritter Park, Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio. The two 
individuals were exhumed from the Maumee River bank. The Lucas County 
Coroner's Office transferred them to Ohio History Connection in 2019.

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: archeological

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information, geographical information, and indigenous knowledge from 
the consulting Indian Tribes.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Ohio History Connection has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of eight individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 81 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 Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of 
Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills 
Indian Community, Michigan; Cayuga Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the 
Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; 
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee 
Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand 
Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville 
Indian Community, Michigan; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian 
Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Vieux 
Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little River 
Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians of Montana; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 
Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota 
(Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac 
Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth 
Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Omaha Tribe 
of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; 
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan 
and Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of 
Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake 
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa 
Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Saint 
Regis Mohawk Tribe; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, 
Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee 
Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa 
Indians of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of 
Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora Nation; and the Wyandotte 
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 March 11, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Ohio History 
Connection 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 Ohio History Connection is responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the 
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the 
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National 
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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