[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8714-8715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02553]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037346; 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

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were removed from Hancock County, 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 Hancock County, Ohio.
    33 HK 5, Richard F. Moyer Kame Site, Mount Corey, Union Township, 
Hancock County, Ohio. Eight individuals were exhumed during a salvage 
excavation by Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) 
staff and by Mrs. Moyer. The excavations were conducted by Jack 
Shaffer, Raymond Baby, and Beverly Rettig in July-August 1957. Richard 
Moyer donated the individuals along with two faunal remain fragments 
and one animal tooth (possibly fish).
    33 HK 53, Shick Cemetery, Mount Corey, Union Township, Hancock 
County, Ohio. The remains of 10 individuals were exhumed during a 
basement enlargement project. The individuals were donated to the Ohio 
History Connection by Mark C. Schick in 2000. There are four juveniles 
and six adults.
    33 HK 6, Washington Township, Hancock County, Ohio. There are five 
individuals found on the surface from a destroyed multicomponent 
campsite (Solether Site) that were collected by Rick Siferd and Jeff 
Krazynski, who then gifted the individuals to the Ohio History 
Connection. No dates were included. There was one associated funerary 
object, a deer, or elk scapula, also found.

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 information, geographical information, and 
indigenous knowledge from the consulting 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 23 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     There are four objects described in this notice are 
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; Cayuga Nation; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware 
Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, 
Oklahoma; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little 
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga 
Nation; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 
Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the 
Mississippi in Iowa; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; 
Shawnee Tribe; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; 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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