[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8716-8718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02555]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037348; 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 Lucas 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

    Human remains representing at minimum 72 individuals were removed 
from different sites in Lucas County, Ohio.
    33 LU 394, Missionary Island 4 Site, Lucas County, Ohio. There are 
29 individuals who were exhumed in 1983 and donated to the Firelands 
Archaeological Research Center in 1991. The individuals were then 
donated to the Ohio History Connection in 2021. There are 73 associated 
funerary objects with these people ranging from a ceramic vessel, 
pottery sherds, faunal remains, charcoal, and debitage.
    33 LU 118, Petrie Site, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. There are nine 
individuals, two adults, one adolescent and six juveniles. Faunal 
remains were found associated with these individuals.
    33 LU 28, Spiegle Site, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. There is one 
individual who was exhumed in the 1970's from the floodplain of the 
Maumee River in Toledo. They were then donated to the Firelands 
Archaeological Research Center, who then donated them to the Ohio 
History Connection in 2021.
    33 LU 6, Waterworks Mound Site, Jerusalem Township, Lucas County, 
Ohio. There are 28 individuals who were removed from a burial mound in 
the 1970s and donated to the Firelands Archaeological Research Center, 
who then donated them to Ohio History Connection in 2021. This is an 
ossuary burial, and while we have come to an MNI of 28, the remains are 
cremated and comingled. There were two associated funerary objects 
found among the remains, one cylindrical bead fragment made of bird 
bone, and faunal remains.
    33 LU 95, Morrison Site, Waterville Township, Lucas County, Ohio. 
One individual was likely exhumed in the 1970s or 1980s and donated to 
Firelands Archaeological Research Center, who then donated them to Ohio 
History Connection in 2021. Faunal remains were found with the 
individual.
    33 LU 43, Deer Site, Waterville Township, Lucas County, Ohio. Four 
individuals, including three juveniles and one adult. On an unknown 
date, they were exhumed and donated to Firelands Archaeological 
Research Center. The individuals were then donated to Ohio History 
Connection in 2021. One unmodified stone and faunal remains were found 
with these individuals.

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 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 72 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 79 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; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo 
Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe 
of Oklahoma; 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; Peoria Tribe of Indians 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; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in 
Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the 
Mississippi in Iowa; 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

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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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