[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 76 (Thursday, April 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27786-27787]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08225]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037768; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Nebraska State 
Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

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 University of Nebraska State Museum 
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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 the City of Fulton, Callaway County, MO.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 20, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Taylor Ronquillo, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of 
Nebraska State Museum, 645 N 14th Street, Lincoln, NE 68588, telephone 
(402) 472-6592, email [email protected] and Susan Weller, NAGPRA 
Coordinator, University of Nebraska State Museum, 645 N 14th Street, 
Lincoln, NE 68588, telephone (402) 472-0577, 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 
University of Nebraska State Museum, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing at 
least five individuals have been reasonably identified. The one 
associated funerary object is a faunal bone. The five adult individuals 
make up four crania, five mandibles, one vertebra, four hand elements, 
five foot elements, and 29 adult teeth. The poor-to-fair preservation 
resembles material from known Woodland sites in Nebraska. The human 
remains were found by Darling K. Greger and loaned to the museum by Dr. 
H.B. Ward in 1908. These remains were excavated from a mound on the 
east bank of the Aux Vasse River (Creek), east of [City of] Fulton, 
Calloway County, Missouri.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The University of Nebraska State Museum has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object described in this notice is reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and The Osage 
Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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

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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 May 20, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
Nebraska State Museum 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 University of Nebraska State Museum 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 10.10.

    Dated: April 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-08225 Filed 4-17-24; 8:45 am]
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