[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35199-35200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09412]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037837; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Haffenreffer Museum of 
Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI

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 Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, 
Brown University (Haffenreffer Museum) 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 31, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Thierry Gentis, Brown University, Haffenreffer Museum of 
Anthropology, 300 Tower Street, Bristol, RI 02889, telephone (401) 863-
5702, 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 
Haffenreffer 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, one individual have been reasonably identified. On an unknown 
date, the individual and associated funerary objects were removed from 
the Northern Plains area by J.A Monroe. On an unknown date, the 
individual and associated funerary objects were donated to the Jenks 
Museum of Natural History and later transferred to the Haffenreffer 
Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. The Haffenreffer Museum of 
Anthropology has no knowledge or record of any potentially hazardous 
substances being used to treat the human remains. The five associated 
funerary objects include two pottery sherds, two cord-marked pottery 
sherds, and one flint projectile point which is embedded in the 
vertebra of the individual.

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 Haffenreffer Museum has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The five objects described in this notice are 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 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of 
Montana; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Chippewa Cree 
Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe 
of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; 
Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Fort Belknap Indian 
Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana; Iowa Tribe of 
Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; 
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians 
of Montana; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, 
South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; 
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern 
Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; 
Oglala Sioux Tribe; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Island Indian Community in 
the State of Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian 
Reservation, South Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 
Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the 
Mississippi in Iowa; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee 
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of 
the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Southern Ute Indian Tribe 
of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Spirit Lake Tribe, North 
Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Upper 
Sioux Community, Minnesota; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 
Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe 
of South Dakota.

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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 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 31, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Haffenreffer 
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 Haffenreffer 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 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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