[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 45921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11450]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037979; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 
Ticonderoga, NY

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 Fort Ticonderoga Association has 
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there 
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were 
removed from Essex County, NY.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after June 24, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Margaret Staudter, The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 30 Fort 
Ti Rd, Ticonderoga, NY 12883, telephone (518) 585-1015, email 
ticonderoga.org">mstaudter@fort-ticonderoga.org.

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 
Fort Ticonderoga Association, 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. In September 
1936, members of the Champlain Valley Archaeology Society led an 
excavation of a rock shelter (Ticonderoga Rock Shelter #2) near 
``Sentinel Rock'', a point on the Ticonderoga peninsula, in Essex 
County, New York. Individuals and their associated funerary objects 
were removed during the excavations and were housed at Fort 
Ticonderoga. In 1994, the presence of three individuals and their 
associated funerary objects were confirmed by an osteologist. A Notice 
of Inventory Completion describing these individuals and their 
associated funerary objects was published in the Federal Register in 
January 2024. In April 2024, one additional individual was identified.

Cultural Affiliation

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

Determinations

    The Fort Ticonderoga Association has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
described in this notice and the Cayuga Nation; Oneida Indian Nation; 
Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Seneca Nation 
of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Stockbridge Munsee Community, 
Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; and the Tuscarora Nation.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after June 24, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation 
are received, the Fort Ticonderoga Association must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. The Fort Ticonderoga Association is responsible 
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 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: May 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-11450 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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