[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 107 (Monday, June 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47598-47599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12070]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038010; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Southern 
California, Los Angeles, CA

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 Southern California 
(U.S.C.) 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after July 3, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Bethany Montagano, University of Southern California, 3551 
Trousdale Parkway, Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90089, telephone (626) 
787-2696, 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 
U.S.C., 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 was likely removed from an area east of The 
Dalles, Oregon or eastern Washington along the Columbia River. The 
individual was then housed at a museum at Northwestern

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University. When the museum was dismantled, a faculty member at the 
School of Medicine gave this individual to a colleague, Dr. Mikel Snow, 
at the University of Miami School of Medicine, between 1973 to 1975. 
The individual traveled with Dr. Snow to the U.S.C. campus and was 
housed in their office until May 2022, when the individual was 
identified during a campus-wide collections review. U.S.C. has no 
knowledge of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the 
individual. No associated funerary objects are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the human remains described in this notice.

Determinations

    U.S.C. 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 Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 
Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; and the 
Nez Perce Tribe.

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 and, if joined to a request 
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Wanapum Band of Priest 
Rapids, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
    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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after July 3, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation 
are received, U.S.C. 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. 
U.S.C. 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: May 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-12070 Filed 5-31-24; 8:45 am]
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