[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 126 (Monday, July 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 54505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14472]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038194; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Longyear Museum of Anthropology, 
Colgate University, Hamilton, 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 Longyear Museum of Anthropology (LMA) 
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 July 31, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Kelsey Olney-Wall, Repatriation Manager, University Museums, 
Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, telephone (315) 
228-7677, 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 
LMA, 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. The 37 
associated funerary objects are five bags of sand, one shard of glass 
or obsidian, one small rolled piece of tin, one beaver tooth fragment, 
27 wampum/shell beads, one piece of charcoal, and one wood fragment. 
The Ancestral remains representing one individual are connected to a 
previous repatriation of an individual to the Onondaga Nation in 1979. 
The previously repatriated individual was removed from an unknown 
archaeological site, within the Onondaga Nation lands, between 1950 and 
1970. According to a letter written by former curator Gary Urton to 
Rema Loeb, President, Chenango County Rights for American Indians Now, 
on January 31, 1979, the case displaying the individual and the 
associated funerary items were disassembled and moved into museum 
storage. On April 16, 1979, Gary Urton wrote a letter to Lee Lyons from 
Onondaga Nation, noting the individual was removed from Onondaga Nation 
lands. Urton worked with Mr. Lyons on returning the individual and the 
associated funerary items in the museum display. The two lower 
incisors, two bone fragments, and associated funerary objects included 
in this notice were inadvertently retained. No known hazardous 
substances are known to be present.

Cultural Affiliation

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

Determinations

    The LMA has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     The 37 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 
Onondaga 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 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 July 31, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the LMA 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 LMA 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: June 24, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-14472 Filed 6-28-24; 8:45 am]
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