Notice2022-27529
Notice of Inventory Completion: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
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Published
December 20, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Oberlin College 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 the City of Ashton, Spink County, South Dakota.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77881-77882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27529]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035037; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Oberlin College 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 the City of Ashton, Spink County, South Dakota.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after January 19, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Amy Margaris, Oberlin College, Department of
Anthropology, King Building, 10 N Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074,
telephone (440) 775-5173, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a3c2ceda8dcec2d1c4c2d1cad0e3ccc1c6d1cfcacd8dc6c7d6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fe9f9387d0939f8c999f8c978dbe919c9b8c929790d09b9a8b">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
Oberlin College. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by Oberlin
College.
Description
At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from Spink County, SD. Accession # 236 in the
accession book of the former Oberlin College Museum records that the
Museum received ``1 Stone Hammer,'' ``1 Buffalo Molar,'' ``1 Incrusted
[illegible]'' and ``2 femurs, Sioux Indians'' acquired from Ashton,
South Dakota and accessioned in the year 188 [number illegible]. Prior
and later accessions in the book place this accession in the year 1889.
``Geo. L. Williams'' is listed as the donor. According to records of
the Oberlin College Archives, George Louis Williams was an Oberlin
graduate who served as an itinerant preacher in Jerauld County, South
Dakota from June to December 1890, and was killed in China's Boxer
Rebellion in 1900. The human remains were retained by Oberlin College
after the Museum's closure in the 1950s and are currently in the care
of the College's Department of Anthropology. Osteological analysis of
the human remains indicates they belong to two adults approximately 20-
45 years old. No known individuals were identified. As the relationship
between these human remains and the three other components of Accession
#236 is unknown, no associated funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: geographical and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Oberlin College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South
Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
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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 January 19, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Oberlin College 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. Oberlin College is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 13, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-27529 Filed 12-19-22; 8:45 am]
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