Notice2023-01846
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Ralph Foster Museum, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO
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Published
January 30, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Ralph Foster Museum intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from the State of Tennessee.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5912-5913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01846]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035190; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: Ralph Foster
Museum, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO
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 Ralph Foster Museum intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects
of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from the State of Tennessee.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 1, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Thomas A. Debo, The Ralph Foster Museum, 237 Christian
Court, Point Lookout, MO 65726, telephone (417) 690-2602, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#234746414c63404c454c0d464756"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="debabbbcb19ebdb1b8b1f0bbbaab">[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 the
Ralph Foster Museum. 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 summary or related records held by the Ralph Foster
Museum.
Description
In the 1950s or early 1960s, three cultural items were removed from
Hardeman, Fayette, or Shelby County, TN. Two of the items have ``Lucy
Hatchie, Tennessee'' written on their undersides, giving the impression
that they were removed from somewhere along the Loosahatchie River,
which runs through Hardeman, Fayette, and Shelby Counties. The third
item has ``Millington, Tennessee'' written on its underside, giving the
impression that it was removed from Millington in Shelby County, TN. It
is believed that Ralph Foster donated these three items as they are
similar to other items he donated at the time. The three objects of
cultural patrimony are one pottery possum effigy bowl, one pottery
stirrup bottle, and one pottery turtle effigy.
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Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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, the Ralph Foster Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The three cultural items described above have ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and The Chickasaw
Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after March 1, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Ralph Foster Museum must determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Ralph Foster Museum 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: January 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-01846 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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