Notice2023-03241
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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Published
February 15, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September 22, 2017. This notice amends the minimum number of individuals and the number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from Wyandotte County, KS.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 9909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03241]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035343; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has amended a Notice
of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on September
22, 2017. This notice amends the minimum number of individuals and the
number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from
Wyandotte County, KS.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Megan Williamson, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and
Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters Hall, 1603 Old Claflin
Place, Manhattan, KS 66506-4003, telephone (785) 532-6005, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e588928c89898c84d4a58e9690cb808190"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ef3e9f7f2f2f7ffafdef5edebb0fbfaeb">[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 Kansas
State University. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments
and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the summary or related records held by
Kansas State University.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (82 FR 44444-44445,
September 22, 2017). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice
of Inventory Completion has not occurred. An additional two individuals
and 117 associated funerary objects have been located and verified with
the original excavation documentation, increasing the minimum number of
individuals represented by the human remains and the number of
associated funerary objects removed from the Calovich Mound in
Wyandotte County, KS.
From the Calovich Mound site (14WY7) in Wyandotte County, KS, human
remains representing, at minimum, 81 individuals were removed
(previously listed as 79 individuals). The 177 associated funerary
objects (previously identified as 60 associated funerary objects) are
one partial bone pendant, three shell pendants, 15 shell disk beads, 43
pieces of unmodified freshwater mussel shell, 20 unmodified shells, 21
unmodified stones (including one ochre and two orange gypsum crystals),
35 ceramic body sherds, eight ceramic rim sherds, three pieces of daub,
19 pieces of worked stone (including two projectile points and one
fragmented projectile point), one charcoal, and eight bone fragments.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Kansas State University has determined that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains represent
the physical remains of 81 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 177 objects are
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or
ceremony.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects and the Iowa
Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation,
Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; and the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
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 17, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Kansas State University 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. Kansas State University 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 10.8, Sec.
10.10, Sec. 10.13, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: February 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-03241 Filed 2-14-23; 8:45 am]
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