Notice2023-11694
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
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Published
June 1, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Doniphan County, KS.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 105 (Thursday, June 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11694]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035950; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Kansas State University has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Doniphan
County, KS.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after July 3, 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#5e3329373232373f6f1e352d2b703b3a2b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a6cbd1cfcacacfc797e6cdd5d388c3c2d3">[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
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by Kansas State
University.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, 28 individuals were removed
from Taylor Mound, located south of White Cloud, in Doniphan County,
KS. In the summer of 1968, Taylor Mound was excavated as part of a
Kansas State University archeological field school, under the direction
of archeologist Dr. Patricia J. O'Brien. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal
and burned wood samples collected at the site yielded dates
corresponding to the Middle Woodland period (354 BC/BCE-A.D. 398).
These dates also are consistent with most of the diagnostic artifacts
recovered from the burial site. (Some pottery from the excavation also
suggests the mound was utilized into the Late Prehistoric period and
was associated with the Central Plains tradition (A.D. 1100-1350). In
addition, two osteological studies were completed on the skeletal
remains excavated from Taylor Mound. In 1971, Linda Klepinger and
William M. Bass published the initial analysis, and in 2009, Lee
Meadows Jantz, Richard L. Jantz, and Rebecca J. Wilson completed a
second analysis. No known individuals were identified. The 1,390
associated funerary objects are 912 pieces of stone debitage, 10
hammerstones, nine bifaces, nine stone points, five scrapers, one celt,
one stone bead, one stone blade, 200 unmodified shells, one modified
bone disc, two turtle shell fragments, 212 ceramic body sherds, 10
ceramic rim sherds, one lot of burned animal bones, one lot of unburned
animal bones, 12 charcoal samples, two sediment samples containing
burned earth, and one metal broom handle that was excavated but is
believed to be part of a previous site disturbance.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
were removed from known geographic locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more Indian Tribes. The following
information was used to identify the aboriginal land: treaties.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, Kansas State
University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 28 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,390 objects described in this notice 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> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and
any Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice were removed from the aboriginal land of the
Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Kickapoo
Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo
Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation,
Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Three Affiliated
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Wichita
and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land
Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 3,
2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, Kansas State
University must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects 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 10.9 and
10.11.
Dated: May 24, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-11694 Filed 5-31-23; 8:45 am]
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