Notice2023-12280
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO
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Published
June 8, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kansas City Museum 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. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Amchitka Island, AK.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 37576]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12280]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035975; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas City Museum, Kansas City,
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 Kansas City Museum 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. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Amchitka Island, AK.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Lisa Shockley, Kansas City Museum, 3218 Gladstone Blvd.,
Kansas City, MO 64133, telephone (816) 702-7700, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#432f302b2c20282f263a0328222d302230202a373a2e363026362e6d2c3124"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="aac6d9c2c5c9c1c6cfd3eac1cbc4d9cbd9c9c3ded3c7dfd9cfdfc784c5d8cd">[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
Kansas City 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 inventory or related records held by the Kansas
City Museum.
Description
In 1943, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from Amchitka Island, AK, (catalogue number: 1961.56.8).
The collector removed these human remains while stationed at a now-
abandoned nuclear test site on Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian
Islands, and subsequently donated them to the Kansas City Museum. The
human remains--a jawbone fragment without teeth and a jawbone fragment
with a single tooth--belong to an individual of unknown age and sex.
The one associated funerary object is a faunal tooth, possibly from a
bear.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects 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, historical, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Kansas City Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
object described in this notice and the Native Village of Atka.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in 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 10, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Kansas City
Museum 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 Kansas City 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 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: May 31, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12280 Filed 6-7-23; 8:45 am]
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