Notice2023-14387
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: New York State Museum, Albany, NY
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Published
July 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the New York State Museum (NYSM), intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Dutchess County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43393-43394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14387]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036137; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: New York State
Museum, Albany, NY
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 New York State Museum (NYSM), intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from Dutchess County, NY.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after August 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Lisa Anderson, New York State Museum, 3049 Cultural
Education Center, Albany, NY 12230, telephone (518) 486-2020, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#80ece9f3e1aee1eee4e5f2f3efeec0eef9f3e5e4aee7eff6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="dab6b3a9bbf4bbb4bebfa8a9b5b49ab4a3a9bfbef4bdb5ac">[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
NYSM. 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 NYSM.
Description
In 1947, James Shafer removed seven unassociated funerary objects
from the South Cruger Island site in Dutchess County, NY. Shafer
donated the objects to the New York State Museum in 1955. The seven
unassociated funerary objects are one projectile point, one biface, two
pottery sherds, one stone celt, one chopper, and one groundstone maul.
The South Cruger Island site is located in traditional Lenape
territory, and archeological evidence indicates occupations there
during the Late Archaic and Late Woodland periods.
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: archeological and
geographical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the NYSM has determined that:
<bullet> The seven cultural items described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Munsee
Community, Wisconsin.
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 August 7, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the NYSM 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 NYSM is responsible for sending a copy of this
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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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14387 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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