Notice2023-15524
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Lyon County Historical Society, Marshall, MN
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Published
July 21, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Lyon County Historical Society intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Lyon County, MN.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47170-47171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15524]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036226; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Lyon County
Historical Society, Marshall, MN
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 Lyon County Historical Society intends
to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an
unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
cultural item was removed from Lyon County, MN.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after August 21, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer Andries, Lyon County Historical Society, 301 West
Lyon Street, Marshall, MN 56258, telephone (507) 537-6580, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dbbfb2a9beb8afb4a99bb7a2b4b5b8b4b6aea8beaeb6f5b4a9bc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c7a3aeb5a2a4b3a8b587abbea8a9a4a8aab2b4a2b2aae9a8b5a0">[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
Lyon County Historical Society. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the
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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 Lyon County
Historical Society.
Description
The one cultural item was removed from Lyon County, MN. Known as
the Camden Vase, this unassociated funerary object is a small, shell-
tempered pottery vessel. It was removed by George Chamberlain from a
burial mound in 1934, near what is today, Camden State Park, in
southwestern Minnesota. In 1972, Chamberlain's son, Horace Chamberlain,
donated the object to the Lyon County Historical Society.
The mound from which the unassociated funerary object was removed
belonged to a group of mounds, all of which were completely obliterated
from the landscape during road construction in the mid-1960s.
Archeologists associate these mounds with the Oneota cultural tradition
(circa A.D. 1000-1500), The Oneota, an agricultural society linked to
the Mississippian culture at Cahokia, in southern Illinois, is thought
to be ancestral to the present-day Otoe and Iowa.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural item in this notice is 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 type of information was
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Lyon County Historical Society has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item 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 Iowa Tribe of
Kansas and Nebraska.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after August 21, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Lyon County Historical Society must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Lyon County Historical
Society 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: July 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-15524 Filed 7-20-23; 8:45 am]
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