Notice2023-23274
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hastings Museum, Hastings, NE
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Published
October 23, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hastings Museum 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 Bartow County, GA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 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: 2023-23274]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036749; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hastings Museum,
Hastings, NE
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 Hastings Museum 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 Bartow County, GA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after November 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dan Brosz, Hastings Museum, 1330 N Burlington Avenue,
Hastings, NE 68901, telephone (402) 462-2399, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bedadcccd1cdc4feddd7cac7d1d8d6dfcdcad7d0d9cd90d1ccd9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="620600100d111822010b161b0d040a0311160b0c05114c0d1005">[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
Hastings 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 summary or related records held by the Hastings
Museum.
Description
At an unknown date, one cultural item was removed from an
unidentified mound in Bartow County, GA, by R.E. Dodge. This
unassociated funerary object came to the Hastings Museum between 1926
and 1931. The unassociated funerary object is an earring made from
animal bone, and it is 1.25 inches in length.
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 types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: geographical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Hastings Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above 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 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 item and The Muscogee (Creek)
Nation.
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 November 22, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Hastings Museum 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 Hastings 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: October 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-23274 Filed 10-20-23; 8:45 am]
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