Notice2024-00128
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Fort Ticonderoga Association, Ticonderoga, NY
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Published
January 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), The Fort Ticonderoga Association 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 Essex County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 949-950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00128]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037199; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Fort Ticonderoga Association,
Ticonderoga, 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association 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 Essex County, NY.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 7, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Margaret Staudter, The Fort Ticonderoga Association, 30 Fort
Ti Rd., Ticonderoga, NY 12883, telephone (518) 585-1015, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aac7d9decbdfcedecfd8eaccc5d8de8796cb8ac2d8cfcc97" http: ticonderoga.org">ticonderoga.org</a>">mstaudter@fort-<a href="http://ticonderoga.org">ticonderoga.org</a></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
Fort Ticonderoga Association. 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals were
removed from the Ticonderoga Rock Shelter #2 in Essex County, NY. In
September 1936, members of the Champlain Valley Archaeology Society led
an excavation of a rock shelter near ``Sentinel Rock'', a point on the
Ticonderoga peninsula. The individuals (FT HR-01; FT HR-03; FT HR-08),
and associated funerary objects were removed during the excavations
were brought to Fort Ticonderoga. The 73 associated funerary objects
are two bone awls, one lot of beaver teeth, one lot of bird bones, one
lot of bear bones, one lot of bobcat bones, one lot of unidentified
bones, one lot of nutshell fragments, one bullfrog pelvis, one lot of
Canadian goose bones, one carnivore mandible, one lot of catfish/
bullhead bones, one lot of Cervidae bones, one lot of chipmunk bones,
one antler chisel, two bone claws, one lot of Colubridae (snake) bones,
one lot of debitage, one lot of dog bones, one lot of duck bones, one
lot of bone engravers, one lot of fish bones, one lot of fisher bones,
one bone fishhook, one lot of bone flakers, one freshwater drum, two
freshwater
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mussels, one lot of gar scales, one lot of gray fox bones, one lot of
gray squirrel bones, one bone harpoon barb, one lot of snail shells,
one lot of large mammal bones, one lynx mandible, one lot of mammal
bones, one lot of mink bones, one lot of assorted objects, one lot of
muskrat bones, one lot of mussel shell, one bone perforator/pin, one
lot of porcupine bones, one lot of projectile points, one lot of
pumpkinseed (fish) cranial fragments, one lot of antler punches, one
lot of racoon bones, one lot of rattlesnake bones, one lot of rodent
bones, one lot of bone scrapers, one lot of clay rim sherds, one clay
collar sherd, one lot of clay body sherds, one undecorated clay sherd,
one lot of small mammal bones, one lot of snail shell fragments, one
lot of antler spikes, one lot of stinkpot bones, one limestone
fragment, one unworked jasper pebble, one lot of sunfish bones, one lot
of stone tools, one lot of turkey bones, one lot of turtle bones, one
lot of unidentified bone, one lot of unidentified fish bone, one lot of
unidentified mineral objects, one lot of vertebrate bones, one lot of
walleye bones, two white perch cranial fragments, one lot of white tail
deer bones, and one lot of yellow perch cranial fragments.
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. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological and
geographical evidence.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, The Fort Ticonderoga Association has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 73 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Cayuga Nation; Oneida Indian
Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe;
Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Stockbridge Munsee
Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; and the Tuscarora
Nation.
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 February 7, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Fort
Ticonderoga Association 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00128 Filed 1-5-24; 8:45 am]
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