Notice2024-02552
Notice of Inventory Completion: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH
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Published
February 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Ohio History Connection 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 Fulton, Henry, and Williams Counties, Ohio.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8712-8713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02552]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037345; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Ohio History Connection,
Columbus, OH
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 Ohio History Connection 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 Fulton, Henry, and Williams
Counties, Ohio.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Nekole Alligood, NAGPRA Specialist, Ohio History Connection,
800 E 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43211, telephone (614) 297-2300, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#81efe0edede8e6eeeee5c1eee9e8eee9e8f2f5eef3f8afeef3e6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4e202f2222272921212a0e2126272126273d3a213c3760213c29">[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
Ohio History Connection. 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 Ohio
History Connection.
Description
The following were recovered from three counties in northwest Ohio,
Fulton, Henry, and Williams Counties.
33 FU 5, Patyi-Dowling Site, Fulton Township, Fulton County, Ohio.
There are two individuals who were exhumed by Robert Cufr and reported
by David Stothers with the University of Toledo in 1972. The remains
were retained by the Firelands Archaeological Research Center and
donated by them to the Ohio History Connection in 2021. There are three
associated funerary objects included; one coral or shell piece with
yellowish staining and two small animal long bone fragments.
33 FU 101, Fish Site, Royalton Township, Fulton County, Ohio. One
adult human tooth was found at this site. The 70 associated funerary
objects consist of several components ranging from the Early Archaic to
the Late Woodland period. Specific provenience of the objects is
unknown, they were surface finds collected at the same location.
Pioneer, Madison Township, Williams County, Ohio. This one
individual was received from the Lucas County Coroner's Office in 2020
and was brought to Ohio History Connection in 2021.
33 HY 127, Brown Site No. 1, Damascus Township, Henry County, Ohio.
There are two individuals who were likely exhumed in the early 1980s
from a site along the Maumee River bank and were donated to the
Firelands Archaeological Research Center who then donated them to the
Ohio History Connection in 2021. There are eight lots of various
affiliated objects consisting of ceramic sherds, faunal remains, shell
fragments, debitage and soil.
Ritter Park, Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio. The two
individuals were exhumed from the Maumee River bank. The Lucas County
Coroner's Office transferred them to Ohio History Connection in 2019.
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: archeological
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information, geographical information, and indigenous knowledge from
the consulting Indian Tribes.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Ohio History Connection has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of eight individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 81 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 Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of
Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills
Indian Community, Michigan; Cayuga Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the
Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma;
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand
Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville
Indian Community, Michigan; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Vieux
Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little River
Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa
Indians of Montana; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
(Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac
Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth
Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Omaha Tribe
of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation;
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan
and Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of
Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Saint
Regis Mohawk Tribe; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee
Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa
Indians of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of
Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora Nation; and the Wyandotte
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 March 11, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Ohio History
Connection 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 Ohio History Connection is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-02552 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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