Notice2024-02553
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 Hancock County, Ohio.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8714-8715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02553]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037346; 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
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were removed from Hancock County, 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#e48a8588888d838b8b80a48b8c8d8b8c8d97908b969dca8b9683"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9c7c8c5c5c0cec6c6cde9c6c1c0c6c1c0daddc6dbd087c6dbce">[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 Hancock County, Ohio.
33 HK 5, Richard F. Moyer Kame Site, Mount Corey, Union Township,
Hancock County, Ohio. Eight individuals were exhumed during a salvage
excavation by Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection)
staff and by Mrs. Moyer. The excavations were conducted by Jack
Shaffer, Raymond Baby, and Beverly Rettig in July-August 1957. Richard
Moyer donated the individuals along with two faunal remain fragments
and one animal tooth (possibly fish).
33 HK 53, Shick Cemetery, Mount Corey, Union Township, Hancock
County, Ohio. The remains of 10 individuals were exhumed during a
basement enlargement project. The individuals were donated to the Ohio
History Connection by Mark C. Schick in 2000. There are four juveniles
and six adults.
33 HK 6, Washington Township, Hancock County, Ohio. There are five
individuals found on the surface from a destroyed multicomponent
campsite (Solether Site) that were collected by Rick Siferd and Jeff
Krazynski, who then gifted the individuals to the Ohio History
Connection. No dates were included. There was one associated funerary
object, a deer, or elk scapula, also found.
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 information, geographical information, and
indigenous knowledge from the consulting 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 23 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There are four objects described in this notice are
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; Cayuga Nation; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware
Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation,
Oklahoma; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma;
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga
Nation; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and
Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Seneca-Cayuga Nation;
Shawnee Tribe; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; 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. 2024-02553 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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