Notice2024-02554
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 Lucas County, Ohio.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8723-8724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02554]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037347; 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 Lucas 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#533d323f3f3a343c3c37133c3b3a3c3b3a20273c212a7d3c2134"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4826292424212f27272c082720212720213b3c273a3166273a2f">[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
Human remains representing at minimum 33 individuals were removed
from various sites in Lucas County, Ohio.
33 LU 788, Indian Island, Waterville Township, Lucas County, Ohio.
Two adult individuals were recovered and 97 associated funerary objects
were found eroding out on Indian Island in the Maumee River on Ohio
Department of Natural Resources property in 2010 and again in 2017 and
were transferred to the Ohio History Connection.
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; remains of one individual received by
the Lucas County Coroner's Office in 1994 and determined as not modern.
The site was excavated in the 1970s and the individual's remains were
transferred to Ohio History Connection in 2019.
Eight individuals who had been moved from their original resting
places for the construction of a home in 1900 along the Ottawa River
Road (now known as Park Place neighborhood). The same group of eight
were exhumed again upon the demolition of the 1900 house in preparation
for a new home in 2019. They were taken to the Lucas County Coroner's
Office and then transferred to Ohio History Connection in 2019. There
are 29 associated funerary objects removed from the site including nine
nails and nail fragments, 16 metal fragments, one screw, one wire/metal
earring, one wood fragment, and one bluish-white bead.
33 LU 165 ``Fry Site,'' Toledo, Washington Township, Lucas County,
Ohio. Seventeen individuals were exhumed in 1977 and donated to the
Firelands Archaeological Research Center who then donated them to the
Ohio History Connection for NAGPRA processing. The site is located on
the
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west bank of the Maumee on the floodplain in Toledo, Ohio and was noted
as an ``Indian farmstead.'' There are 11 adults, five juveniles and one
toddler or infant. Associated funerary objects consist of two silver
armbands, one silver gorget, one bead necklace, one knife, one pipe
fragment, faunal remains, debitage and unmodified rock, fire cracked
rock, one sherd, one metal fastener, one scraper, one cobble, and
burned wood fragments.
33 LU 30, Haberstock Site, Providence Township, Lucas County, Ohio.
Five individuals were removed from the site in 1967 and were donated to
Firelands Archaeological Research Center and then donated to the Ohio
History Connection in 2021. The site is located on the shore of the
Maumee River north of Woodcock and Indian Islands. There are three
adults and two juveniles. The associated funerary objects consist of
debitage, one sherd, faunal remains, fire cracked rock, and metal
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 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 33 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 169 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; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo
Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe
of Oklahoma; 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; Peoria Tribe of Indians 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; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in
Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa; 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. 2024-02554 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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