Notice2024-02558
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
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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), Goucher College intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The thirteen cultural items were removed from areas in the present-day states of New Mexico and Arizona.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8722-8723]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02558]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037351; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Goucher College,
Baltimore, MD
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Goucher College intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The thirteen cultural
items were removed from areas in the present-day states of New Mexico
and Arizona.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Elaine Meyer-Lee, Provost, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney
Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, telephone (410) 337-6044, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#86c3eae7efe8e3a8cbe3ffe3f4abcae3e3c6e1e9f3e5eee3f4a8e3e2f3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ace9c0cdc5c2c982e1c9d5c9de81e0c9c9eccbc3d9cfc4c9de82c9c8d9">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative
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responsibilities under NAGPRA. The determinations in this notice are
the sole responsibility of Goucher College. 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
Goucher College.
Description
The 13 cultural items were removed from areas in the present-day
states of New Mexico and Arizona in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. They were gathered by John Franklin Goucher and
other Methodist missionaries who toured the western United States and
who were friends of John Goucher, one of the founders of the Woman's
College of Baltimore, later known as Goucher College. John Goucher
donated his collection of Native American cultural items to Goucher
College in 1921. The 13 objects of cultural patrimony are seven jars,
two bowls, three pitchers, and one pot.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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: geographical information;
historical information; expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Goucher College has determined that:
<bullet> The 13 cultural items described above have ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
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 items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after March 11, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Goucher College will determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. Goucher College 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. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-02558 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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