Notice2024-03798
Notice of Inventory Completion: SUNY, Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY
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Published
February 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), SUNY Broome Community College 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 the region of Fort Ancient archeological culture (the Upper Ohio River drainage) including parts of the current states of Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 38 (Monday, February 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14092-14093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03798]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037454; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: SUNY, Broome Community College,
Binghamton, 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), SUNY Broome Community College 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 the region of Fort Ancient
archeological culture (the Upper Ohio River drainage) including parts
of the current states of Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 27, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Harold Koster, Ph.D., SUNY Broome Community College,
Professor Emeritus, NAGPRA Coordinator, SUNY Broome Community College,
907 Front Street, Binghamton, NY 13905, telephone (607) 692-4232, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#600b0f1314051208012013150e1902120f0f0d054e050415"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0e65617d7a6b7c666f4e7d7b60776c7c6161636b206b6a7b">[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 SUNY
Broome Community 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 inventory or related records held by SUNY Broome
Community College.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum two individuals, were
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removed from the region of Fort Ancient archeological culture (the
Upper Ohio River drainage), including parts of the current states of
Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
The collection was donated to the Susquehanna River Archaeological
Center (SRAC), Waverly, New York in 2012. The collection was
subsequently donated to SUNY Broome Community College by SRAC to be
used as a teaching collection. Deb Twigg, the co-founder, and executive
director of SRAC, identified the human remains as being a donation
collected in the 20th century in the Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, or West
Virginia region. The collection, which was referred to as the Les
Rolfe/Libold Collection, was reportedly donated to SRAC by the family
of unidentified deceased collectors. No provenience or location
information was provided with the collection, nor was any notice
included of any human remains present in the collection. The collection
was received in 31 buckets with slips of paper marked ``Lee'' or
``Davis.''
The collection includes, at minimum, the human remains of two
Ancestors, a juvenile of undetermined sex, aged 7-10 years, based on
dentition, and an adult of undetermined sex. No known individuals were
identified. There are 13 teeth, one foot, and two hand phalanges
associated with the juvenile. There are five teeth, a maxillary
fragment, one foot, and three hand phalanges associated with the adult.
Identifications were made by professional anthropologists at SUNY
Broome Community College and by a professional osteologist at
Binghamton University.
The 3,514 associated funerary objects are 949 pottery sherds and
assorted ceramics; 964 lithic tools, flakes, cores and assorted stone;
three unidentified minerals; 683 freshwater bivalve shells; six shell
hoes with drilled holes; five modified bones/shells; 19 turtle
carapaces/fragments; one elk cranium; 775 large and small mammal bones;
76 fish bones; nine bird bones; three pieces of charcoal; 10 lots of
carbonized maize cobs, seeds, nuts and wood; one nut; one piece of
unidentified wood; three pieces of glass; one metal buckle; two broken
metal spoons; one large metal nail; one metal spike; and one
unidentified metal fragment.
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: anthropological information, archeological information,
geographical information, biological information, historical
information, and oral tradition.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, SUNY Broome Community College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 3,514 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 Delaware Nation, Oklahoma;
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Little Traverse Bay
Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of
Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Prairie Band
Potawatomi Nation; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; and the Shawnee
Tribe.
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 27, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, SUNY Broome Community
College 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. SUNY Broome Community 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 before 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 16, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-03798 Filed 2-23-24; 8:45 am]
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