Notice2024-04095
Notice of Inventory Completion: State University of New York Potsdam, Department of Anthropology, Potsdam, NY
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Published
February 28, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the State University of New York Potsdam (SUNY Potsdam), Department of Anthropology, 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 St. Lawrence County, NY.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14712-14713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04095]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037481; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: State University of New York
Potsdam, Department of Anthropology, Potsdam, 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), the State University of New York Potsdam
(SUNY Potsdam), Department of Anthropology, 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 St. Lawrence County, NY.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Hadley Kruczek-Aaron, SUNY Potsdam, Department of
Anthropology, 44 Pierrepont Avenue,
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Potsdam, NY 13676, telephone (315) 267-2072, email
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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
SUNY Potsdam, Department of Anthropology. 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 SUNY Potsdam, Department of Anthropology.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from St. Lawrence County, NY. In the summer of 1979, SUNY Potsdam
archeologist Garrett Cook conducted an archeology field school at the
so-called Lee site, which has been dated to the Early and Middle
Woodland periods. The excavation took place largely in what had become
a highly disturbed plow zone. During the excavation, no intact burial
was discerned and, owing to their highly fragmentary condition, human
bones were not differentiated from animal bones. Nevertheless, Cook
suspected that burials lay nearby and, as a result, he ceased the
excavation. The excavated assemblage from the Lee site became part of
the SUNY Potsdam archeological collections. After realizing that there
were human remains and associated funerary objects in this assemblage,
in the spring of 2022, current SUNY Potsdam archeologists initiated the
NAGPRA inventory process. The 42 associated funerary objects are one
popeyed birdstone, three Meadowood cache blades, three Meadowood
bifaces, two chert bifaces (one of them glued), one triangular chert
biface, one medial chert biface, four proximal biface fragments, one
partial groundstone axe (partially glued), one drill fragment, one
quartz projectile point, one possible Meadowood projectile point, one
distal biface fragment (possibly Meadowood), one proximal biface
fragment (possibly Meadowood), six small projectile points (mostly
chert), one ovate projectile point, eight scrapers, one soapstone bead,
one bone pottery decorating tool, one antler tine, one lot consisting
of miscellaneous lithics (mostly debitage; N = 2,739), one lot
consisting of ceramic sherds (some glued; N = 1,499 fragments), and one
lot consisting of faunal remains (N = 655 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: geographical and oral traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the SUNY Potsdam, Department of Anthropology has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 42 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 Oneida Indian 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 29, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the SUNY Potsdam
Department of Anthropology 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 SUNY Potsdam Department of
Anthropology is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribe 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 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04095 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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