Notice2024-06276
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
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Published
March 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Tennessee, Department of Anthropology (UTK), intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Buchanan County, MO.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 21001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06276]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037635; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The University of
Tennessee, Department of Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
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 University of Tennessee, Department of
Anthropology (UTK), intends to repatriate certain cultural items that
meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from
Buchanan County, MO.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after April 25, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Ozlem Kilic, University of Tennessee, Office of the
Provost, 527 Andy Holt Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996-0152, telephone (865)
974-2454, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3a5551535653597a4f4e51145f5e4f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ea858183868389aa9f9e81c48f8e9f">[email protected]</span></a> and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3244425353724746591c575647"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e492948585a491908fca818091">[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 UTK.
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 the UTK.
Description
Five lots of unassociated objects were removed from the Cloverdale
Ossuary (23BN2) in Buchanan County, Missouri. Reginald Bullock (R. B.)
Aker systematically excavated the site in the late 1950s; however, he
did not completely excavate the ossuary during that time, returning in
1959 to recover additional burials vandalized from previously
unexcavated graves. Details of the transfer of the burials and cultural
items are unknown; however, it is likely that the excavated site
materials were sent to William Bass at the University of Kansas and
subsequently brought with him when he began working in the UTK
Department of Anthropology in 1971. The five lots of unassociated
funerary objects are one lot of natural stone, one lot of worked stone,
one lot of possible petrified wood, one lot of charred wood, and one
lot of charred pignuts.
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, and Native American traditional knowledge.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, UTK has determined that:
<bullet> The five cultural items described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Pawnee Nation
of Oklahoma.
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 April 25, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, UTK must 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. UTK 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 after the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024) but in the older format. 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: March 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-06276 Filed 3-25-24; 8:45 am]
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