Notice2024-11451
Notice of Inventory Completion: City of Evansville Water and Sewer Utility, Evansville, IN
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Published
May 24, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the City of Evansville Water and Sewer Utility (EWSU) 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45917-45918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11451]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037980; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: City of Evansville Water and
Sewer Utility, Evansville, IN
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 City of Evansville Water and Sewer
Utility (EWSU) 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after June 24, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Andrew V. Martin, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., 201 NW
4th Street, Evansville, IN 47713, telephone
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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
EWSU, and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, eight individuals have been reasonably identified. The six
associated funerary objects were found in association with two burials.
Two concentrations of amorphous silver flecking that measured
approximately 5 cm in diameter were found at the left shoulder area and
at the mid-abdominal area of one burial. Another burial had a total of
four copper buttons found in association with a likely male adult. The
remaining six burials did not have any associated funerary objects.
In 2023, human remains representing 75 individuals were
archaeologically excavated from a known early nineteenth-century
cemetery, McGary's Burial Ground (Archaeological Site 12VG2126), in
downtown Evansville, Vanderburgh County, IN. These human remains are
represented by individual burials. The burials consisted of infants
through old adults who, based on the recovered cultural materials, were
most likely interred from 1816 through 1829. The identities of all
exhumed individuals could not be determined. Due to poor preservation,
physical analysis of the remains was limited, and biological affinity
could not be assessed for most of the individuals. Although,
morphological characteristics from dental elements examined indicate
American Indian ancestry for eight individuals. Based on the
information available and the results of consultation, cultural
affiliation for the eight individuals of American Indian ancestry is
reasonably identified by the geographical location of the cemetery
described in this notice. Specifically, southern Indiana is known to
have been occupied by the people of the Miami and Peoria Tribes before
their removal from Indiana in the early and mid-19th century.
Historical and ethnographic documents also place the Delaware and
Shawnee in southern Indiana during the early historic periods (16th
through 18th centuries) and they were present elsewhere in Indiana
until their removal in the early 19th century.
There were no known potentially hazardous substances used to treat
any of the human remains or associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects described
in this notice.
Determinations
The City of Evansville Water and Sewer Utility has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of eight individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The six objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Delaware Tribe of Indians; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; 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
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 June 24, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the City of
Evansville Water and Sewer Utility 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 City of Evansville Water and
Sewer Utility is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: May 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-11451 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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