Notice2024-12070
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
June 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Southern California (U.S.C.) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 107 (Monday, June 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47598-47599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12070]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038010; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA
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 Southern California
(U.S.C.) has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined
that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after July 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Bethany Montagano, University of Southern California, 3551
Trousdale Parkway, Suite 102, Los Angeles, CA 90089, telephone (626)
787-2696, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#731116071b121d0a5d1e1c1d071214121d1c3303121e5d0600105d161706"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2143445549404f580f4c4e4f554046404f4e6151404c0f5452420f444554">[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
U.S.C., 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, one individual have been reasonably identified. On an unknown
date, the individual was likely removed from an area east of The
Dalles, Oregon or eastern Washington along the Columbia River. The
individual was then housed at a museum at Northwestern
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University. When the museum was dismantled, a faculty member at the
School of Medicine gave this individual to a colleague, Dr. Mikel Snow,
at the University of Miami School of Medicine, between 1973 to 1975.
The individual traveled with Dr. Snow to the U.S.C. campus and was
housed in their office until May 2022, when the individual was
identified during a campus-wide collections review. U.S.C. has no
knowledge of any potentially hazardous substances used to treat the
individual. No associated funerary objects are present.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains described in this notice.
Determinations
U.S.C. has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
described in this notice and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation;
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; and the
Nez Perce Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 and, if joined to a request
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Wanapum Band of Priest
Rapids, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after July 3, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, U.S.C. must determine the most appropriate requestor
prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human
remains are considered a single request and not competing requests.
U.S.C. 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 22, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-12070 Filed 5-31-24; 8:45 am]
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