Notice2024-17261
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth, KS
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Published
August 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Leavenworth 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 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63970-63971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17261]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038401; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fort Leavenworth, Fort
Leavenworth, KS
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Fort Leavenworth 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 September 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dale Cleland, Fort Leavenworth, 820 McClellan Avenue, Fort
Leavenworth, KS 66027, telephone (913) 680-5270, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3054515c551e541e535c555c515e541e5359467051425d491e5d595c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="35515459501b511b56595059545b511b565c43755447584c1b585c59">[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 Fort
Leavenworth, and additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The 54 associated funerary objects are one projectile
point, one section of a drill, one modified stone, two unmodified
rocks, one scraper, 45 lithic flakes, two deer antler fragments, and
one bag of soil matrix. In 1966, the individual was removed from site
14LV328 in Leavenworth County, Kansas, as part of a Kansas State
Historical Society excavation of a burial mound. The site has been
dated to the Valley focus (50 B.C.-A.D. 400) or Kansas City Hopewell
(A.D. 1-750).
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 and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
Fort Leavenworth has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 54 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Kaw
Nation, Oklahoma and the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma.
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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September
5, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Fort
Leavenworth 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. Fort Leavenworth 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: July 26, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-17261 Filed 8-5-24; 8:45 am]
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