Notice2024-19678
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
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Published
September 3, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Hartwick College 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 remains were recovered from Oneonta, NY, and Hyndesville, NY, respectively.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71391-71392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19678]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038620; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hartwick College, Oneonta, 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), Hartwick College 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 remains were recovered from Oneonta,
NY, and Hyndesville, NY, respectively.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Quentin Lewis, Yager Museum, Hartwick College, 1
Hartwick Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820, telephone (607) 431-4481, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#761a13011f0507361e170402011f151d58131203"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2e424b59475d5f6e464f5c5a59474d45004b4a5b">[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
Hartwick College, 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, two individuals have been reasonably identified. In 1923, Adrian
G. Blanchard of Oneonta uncovered a burial in Oneonta, NY, in an area
known as the Oneonta Plains, between the Susquehanna River and the
current railroad tracks along what is today Highway 205. This burial
consisted of fragmentary human remains of one or more individuals and
84 associated funerary objects. The 84 associated funerary objects
consist of 29 stone tools, three gorgets, one antler flaker, 13 sherds
of pottery, one lot of fragments of mica schist, one tubular shell
bead, one hammered copper pendant, five fish vertebrae beads, and 30
rolled copper beads. These materials were given or sold to Willard
Yager before 1929, and have been in Hartwick College's possession since
that time.
In 1971, the remains of one individual were uncovered by Hartwick
College Professor Bruce Raemsch near Hyndsville, NY as part of an
archaeological field school at the Pleasant Brooke locus of the Timlin
site. One associated funerary object was also uncovered. Excavated from
disturbed fill near a state highway, Raemsch was told by local
informants that highway construction crews had uncovered a Native
burial some decades prior and
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removed remains and associated artifacts, and that the remains found by
Raemsch were likely from that burial. These remains were sent to the
radiocarbon lab at University of California, Riverside in 1971 for
testing, though it is not clear from records whether testing was
actually completed. This individual has remained at Riverside since
that time. The associated funerary object consists of a soil sample
taken from the disturbed fill adjacent to the remains, which was
likewise sent to Riverside, California.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
Hartwick College has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 85 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 Saint
Regis Mohawk 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 October 3, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, Hartwick College 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. Hartwick College 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: August 26, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-19678 Filed 8-30-24; 8:45 am]
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