Notice2024-20874
Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
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Published
September 13, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), The University of Toledo 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 178 (Friday, September 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74988-74989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20874]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038699; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Toledo, Toledo,
OH
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 Toledo 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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DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Thomas Zych, The University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft
Street MS 956, Toledo, OH 43606, telephone (419) 530-4395, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ffbe7e0e2eefca1f5f6ece7cfdadbe0e3eaebe0a1eaebfa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ffbe7e0e2eefca1f5f6ece7cfdadbe0e3eaebe0a1eaebfa">[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 The
University of Toledo, 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, 38 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 16
associated funerary objects are three lots of pottery fragments; one
lot of flotation excess residue; one ceramic pipe fragment; one faunal
bone; one lot of calcined faunal bone; one lot of burnt faunal bone
fragments; four pottery fragments; two pieces of white clay; one
quartzite stone; and one lot of rocks. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from the Reau Site (20-MR-166) by The
University of Toledo between 1974 and 1977, under the direction of
David Stothers, a professor at the university. On August 15, 1991,
David Stothers loaned ``all cultural material and skeletal remains''
from the Reau Site to the Firelands Archaeological Research Center
(FARC). In November 2021, FARC transferred individuals and associated
funerary objects from the Reau Site to Ohio History Connection (OHC).
In April 2023, the University of Toledo and OHC determined that the
University of Toledo retained legal control of the individuals and
associated funerary objects from the Reau Site. On May 10, 2023, OHC
transferred physical custody of the individuals and associated funerary
objects from the Reau Site to the University of Toledo. The University
of Toledo has no record of any potentially hazardous substances being
used to treat the human remains or associated funerary objects.
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
The University of Toledo has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 38 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 16 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
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the
Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation,
Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Chippewa Cree Indians
of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay
Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac
Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little
River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa
Indians of Montana; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
(Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac
Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth
Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Ottawa
Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and
Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Sault
Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of
Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa
Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin;
Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of
North Dakota; and the Wyandotte Nation.
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 15, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, The University of
Toledo 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 University of Toledo 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: September 5, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-20874 Filed 9-12-24; 8:45 am]
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