Notice2024-23370
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hastings Museum, Hastings, NE
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Published
October 9, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Hastings Museum 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 196 (Wednesday, October 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81936-81937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23370]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038841; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Hastings Museum, Hastings, NE
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 Hastings Museum 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
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in this notice may occur on or after November 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Teresa Kreutzer-Hodson, Hastings Museum, 1330 North
Burlington Avenue, Hastings, NE 68901, telephone (402) 461-2399, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3a4e51485f4f4e405f4852555e4955547a59534e43555c525b494e53545d491455485d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="85f1eef7e0f0f1ffe0f7edeae1f6eaebc5e6ecf1fceae3ede4f6f1ecebe2f6abeaf7e2">[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
Hastings Museum, and additional information on the determinations in
this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in its
inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individuals has been
identified. The 26 associated funerary objects are the clothes
remaining on the body as well a mixture of tribally made items and US
military gear. The clothing consists of a US military long coat with
cape, red striped long sleave cotton shirt, leather belt and loin cloth
with beaded leggings, and beaded moccasins. Other funerary objects
found with the body include tepee poles, bison robe, pipe bag, hoof
rattle, lariat, several other leather bags, trade knife, willow back
rest, bow and arrows and a Henry Rifle.
In July 1921, human remains representing one individual and
associated funerary objects were removed a rock ledge overlooking the
Powder River near Barnum, Johnson County, Wyoming by Adam Keith. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were brought to the
Hastings Museum by Albert Brooking and Ray Cole and cataloged in 1930
(09211-09224). These remains were identified in the 1920s as belonging
to High Back Wolf III, a Cheyenne warrior killed in 1865. However,
there is compelling evidence that this is the body could be of a
different Cheyenne man known as Eagle Chef, killed in 1876. Once in the
Museum care, the body and associated funerary objects were fumigated on
multiple occasions and treated with a mixture of formaldehyde, alcohol
and bichloride of mercury. It is highly likely other poisonous
substances were used up through the1970s to prevent insect infestation.
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 Hastings Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 26 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 Cheyenne
and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana.
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 November
8, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Hastings Museum 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 Hastings Museum 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 30, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-23370 Filed 10-8-24; 8:45 am]
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