Notice2025-01178
Notice of Inventory Completion: Marshall University, Huntington, WV
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Published
January 17, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Marshall University has completed an inventory of human 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 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5990-5991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01178]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039366; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Marshall University, Huntington,
WV
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Marshall University has completed an
inventory of human 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 February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Marion Coe, Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive,
Huntington, WV 25755, telephone (304) 696-3758, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cfaca0aaa28fa2aebdbca7aea3a3e1aaabba"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="96f5f9f3fbd6fbf7e4e5fef7fafab8f3f2e3">[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
Marshall University, 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 has been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. The individual was removed from
Huntington Mound, Cabell County, West Virginia. In September 2023, the
Native American human remains were discovered within a collection
housed at Marshall University's Geology Department. The identification
was made during a review of a handwritten collection ledger, which
indicated that the remains had been exhumed by Alfred Ferrell, A.A.
Ferrell, and Richard Malcolm. In June 1959, avocational archaeologist
Emory Jones donated the individual to the University. Marshall
University has no knowledge or record of the presence of any
potentially hazardous substances being used to treat the human remains.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains described in this notice.
Determinations
Marshall University 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 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; Catawba Indian Nation; Cayuga Nation; Cherokee Nation;
Chickahominy Indian Tribe; Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division;
Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Grand Traverse Band of
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw
Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of
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Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of
Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of
Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; 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); Nansemond Indian Nation; Omaha
Tribe of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga
Nation; Pamunkey Indian Tribe; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.; Red Cliff Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Saint
Regis Mohawk Tribe; 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; Tunica-Biloxi Indian
Tribe; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota;
Tuscarora Nation; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma; Upper Mattaponi Tribe; and the Wyandotte Nation.
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.
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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after February 18, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Marshall University 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. Marshall University 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: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01178 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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