Notice2025-08046
Notice of Inventory Completion: Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA
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Published
May 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University (CHM) has completed an inventory of human remains 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 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 19521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08046]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040065; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Center for the History of
Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard
University, Boston, MA
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 Center for the History of Medicine,
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University (CHM) has
completed an inventory of human remains 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 June 9, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jane Pickering, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone
(617) 496-2374, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d574d545e56584f54535a7d5b5c4e13555c4f4b5c4f5913585948"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7e140e171d151b0c1710193e181f0d50161f0c081f0c1a501b1a0b">[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
CHM, 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
Human remains representing, at least, two individuals have been
identified. The two associated funerary objects are two worked bone
items, which are under the control of and reported by the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE), in a
separate notice. The individuals were removed from a mound in
``Dakota,'' i.e., the Dakota Territory, representing present-day North
and South Dakota, by Daniel Frank Whitten, D.M.D, at an unknown date,
but likely between 1878 and 1891. Whitten transferred the individuals
to Frank T. Taylor, D.M.D., at an unknown date, and Taylor donated the
individuals to the Harvard Dental School Museum (HDSM) in 1899.
Sometime between 1940 and 2000, the individuals were transferred from
the HDSM to the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Harvard Medical School
(now the CHM) when the HDSM was dissolved. Additional human remains
from this mound are under the control of and reported by the PMAE in a
separate notice.
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 described in this
notice.
Determinations
The CHM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck
Indian Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne
River Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow
Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Oglala
Sioux Tribe; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota;
Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota;
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Turtle Mountain
Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Upper Sioux Community,
Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota.
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 June 9, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the CHM 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. The
CHM 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: April 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08046 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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