Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 8722-8723 [2024-02558]
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Description
One individual, an adult female was
collected from a riverbank in Defiance
County, Ohio in 1992. Found with her
were 47 small snail shells, two circular
snail shells, one freshwater mussel shell
fragment, and seven shell fragments
(species unknown). All were found
within the soil associated with this
woman. The Lucas County Coroner’s
Office transferred this collection to the
Ohio History Connection in 2019.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: archeological
information, geographical information,
and indigenous knowledge from the
consulting Tribes.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Ohio History
Connection has determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• There are 57 objects described in
this notice which are believed to have
been placed with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or
ceremony.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced 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; Cayuga
Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the
Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana;
Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma;
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware
Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe
of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Hannahville Indian
Community, Michigan; Kaw Nation,
Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian
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Community, Michigan; Kickapoo
Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo
Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo
Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe
of Oklahoma; 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; Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida
Nation; Onondaga Nation; Ottawa Tribe
of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; 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; Turtle Mountain Band of
Chippewa Indians of North Dakota;
Tuscarora Nation; 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
Responsible Official identified in
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
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after March 11, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Ohio History Connection 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 Ohio History
Connection is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted on or after
the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13,
2023, effective January 12, 2024). As the
notice conforms to the mandatory
format of the Federal Register and
includes the required information, the
National Park Service is publishing this
notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024–02551 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037351;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Goucher
College intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of
objects of cultural patrimony and that
have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The
thirteen cultural items were removed
from areas in the present-day states of
New Mexico and Arizona.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after
March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Elaine Meyer-Lee, Provost,
Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley
Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, telephone
(410) 337–6044, email Elaine.MeyerLee@goucher.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
SUMMARY:
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responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of Goucher College.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related
records held by Goucher College.
Description
The 13 cultural items were removed
from areas in the present-day states of
New Mexico and Arizona in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. They were gathered by John
Franklin Goucher and other Methodist
missionaries who toured the western
United States and who were friends of
John Goucher, one of the founders of the
Woman’s College of Baltimore, later
known as Goucher College. John
Goucher donated his collection of
Native American cultural items to
Goucher College in 1921. The 13 objects
of cultural patrimony are seven jars, two
bowls, three pitchers, and one pot.
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Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: geographical
information; historical information;
expert opinion.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024–02558 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Goucher College has
determined that:
• The 13 cultural items described
above have ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group or
culture itself, rather than property
owned by an individual.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation,
New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
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submitted by 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 cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after March 11, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
Goucher College will determine the
most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. Goucher College is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
This notice was submitted on or after
the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13,
2023, effective January 12, 2024). As the
notice conforms to the mandatory
format of the Federal Register and
includes the required information, the
National Park Service is publishing this
notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037347;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Ohio
History Connection, Columbus, OH
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Ohio
History Connection 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 human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from Lucas County, Ohio.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
SUMMARY:
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in this notice may occur on or after
March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Nekole Alligood, NAGPRA
Specialist, Ohio History Connection,
800 E. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH
43211, telephone (614) 297–2300, email
nalligood@ohiohistory.org.
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 Ohio History
Connection. The National Park Service
is not responsible for the determinations
in this notice. Additional information
on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the Ohio History
Connection.
Description
Human remains representing at
minimum 33 individuals were removed
from various sites in Lucas County,
Ohio.
33 LU 788, Indian Island, Waterville
Township, Lucas County, Ohio. Two
adult individuals were recovered and 97
associated funerary objects were found
eroding out on Indian Island in the
Maumee River on Ohio Department of
Natural Resources property in 2010 and
again in 2017 and were transferred to
the Ohio History Connection.
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; remains
of one individual received by the Lucas
County Coroner’s Office in 1994 and
determined as not modern. The site was
excavated in the 1970s and the
individual’s remains were transferred to
Ohio History Connection in 2019.
Eight individuals who had been
moved from their original resting places
for the construction of a home in 1900
along the Ottawa River Road (now
known as Park Place neighborhood).
The same group of eight were exhumed
again upon the demolition of the 1900
house in preparation for a new home in
2019. They were taken to the Lucas
County Coroner’s Office and then
transferred to Ohio History Connection
in 2019. There are 29 associated
funerary objects removed from the site
including nine nails and nail fragments,
16 metal fragments, one screw, one
wire/metal earring, one wood fragment,
and one bluish-white bead.
33 LU 165 ‘‘Fry Site,’’ Toledo,
Washington Township, Lucas County,
Ohio. Seventeen individuals were
exhumed in 1977 and donated to the
Firelands Archaeological Research
Center who then donated them to the
Ohio History Connection for NAGPRA
processing. The site is located on the
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037351; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Goucher College,
Baltimore, MD
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Goucher College intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The thirteen cultural
items were removed from areas in the present-day states of New Mexico
and Arizona.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Elaine Meyer-Lee, Provost, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney
Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, telephone (410) 337-6044, email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative
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responsibilities under NAGPRA. The determinations in this notice are
the sole responsibility of Goucher College. The National Park Service
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional
information on the determinations in this notice, including the results
of consultation, can be found in the summary or related records held by
Goucher College.
Description
The 13 cultural items were removed from areas in the present-day
states of New Mexico and Arizona in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. They were gathered by John Franklin Goucher and
other Methodist missionaries who toured the western United States and
who were friends of John Goucher, one of the founders of the Woman's
College of Baltimore, later known as Goucher College. John Goucher
donated his collection of Native American cultural items to Goucher
College in 1921. The 13 objects of cultural patrimony are seven jars,
two bowls, three pitchers, and one pot.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: geographical information;
historical information; expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Goucher College has determined that:
The 13 cultural items described above have ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an
individual.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after March 11, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Goucher College will determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. Goucher College is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-02558 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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