Notice of Inventory Completion: Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA, 68200-68201 [2024-18956]
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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 September 23, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Robin O. Mills, Bureau of
Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue
#13, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone
(907) 474–2359, email rmills@blm.gov.
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 BLM Alaska,
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
four individuals have been reasonably
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present. The human remains
include 15 skeletal elements
representing minimally four
individuals, secured during the 1958–
1961 archaeological excavations at Cape
Krusenstern, Alaska, by Louis Giddings.
Previous repatriations from this site and
others nearby occurred in 2000 to the
Tribe identified in this notice. The new
identified remains were discovered by
specifically searching for human
remains in excavation bags containing
animal faunal elements, in AugustNovember 2023. The new remains were
found from three archaeological
proveniences: (1) 10 ribs (MNI one
individual; adult) from House 8, (2) two
vertebrae & one metacarpal (MNI one
individual; adult) from a seal fauna
feature near House 30, and (3) one
metatarsal and one clavicle (MNI two
individuals; one teenager, one child)
from House 41.
Cultural Affiliation
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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 BLM Alaska has determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of four individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• There is a reasonable connection
between the human remains in this
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notice and the Native Village of
Kotzebue.
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 September 23, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are
received, the BLM Alaska 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 BLM
Alaska 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: August 15, 2024.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Mercyhurst
University 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 September 23, 2024.
SUMMARY:
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Anne Marjenin, Mercyhurst
University, 501 E 38th Street, Erie, PA
16546, telephone (814) 824–2012, email
nagpra@mercyhurst.edu.
ADDRESSES:
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 Mercyhurst
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available,
human remains representing, at least,
one individual have been reasonably
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present. On an unknown
date, the individual (IN-zUNK–TIN–
0001) was removed from an unknown
geographic location in Indiana. On an
unknown date, the individual was
obtained by Raymond C. Vietzen (1907–
1995). Vietzen, an avocational
archaeologist, collector, and author,
established the Indian Ridge Museum in
Elyria, Ohio, and the Archaeological
Society of Ohio (formerly the Ohio
Indian Relic Collectors Society). The
Indian Ridge Museum, founded in the
1930s, served as Vietzen’s laboratory
and repository, and it remained in
operation until the mid-1990s. After
Vietzen’s death, the facility fell into
disrepair, and most of the items he had
acquired and housed at the museum
were sold. In 1998, the Ohio Historical
Society (presently the Ohio History
Connection) removed ancestral human
remains and some of the remaining
items from the facility and temporarily
housed them at the Ohio Historical
Society. In October of 2003, these
remains were transferred from the Ohio
Historical Society to Mercyhurst College
(presently Mercyhurst University).
While there is no record regarding
potentially hazardous substances having
been used to treat the human remains,
an unidentified adhesive or lacquer is
present. It is unknown when the
substance was applied.
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.
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Determinations
Mercyhurst University has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• There is a reasonable connection
between the human remains described
in this notice and the AbsenteeShawnee 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;
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow
Creek Reservation, South Dakota;
Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware
Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe
of Oklahoma; Flandreau Santee Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota; Forest County
Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin;
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and
Chippewa Indians, Michigan;
Hannahville Indian Community,
Michigan; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma;
Keweenaw Bay Indian 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; Lower Sioux Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota;
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; Prairie
Island Indian Community in the State of
Minnesota; Quapaw Nation; Red Cliff
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
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Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan;
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Santee Sioux
Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe
of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca
Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga
Nation; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
Community of Minnesota; Shawnee
Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community,
Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians
of Wisconsin; Stockbridge Munsee
Community, Wisconsin; The Osage
Nation; Tonawanda Band of Seneca;
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora
Nation; United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; Upper
Sioux Community, Minnesota;
Wyandotte Nation; 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 September 23, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are
received, Mercyhurst 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. Mercyhurst
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: August 15, 2024.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intended Repatriation: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management, Alaska State Office,
Anchorage, AK
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management, Alaska State Office
(BLM Alaska) intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary
objects and that have a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this
notice.
SUMMARY:
Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after
September 23, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Robin O. Mills, Bureau of
Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue
#13, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone
(907) 474–2359, email rmills@blm.gov.
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 BLM Alaska,
and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the summary or related records. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
DATES:
Abstract of Information Available
A total of 69 unassociated funerary
objects have been requested for
repatriation. The 69 unassociated
funerary objects are lance and arrow
blades and shafts, game pieces, different
types of projectile points, other hunting
tools and accessories, wood shavings,
dolls, stone tools, a carving, an effigy,
bowls, dishes, cups, and scoop pieces,
and wrapping material.
Based on the information available,
Native American unassociated funerary
objects have been identified at the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn
Museum). These objects were collected
by William Van Valin when he was
hired by the Penn Museum to lead the
John Wanamaker Expedition to Alaska,
in 1917–1919. The 69 unassociated
funerary objects derive from the
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038572; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Mercyhurst University 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 September 23, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Anne Marjenin, Mercyhurst University, 501 E 38th Street,
Erie, PA 16546, telephone (814) 824-2012, email [email protected].
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
Mercyhurst 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 have been reasonably identified. No associated
funerary objects are present. On an unknown date, the individual (IN-
zUNK-TIN-0001) was removed from an unknown geographic location in
Indiana. On an unknown date, the individual was obtained by Raymond C.
Vietzen (1907-1995). Vietzen, an avocational archaeologist, collector,
and author, established the Indian Ridge Museum in Elyria, Ohio, and
the Archaeological Society of Ohio (formerly the Ohio Indian Relic
Collectors Society). The Indian Ridge Museum, founded in the 1930s,
served as Vietzen's laboratory and repository, and it remained in
operation until the mid-1990s. After Vietzen's death, the facility fell
into disrepair, and most of the items he had acquired and housed at the
museum were sold. In 1998, the Ohio Historical Society (presently the
Ohio History Connection) removed ancestral human remains and some of
the remaining items from the facility and temporarily housed them at
the Ohio Historical Society. In October of 2003, these remains were
transferred from the Ohio Historical Society to Mercyhurst College
(presently Mercyhurst University).
While there is no record regarding potentially hazardous substances
having been used to treat the human remains, an unidentified adhesive
or lacquer is present. It is unknown when the substance was applied.
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.
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Determinations
Mercyhurst University has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
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; Cayuga Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's
Reservation, Montana; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Creek
Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Forest County
Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Kaw
Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian 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; Lower Sioux Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota; 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; Prairie Island Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota; Quapaw 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; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie
Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-
Cayuga Nation; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota;
Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin;
The Osage Nation; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of
Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora Nation; United Keetoowah
Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota;
Wyandotte Nation; 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 September 23, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Mercyhurst 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. Mercyhurst 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: August 15, 2024.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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