Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices 7407 

A preliminary inventory was 

completed by Dr. Johnson in 2013. 

Bioarcheologist Dr. Jess Beck conducted 

a detailed analysis of the human 

remains for Vassar College in 2020 and 

identified the minimum number of 

individuals. The individuals include 

eight adults and three subadults of 

unknown sex. No individuals have been 

identified. Although Unangan Aleut 

burials are often associated with a small 

number of utilitarian objects such as 

wedges and knives, as the human 

remains came from eroded contexts, no 

associated funerary objects have been 

identified. 

Radiocarbon dates from charcoal 

samples found at XSI–007 indicate that 

the site was occupied shortly before 

2000 years ago. The Chernabura Island 

human remains are more likely than not 

Native American, and they are most 

closely affiliated with the modern Aleut 

people. 

Determinations Made by the U.S. 

Department of Interior, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Alaska Region 

Officials of the U.S. Department of 

Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Alaska Region have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of 11 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Agdaagux Tribe of King 

Cove; Native Village of Belkofski; Native 

Village of Unga; Pauloff Harbor Village; 

and the Qagan Tayagungin Tribe of 

Sand Point (previously listed as Qagan 

Tayagungin Tribe of Sand Point Village) 

Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (hereafter 

referred to as ‘‘The Indian Tribes’’). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the request to Jeremy M. 

Karchut, Regional Historic Preservation 

Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Alaska Region, 1011 East Tudor Road, 

MS–235, Anchorage, AK 99503, 

telephone (907) 786–3399, email 

Jeremy_Karchut@fws.gov, by March 1, 

2021. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to The 

Indian Tribes may proceed. 

The U.S. Department of Interior, Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Alaska Region is 

responsible for notifying The Consulted 

Entities and The Indian Tribes that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: January 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01902 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031388; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Geneva Historical Society, Geneva, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Geneva Historical Society 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and present-day Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request to the Geneva 

Historical Society. If no additional 

requestors come forward, transfer of 

control of the human remains to the 

lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or 

Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 

this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to the Geneva Historical 

Society at the address in this notice by 

March 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Kerry Lippincott, Geneva 

Historical Society, 543 South Main 

Street, Geneva, NY 14456, telephone 

(315) 789–5151, email director@

genevahistoricalsociety.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3003, of the completion of an inventory 

of human remains under the control of 

the Geneva Historical Society, Geneva, 

NY. The human remains were removed 

from the Reed Farm, Ontario County, 

NY. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Geneva 

Historical Society professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Seneca Nation of Indians (previously 

listed as Seneca Nation of New York). 

History and Description of the Remains 

In the spring of 1969, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from Reed 

Farm in Ontario County, NY. Two boys, 

James and Thomas Reed, discovered the 

human remains in a sand mound eight 

miles south of Geneva, NY, along 

Seneca Lake. They found the remains of 

one individual, possibly female, buried 

in a seated position with crossed arms 

and crossed legs, and facing east. In May 

1969, the Reed family placed the human 

remains on loan with the Geneva 

Historical Society, and since 1995, the 

human remains have been under the 

Society’s control. No known individuals 

were identified. No associated funerary 

objects were present. 

A written description of the burial at 

the time of discovery stated that no 

artifacts were discovered with the 

human remains. In 1995, Peter Jemison, 

NAGPRA coordinator for the Seneca 

Nation of Indians, opined that the 

human remains were of pre-historic 

date, as a Haudenosaunee burial would 

have included a beaded necklace. Along 

the eastern shore of Seneca Lake 

seasonal settlements established for 

fishing marked the periphery of Seneca 

Nation territory. A few miles to the west 

of these settlements, archeological 

evidence exists for the associated 

Seneca towns. Based on the totality of 

the information, the Geneva Historical 

Society has determined that the human 

remains listed in this notice are 

ancestral to the Seneca people. 

Determinations Made by the Geneva 

Historical Society 

Officials of the Geneva Historical 

Society have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Seneca Nation of 

Indians (previously listed as Seneca 

Nation of New York). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the request to Kerry 

Lippincott, Geneva Historical Society, 

543 South Main Street, Geneva, NY 

14456, telephone (315) 789–5151, email 

director@genevahistoricalsociety.com, 

by March 1, 2021. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the Seneca Nation of 

Indians (previously listed as Seneca 

Nation of New York) may proceed. 

The Geneva Historical Society is 

responsible for notifying the Seneca 

Nation of Indians (previously listed as 

Seneca Nation of New York) that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: January 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01897 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031390; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Tennessee Valley Authority, 

Knoxville, TN 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley 

Authority (TVA), in consultation with 

the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

TVA. If no additional claimants come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

cultural items to the lineal descendants, 

Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian 

organizations stated in this notice may 

proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the TVA at the address in this notice by 

March 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, 

Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West 

Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville, 

TN 37902–1401, telephone (865) 632– 

7458, email tomaher@tva.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the 

Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 

TN, that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the 

unassociated funerary objects was made 

by TVA professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Cherokee Nation; Coushatta Tribe of 

Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee 

Indians; Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw 

Nation; and The Muscogee (Creek) 

Nation (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The 

Consulted Tribes’’). 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

On June 25, 1937, 47 cultural items 

were removed from burial 15 at 1MS32, 

the McKee Island site, in Marshall 

County, AL. The McKee Island site was 

excavated as part of TVA’s Guntersville 

Reservoir project by the Alabama 

Museum of Natural History (AMNH) at 

the University of Alabama, using labor 

and funds provided by the Works 

Progress Administration (WPA). Details 

regarding these excavations may be 

found in ‘‘An Archaeological Survey of 

Guntersville Basin on the Tennessee 

River in Northern Alabama,’’ by 

William S. Webb and Charles G. Wilder. 

TVA acquired the site on November 12, 

1936. The 47 unassociated funerary 

objects are sherds of a Mississippi Plain 

vessel. 

Site 1MS32 was a midden-rich village 

that extended 800 feet along a ridge of 

the now-inundated McKee Island. 

Although there are no radiocarbon dates 

from this site, ceramics recovered from 

1MS32 indicate occupations during the 

Colbert (300 B.C.–A.D. 100), Flint River 

(A.D. 500–1000), and Crow Creek (A.D. 

1500–1650) phases. Burial 15 is from 

the Mississippian Crow Creek phase. 

Chronicles from Spanish explorers of 

the 16th century and French explorers 

of the 17th and 18th century indicate 

the presence of chiefdom-level tribal 

entities in the southeastern United 

States that resemble the historic Native 

American chiefdoms. Linguistic 

analysis of place names noted by 

multiple Spanish explorers indicates 

that Koasati-speaking Muskogean 

groups inhabited northeastern Alabama. 

Early maps and research into the 

historic Native American occupation of 

northeastern Alabama indicate that the 

Koasati (as called by the English) or the 

Kaskinampo (as called by the French) 

were found at multiple sites in Jackson 

and Marshall Counties in the 17th and 

18th centuries. Oral history, traditions, 

and expert opinions of Koasati/ 

Kaskinampo and Muscogee (Creek) 

descendants indicate that this portion of 

the Tennessee River valley was their 

tribal homeland. Oral tradition also 

indicates that by the middle 1700s, the 

Koasati/Kaskinampo were leaving the 

Tennessee River valley and moving 

south. 

Based on the totality of the evidence, 

TVA has determined that the items from 

the Mississippian burials at 1MS32 are 

culturally affiliated with descendants of 

the Koasati/Kaskinampo. These 

descendants include the AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas (previously 

listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes 

of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal 

Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; 

and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. 

Determinations Made by the Tennessee 

Valley Authority 

Officials of the Tennessee Valley 

Authority have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 47 cultural items described above 

are reasonably 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 and 

are believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), these 

items are culturally affiliated with the 

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas 

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