Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices 7409 

Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe 

of Louisiana; and The Muscogee (Creek) 

Nation (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The 

Tribes’’). 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3005(a)(2), 

repatriation of these cultural items may 

be to The 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 claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

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, by March 1, 2021. 

After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to The Tribes may proceed. 

The Tennessee Valley Authority is 

responsible for notifying The Tribes and 

The Consulted Tribes that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: January 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01898 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031392; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: Indiana University has 

corrected an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects, 

published in a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register on 

December 2, 2016. This notice corrects 

the minimum number of individuals 

and the number of associated funerary 

objects. 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 and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

to the Indiana University NAGPRA 

Office. If no additional requestors come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects 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 and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Indiana University 

NAGPRA Office at the address in this 

notice by March 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Jayne-Leigh Thomas, 

NAGPRA Director, Indiana University, 

NAGPRA Office, Student Building 318, 

701 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, 

IN 47405, telephone (812) 856–5315, 

email thomajay@indiana.edu. 

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 correction of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of 

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects were removed from 

North Dakota. 

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 and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects published in 

a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register (81 FR 87064–87065, 

December 2, 2016). The correction is 

being made due to a reassessment of the 

human remains and the discovery of 

additional human remains and funerary 

objects. Transfer of control of the items 

in this correction notice has not 

occurred. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87064, 

December, 2, 2016), column 2, 

paragraph 4, sentence 2 is corrected by 

substituting the following sentence: 

Human remains, representing a 

minimum of 69 individuals, were 

recovered from this site. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87064, 

December 2, 2016), column 2, paragraph 

5, sentence 4 is corrected by substituting 

the following sentence: 

Human remains, representing a 

minimum of 35 individuals, were 

recovered. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87064, 

December 2, 2016}), column 2, 

paragraph 5, sentence 6 is corrected by 

substituting the following sentence: 

The 11 associated funerary objects are 10 

blue glass beads and one mammal bone. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87064, 

December 2, 2016}), column 3, paragraph 3, 

inserting the following sentences at the end 

of the paragraph: 

Notes indicate that this collection is likely 

from North Dakota, with ID designations of 

Ar-34, Ar-3, and Ar-37. Four of these 

individuals are specifically labeled ‘Arikara’ 

or ‘Mandan’. It is interpreted that the ‘Ar’ is 

indicative of ‘Arikara’. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87064, 

December 2, 2016), column 3, paragraph 4, 

the following sentences are added to the 

beginning of the paragraph: 

Found with these collections were four 

additional boxes containing human remains 

representing four individuals. Three of the 

boxes were labeled as ‘Arikara’ and the 

fourth was labeled ‘Ar-6’, which is 

interpreted as ‘Arikara’. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87065, 

December 2, 2016), column 1, paragraph 1, 

sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the 

following sentence: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human 

remains described in this notice represent the 

physical remains of 157 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

In the Federal Register (81 FR 87065, 

December 2, 2016), column 1, paragraph 1, 

sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the 

following sentence: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 94 

objects described in this notice 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. 

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 and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Dr. Jayne-Leigh Thomas, 

NAGPRA Director, Indiana University, 

NAGPRA Office, Student Building 318, 

701 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, 

IN 47405, telephone (812) 856–5315, 

email thomajay@indiana.edu, 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 Three 

Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 

Reservation, North Dakota may proceed. 

Indiana University is responsible for 

notifying the Three Affiliated Tribes of 

the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 

Dakota that this notice has been 

published. 

7410 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices 

Dated: January 14, 2021. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01901 Filed 1–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031391; 

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, TVA, 

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 

From May 21 to July 28, 1937, 1,644 

cultural items were removed from 

historic Native American burials at site 

1MS32, on McKee Island, 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 1,644 unassociated funerary 

objects are two black glass beads and 

1,642 blue glass beads. 

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, Jon Marcoux’s study of 

glass beads from 1MS32 indicates a 

historic occupation in the range of A.D. 

1650–1750. Analysis of the brass bells 

recovered from this site suggests an 

occupation range from the late 1600s 

through the 1700s. During this period 

multiple tribes were using the 

Guntersville Reservoir area. 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. 

Both British and American historians 

indicate that in the 1700s, some 

Cherokee were leaving their traditional 

tribal lands in the Appalachian 

Mountains and the Little Tennessee 

River watershed. In the 1770s, a group 

of Cherokee, often designated as the 

Chickamauga in historical documents, 

had relocated to areas northeast of the 

current city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. 

Reprisals by American militia for 

Cherokee support of the British during 

the American Revolution forced these 

Cherokee farther down the Tennessee 

River. By 1785–1790 there were named 

Cherokee villages in the Guntersville 

Reservoir area. The Koasati, Muscogee 

(Creek), and Cherokee all hunted in the 

Tennessee Valley. Based on the totality 

of the evidence, TVA has determined 

that the cultural items from historic 

burials at 1MS32 are culturally affiliated 

with Native American descendants of 

the Koasati/Kaskinampo or the 

Cherokee. These descendants include 

the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas 

(previously listed as the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas); AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee 

Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the 

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee 

Indians in Oklahoma. 

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 1,644 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 

specific burial sites of Native American 

individuals. 

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

items are culturally affiliated with the 

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas 

(previously listed as the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas); AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee 

Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; The 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation; and the 

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee