Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 203 / Monday, October 23, 2023 / Notices 72789 

Dated: October 11, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23273 Filed 10–20–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036749; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Hastings Museum, Hastings, NE 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Hastings Museum intends to repatriate a 

certain cultural item that meets the 

definition of an unassociated funerary 

object and that has a cultural affiliation 

with the Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations in this notice. 

The cultural item was removed from 

Bartow County, GA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Dan Brosz, Hastings 

Museum, 1330 N Burlington Avenue, 

Hastings, NE 68901, telephone (402) 

462–2399, email dbrosz@

cityofhastings.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 Hastings 

Museum. 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 the Hastings Museum. 

Description 

At an unknown date, one cultural 

item was removed from an unidentified 

mound in Bartow County, GA, by R.E. 

Dodge. This unassociated funerary 

object came to the Hastings Museum 

between 1926 and 1931. The 

unassociated funerary object is an 

earring made from animal bone, and it 

is 1.25 inches in length. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural item in this notice is 

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. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Hastings Museum has 

determined that: 

• The one cultural item described 

above is 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural item and 

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural item 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 item in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after November 22, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the Hastings Museum must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the cultural item 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Hastings 

Museum is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe 

identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: October 11, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23274 Filed 10–20–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036765; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Cobb 

Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi 

State University, Mississippi State, MS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Cobb 

Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi 

State University (CIA) 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 Oktibbeha County, 

MS. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Jimmy Hardin, CIA 

Director; Tony Boudreaux, CIA Curator; 

and Shawn Lambert, Assistant Professor 

and NAGPRA Coordinator, Cobb 

Institute of Archaeology, 340 Lee 

Boulevard, Mississippi State, MS 39762, 

telephone (662) 325–3826, email 

sl2042@msstate.edu. 

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 Cobb Institute 

of Archaeology. 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 Cobb Institute of Archaeology. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 157 individuals were 

removed from Oktibbeha County, MS. 

Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520) is a mound and 

village complex located in the Black 

Prairie region in northeastern Oktibbeha 

County, MS. The site was first occupied 

between A.D. 1100 and 1650. During 

archeological work in 2021, a second 

Choctaw occupation, dating from the 

late 1700s to circa 1850, was discovered. 

In the summers of 1934 and 1935, 

Moreau Chambers, in association with 


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