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• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 72 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. 

• 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 Assiniboine and 

Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian 

Reservation, Montana; Bad River Band 

of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa 

Indians of the Bad River Reservation, 

Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian 

Community, Michigan; Cheyenne River 

Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 

Reservation, South Dakota; 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; 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; Ho-Chunk 

Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of 

Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of 

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 Shell Tribe of 

Chippewa Indians of Montana; Lower 

Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule 

Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux 

Indian Community in the State of 

Minnesota; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish 

Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 

Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of 

Wisconsin; 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; Oglala Sioux 

Tribe; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, 

Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation; Prairie Island Indian 

Community in the State of Minnesota; 

Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red 

Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 

Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the 

Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 

Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in 

Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, 

Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the 

Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa 

Indian Tribe of Michigan; Santee Sioux 

Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe 

of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; 

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 

Community of Minnesota; SissetonWahpeton Oyate; Sokaogon Chippewa 

Community, Wisconsin; Spirit Lake 

Tribe, North Dakota; St. Croix Chippewa 

Indians of Wisconsin; Standing Rock 

Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; 

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 

Indians of North Dakota; Upper Sioux 

Community, Minnesota; Winnebago 

Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton 

Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. 

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 

after November 24, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 

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 University of 

Wisconsin Oshkosh is responsible for 

sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23547 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036805; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion 

Amendment: Robert S. Peabody 

Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; amendment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Robert 

S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology has 

amended a Notice of Inventory 

Completion published in the Federal 

Register on February 26, 2015. This 

notice amends the number of associated 

funerary objects in a collection removed 

from Middlesex County, MA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Ryan Wheeler, Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology, 

Phillips Academy, 180 Main Street, 

Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 

749–4493, email rwheeler@andover.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 Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

amendments and determinations in this 

notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

inventory or related records held by the 

Robert S. Peabody Institute of 

Archaeology. 

Amendment 

This notice amends the 

determinations published in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register (80 FR 10501–10505, February 

26, 2015). Repatriation of the items in 

the original Notice of Inventory 

Completion has not occurred. In late 

November 2022, the Robert S. Peabody 

Institute of Archaeology received 

additional archeological material 

amassed by the late Eugene Winter. The 

cremated remains of one or more 

individuals from the Poznick site (19– 

MD–47, 19–MD–158) were identified, 

along with associated funerary objects 

from the Poznick site and the Call site 

(19–MD–37). 

From the Poznick Site (also known as 

Trull Farm and Meghann Lane, 19–MD– 


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47, 19–MD–158) in Middlesex County, 

MA, two individuals were removed 

(previously identified as one 

individual). The 40 funerary objects 

(previously identified as 0 associated 

funerary objects) are two ceramic 

sherds; five lots consisting of lithics; 

one lot consisting of bone fragments; 

four lots consisting of lithic debitage; 

three lots consisting of unmodified 

stone; one lot consisting of bone 

fragments, ceramic sherds and charcoal; 

one lot consisting of ground stone 

objects, possible hammerstones, lithic 

flakes/debitage, quartz flakes, ceramic 

sherds, bone fragments, and unmodified 

stones; 17 lots consisting of lithics, 

debitage, ceramic sherds, charcoal, soil, 

and ground stone tools; one lot 

consisting of quartz flakes, flake shatter, 

ground stone objects, and soil; one lot 

consisting of a quartz scraper, flake 

shatter, and unmodified stones; and four 

soil samples. 

From the Call Site (19–MD–37) in 

Middlesex County, MA, 69 funerary 

objects are identified as associated with 

the remains of the two individuals 

identified in the previous notice 

(previously, 66 associated funerary 

objects were identified). These 

associated funerary objects are two 

chipped stone projectile points, two 

pottery sherds, six burned animal bone 

fragments, two small flat pebbles, one 

charcoal sample, 43 chipped stone 

flakes, 10 unmodified rocks, and three 

soil samples. 

Determinations (as Amended) 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Robert S. Peabody 

Institute of Archaeology has determined 

that: 

• The human remains represent the 

physical remains of 16 individuals of 

Native American ancestry. 

• The 186 objects described in this 

amended 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. 

• 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 Mashpee 

Wampanoag Tribe, and the Wampanoag 

Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). 

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 identified in this notice and, if 

joined to a request from one or more of 

the Indian Tribes, the Assonet Band of 

the Wampanoag Nation, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group. 

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 

after November 24, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Robert S. Peabody Institute of 

Archaeology 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 Robert S. 

Peabody Institute of Archaeology is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 10.13, 

and 10.14. 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23548 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036821; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Anchorage, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM Alaska) 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 the Iyatayet site on 

the northwestern shore of Cape Denbigh 

and northwest of Shaktoolik, in the 

Nome Census Area, AK. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Robert E. King, Bureau of 

Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue, 

#13, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone 

(907) 271–5510, email r2king@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 BLM Alaska. 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 BLM Alaska. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from the Iyatayet site on the 

northwestern shore of Cape Denbigh 

and northwest of Shaktoolik, AK. The 

human remains, which are estimated to 

be at least 800 years old, were removed 

by an unknown party, probably in the 

1950s or 1960s, and were placed in the 

collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of 

Anthropology at Brown University in 

Providence, RI. (The museum’s 

sponsorship of multiple expeditions to 

Alaska in the mid-20th century might 

account for its custody of these human 

remains.) The one associated funerary 

object is one lot consisting of 

unidentified faunal remains. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains 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 and 

oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, BLM Alaska has 

determined that: 


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