77608 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 217 / Monday, November 13, 2023 / Notices 

Aggregating 7,040 acres. 

The decision addresses public access 

easements, if any, to be reserved to the 

United States pursuant to Sec. 17(b) of 

ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1616(b)), in the lands 

described above. 

The BLM will also publish notice of 

the decision once a week for four 

consecutive weeks in the ‘‘The Delta 

Discovery’’ newspaper. 

Any party claiming a property interest 

in the lands affected by the decision 

may appeal the decision in accordance 

with the requirements of 43 CFR part 4 

within the following time limits: 

1. Unknown parties, parties unable to 

be located after reasonable efforts have 

been expended to locate, parties who 

fail or refuse to sign their return receipt, 

and parties who receive a copy of the 

decision by regular mail which is not 

certified, return receipt requested, shall 

have until December 13, 2023 to file an 

appeal. 

2. Parties receiving service of the 

decision by certified mail shall have 30 

days from the date of receipt to file an 

appeal. 

Parties who do not file an appeal in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR part 4 shall be deemed to have 

waived their rights. Notices of appeal 

transmitted by facsimile will not be 

accepted as timely filed. 

Abby J. Muth, 

Land Law Examiner, Adjudication Section. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24860 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036900; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Gilcrease Museum 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. The cultural items were removed 

from Bartow County, GA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

December 13, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Laura Bryant, Gilcrease 

Museum, 800 S Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 

74104, telephone (918) 596–2747, email 

laura-bryant@utulsa.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 Gilcrease 

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 Gilcrease Museum. 

Description 

Three cultural items were removed 

from Bartow County, GA. In the earlyto-mid-20th century, Louis Larson 

removed pottery sherds from the 

Etowah site, and in 1959, Thomas 

Gilcrease acquired them. In September 

of 1954, Frank Soday removed pottery 

sherds and lithic flakes from the Etowah 

site, and in 1982, the Thomas Gilcrease 

Association purchased Soday’s 

collection and donated it to Gilcrease 

Museum. The three unassociated 

funerary objects are two lots consisting 

of pottery sherds and one lot consisting 

of lithic flakes. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items 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: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

kinship, linguistics, oral tradition, other 

relevant information, and expert 

opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Gilcrease Museum 

has determined that: 

• The three 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items 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 items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after December 13, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Gilcrease Museum must determine 

the most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Gilcrease 

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: November 1, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24888 Filed 11–9–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036903; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kansas 

Historical Society (KSHS) 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 Atchison, 

Doniphan, and Leavenworth Counties, 

KS. 


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