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Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, six individuals were 

removed from unknown locations in 

southwest Florida at an unknown date. 

PSU faculty members encountered these 

human remains in the Anthropology 

Department’s archeology holdings at an 

unknown date between 1990 and 2002 

in a box labeled ‘‘Arch-2 Burial.’’ Some 

of the human remains in this box were 

kept in a bag labeled ‘‘Florida,’’ and 

they were associated with other Native 

American human remains that were 

removed from Galt’s Kay in Sarasota 

County, FL (Smithsonian catalog 

number: 292.763) and Casey Key in Lee 

County, FL (Smithsonian catalog 

numbers: 229.311, 229.316, 229.319, 

229.320, 229.324, 229.328, 229.330, 

229.334, 229.253, 229.259, and 229.844) 

by Alesˇ Hrdlicˇka in 1916 or 1917 that 

are under the control of the Smithsonian 

National Museum of Natural History. 

These human remains are all reasonably 

believed to have been brought to PSU by 

Marshall ‘‘Bud’’ Newman in 1962 when 

he left his position as Associate Curator 

of Physical Anthropology at the 

Smithsonian National Museum of 

Natural History to join the 

Anthropology Department at PSU. The 

11 associated funerary objects are six 

pieces of worked faunal remains, two 

stone projectile points, one stone drill, 

one metal fragment, and one stone bowl 

fragment. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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 

information, archeological information, 

geographical information, and historical 

information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, PSU has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of six individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 11 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 Seminole Tribe of 

Florida and The Seminole Nation of 

Oklahoma. 

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 February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

PSU 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. PSU is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations 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: December 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00129 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037199; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Fort Ticonderoga Association, 

Ticonderoga, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), The Fort 

Ticonderoga Association 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 Essex County, NY. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Margaret Staudter, The Fort 

Ticonderoga Association, 30 Fort Ti Rd., 

Ticonderoga, NY 12883, telephone (518) 

585–1015, email mstaudter@fortticonderoga.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 Fort 

Ticonderoga Association. 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 Fort Ticonderoga Association. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, three individuals were 

removed from the Ticonderoga Rock 

Shelter #2 in Essex County, NY. In 

September 1936, members of the 

Champlain Valley Archaeology Society 

led an excavation of a rock shelter near 

‘‘Sentinel Rock’’, a point on the 

Ticonderoga peninsula. The individuals 

(FT HR–01; FT HR–03; FT HR–08), and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed during the excavations were 

brought to Fort Ticonderoga. The 73 

associated funerary objects are two bone 

awls, one lot of beaver teeth, one lot of 

bird bones, one lot of bear bones, one lot 

of bobcat bones, one lot of unidentified 

bones, one lot of nutshell fragments, one 

bullfrog pelvis, one lot of Canadian 

goose bones, one carnivore mandible, 

one lot of catfish/bullhead bones, one 

lot of Cervidae bones, one lot of 

chipmunk bones, one antler chisel, two 

bone claws, one lot of Colubridae 

(snake) bones, one lot of debitage, one 

lot of dog bones, one lot of duck bones, 

one lot of bone engravers, one lot of fish 

bones, one lot of fisher bones, one bone 

fishhook, one lot of bone flakers, one 

freshwater drum, two freshwater 


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mussels, one lot of gar scales, one lot of 

gray fox bones, one lot of gray squirrel 

bones, one bone harpoon barb, one lot 

of snail shells, one lot of large mammal 

bones, one lynx mandible, one lot of 

mammal bones, one lot of mink bones, 

one lot of assorted objects, one lot of 

muskrat bones, one lot of mussel shell, 

one bone perforator/pin, one lot of 

porcupine bones, one lot of projectile 

points, one lot of pumpkinseed (fish) 

cranial fragments, one lot of antler 

punches, one lot of racoon bones, one 

lot of rattlesnake bones, one lot of 

rodent bones, one lot of bone scrapers, 

one lot of clay rim sherds, one clay 

collar sherd, one lot of clay body sherds, 

one undecorated clay sherd, one lot of 

small mammal bones, one lot of snail 

shell fragments, one lot of antler spikes, 

one lot of stinkpot bones, one limestone 

fragment, one unworked jasper pebble, 

one lot of sunfish bones, one lot of stone 

tools, one lot of turkey bones, one lot of 

turtle bones, one lot of unidentified 

bone, one lot of unidentified fish bone, 

one lot of unidentified mineral objects, 

one lot of vertebrate bones, one lot of 

walleye bones, two white perch cranial 

fragments, one lot of white tail deer 

bones, and one lot of yellow perch 

cranial fragments. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological and 

geographical evidence. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, The Fort Ticonderoga 

Association has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 73 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 Cayuga Nation; 

Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; 

Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis Mohawk 

Tribe; Seneca Nation of Indians; SenecaCayuga Nation; Stockbridge Munsee 

Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda 

Band of Seneca; and the Tuscarora 

Nation. 

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 February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Fort Ticonderoga Association 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 Fort 

Ticonderoga Association 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: December 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00128 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037205; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: California State University, 

Chico, Chico, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California 

State University, Chico (CSU Chico) 

intends to repatriate certain cultural 

items that meet the definition of objects 

of cultural patrimony and that have a 

cultural affiliation with the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

in this notice. The cultural items were 

removed from Butte County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dawn Rewolinski, 

California State University, Chico, 400 

W 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929, 

telephone (530) 898–3090, email 

drewolinski@csuchico.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 CSU Chico. 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 CSU Chico. 

Description 

Accession 434 

The 15 cultural items were removed 

from Butte County, CA. Sycamore 

Canyon Rock Shelter (CA–BUT–827) 

was surveyed by Bill Dreyer and Dan 

Foster in 1982. The cultural items that 

were archeologically recovered were 

brought to CSU Chico at an unknown 

date by an unknown individual. The 15 

objects of cultural patrimony are 14 lots 

of modified stone and one lot of soil. 

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: The following 

types of information were used to 

reasonably trace the relationship: 

anthropological information, 

archeological information, oral 

tradition, and expert opinion in the 

form of Tribal traditional knowledge. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, CSU Chico has 

determined that: 


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