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Description 

One individual, an adult female was 

collected from a riverbank in Defiance 

County, Ohio in 1992. Found with her 

were 47 small snail shells, two circular 

snail shells, one freshwater mussel shell 

fragment, and seven shell fragments 

(species unknown). All were found 

within the soil associated with this 

woman. The Lucas County Coroner’s 

Office transferred this collection to the 

Ohio History Connection in 2019. 

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: archeological 

information, geographical information, 

and indigenous knowledge from the 

consulting Tribes. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Ohio History 

Connection has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There are 57 objects described in 

this notice which are 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 Absentee-Shawnee 

Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River 

Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of 

Chippewa Indians of the Bad River 

Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills 

Indian Community, Michigan; Cayuga 

Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the 

Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana; 

Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; 

Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware 

Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe 

of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi 

Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse 

Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 

Michigan; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Kaw Nation, 

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 River Band of Ottawa 

Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of 

Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little 

Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 

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

Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 

Michigan; 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; Omaha Tribe of 

Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida 

Nation; Onondaga Nation; Ottawa Tribe 

of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; 

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Red 

Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 

Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of 

Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw 

Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; 

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Sault Ste. 

Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, 

Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; 

Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee Tribe; 

Sokaogon Chippewa Community, 

Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians 

of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of 

Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of 

Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; 

Tuscarora Nation; and the Wyandotte 

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 March 11, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Ohio History Connection 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 Ohio History 

Connection is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 

and Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

This notice was submitted on or after 

the effective date of the revised 

regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 

2023, effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 1, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02551 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037351; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Goucher College, Baltimore, MD 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Goucher 

College 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 

thirteen cultural items were removed 

from areas in the present-day states of 

New Mexico and Arizona. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 11, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Elaine Meyer-Lee, Provost, 

Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley 

Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, telephone 

(410) 337–6044, email Elaine.MeyerLee@goucher.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 


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responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of Goucher College. 

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 Goucher College. 

Description 

The 13 cultural items were removed 

from areas in the present-day states of 

New Mexico and Arizona in the late 

nineteenth and early twentieth 

centuries. They were gathered by John 

Franklin Goucher and other Methodist 

missionaries who toured the western 

United States and who were friends of 

John Goucher, one of the founders of the 

Woman’s College of Baltimore, later 

known as Goucher College. John 

Goucher donated his collection of 

Native American cultural items to 

Goucher College in 1921. The 13 objects 

of cultural patrimony are seven jars, two 

bowls, three pitchers, and one pot. 

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: geographical 

information; historical information; 

expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Goucher College has 

determined that: 

• The 13 cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico. 

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 March 11, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Goucher College will 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. Goucher College is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted on or after 

the effective date of the revised 

regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 

2023, effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9. 

Dated: February 1, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02558 Filed 2–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037347; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Ohio 

History Connection, Columbus, OH 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Ohio 

History Connection 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 Lucas County, Ohio. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 11, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Nekole Alligood, NAGPRA 

Specialist, Ohio History Connection, 

800 E. 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 

43211, telephone (614) 297–2300, email 

nalligood@ohiohistory.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 Ohio History 

Connection. 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 Ohio History 

Connection. 

Description 

Human remains representing at 

minimum 33 individuals were removed 

from various sites in Lucas County, 

Ohio. 

33 LU 788, Indian Island, Waterville 

Township, Lucas County, Ohio. Two 

adult individuals were recovered and 97 

associated funerary objects were found 

eroding out on Indian Island in the 

Maumee River on Ohio Department of 

Natural Resources property in 2010 and 

again in 2017 and were transferred to 

the Ohio History Connection. 

Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; remains 

of one individual received by the Lucas 

County Coroner’s Office in 1994 and 

determined as not modern. The site was 

excavated in the 1970s and the 

individual’s remains were transferred to 

Ohio History Connection in 2019. 

Eight individuals who had been 

moved from their original resting places 

for the construction of a home in 1900 

along the Ottawa River Road (now 

known as Park Place neighborhood). 

The same group of eight were exhumed 

again upon the demolition of the 1900 

house in preparation for a new home in 

2019. They were taken to the Lucas 

County Coroner’s Office and then 

transferred to Ohio History Connection 

in 2019. There are 29 associated 

funerary objects removed from the site 

including nine nails and nail fragments, 

16 metal fragments, one screw, one 

wire/metal earring, one wood fragment, 

and one bluish-white bead. 

33 LU 165 ‘‘Fry Site,’’ Toledo, 

Washington Township, Lucas County, 

Ohio. Seventeen individuals were 

exhumed in 1977 and donated to the 

Firelands Archaeological Research 

Center who then donated them to the 

Ohio History Connection for NAGPRA 

processing. The site is located on the 


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