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removed from Robinson’s Mound 

(Parkin Phase) in Cross County, AR in 

1880 as part of a Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology expedition 

led by Edwin Curtiss. The two 

associated funerary objects are one lot 

consisting of ceramic vessel or vessel 

fragments and one lot consisting of 

faunal bones and vessel fragments. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 52 individuals were removed 

from Rose Mound (state site number 

3CS27; Parkin Phase) in Cross County, 

AR in 1880 as part of a Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 

expedition led by Edwin Curtiss. The 73 

associated funerary objects include: one 

lot consisting of a ceramic item(s); 51 

lots consisting of ceramic vessel or 

vessel fragments; one lot consisting of a 

clay item; one lot consisting of a copper 

item; 13 lots consisting of faunal items; 

and six lots consisting of stone items. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual was removed 

from Hazel (state site number 3PO6) in 

Poinsett County, AR in 1970 by Jeffry P. 

Brain and Stephen Williams as part of 

the Lower Mississippi Survey 

Expedition. At that time, the Survey 

Expedition was a project of Harvard 

University. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

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, 

biological information, folklore, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, linguistics, oral 

tradition, other relevant information, or 

expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 129 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 201 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 Quapaw 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 27, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE 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 PMAE 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 before 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 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03803 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037462; 

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 the Neilson Site 

(20–MR–501) in Monroe County, 

Michigan. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 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 

On an unknown date the 20 

individuals were removed from the 

Neilson Site by a private collector and 

put on temporary loan to the University 

of Toledo for ‘‘study and analysis.’’ The 

University of Toledo described them as 

Culturally Unidentifiable Inventory in 

1995. At some point, the individuals 

were returned to the private collector 

and on an unknown date, the 

individuals were transferred to the 

Firelands Archaeological Research 

Center (FARC). In 2021 FARC 

transferred the 20 individuals to Ohio 

History Connection. It was determined 

by the University of Toledo and Ohio 


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History Connection in April 2023 that 

legal control of the 20 Ancestors lays 

with the Ohio History Connection. The 

96 associated funerary objects are six 

pre-contact ceramic sherds along with 

faunal remains, debitage (stone flakes), 

charcoal, and debris from the soils. 

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 20 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 96 objects describe 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 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; 

Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky 

Boy’s Reservation, Montana; Citizen 

Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern 

Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of 

Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 

Michigan; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay 

Indian Community, Michigan; Lac 

Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Michigan; 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; Ottawa Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians; Michigan and 

Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 

Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red 

Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 

Minnesota; 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; 

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; 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 27, 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 after the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024) but in the 

older format. 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 16, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03804 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037442; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Office 

of the State Archaeologist 

Bioarchaeology Program, University of 

Iowa, Iowa City, IA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Office 

of the State Archaeologist 

Bioarchaeology Program (OSA–BP) 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 Adams, Allamakee, 

Clay, Lyon, Polk, and Warren Counties, 

IA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Lara Noldner, Office of 

the State Archaeologist Bioarchaeology 

Program, University of Iowa, 700 S 

Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52242, 

telephone (319) 384–0740, email laranoldner@uiowa.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 OSA–BP. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 


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