Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 178 / Friday, September 13, 2024 / Notices 74989 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Thomas Zych, The 

University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft 

Street MS 956, Toledo, OH 43606, 

telephone (419) 530–4395, email 

thomas.zych@UToledo.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 University of 

Toledo, and additional information on 

the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Based on the information available, 

human remains representing, at least, 38 

individuals have been reasonably 

identified. The 16 associated funerary 

objects are three lots of pottery 

fragments; one lot of flotation excess 

residue; one ceramic pipe fragment; one 

faunal bone; one lot of calcined faunal 

bone; one lot of burnt faunal bone 

fragments; four pottery fragments; two 

pieces of white clay; one quartzite stone; 

and one lot of rocks. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from the Reau Site (20– 

MR–166) by The University of Toledo 

between 1974 and 1977, under the 

direction of David Stothers, a professor 

at the university. On August 15, 1991, 

David Stothers loaned ‘‘all cultural 

material and skeletal remains’’ from the 

Reau Site to the Firelands 

Archaeological Research Center (FARC). 

In November 2021, FARC transferred 

individuals and associated funerary 

objects from the Reau Site to Ohio 

History Connection (OHC). In April 

2023, the University of Toledo and OHC 

determined that the University of 

Toledo retained legal control of the 

individuals and associated funerary 

objects from the Reau Site. On May 10, 

2023, OHC transferred physical custody 

of the individuals and associated 

funerary objects from the Reau Site to 

the University of Toledo. The University 

of Toledo has no record of any 

potentially hazardous substances being 

used to treat the human remains or 

associated funerary objects. 

Cultural affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is clearly identified by the 

information available about the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice. 

Determinations 

The University of Toledo has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 38 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 16 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a reasonable connection 

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 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; 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 

authorized representative identified in 

this notice under 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 October 15, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

The University of Toledo 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 

Toledo 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 10.10. 

Dated: September 5, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20874 Filed 9–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038697; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: San 

Bernardino County Museum, 

Redlands, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 


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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San 

Bernardino County Museum 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. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 15, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Tamara Serrao-Leiva, San 

Bernardino County Museum, 2024 

Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 92374, 

telephone (909) 798–8623, email 

tserrao-leiva@sbcm.sbcounty.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 the San 

Bernardino County Museum, and 

additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in its inventory or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Human remains representing at least 

one individual have been identified. 

The 12 associated funerary objects 

include a pendant, projectile points, 

pipe stem fragments, pottery sherds, 

faunal fragments, flakes, shell 

fragments, ground stone, stone tools, 

projectile points, shell beads, and 

historic beads. San Bernadino County 

Museum site numbers SBCM–815 (also 

SBCM–5868) are considered the same 

site to the culturally affiliated tribes list 

below. This site was recorded by B. 

McCown on March 1944 and was 

excavated by McCown in 1948 through 

the Archaeological Survey Association 

(ASA) (McCown Site #7, Santa 

Margarita River) in Fallbrook, CA. In 

Collected Papers of Benjamin Ernest 

McCown, Excavation of Fallbrook Site 

No. 7, Archaeological Survey 

Association of Southern California 

Paper Number Six, 1964, pgs 61–72, 

McCown confirms the presence of a 

human cremation that he excavated 

from April 10, 1948, to July 16, 1948. 

McCown writes that only a small 

amount of the bones was left in place 

due to the flood waters, but that the 

‘‘remains suggest an adult of about 

middle age’’ (page 64). Based on this 

reference, there seems to have been 

much more collected than is present at 

San Bernardino County Museum. The 

collection was donated to the county 

museum in two instances, hence the 

different catalog numbers. The first 

donation was in 1956 and the second 

when the ASA disbanded and donated 

McCown’s collection to the county 

museum in the early 2000s. 

Human remains representing at least 

one individual has been identified. The 

six associated funerary objects reflected 

in the record are ground stone, lithics, 

ceramics, faunal bone, worked shell 

(beads), and ecofacts. San Bernadino 

County Museum site number SBCM– 

5907 is in the Murrieta Creek region of 

Riverside County, about one mile south 

of Old Town, Temecula. In 1953 a note 

included in the Accession file connects 

this site to Vail Ranch by the ‘‘Temeku 

fork of River.’’ Vail Ranch was an 

87,000-acre cattle ranch purchased by 

Walter Vail in 1905. His ranch 

headquarters was located along 

Temecula Creek in an area now 

bordered by Temecula Parkway. The 

site was first documented 3/30/1952 

and later excavated by Benjamin 

McCown who donated the collection to 

the museum in 1956. No known 

hazardous substances were used to treat 

this collection. 

Cultural Affiliation 

Based on the information available 

and the results of consultation, cultural 

affiliation is reasonably identified by the 

geographical location or acquisition 

history of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice. 

Determinations 

The San Bernardino County Museum 

has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 18 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed intentionally with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

• There is a connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and the 

La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, 

California; Pala Band of Mission 

Indians; Pauma Band of Luiseno 

Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima 

Reservation, California; Pechanga Band 

of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga 

Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the 

Pechanga Reservation, California); 

Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission 

Indians of the Rincon Reservation, 

California; and the Soboba Band of 

Luiseno Indians, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

authorized representative identified in 

this notice under 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 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization with cultural affiliation. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after October 15, 2024. 

If competing requests for repatriation 

are received, the San Bernardino County 

Museum 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 San Bernardino 

County Museum 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 10.10. 

Dated: September 5, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20867 Filed 9–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0038703; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Cape 

Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office, 

Jackson, MO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Cape 

Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. 


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