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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 227 (Monday, November 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92970-92971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27511]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039106; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Alabama Department of Archives 
and History, Montgomery, AL

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Alabama Department of Archives and 
History has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and 
has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice 
may occur on or after December 26, 2024.

ADDRESSES: John Robert Elmore, III, Alabama Department of Archives and 
History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36130, telephone (334) 
353-4696, email [email protected].

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 
Alabama Department of Archives and History, 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

    The two lots of associated funerary objects are two lots of objects 
that belonged to a Seminole leader who died at Ft. Moultrie, South 
Carolina, in 1838. The objects were acquired by the ADAH in 1975.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the associated funerary objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The Alabama Department of Archives and History has determined that:
     The two lots of objects described in this notice are 
reasonably believed to have been intended to be 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 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 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 associated funerary objects described in this 
notice to a requestor may occur on or after December 26, 2024. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Alabama 
Department of Archives

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and History must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to 
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The Alabama Department of Archives and History 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: November 18, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-27511 Filed 11-22-24; 8:45 am]
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