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###### Department of the Interior

###### National Park Service

          - [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039223; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

# AGENCY:

National Park Service, Interior.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Harvard University Archives, Pusey Library (HUA), 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.

# DATES:

Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or after January 17, 2025.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Virginia Hunt, Harvard University Archives, Pusey Library, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 495-3240, email                         *virginia_hunt@harvard.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 HUA, 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

Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The human remains were removed by Edward Eggleston from “an Indian grave” at Lake George, Warren County, NY in 1883 and sent by him to Frederic Ward Putnam, Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, the same year. In 1971, the human remains were transferred to HUA with the correspondence files of the Director of the Peabody Museum.

## 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 described in this notice.

## Determinations

The HUA has determined that:
    - The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
    - There is a connection between the human remains described in this notice and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin.

## Requests for Repatriation

                    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 17, 2025. If competing                           ( print page 102950)                        requests for repatriation are received, the HUA must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and not competing requests. The HUA 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: December 11, 2024.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

[FR Doc. 2024-29950 Filed 12-17-24; 8:45 am]

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