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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5990-5991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01178]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039366; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Marshall University, Huntington, 
WV

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Marshall University has completed an 
inventory of human 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 February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Marion Coe, Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive, 
Huntington, WV 25755, telephone (304) 696-3758, 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 
Marshall University, 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, one individual has been reasonably identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present. The individual was removed from 
Huntington Mound, Cabell County, West Virginia. In September 2023, the 
Native American human remains were discovered within a collection 
housed at Marshall University's Geology Department. The identification 
was made during a review of a handwritten collection ledger, which 
indicated that the remains had been exhumed by Alfred Ferrell, A.A. 
Ferrell, and Richard Malcolm. In June 1959, avocational archaeologist 
Emory Jones donated the individual to the University. Marshall 
University has no knowledge or record of the presence of any 
potentially hazardous substances being used to treat the human remains.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location of the human remains described in this notice.

Determinations

    Marshall University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
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; Catawba Indian Nation; Cayuga Nation; Cherokee Nation; 
Chickahominy Indian Tribe; Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division; 
Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Delaware 
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band of Cherokee 
Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Grand Traverse Band of 
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw 
Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake 
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of

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Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of 
Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; 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); Nansemond Indian Nation; Omaha 
Tribe of Nebraska; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga 
Nation; Pamunkey Indian Tribe; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.; 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; Tunica-Biloxi Indian 
Tribe; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; 
Tuscarora Nation; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 
Oklahoma; Upper Mattaponi Tribe; and the Wyandotte Nation.

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 February 18, 2025. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, Marshall University 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. Marshall University 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: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01178 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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