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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5992-5993]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01177]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039365; 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 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 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. The one lot of 
associated funerary objects consist of 37 fragments of unmodified 
faunal remains. Of this number, 30 are currently missing from the 
collection. Marshall University continues to look for any missing 
objects. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from the Childers Site (46-MS-121), Burial Feature 24 from Mason County 
in West Virginia. In 1980, the University of Akron Field School 
conducted an archaeological excavation of the Site and exhumed human 
remains and associated funerary objects. The human remains were later 
transferred to Marshall University. Sometime in the early 1990s, a now 
retired faculty member from the Department of Sociology and 
Anthropology at Marshall University, sent the human remains to a 
graduate student for their dissertation research. This individual 
reached out to Marshall University and returned the human remains in 
September 2023. Marshall University has no knowledge or record of the 
presence 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 reasonably identified by the geographical 
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects 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.
     The one object described in this notice is 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; 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 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 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 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 and 
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not 
competing requests. Marshall University is responsible for sending a 
copy of this

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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. 2025-01177 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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