82_FR_44627 82 FR 44444 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

82 FR 44444 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 183 (September 22, 2017)

Page Range44444-44445
FR Document2017-20292

Kansas State University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice who wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Kansas State University. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 183 (Friday, September 22, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 183 (Friday, September 22, 2017)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0023930; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Kansas State University, 
Manhattan, KS

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Kansas State University has completed an inventory of human 
remains and associated funerary objects, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal descendants or representatives 
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in 
this notice who wish to request transfer of control of these human 
remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request 
to the Kansas State University. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice who wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Kansas State University at the address in 
this notice by October 23, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Lauren W. Ritterbush, Department of Sociology, 
Anthropology, and Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters 
Hall, 1603 Old Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506-4003, telephone 
(785)-532-6828, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of Kansas State 
University, Manhattan, KS. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from Calovich Mound (14WY7), Wyandotte County, KS.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Kansas 
State University professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Kaw Nation,

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Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of 
Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1962, with follow-up work in 1963 and 1965, human remains 
representing, at minimum, 79 individuals and associated objects were 
removed from Calovich Mound (14WY7) in Wyandotte County, KS. The human 
remains were removed during excavations as part of a University of 
Kansas field class under the direction of Drs. William Bass and Robert 
Squier. The human remains were curated at the University of Kansas 
until 1975 when they were transferred to the physical anthropology 
laboratory at Kansas State University for analysis. Analysis was 
completed by a Wichita State University Master's student, Ms. Ethne 
Barnes (1977). The human remains included male and female individuals 
ranging in age from newborn to adults 60 years or older with 38% 
infants, 34% children, 4% adolescents, and 24% adults. No known 
individuals were identified. The present collection holds 60 associated 
funerary objects including 1 partial bone pendant, 3 shell pendants, 13 
shell disk beads, and 43 pieces of unmodified freshwater mussel shell. 
Other objects were identified during the analysis but are not present 
in the collection.
    Calovich Mound is assigned to the Steed-Kisker phase of the Late 
Prehistoric (Middle Ceramic) period with a single radiocarbon date 
suggesting an approximate age of A.D. 1027-1285. Research suggests the 
Steed-Kisker phase is part of the Central Plains tradition, a hunter-
gatherer-gardener adaptive system of the Central Plains region (not a 
single ethnic group). The precedent for other Steed-Kisker phase human 
remains was set by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of 
Natural History (NMNH) based on archeological, physical 
anthropological, and oral history evidence and consultation with 
Tribes. This was to effect a joint repatriation of the Steed-Kisker 
site human remains to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; 
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; 
and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. The implication is that the 
Steed-Kisker phase has a shared group identity with Northern Caddoans 
and with both Dhegiha and Chiwere Siouans.

Determinations Made by Kansas State University

    Officials of Kansas State University have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of a minimum of 79 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 60 objects described 
in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the 
death rite or ceremony.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects and the Iowa 
Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, 
Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of 
Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice who wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains and existing associated 
objects should submit a written request with information in support of 
the request to Dr. Lauren Ritterbush, Department of Sociology, 
Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters Hall, 
1603 Old Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506-4003, telephone (785) 532 
6865, email [email protected], by October 23, 2017. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated object to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and 
Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria 
Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, and Ponca Tribe 
of Indians of Oklahoma may proceed.
    Kansas State University is responsible for notifying the Iowa Tribe 
of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; 
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; 
and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: August 1, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-20292 Filed 9-21-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4312-52-P

44444 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 183 / Friday, September 22, 2017 / Notices In the 1970s, human remains (previously listed as the Seminole Tribe organizations, and has determined that representing, at minimum, one of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, there is a cultural affiliation between the individual were removed by avocational Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)), and human remains and associated funerary archeologists from a mound in South The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Florida. The human remains were • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal probably removed from Buck Key South disposition of the human remains may descendants or representatives of any (8LL2624, Lee County, FL), Horr’s be to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Island 6 (8CR42, Collier County, FL), or the Seminole Tribe of Florida organization not identified in this notice the Hutchinson Island Burial Mound (previously listed as the Seminole Tribe who wish to request transfer of control (8MT37, Martin County, FL). James E. of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, of these human remains and associated Lockwood, Jr., acquired these human Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)), and funerary objects should submit a written remains and donated them to the Logan The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. request to the Kansas State University. Museum in 1983. The human remains If no additional requestors come Additional Requestors and Disposition include one juvenile of indeterminate forward, transfer of control of the sex. No known individual was Representatives of any Indian Tribe or human remains and associated funerary identified. No associated funerary Native Hawaiian organization not objects to the lineal descendants, Indian objects are present. identified in this notice that wish to Tribes, or Native Hawaiian At an unknown date, human remains request transfer of control of these organizations stated in this notice may representing, at minimum, 11 human remains should submit a written proceed. individuals were removed from an request with information in support of DATES: Lineal descendants or unknown site or sites in Florida. In the request to William Green, Logan representatives of any Indian Tribe or 1975, Herbert S. Zim donated these Museum of Anthropology, Beloit Native Hawaiian organization not human remains to the museum. Because College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI identified in this notice who wish to Zim lived in South Florida, it is likely 53511, telephone (608) 363–2119, email request transfer of control of these that the human remains are from South greenb@beloit.edu, by October 23, 2017. human remains and associated funerary Florida. The human remains include After that date, if no additional objects should submit a written request four adult males, one adult of requestors have come forward, transfer with information in support of the indeterminate sex, four subadults of of control of the human remains to the request to Kansas State University at the indeterminate sex, and two individuals Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, the address in this notice by October 23, of indeterminate age and sex. No known Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously 2017. individuals were identified. No listed as the Seminole Tribe of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, ADDRESSES: Dr. Lauren W. Ritterbush, associated funerary objects are present. Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)), and Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Determinations Made by the Logan The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma may and Social Work, Kansas State Museum of Anthropology proceed. University, 204 Waters Hall, 1603 Old Officials of the Logan Museum of The Logan Museum of Anthropology Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506– Anthropology have determined that: is responsible for notifying the 4003, telephone (785)-532–6828, email • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, the lritterb@ksu.edu. human remains described in this notice Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is are Native American based on listed as the Seminole Tribe of Florida here given in accordance with the archeological contexts and physical (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, Native American Graves Protection and characteristics. Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)), and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma that 3003, of the completion of an inventory human remains described in this notice this notice has been published. of human remains and associated represent the physical remains of a funerary objects under the control of Dated: August 4, 2017. minimum of 43 individuals of Native Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Melanie O’Brien, American ancestry. The human remains and associated • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Manager, National NAGPRA Program. funerary objects were removed from relationship of shared group identity [FR Doc. 2017–20291 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] Calovich Mound (14WY7), Wyandotte cannot be reasonably traced between the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P County, KS. Native American human remains and This notice is published as part of the any present-day Indian Tribe. National Park Service’s administrative • According to final judgments of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Indian Claims Commission or the Court U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in of Federal Claims, the land from which National Park Service this notice are the sole responsibility of the Native American human remains [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023930; the museum, institution, or Federal were removed is the aboriginal land of PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] agency that has control of the Native the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, the American human remains and Seminole Tribe of Florida (previously Notice of Inventory Completion: associated funerary objects. The listed as the Seminole Tribe of Florida Kansas State University, Manhattan, National Park Service is not responsible (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, KS for the determinations in this notice. Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)), and AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Consultation ACTION: Notice. • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or A detailed assessment of the human Executive Orders, indicate that the land SUMMARY: Kansas State University has remains was made by the Kansas State from which the Native American human completed an inventory of human University professional staff in remains were removed is the aboriginal remains and associated funerary objects, consultation with representatives of the land of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, in consultation with the appropriate Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska; Iowa the Seminole Tribe of Florida Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:11 Sep 21, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22SEN1.SGM 22SEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 183 / Friday, September 22, 2017 / Notices 44445 Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of human remains described in this notice Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Indians represent the physical remains of a National Park Service of Oklahoma. minimum of 79 individuals of Native [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023908: History and Description of the Remains American ancestry. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] In 1962, with follow-up work in 1963 • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 60 objects described in this notice Notice of Inventory Completion: New and 1965, human remains representing, Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ at minimum, 79 individuals and are reasonably believed to have been associated objects were removed from placed with or near individual human AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Calovich Mound (14WY7) in Wyandotte remains at the time of death or later as ACTION: Notice. County, KS. The human remains were part of the death rite or ceremony. removed during excavations as part of a • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there SUMMARY: The New Jersey State University of Kansas field class under is a relationship of shared group Museum has completed an inventory of the direction of Drs. William Bass and human remains and associated funerary identity that can be reasonably traced Robert Squier. The human remains were objects, in consultation with the between the Native American human curated at the University of Kansas until appropriate Indian Tribes or Native remains and associated funerary objects Hawaiian organizations, and has 1975 when they were transferred to the physical anthropology laboratory at and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and determined that there is a cultural Kansas State University for analysis. Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw affiliation between the human remains Analysis was completed by a Wichita Nation, Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria and associated funerary objects and State University Master’s student, Ms. Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee present-day Indian Tribes or Native Ethne Barnes (1977). The human Nation of Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Hawaiian organizations. Lineal remains included male and female Indians of Oklahoma. descendants or representatives of any individuals ranging in age from Additional Requestors and Disposition Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian newborn to adults 60 years or older with organization not identified in this notice 38% infants, 34% children, 4% Lineal descendants or representatives that wish to request transfer of control adolescents, and 24% adults. No known of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian of these human remains and associated individuals were identified. The present organization not identified in this notice funerary objects should submit a written collection holds 60 associated funerary who wish to request transfer of control request to the New Jersey State objects including 1 partial bone of these human remains and existing Museum. If no additional requestors pendant, 3 shell pendants, 13 shell disk associated objects should submit a come forward, transfer of control of the beads, and 43 pieces of unmodified written request with information in human remains and associated funerary freshwater mussel shell. Other objects objects to the lineal descendants, Indian support of the request to Dr. Lauren were identified during the analysis but Tribes, or Native Hawaiian Ritterbush, Department of Sociology, are not present in the collection. organizations stated in this notice may Calovich Mound is assigned to the Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas proceed. Steed-Kisker phase of the Late State University, 204 Waters Hall, 1603 Old Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS DATES: Lineal descendants or Prehistoric (Middle Ceramic) period representatives of any Indian Tribe or with a single radiocarbon date 66506–4003, telephone (785) 532 6865, email lritterb@ksu.edu, by October 23, Native Hawaiian organization not suggesting an approximate age of A.D. identified in this notice that wish to 1027–1285. Research suggests the Steed- 2017. After that date, if no additional request transfer of control of these Kisker phase is part of the Central Plains requestors have come forward, transfer human remains and associated funerary tradition, a hunter-gatherer-gardener of control of the human remains and objects should submit a written request adaptive system of the Central Plains associated object to the Iowa Tribe of with information in support of the region (not a single ethnic group). The Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of request to the New Jersey State Museum precedent for other Steed-Kisker phase Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; at the address in this notice by October human remains was set by the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, 23, 2017. Smithsonian Institution’s National Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, ADDRESSES: Dr. Gregory D. Lattanzi, Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma based on archeological, physical Bureau of Archaeology & Ethnology, may proceed. New Jersey State Museum, 205 West anthropological, and oral history evidence and consultation with Tribes. Kansas State University is responsible State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625, This was to effect a joint repatriation of for notifying the Iowa Tribe of Kansas telephone (609) 984–9327, email the Steed-Kisker site human remains to and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; gregory.lattanzi@sos.nj.gov. the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Nation, Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee here given in accordance with the Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Native American Graves Protection and Nation of Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma that this notice has Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Indians of Oklahoma. The implication is been published. 3003, of the completion of an inventory that the Steed-Kisker phase has a shared Dated: August 1, 2017. of human remains and associated group identity with Northern Caddoans funerary objects under the control of the Melanie O’Brien, and with both Dhegiha and Chiwere New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. The human remains and associated Siouans. [FR Doc. 2017–20292 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] funerary objects were removed from Determinations Made by Kansas State BILLING CODE 4312–52–P multiple sites in New Jersey and one University site in Pennsylvania. Officials of Kansas State University This notice is published as part of the have determined that: National Park Service’s administrative VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:11 Sep 21, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22SEN1.SGM 22SEN1


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