[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 3, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13064-13065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06474]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027342; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review 
Committee Finding Regarding Human Remains and Associated Funerary 
Objects Under the Control of the State of Missouri Department of 
Natural Resources, State Historic Preservation Office, Jefferson City, 
MO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service is publishing this notice as part of 
its administrative responsibilities pursuant to the Native American 
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA or the Act). The 
recommendations, findings, and actions in this notice are advisory only 
and are not binding on any person. On October 17, 2018, the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee (Review 
Committee) found that there is not a reasonable basis to make a 
cultural affiliation determination for the human remains and associated 
funerary objects from the Clarksville Mound Group site and the Sac & 
Fox NAGPRA Confederacy at this time.

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ADDRESSES: The meeting transcript containing the Review Committee 
proceedings and deliberation for this finding are available online at 
www.nps.gov/nagpra/Review or from the National NAGPRA Program upon 
request ([email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The recommendations, findings, and actions 
of the Review Committee are advisory only and not binding on any 
person. These advisory findings do not necessarily represent the views 
of the National Park Service or Secretary of the Interior. The National 
Park Service and the Secretary of the Interior have not taken a 
position on these matters.
    At its October 17, 2018, public meeting in Washington, DC, the 
Review Committee heard a request, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3006(c)(3)(A), 
from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, State Historic 
Preservation Office (SHPO). The SHPO requested that the Review 
Committee make a finding on the following question: Based on the 
information in the possession of the SHPO, are the identified human 
remains and associated funerary objects from the Clarksville Mound 
Group (site 23PI6), in Pike County, MO, culturally affiliated with the 
Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, 
Oklahoma; and Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa (hereafter 
referred to as the Sac & Fox NAGPRA Confederacy).
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 29 individuals were removed 
from the Clarksville Mound Group (site 23PI6) along with two associated 
funerary objects--one lot of ancalusa shell beads and one Scallorn 
point. On July 30, 2013, the SHPO published a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (78 FR 45960-45961) for the human 
remains and associated funerary objects removed from the Clarksville 
Mound Group site and determined that a relationship of shared group 
identity could be reasonably traced between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects and the Sac & Fox NAGPRA Confederacy.
    On August 15, 2018, the SHPO requested that the Review Committee 
consider the information in the SHPO's possession related to the 
cultural affiliation determination of the Clarksville Mound Group site 
with the Sac & Fox NAGPRA Confederacy. The SHPO requested that the 
Review Committee advise the SHPO as to whether or not a relationship of 
shared group identity can be reasonably traced between the present-day 
Sac & Fox NAGPRA Confederacy and the human remains and associated 
funerary objects removed from the Clarksville Mound Group. The 
Designated Federal Officer for the Review Committee agreed to the 
request.
    Finding of Fact: Five Review Committee members currently appointed 
by the Secretary of the Interior participated in the request to make a 
finding of fact related to cultural affiliation. By a vote of four to 
one, the Review Committee found that ``there is not a reasonable basis 
to make a cultural affiliation determination for the human remains and 
associated funerary objects from the Clarksville Mound Group site and 
the Sac & Fox NAGPRA Confederacy at this time.''

    Dated: December 21, 2018.
Patrick Lyons,
Chair, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review 
Committee.

    Editorial note: This document was received for publication by 
the Office of the Federal Register on March 29, 2019.

[FR Doc. 2019-06474 Filed 4-2-19; 8:45 am]
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