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48556 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 155 / Tuesday, August 11, 2020 / Notices

CO 80205, telephone (303) 370–6056, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Affairs; performed a skeletal and email [email protected], by here given in accordance with the dentition analysis on October 25, 1995. September 10, 2020. After that date, if Native American Graves Protection and Although the exact date or pre-contact no additional requestors have come Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. period associated with this site is forward, transfer of control of the 3003, of the completion of an inventory unknown, as no reliable temporal human remains and associated funerary of human remains under the control of indictors were recovered or recorded, objects to The Tribes may proceed. the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT. The the Shorakapock site is well The Denver Museum of Nature & human remains were removed from the documented in the New York Science and the U.S. Department of Shorakapock Site in Inwood Hill Park, archeological and historical literature. Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila New York County, NY. Records from 17th and 18th century National Forest are responsible for This notice is published as part of the documents indicate at least five notifying The Tribes that this notice has National Park Service’s administrative settlements may been located within or been published. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 near the Inwood Hill Park vicinity. According to The Cultural Landscape Dated: July 7, 2020. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of Foundation, the site was inhabited by Melanie O’Brien, the through the Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native seventeenth century and was farmed by [FR Doc. 2020–17486 Filed 8–10–20; 8:45 am] American human remains and European settlers during the 17th and BILLING CODE 4312–52–P associated funerary objects. The 18th centuries. In the 1930s, Works National Park Service is not responsible Progress Administration workers built for the determinations in this notice. or paved many of the roads at the site, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR often following earlier circulation Consultation patterns, and in 1954, a boulder and National Park Service A detailed assessment of the human plaque were placed on the former [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030600; remains was made by the Bruce location of a historic tulip tree under PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Museum professional staff in which Peter Minuit reportedly consultation with representatives of the purchased Manhattan from the Lenape. Notice of Inventory Completion: Bruce Geographical, oral traditional, and Museum Inc., Greenwich, CT Nation, ; Delaware Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge historical information support a AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Community, relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced between ACTION: Notice. (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). the present-day , SUMMARY: The Bruce Museum has History and Description of the Remains Delaware Tribe of Indians, and the completed an inventory of human Around 1930, human remains Stockbridge Munsee Community, and remains, in consultation with the representing, at minimum, two the pre-contact Eastern Lenni Lenape appropriate Indian Tribes or Native individuals were removed from the who inhabited Manhattan Island, New Hawaiian organizations, and has Shorakapock Site in Inwood Hill Park, York County, New York, including the determined that there is a cultural New York County, NY. The human Shorakapock site in Inwood Hill Park, at affiliation between the human remains remains are believed to have been the northernmost tip of the island. and present-day Indian Tribes or Native removed by Charles L. Howes, whose Determinations Made by the Bruce Hawaiian organizations. Lineal brother was Bruce Museum curator Paul Museum Inc. descendants or representatives of any G. Howes. A Bruce Museum accession Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Officials of the Bruce Museum Inc. card referencing a donation by Charles have determined that: organization not identified in this notice Howes to the museum in 1930 states, • that wish to request transfer of control Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the ‘‘Colonial relics, bullets, buttons, etc. human remains described in this notice of these human remains should submit from a dump at Inwood Hill Park, NY. a written request to the Bruce Museum. represent the physical remains of two Near Indian shell heap.’’ Human individuals of Native American If no additional requestors come remains consisting of a cranial vault forward, transfer of control of the ancestry. (I.01535.01) belong to a female 20–30 • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there human remains to the lineal years old. These human remains were is a relationship of shared group descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native varnished and stabilized with copper identity that can be reasonably traced Hawaiian organizations stated in this wire in the Bruce Museum laboratory by between the Native American human notice may proceed. curator Paul G. Howes. Human remains remains and The Tribes. DATES: Lineal descendants or consisting of two mandible fragments representatives of any Indian Tribe or with dentition, three maxillary Additional Requestors and Disposition Native Hawaiian organization not fragments with dentition (one of them a Lineal descendants or representatives identified in this notice that wish to shovel-shaped incisor), five loose teeth, of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian request transfer of control of these one loose root, and six small cranium organization not identified in this notice human remains should submit a written fragments (I.01535.02) belong to an that wish to request transfer of control request with information in support of adult male of unknown age. No known of these human remains should submit the request to the Bruce Museum at the individuals were identified. No a written request with information in address in this notice by September 10, associated funerary objects are present. support of the request Kirsten J. 2020. The human remains were determined to Reinhardt, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce ADDRESSES: Kirsten J. Reinhardt, be Native American by Connecticut Museum Inc., 1 Museum Drive, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bruce Museum State Archaeologist, Nicholas Greenwich, CT 06830, telephone (914) Inc., 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT Bellantoni, who with Ed Sarabia, 671–9321, email kreinhardt@ 06830, telephone (914) 671–9321, email Tlingit, Indian Affairs Coordinator, brucemuseum.org, by September 10, [email protected]. Connecticut Commission on Indian 2020. After that date, if no additional

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requestors have come forward, transfer of human remains and associated • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the of control of the human remains to The funerary objects under the control of the human remains described in this notice Tribes may proceed. Sandusky Library, Sandusky, OH. The are Native American based on The Bruce Museum Inc. is responsible human remains and associated funerary information provided by the donors to for notifying The Tribes that this notice associated objects were removed from the Sandusky Library. has been published. Mills Creek, Erie County, OH. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Dated: July 7, 2020. This notice is published as part of the human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one Melanie O’Brien, National Park Service’s administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 individual of Native . Manager, National NAGPRA Program. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), [FR Doc. 2020–17490 Filed 8–10–20; 8:45 am] U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the 11 objects described in this notice BILLING CODE 4312–52–P the sole responsibility of the museum, are reasonably believed to have been institution, or Federal agency that has placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR control of the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects. part of the death rite or ceremony. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a National Park Service The National Park Service is not relationship of shared group identity responsible for the determinations in [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030270; cannot be reasonably traced between the this notice. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Native American human remains and Consultation associated funerary objects and any Notice of Inventory Completion: present-day Indian Tribe. Sandusky Library, Sandusky, OH A detailed assessment of the human • According to final judgments of the remains was made by the Sandusky AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Indian Claims Commission or the Court Library professional staff in consultation of Federal Claims, the land from which ACTION: Notice. with representatives of the Delaware the Native American human remains Nation, Oklahoma; Tribe; SUMMARY: The Sandusky Library has and associated funerary objects were Stockbridge Munsee Community, completed an inventory of human removed is the aboriginal land of Wisconsin; and the remains and associated funerary objects, Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted in consultation with the appropriate Tribe of Indians; Forest County Tribes’’). The following Indian Tribes Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Community, Wisconsin; were also invited to consult but did not organizations, and has determined that Hannahville Indian Community, participate: Absentee- of there is no cultural affiliation between ; Little River Band of Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of the human remains and associated Indians, Michigan; Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of funerary objects and any present-day Bands of Indians, Michigan; Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian ; and the Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville organizations. Representatives of any Wyandotte Nation. Indian Community, Michigan; Little Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or River Band of Ottawa Indians, organization not identified in this notice Executive Orders, indicate that the land Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of that wish to request transfer of control from which the Native American human Odawa Indians, Michigan; Miami Tribe of these human remains and associated remains and associated funerary objects of Oklahoma; Ottawa Tribe of funerary objects should submit a written were removed is the aboriginal land of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of request to the Sandusky Library. If no Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Seneca-Cayuga Nation additional requestors come forward, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of (previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga transfer of control of the human remains Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe; and Tribe of Oklahoma); and Seneca Nation and associated funerary objects to the Stockbridge Munsee Community, of Indians (previously listed as Seneca Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Wisconsin. Nation of New York) (hereafter referred • organizations stated in this notice may Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the to as ‘‘The Invited Tribes’’). proceed. disposition of the human remains and DATES: Representatives of any Indian History and Description of the Remains associated funerary objects may be to Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians Between 1860 and 1870, human of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, not identified in this notice that wish to remains representing, at minimum, one request transfer of control of these Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; individual were removed from the bank Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; human remains and associated funerary of Mills Creek in Erie County, OH, by objects should submit a written request Forest County Potawatomi Community, Henry and William Graefe. The human Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian with information in support of the remains remained part of the Graefes’ request to the Sandusky Library at the Community, Michigan; Little River personal collection until 1978, when Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; address in this notice by September 10, their descendants, Alice and Henry 2020. Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Graefe, donated their personal Indians, Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of ADDRESSES: Jeremy Angstadt, Sandusky collection to the Sandusky Library. No Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe; Stockbridge Library, 114 West Adams Street, known individuals were identified. The Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and Sandusky, OH 44870; telephone (419) 11 associated funerary objects are five the Wyandotte Nation (hereafter referred 625–3834, email jangstadt@ shells, four pottery fragments, and two to as ‘‘The Aboriginal Land Tribes’’). sanduskylib.org. clay beads. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Additional Requestors and Disposition Determinations Made by the Sandusky here given in accordance with the Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Library Native American Graves Protection and Native Hawaiian organization not Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Officials of the Sandusky Library have identified in this notice that wish to 3003, of the completion of an inventory determined that: request transfer of control of these

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