80 FR 13611 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office, Yakima, WA
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 50 (March 16, 2015)
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 13611-13613] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-05997] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17634; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office, Yakima, WA AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Columbia-Cascades Area Office, has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains [[Page 13612]] 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 that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request to Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains 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 that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request with information in support of the request to Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office at the address in this notice by April 15, 2015. ADDRESSES: Warren Hurley, Archeologist, Columbia-Cascades Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation, 1917 Marsh Road, Yakima, WA 98901-2052, telephone (509) 575-5848 ext. 320. 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 under the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office, Yakima, WA, and in the physical custody of the University of Oregon Museum of Cultural and Natural History (formerly the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology (OSMA)). The human remains were removed from lands managed by Reclamation in Jackson County, OR. 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. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Consultation A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office and OSMA professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. History and Description of the Remains In 1958, fragmentary human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were recovered from site 35JA01 in Jackson County, OR. This discovery resulted from archeological investigations conducted by the University of Oregon's Department of Anthropology, under contract to the National Park Service and funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, in association with construction of Emigrant Dam and Reservoir. Site 35JA01 is located on a broad alluvial terrace that extends northward from the east bank of the now inundated Emigrant Creek, approximately 1.8 miles upstream (southeast of) from Emigrant Dam in Jackson County, OR. The site is situated on Federal lands under Reclamation's jurisdiction. The archeological site, described in 1958 as a ``camp site'' and on a 1970 site form as a ``midden,'' was subject to test excavations shortly after discovery. The human remains include two human bone fragments (identified as a condyle and part of the ascending ramus of the right side of a mandible, and a parietal fragment). Both human bone fragments were reported to be from an area of the site that had been disturbed by relic collectors, and both were described as being from an adult, although no mention is made of the minimum number of individuals represented by the remains. No known individuals were identified. The site was dated, based on the presence of the trade bead and temporally diagnostic projectile points, as late Archaic/Contact period (600-150 yr. BP). The recovered archeological materials, including the human remains, were sent to OSMA in Eugene, OR. During the years since recovery, the human remains from 35JA01 have remained in storage as components of Reclamation's archeological collection housed and maintained at OSMA. In 1995, while completing NAGPRA inventories, OSMA staff identified a third human bone--a lower lumbar vertebra fragment found in a bag of faunal bone--collected from site 35JA01 in 1958. The additional bone fragment was reported to Reclamation in 1996 and appended to the collection summary/artifact catalog that is maintained by both OSMA and Reclamation. No associated funerary items were identified from the materials recovered from site 35JA01. Association of the materials with a prehistoric archeological site indicates that the human remains described are Native American. The geographic location of the site is within the Bear Creek Valley, the southern arm of the larger Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon, and within the southwestern corner of the Northwest Coast Culture Area. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric evidence and archeological data indicate that site 35JA01 lies within an area occupied, at the time of contact, by the Bear Creek Shasta and Upland Takelma bands. Tribal/band members were removed from the Rogue River Valley to the Grand Ronde and Coast/ Siletz Indian Reservations beginning in 1855--not long after initial settlement of the Rogue River Valley by Anglo Americans. In 2010, Reclamation commissioned a study to determine the cultural affiliation of the heretofore unaffiliated remains. This study concluded that, based on the preponderance of the evidence, the human remains from site 35JA01 are most closely affiliated with the Bear Creek Shasta, a Native American group who resided in the southwest Oregon at and prior to Euro-American contact. Descendants of both Native American groups are legally represented by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Determinations Made by Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office Officials of Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of at least one individual of Native American ancestry. 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 the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Additional Requestors and Disposition Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request with information in support of the request to Warren Hurley, Archeologist, Columbia-Cascades Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation, 1917 Marsh Road, Yakima, WA 98901-2052, telephone (509) 575-5848 ext. 320, by April 15, 2015. After that date, if no additional requestors have come [[Page 13613]] forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon may proceed. Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area Office is responsible for notifying the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon that this notice has been published. Dated: February 4, 2015. Melanie O'Brien, Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2015-05997 Filed 3-13-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-50-P
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organizations, and has determined that Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
there is a cultural affiliation between the Mexico. is a relationship of shared group
human remains and associated funerary identity that can be reasonably traced
History and Description of the Remains
objects and present-day Indian tribes or between the Native American human
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal On August 24, 1985, human remains remains and associated funerary objects
descendants or representatives of any representing, at minimum, one and the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian individual were removed from the of the Kaibab Indian Reservation,
organization not identified in this notice North Kaibab Ranger District in Arizona.
that wish to request transfer of control Coconino County, AZ. On August 23,
1985, the Coconino County Sherriff’s Additional Requestors and Disposition
of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written Office was contacted in regards to Lineal descendants or representatives
request to the Kaibab National Forest. If human skeletal remains that were of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
no additional requestors come forward, discovered by a hunter on the North organization not identified in this notice
transfer of control of the human remains Kaibab Ranger District. On August 24, that wish to request transfer of control
and associated funerary objects to the 1985, the Coconino County Sherriff’s of these human remains and associated
lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Office conducted an investigation in the funerary objects should submit a written
Native Hawaiian organizations stated in area and collected the human remains. request with information in support of
this notice may proceed. On August 26, 1985, an anthropologist the request to Michael R Williams,
DATES: Lineal descendants or
examined the remains and concluded Forest Supervisor, Kaibab National
representatives of any Indian tribe or that the skeleton was that of a female Forest, 800 S 6th St, Williams, AZ
Native Hawaiian organization not around 50–55 years of age at death and 86046, telephone (928) 635–8200, email
identified in this notice that wish to approximately 5’0’’ to 5’2’’ in stature. mrwilliams01@fs.fed.us by April 15,
request transfer of control of these The examiner further concluded that the 2015. After that date, if no additional
human remains and associated funerary remains are possibly from a Hispanic requestors have come forward, transfer
objects should submit a written request individual, but are more likely from a of control of the human remains and
with information in support of the Native American person. The associated funerary objects to the Kaibab
request to the Kaibab National Forest at examination surmised that the Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab
the address in this notice by April 15, individual may have died of exposure in Indian Reservation, Arizona, may
2015. the 1930s or earlier based on the proceed.
condition of the remains. On November The Kaibab National Forest is
ADDRESSES: Michael R. Williams, Forest
14, 1985, the Coconino County Sherriff’s responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe
Supervisor, Kaibab National Forest, 800 of Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute
Office closed the case and turned the
S 6th St, Williams, AZ 86046, telephone Indians of the Kaibab Indian
remains over to Northern Arizona
(928) 635–8200, email Reservation, Arizona; Navajo Nation,
University. Later, the remains were
mrwilliams01@fs.fed.us. Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; San Juan
moved to the Coconino County
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Coroner’s Office in Flagstaff, AZ. In Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; and
here given in accordance with the 2012, the Coconino County Coroner’s Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Native American Graves Protection and Office notified the Kaibab National Mexico, that this notice has been
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Forest of the remains. The five published.
3003, of the completion of an inventory associated funerary objects are two Dated: February 3, 2015.
of human remains and associated metal belt buckles, two steel rings, and Melanie O’Brien,
funerary objects under the control of the one lot of fragments of a leather horse Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
USDA Forest Service, Kaibab National halter with brass rivets.
Forest. The human remains and [FR Doc. 2015–05995 Filed 3–13–15; 8:45 am]
Sherriff’s Office detectives and the
associated funerary objects were medical examiner dated the remains to BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
removed from the North Kaibab Ranger the 1930s or earlier. Interviews
District, Coconino County, AZ. conducted during the investigation
This notice is published as part of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
indicated the remains may be affiliated
National Park Service’s administrative with the Paiute people. The area where National Park Service
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 the remains were located is within the
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in traditional use area of the Kaibab Band [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17634;
this notice are the sole responsibility of PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian
the museum, institution, or Federal Reservation, Arizona. Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
agency that has control of the Native
Determinations Made by the USDA Department of the Interior, Bureau of
American human remains and
Forest Service, Kaibab National Forest Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area
associated funerary objects. The
Officials of the USDA Forest Service, Office, Yakima, WA
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice. Kaibab National Forest have determined AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
that: ACTION: Notice.
Consultation • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
A detailed assessment of the human human remains described in this notice SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the
remains was made by the Kaibab represent the physical remains of one Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
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National Forest professional staff in individual of Native American ancestry. (Reclamation), Columbia-Cascades Area
consultation with representatives of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Office, has completed an inventory of
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Kaibab Band of the five objects described in this notice human remains, in consultation with
Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian are reasonably believed to have been the appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Reservation, Arizona; Navajo Nation, placed with or near individual human Hawaiian organizations, and has
Arizona New Mexico & Utah; San Juan remains at the time of death or later as determined that there is a cultural
Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; and part of the death rite or ceremony. affiliation between the human remains
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forward, transfer of control of the 43614, telephone (419) 385–5721, email Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Ottawa
human remains to the Confederated mitch.edu@toledozoo.org. Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of
Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
(previously listed as the Confederated here given in accordance with the Indiana; Prairie Band of Potawatomi
Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the Native American Graves Protection and Nation, Kansas; Quechan Tribe of the
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Fort Yuma Indian Reservation,
Community of Oregon may proceed. 3003, of the completion of an inventory California and Arizona; Red Cliff Band
Reclamation, Columbia-Cascades Area of human remains under the control of of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of
Office is responsible for notifying the the Toledo Zoological Society. The Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of human remains were removed from the Indians, Minnesota; Sokaogon
Oregon (previously listed as the Younge site, Lapeer County, MI, and Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St.
Confederated Tribes of the Siletz unknown sites in Michigan. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin;
Reservation) and the Confederated This notice is published as part of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community National Park Service’s administrative Indians of North Dakota; White Earth
of Oregon that this notice has been responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe,
published. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Minnesota; and the Wyandotte Nation,
Dated: February 4, 2015. The determinations in this notice are Oklahoma.
the sole responsibility of the museum, History and Description of the Remains
Melanie O’Brien,
institution, or Federal agency that has
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. In 1937, human remains representing,
control of the Native American human
[FR Doc. 2015–05997 Filed 3–13–15; 8:45 am] remains. The National Park Service is at minimum, one individual were
BILLING CODE 4312–50–P not responsible for the determinations excavated from the Younge site (20LP1)
in this notice. in Lapeer County, MI, by Ms. Carmen
Baggerly. The human remains were
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Consultation likely deposited in the University of
A detailed assessment of the human Michigan Museum of Anthropological
National Park Service remains was made by the Toledo Archaeology by Ms. Baggerly after the
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17743; Zoological Society professional staff in excavation (the collector’s field number
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] consultation with representatives of the [A–427] corresponds with a sequence of
Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; collector’s field numbers of human
Notice of Inventory Completion: The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and remains from the Younge site formerly
Toledo Zoological Society, Toledo, OH Chippewa Indians, Michigan; under the control of the University of
Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan). The remains were
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian transferred to The Toledo Zoological
ACTION: Notice. Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Society at an unknown date and
SUMMARY: The Toledo Zoological Band of Lake Superior Chippewa assigned catalog number A417. The
Society has completed an inventory of Indians of Michigan; Little River Band human remains consist of a skull and 16
human remains, in consultation with of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little teeth of a female adolescent/young adult
the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 16–20 years of age. There is a post-
Hawaiian organizations, and has Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish mortem perforation just posterior to the
determined that there is no cultural Band of Pottawatomi Indians of bregma and large plaque removal over
affiliation between the human remains Michigan; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the sagittal suture on parietals and
the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously occipital. Osteologist J. A. Scott from the
and any present-day Indian tribes or
listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); University of Michigan, Museum of
Native Hawaiian organizations.
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Anthropological Archaeology, examined
Representatives of any Indian tribe or
Michigan; and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe the remains and determined the cranial
Native Hawaiian organization not
of Chippewa Indians, Michigan. non-metric traits are indicative of Native
identified in this notice that wish to
Additional requests for consultation American ancestry. No known
request transfer of control of these
were sent to the Bad River Band of the individual was identified. No associated
human remains should submit a written
Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa funerary objects are present.
request with information in support of On an unknown date, human remains
Indians of the Bad River Reservation,
the request to the Toledo Zoological representing, at minimum, seven
Wisconsin; Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake)
Society. If no additional requestors of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, individuals were removed from
come forward, transfer of control of the Minnesota; Chippewa-Cree Indians of unknown locations, likely in Michigan.
human remains to the Indian tribes or the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana; Toledo Zoological Society (TZS) catalog
Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; records indicate that Native American
this notice may proceed. Fond du Lac Band of the Minnesota remains from at least seven individuals
DATES: Representatives of any Indian Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Forest were removed from the Younge site
tribe or Native Hawaiian organization County Potawatomi Community, (20LP1) in Lapeer County, MI, and
not identified in this notice that wish to Wisconsin; Grand Portage Band of the deposited in the TZS museum
request transfer of control of these Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; collection on an unknown date.
human remains should submit a written Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Verification is not possible, however,
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request with information in support of Superior Chippewa Indians of since there is no corresponding
the request to the Toledo Zoological Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of collector’s field number or museum
Society at the address in this notice by Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the catalog number attached with the
April 15, 2015. Lac du Flambeau Reservation of remains. The human remains were
ADDRESSES: Mitchell Magdich, Curator Wisconsin; Leech Lake Band of the identified a fragmentary cranial portion
of Education, The Toledo Zoological Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; with 14 teeth of indeterminate gender of
Society, P.O. Box 140130, Toledo, OH Mille Lacs Band of the Minnesota a child age 8.5 to 13.5 years (NFIC_1);
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