81 FR 19619 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE., and State Archaeological Research Center, Rapid City, SD

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha District), 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 that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Omaha District. 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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-20585: PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army 
Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE., and State 
Archaeological Research Center, Rapid City, SD

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha 
District), 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 that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request to the Omaha District. 
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 that 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 the Omaha District at the address in this 
notice by May 5, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: 
CENWO-PM-AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 
995-2674, 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 the Omaha District. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
site 39BF243, in Buffalo County, SD.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative

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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 and associated funerary 
objects was made by State Archaeological Research Center (SARC) and 
Omaha District professional staff in consultation with representatives 
of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1964, human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals 
were removed from site 39BF243 in Buffalo County, SD. They are 
presently located at the SARC and are under the control of the Omaha 
District. The human remains were removed by Robert Gant, Assistant 
Director of the W.H. Over Museum (WHOM), when three coffin burials were 
disturbed by highway construction activities at Big Bend Dam, along the 
Missouri River. Funerary objects were associated with the first two 
individuals, but not the third. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were transported to WHOM.
    In 1974, the collections from Individuals 1 and 2 were transferred 
to the newly established SARC. At that time, the location of the human 
remains from Individual 3 was not known. The human remains from 
Individuals 1 and 2 were then transferred to the University of 
Tennessee-Knoxville to be inventoried by Dr. William Bass. After the 
return of the human remains to SARC, a portion of the human remains 
from Individual 2 were repatriated to the Oglala Lakota Nation in 1982.
    In 1993, SARC conducted a review of the collections and located the 
human remains and associated funerary objects from Individual 1, 
identified as a 1.5 to 2.5 year old infant. Also located was additional 
skeletal material from Individual 2, identified as a child between 6 
and 8 years of age, along with the associated funerary objects. In 
2000, the human remains of Individual 3, identified as an adult male 
between 18 and 22 years, were found at the collection center for the 
Archeology Lab, Augustana College-Sioux Falls. They were then 
transferred to SARC and placed with the collections from Individuals 1 
and 2. No known individuals were identified.
    The 11,143 associated funerary objects are 6 copper beads, 10,991 
glass beads, 1 fragment of a paper book, 3 fragment of a glass bottle, 
31 buttons (metal, glass, pottery), 8 toy fragments (china), 9 cloth 
fragments, 2 coffin wood fragments, 1 metal and wood comb, 1 Bisque 
doll, 5 faunal fragments, 1 floral fragment, 1 glass knob, 2 iron 
rings, 1 iron cup handle, 4 leather fragments, 1 lot of wood, metal, 
and cloth, 9 metal nails, 3 fragments of paper, 1 plastic flower 
pendant, 1 pewter pedestal, 13 fragments of ironstone saucer, 1 sewing 
pin book, 1 tin pill box, 40 fragments tin plate and cup, 3 tin spoons, 
2 toy sad irons, and 1 wooden thread spool.
    The human remains were collected from coffin burials and are 
determined to be Native American based the location of the site near a 
Native American village at the townsite of Fort Thompson and the 
funerary objects associated with the burials. Based on the use of 
coffins, the mix of European and Native elements among the funerary 
objects, and the manufacturing dates for an ironstone saucer, a Bisque 
done, wire nails, and pink seed beads, the human remains date after 
A.D. 1870. This represents the Early Reservation Period at the nearby 
Crow Creek Indian Reservation, which, by the 1870s, was inhabited by 
the Yanktonai. The associated funerary objects are consistent with 
Yanktonai historic burials. Today, the Yanktonai are represented by the 
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

Determinations Made by the Omaha District

    Officials of the Omaha District have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of three individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 11,143 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 Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

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 and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer 
District, Omaha, ATTN: CENWO-PM-AB, 1616 Capital Ave., Omaha, NE 68102, 
telephone, (402) 995-2674, email [email protected], by May 
5, 2016. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota may 
proceed.
    The Omaha District is responsible for notifying the Yankton Sioux 
Tribe of South Dakota that this notice has been published.

    Dated: March 10, 2016.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-07768 Filed 4-4-16; 8:45 am]
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Service needs to extend the term of the including your address, phone number, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
existing SHA for at least an additional email address, or other personal
10 years. Therefore, the Service is identifying information in your National Park Service
proposing to extend the term of the SHA comments, you should be aware that [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20585:
for an additional 11 years, from May 25, your entire comment—including your PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
2024 to May 25, 2035, and extend the personal identifying information—may
term of the permit for an additional 11 be made publicly available at any time. Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
years, from May 25, 2034 to May 25, While you can ask us in your comment Department of Defense, Army Corps of
2045. When the Service listed the to withhold your personal identifying Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha,
Fender’s blue butterfly as endangered NE., and State Archaeological
information from public review, we
and Kincaid’s lupine as threatened in Research Center, Rapid City, SD
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
2000 (65 FR 3875) Washington County
was not included as part of the range of do so. Comments and materials we AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
either species because no previous receive, as well as supporting ACTION: Notice.
populations had been identified in documentation, will be available for
public inspection by appointment, SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Washington County. In 2011, however, Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha
a population of Fender’s blue butterfly during normal business hours, at our
District), has completed an inventory of
and Kincaid’s lupine was discovered on Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office (see
human remains and associated funerary
the north side of Henry Hagg Lake, on ADDRESSES).
objects, in consultation with the
Bureau of Reclamation land, in Next Steps appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Washington County, Oregon. The Hawaiian organizations, and has
Service is, therefore, proposing to The Service will evaluate the determined that there is a cultural
amend the existing permit and SHA to proposed amendment to the permit and affiliation between the human remains
include Washington County within the the SHA, associated documents, and and associated funerary objects and
geographical area covered by the SHA comments submitted thereon to present-day Indian tribes or Native
and the permit. determine whether the amendment Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
The amended permit would continue meets the requirements of section 10(a) descendants or representatives of any
to authorize the Service to extend of the ESA and the requirements of Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
incidental take coverage with organization not identified in this notice
NEPA. We will not make the final NEPA
assurances to eligible landowners who that wish to request transfer of control
and permit decisions until after the end
are willing to carry out habitat of these human remains and associated
of the 30-day public comment period on
management actions that would benefit funerary objects should submit a written
the Fender’s blue butterfly by enrolling this notice, and we will fully consider
all comments we receive during the request to the Omaha District. If no
the landowners under the SHA as additional requestors come forward,
cooperators through issuance of public comment period. If we determine
transfer of control of the human remains
Certificates of Inclusion. that all the requirements are met, we
and associated funerary objects to the
will sign the amended SHA and issue an lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or
National Environmental Policy Act amended EOS permit under section
Compliance Native Hawaiian organizations stated in
10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA to the Service’s this notice may proceed.
The proposed amendment to the OFWO. The OFWO will continue to DATES: Lineal descendants or
permit and the SHA is a Federal action serve as the permit holder, and continue representatives of any Indian tribe or
that triggers the need for compliance to extend coverage to interested eligible Native Hawaiian organization not
with the National Environmental Policy landowners for the take of Fender’s blue identified in this notice that wish to
Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 butterfly, incidental to otherwise lawful request transfer of control of these
et seq.). We have made a preliminary activities in accordance with the terms human remains and associated funerary
determination that the proposed of the SHA, Certificates of Inclusion, objects should submit a written request
amendments to the EOS permit and the and the EOS permit. with information in support of the
SHA are eligible for categorical request to the Omaha District at the
exclusion under the NEPA. The basis for Authority
address in this notice by May 5, 2016.
our preliminary determination is
We provide this notice in accordance ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S.
contained in an Environmental Action
with the requirements of section 10(c) of Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN:
Statement (EAS), which is available for
the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Avenue,
public review (see ADDRESSES).
NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and their Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402)
Public Comments implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22 995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@
You may submit your comments and and 40 CFR 1506.6, respectively). usace.army.mil.
materials by one of the methods listed SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
in the ADDRESSES section. We request Rollie White, here given in accordance with the
data, comments, new information, or Acting State Supervisor, Oregon Fish and Native American Graves Protection and
suggestions from the public, other Wildlife Office, Pacific Region, U.S. Fish and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.
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concerned governmental agencies, the 3003, of the completion of an inventory
scientific community, Tribes, industry, [FR Doc. 2016–07796 Filed 4–4–16; 8:45 am] of human remains and associated
or any other interested party on our BILLING CODE 4333–15–P funerary objects under the control of the
proposed Federal action. Omaha District. The human remains
and associated funerary objects were
Public Availability of Comments removed from site 39BF243, in Buffalo
All comments and materials we County, SD.
receive become part of the public record This notice is published as part of the
associated with this action. Before National Park Service’s administrative

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responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 beads, 1 fragment of a paper book, 3 request with information in support of
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in fragment of a glass bottle, 31 buttons the request to Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S.
this notice are the sole responsibility of (metal, glass, pottery), 8 toy fragments Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN:
the museum, institution, or Federal (china), 9 cloth fragments, 2 coffin wood CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Ave.,
agency that has control of the Native fragments, 1 metal and wood comb, 1 Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402)
American human remains and Bisque doll, 5 faunal fragments, 1 floral 995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@
associated funerary objects. The fragment, 1 glass knob, 2 iron rings, 1 usace.army.mil, by May 5, 2016. After
National Park Service is not responsible iron cup handle, 4 leather fragments, 1 that date, if no additional requestors
for the determinations in this notice. lot of wood, metal, and cloth, 9 metal have come forward, transfer of control
nails, 3 fragments of paper, 1 plastic of the human remains and associated
Consultation
flower pendant, 1 pewter pedestal, 13 funerary objects to the Yankton Sioux
A detailed assessment of the human fragments of ironstone saucer, 1 sewing Tribe of South Dakota may proceed.
remains and associated funerary objects pin book, 1 tin pill box, 40 fragments tin The Omaha District is responsible for
was made by State Archaeological plate and cup, 3 tin spoons, 2 toy sad notifying the Yankton Sioux Tribe of
Research Center (SARC) and Omaha irons, and 1 wooden thread spool. South Dakota that this notice has been
District professional staff in The human remains were collected published.
consultation with representatives of the from coffin burials and are determined
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. Dated: March 10, 2016.
to be Native American based the
Melanie O’Brien,
History and Description of the Remains location of the site near a Native
American village at the townsite of Fort Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
In 1964, human remains representing, Thompson and the funerary objects [FR Doc. 2016–07768 Filed 4–4–16; 8:45 am]
at minimum, three individuals were associated with the burials. Based on BILLING CODE 4310–50–P
removed from site 39BF243 in Buffalo the use of coffins, the mix of European
County, SD. They are presently located and Native elements among the funerary
at the SARC and are under the control objects, and the manufacturing dates for DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
of the Omaha District. The human an ironstone saucer, a Bisque done, wire
remains were removed by Robert Gant, National Park Service
nails, and pink seed beads, the human
Assistant Director of the W.H. Over remains date after A.D. 1870. This [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20506;
Museum (WHOM), when three coffin represents the Early Reservation Period PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
burials were disturbed by highway at the nearby Crow Creek Indian
construction activities at Big Bend Dam, Reservation, which, by the 1870s, was Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
along the Missouri River. Funerary inhabited by the Yanktonai. The Items: Grand Rapids Public Museum,
objects were associated with the first associated funerary objects are Grand Rapids, Michigan
two individuals, but not the third. The consistent with Yanktonai historic
human remains and associated funerary AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
burials. Today, the Yanktonai are ACTION: Notice.
objects were transported to WHOM. represented by the Yankton Sioux Tribe
In 1974, the collections from
of South Dakota. SUMMARY: The Grand Rapids Public
Individuals 1 and 2 were transferred to
Museum in consultation with the
the newly established SARC. At that Determinations Made by the Omaha
appropriate Indian tribes or Native
time, the location of the human remains District
Hawaiian organizations, has determined
from Individual 3 was not known. The Officials of the Omaha District have that the cultural items listed in this
human remains from Individuals 1 and determined that: notice meet the definition of
2 were then transferred to the University • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the unassociated funerary objects. Lineal
of Tennessee-Knoxville to be human remains described in this notice descendants or representatives of any
inventoried by Dr. William Bass. After represent the physical remains of three Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
the return of the human remains to individuals of Native American organization not identified in this notice
SARC, a portion of the human remains ancestry. that wish to claim these cultural items
from Individual 2 were repatriated to • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), should submit a written request to the
the Oglala Lakota Nation in 1982. the 11,143 objects described in this
In 1993, SARC conducted a review of Grand Rapids Public Museum. If no
notice are reasonably believed to have additional claimants come forward,
the collections and located the human been placed with or near individual
remains and associated funerary objects transfer of control of the cultural items
human remains at the time of death or to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes,
from Individual 1, identified as a 1.5 to later as part of the death rite or
2.5 year old infant. Also located was or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
ceremony. in this notice may proceed.
additional skeletal material from • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
Individual 2, identified as a child is a relationship of shared group DATES: Lineal descendants or
between 6 and 8 years of age, along with identity that can be reasonably traced representatives of any Indian tribe or
the associated funerary objects. In 2000, between the Native American human Native Hawaiian organization not
the human remains of Individual 3, remains and associated funerary objects identified in this notice that wish to
identified as an adult male between 18 and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South claim these cultural items should
and 22 years, were found at the submit a written request with
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Dakota.
collection center for the Archeology information in support of the claim to
Lab, Augustana College-Sioux Falls. Additional Requestors and Disposition the Grand Rapids Public Museum at the
They were then transferred to SARC and Lineal descendants or representatives address in this notice by May 5, 2016.
placed with the collections from of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian ADDRESSES: Andrea Melvin, Collections
Individuals 1 and 2. No known organization not identified in this notice Curator, Grand Rapids Public Museum,
individuals were identified. that wish to request transfer of control 272 Pearl Street NW., Grand Rapids, MI
The 11,143 associated funerary of these human remains and associated 49506, telephone (616) 929–1808, email
objects are 6 copper beads, 10,991 glass funerary objects should submit a written amelvin@grpm.org.

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81 FR 19619 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE., and State Archaeological Research Center, Rapid City, SD

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 65 (April 5, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service