81 FR 29297 - Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 91 (May 11, 2016)

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History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe 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 History Colorado. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the 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-20961; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, formerly 
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, has 
completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has 
determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe 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 History Colorado. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains to the Indian tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: 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 History Colorado 
at the address in this notice by June 10, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 
Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, 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 under 
the control of History Colorado, Denver, CO. One set of human remains 
was relinquished to the County Coroner in Fremont County, CO.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). 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 History 
Colorado professional staff in consultation with representatives of the 
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne and 
Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as the Cheyenne-Arapaho 
Tribes of Oklahoma); Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Comanche Nation, 
Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New 
Mexico; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian 
Reservation, Montana; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of San Felipe, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, 
New Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, 
South Dakota; Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 
Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; 
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated 
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Ute 
Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 
Utah.
    The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow 
Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously listed as the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the 
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 
(previously listed as the Pueblo of San Juan); and Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation, New

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Mexico were invited to consult but did not participate. Hereafter all 
tribes listed above are referred to as ``The Consulted and Invited 
Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    On November 12, 2015, the Fremont County Coroner took possession of 
one set of human remains from a private citizen who indicated they had 
been removed by her in about 1980 from a river bank on the Arkansas 
River near Coaldale, CO. After ruling out forensic interest the Coroner 
notified the Office of the State Archaeologist (OSAC), who took 
possession of the human remains in January 2016. The individual is an 
adult represented by a mandible and a small number of post-cranial 
elements and is identified as OAHP 312. Osteological analysis 
determined that the human remains are of Native American ancestry. No 
known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    History Colorado, in partnership with the Colorado Commission of 
Indian Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 
Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal 
consultations among the tribes with ancestral ties to the State of 
Colorado to develop the process for disposition of culturally 
unidentifiable Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects originating from inadvertent discoveries on Colorado State and 
private lands. As a result of the consultation, a process was 
developed, Process for Consultation, Transfer, and Reburial of 
Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Human Remains and Associated 
Funerary Objects Originating From Inadvertent Discoveries on Colorado 
State and Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on file with the Colorado 
Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation). The Consulted and 
Invited Tribes are those who have expressed their wishes to be notified 
of discoveries in the Great Basin Consultation Region as established by 
the Process, where these individuals originated.
    The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review 
Committee (Review Committee) is responsible for recommending specific 
actions for disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. On 
November 3-4, 2006, the Process was presented to the Review Committee 
for consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter on behalf of the Review 
Committee from the Designated Federal Officer transmitted the 
provisional authorization to proceed with the Process upon receipt of 
formal responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the 
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to forthcoming conditions 
imposed by the Secretary of the Interior. On May 15-16, 2008, the 
responses from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa 
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were submitted to the Review Committee. On 
September 23, 2008, the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 
Parks, as the designee for the Secretary of the Interior, transmitted 
the authorization for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable 
human remains according to the Process and NAGPRA, pending publication 
of a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register. This 
notice fulfills that requirement.
    43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on March 15, 2010, to provide a 
process for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable Native 
American human remains recovered from tribal or aboriginal lands as 
established by the final judgment of the Indian Claims Commission or 
U.S. Court of Claims, a treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive Order, or 
other authoritative governmental sources. As there is no evidence 
indicating that the human remains reported in this notice originated 
from tribal or aboriginal lands, they are eligible for disposition 
under the Process.

Determinations Made by History Colorado

    Officials of History Colorado have determined that:
     Based on osteological analysis, the human remains are 
Native American.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian tribe.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) and the Process, the 
disposition of the human remains may be to the Southern Ute Indian 
Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain 
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    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 Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Liaison, History 
Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, 
email [email protected] by June 10, 2016. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 
Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may proceed.
    History Colorado is responsible for notifying The Consulted and 
Invited Tribes that this notice has been published.

     Dated: April 27, 2016.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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known individual was identified. No responsible for notifying the (303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@
associated funerary objects are present. Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde state.co.us.
Based on archeological context, the 17 Community of Oregon; the Confederated SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
individuals described above are Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon here given in accordance with the
determined to be Native American. (previously listed as the Confederated Native American Graves Protection and
Historical documents, ethnographic Tribes of the Siletz Reservation); Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
sources, and oral history indicate Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower 3003, of the completion of an inventory
occupation of Chetlessentun (35CU61) Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, Oregon; of human remains under the control of
by the Tututni people until 1856. the Coquille Indian Tribe (previously History Colorado, Denver, CO. One set
Burial-associated artifacts and listed as the Coquille Tribe of Oregon); of human remains was relinquished to
radiocarbon dates from archeological Elk Valley Rancheria, California; and the County Coroner in Fremont County,
associations support a late pre-contact the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation (previously CO.
and early post-contact age of the burials listed as the Smith River Rancheria, This notice is published as part of the
from 35CU61. Site 35CU62 was California) that this notice has been National Park Service’s administrative
occupied about 3200 years ago, based on published. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
radiocarbon-dated house remains and Dated: April 28, 2016. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d).
associated projectile points styles. The determinations in this notice are
Melanie O’Brien,
Based on provenience, the Native
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the sole responsibility of the museum,
American human remains are
[FR Doc. 2016–11089 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am] institution, or Federal agency that has
reasonably believed to be affiliated with
control of the Native American human
the Coquille Indian Tribe and the BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
remains. The National Park Service is
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians,
not responsible for the determinations
Oregon.
Determinations made by the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR in this notice.
University of Oregon Museum of Consultation
Natural and Cultural History: National Park Service
A detailed assessment of the human
Officials of the University of Oregon
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20961; remains was made by History Colorado
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] professional staff in consultation with
have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the representatives of the Arapaho Tribe of
human remains described in this notice Notice of Inventory Completion: the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming;
represent the physical remains of 17 History Colorado, formerly Colorado Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes,
individuals of Native American Historical Society, Denver, CO Oklahoma (previously listed as the
ancestry. Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Oklahoma); Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the 21 objects described in this notice ACTION: Notice. of the Cheyenne River Reservation,
are reasonably believed to have been South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana;
SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Jicarilla
placed with or near individual human Colorado Historical Society, has
remains at the time of death or later as Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa
completed an inventory of human Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero
part of the death rite or ceremony. remains, in consultation with the
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Apache Tribe of the Mescalero
is a relationship of shared group Reservation, New Mexico; Northern
Hawaiian organizations, and has Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern
identity that can be reasonably traced determined that there is no cultural
between the Native American human Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana;
affiliation between the human remains Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Pueblo of
remains and the Coquille Indian Tribe and any present-day Indian tribes or
and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Native Hawaiian organizations. Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Indians, Oregon. Representatives of any Indian tribe Clara, New Mexico; Rosebud Sioux
Additional Requestors and Disposition Native Hawaiian organization not Tribe of the Rosebud Indian
identified in this notice that wish to Reservation, South Dakota; Shoshone
Lineal descendants or representatives
request transfer of control of these Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
of any Indian tribe not identified in this
human remains should submit a written Wyoming; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of
notice that wish to request transfer of
request to History Colorado. If no the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;
control of these human remains should
additional requestors come forward, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North &
submit a written request with
transfer of control of the human remains South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of
information in support of the request to
to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian the Fort Berthold Reservation, North
Dr. Pamela Endzweig, Director of
organizations stated in this notice may Dakota; and the Ute Mountain Tribe of
Collections, University of Oregon
proceed. the Ute Mountain Reservation,
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, 1224 University of Oregon, DATES: Representatives of any Indian Colorado, New Mexico & Utah.
Eugene, OR 97403–1224, telephone tribe or Native Hawaiian organization The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Crow
(541) 346–5120, by June 10, 2016. After not identified in this notice that wish to Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek
that date, if no additional requestors request transfer of control of these Reservation, South Dakota; Fort Sill
mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES

have come forward, transfer of control human remains should submit a written Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Oglala
of the human remains and associated request with information in support of Sioux Tribe (previously listed as the
funerary objects to the Coquille Indian the request to History Colorado at the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge
Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of address in this notice by June 10, 2016. Reservation, South Dakota); Ohkay
Siletz Indians, Oregon may proceed. ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA Owingeh, New Mexico (previously
The University of Oregon Museum of Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 listed as the Pueblo of San Juan); and
Natural and Cultural History is Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New

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Mexico were invited to consult but did Process upon receipt of formal the request to Sheila Goff, NAGPRA
not participate. Hereafter all tribes listed responses from the Jicarilla Apache Liaison, History Colorado, 1200
above are referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone
and Invited Tribes.’’ Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to (303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@
forthcoming conditions imposed by the state.co.us by June 10, 2016. After that
History and Description of the Remains
Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, date, if no additional requestors have
On November 12, 2015, the Fremont 2008, the responses from the Jicarilla come forward, transfer of control of the
County Coroner took possession of one Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the human remains to the Southern Ute
set of human remains from a private Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
citizen who indicated they had been submitted to the Review Committee. On Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute
removed by her in about 1980 from a September 23, 2008, the Assistant Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
river bank on the Arkansas River near Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico &
Coaldale, CO. After ruling out forensic Parks, as the designee for the Secretary Utah may proceed.
interest the Coroner notified the Office of the Interior, transmitted the History Colorado is responsible for
of the State Archaeologist (OSAC), who authorization for the disposition of notifying The Consulted and Invited
took possession of the human remains culturally unidentifiable human Tribes that this notice has been
in January 2016. The individual is an remains according to the Process and published.
adult represented by a mandible and a NAGPRA, pending publication of a
small number of post-cranial elements Dated: April 27, 2016.
Notice of Inventory Completion in the Melanie O’Brien,
and is identified as OAHP 312. Federal Register. This notice fulfills
Osteological analysis determined that Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
that requirement.
the human remains are of Native 43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on [FR Doc. 2016–11091 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am]
American ancestry. No known March 15, 2010, to provide a process for BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
individuals were identified. No the disposition of culturally
associated funerary objects are present. unidentifiable Native American human
History Colorado, in partnership with remains recovered from tribal or DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
the Colorado Commission of Indian aboriginal lands as established by the
Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the National Park Service
final judgment of the Indian Claims
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, Commission or U.S. Court of Claims, a
and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20967;
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Order, or other authoritative
Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal
governmental sources. As there is no Notice of Inventory Completion:
consultations among the tribes with
evidence indicating that the human Michigan State Police, Jackson Post,
ancestral ties to the State of Colorado to
remains reported in this notice Jackson, MI
develop the process for disposition of
originated from tribal or aboriginal
culturally unidentifiable Native
lands, they are eligible for disposition AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
American human remains and
under the Process. ACTION: Notice.
associated funerary objects originating
from inadvertent discoveries on Determinations Made by History
Colorado State and private lands. As a Colorado SUMMARY: The Michigan State Police,
result of the consultation, a process was Jackson Post MSP13 has completed an
Officials of History Colorado have inventory of human remains, in
developed, Process for Consultation, determined that:
Transfer, and Reburial of Culturally consultation with the appropriate
• Based on osteological analysis, the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
Unidentifiable Native American Human human remains are Native American. organizations, and has determined that
Remains and Associated Funerary • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the there is no cultural affiliation between
Objects Originating From Inadvertent human remains described in this notice
Discoveries on Colorado State and the human remains and any present-day
represent the physical remains of one Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on individual of Native American ancestry. organizations. Representatives of any
file with the Colorado Office of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
Archaeology and Historic Preservation). Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
relationship of shared group identity
The Consulted and Invited Tribes are organization not identified in this notice
cannot be reasonably traced between the
those who have expressed their wishes that wish to request transfer of control
Native American human remains and
to be notified of discoveries in the Great of these human remains should submit
any present-day Indian tribe.
Basin Consultation Region as • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) a written request to the Michigan State
established by the Process, where these and the Process, the disposition of the Police, Jackson Post. If no additional
individuals originated. human remains may be to the Southern requestors come forward, transfer of
The Native American Graves Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute control of the human remains to the
Protection and Repatriation Review Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian
Committee (Review Committee) is Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain organizations stated in this notice may
responsible for recommending specific Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & proceed.
actions for disposition of culturally Utah. DATES: Representatives of any Indian
unidentifiable human remains. On tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES

November 3–4, 2006, the Process was Additional Requestors and Disposition not identified in this notice that wish to
presented to the Review Committee for Representatives of any Indian tribe or request transfer of control of these
consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter Native Hawaiian organization not human remains should submit a written
on behalf of the Review Committee from identified in this notice that wish to request with information in support of
the Designated Federal Officer request transfer of control of these the request to the Michigan State Police,
transmitted the provisional human remains should submit a written Jackson Post at the address in this notice
authorization to proceed with the request with information in support of by June 10, 2016.

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FR Citation		81 FR 29297

81 FR 29297 - Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, formerly Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 91 (May 11, 2016)

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