81 FR 87066 - Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Huntington, WV
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National Park Service Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 232 (December 2, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 232 (Friday, December 2, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 87066-87067] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-28960] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-22417; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Huntington, WV AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District (Huntington District), in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to the Huntington District. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items 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 claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to the Huntington District at the address in this notice by January 3, 2017. ADDRESSES: Mr. Rodney Parker, District Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, 502 Eighth Street, Huntington, WV 25701, telephone (304) 399-5729, 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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Huntington, WV, that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. History and Description of the Cultural Item(s) In 1963, ten cultural items were removed from 15PI11 (the Slone Site), Fishtrap Lake, Pike County, KY. The items were excavated during legally authorized excavations performed by Lee Hanson in 1963, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky. In 1964, Robert Dunnell, and undergraduate at the University, completed the excavation of the Fort Ancient component of the site. Burial 7 at the site was reported to have included the fragmentary skeletal remains of an infant; unmodified faunal remains and pottery sherds were collected with the burial fill. No human remains associated with Burial 7 have been located. The skeletal remains in Burial 12 had completely decayed, but the construction pattern of the grave was distinct enough to permit its identification as a grave without the actual presence of human remains. An engraved stone was collected from the burial pit of Burial 12. The items from these two burials have been housed at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, since their excavation. The ten unassociated funerary objects are one carved soapstone fragment, four ceramic sherds, and five fragments unmodified faunal remains. The funerary objects were determined to be affiliated with the Shawnee based on the physical archeological evidence which indicated a Fort Ancient period occupation at this site from A.D. 1000 to 1700. The Shawnee are generally considered the `southerners' or the southernmost of the Algonquian-speaking tribes, and oral tradition places their homeland along the central Ohio River Valley. The Shawnee are often associated with the Fort Ancient peoples who occupied the Ohio River Valley and have a long association with this territory in which they were first encountered by the Europeans by the mid seventeenth century including areas of southern Ohio, northern Kentucky, and western West Virginia. The location of Fort Ancient archaeological sites within the Huntington District indicates that a strong historical and ethnohistorical link showing the region was occupied by the Shawnees in the early historic period. Based on the geographic, anthropological, linguistic, anthropological, and historical evidence, and information gained during tribal consultation, Huntington District has determined that the unassociated funerary objects from site 15PI11 are culturally affiliated with the Shawnee. The three federally recognized tribes with standing under NAGPRA are the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe. Determinations Made by the Huntington District Officials of the Huntington District have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the ten cultural items described above 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native American individual. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the unassociated funerary objects and the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe. [[Page 87067]] Additional Requestors and Disposition Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request with information in support of the claim to Mr. Rodney Parker, District Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, 502 Eighth Street, Huntington, WV 25701, telephone (304) 399-5729, email [email protected], by January 3, 2017. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe may proceed. The Huntington District is responsible for notifying the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Cayuga Nation; Cherokee Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana (previously listed as the Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana); Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grant Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Oneida Nation (previously listed as the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin); Oneida Nation of New York; Onondaga Nation; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (previously listed as the St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York); Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians (previously listed as Seneca Nation of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Nation (previously listed as the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York); Tuscarora Nation; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; and Wyandotte Nation that this notice has been published. Dated: November 15, 2016. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2016-28960 Filed 12-1-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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remains at the time of death or later as Hawaiian organizations stated in this unassociated funerary objects are one
part of the death rite or ceremony. notice may proceed. carved soapstone fragment, four ceramic
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there DATES: Lineal descendants or sherds, and five fragments unmodified
is a relationship of shared group representatives of any Indian tribe or faunal remains.
identity that can be reasonably traced Native Hawaiian organization not The funerary objects were determined
between the Native American human identified in this notice that wish to to be affiliated with the Shawnee based
remains and the Quapaw Tribe of claim these cultural items should on the physical archeological evidence
Oklahoma. submit a written request with which indicated a Fort Ancient period
Additional Requestors and Disposition information in support of the claim to occupation at this site from A.D. 1000
the Huntington District at the address in to 1700. The Shawnee are generally
Lineal descendants or representatives this notice by January 3, 2017.
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian considered the ‘southerners’ or the
ADDRESSES: Mr. Rodney Parker, District southernmost of the Algonquian-
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to request transfer of control Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of speaking tribes, and oral tradition places
of these human remains should submit Engineers, Huntington District, 502 their homeland along the central Ohio
a written request with information in Eighth Street, Huntington, WV 25701, River Valley. The Shawnee are often
support of the request to Dr. Jayne-Leigh telephone (304) 399–5729, email associated with the Fort Ancient
Thomas, NAGPRA Director, Indiana rodney.d.parker@usace.army.mil. peoples who occupied the Ohio River
University, NAGPRA Office, Student SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Valley and have a long association with
Building 318, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave., here given in accordance with the this territory in which they were first
Bloomington, IN 47405, telephone (812) Native American Graves Protection and encountered by the Europeans by the
856–5315, email thomajay@ Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. mid seventeenth century including
indiana.edu, by January 3, 2017. After 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural areas of southern Ohio, northern
that date, if no additional requestors items under the control of the U.S. Kentucky, and western West Virginia.
have come forward, transfer of control Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington The location of Fort Ancient
of the human remains and associated District, Huntington, WV, that meet the archaeological sites within the
funerary objects to the Quapaw Tribe of definition of unassociated funerary Huntington District indicates that a
Oklahoma may proceed. objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. strong historical and ethnohistorical
Indiana University is responsible for This notice is published as part of the
link showing the region was occupied
notifying the Quapaw Tribe of National Park Service’s administrative
by the Shawnees in the early historic
Oklahoma that this notice has been responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
period. Based on the geographic,
published. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
anthropological, linguistic,
this notice are the sole responsibility of
Dated: November 18, 2016.
the museum, institution, or Federal anthropological, and historical
Melanie O’Brien, agency that has control of the Native evidence, and information gained
Manager, National NAGPRA Program. American cultural items. The National during tribal consultation, Huntington
[FR Doc. 2016–28945 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am] Park Service is not responsible for the District has determined that the
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P determinations in this notice. unassociated funerary objects from site
15PI11 are culturally affiliated with the
History and Description of the Cultural Shawnee. The three federally
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Item(s) recognized tribes with standing under
In 1963, ten cultural items were NAGPRA are the Absentee-Shawnee
National Park Service removed from 15PI11 (the Slone Site), Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22417; Fishtrap Lake, Pike County, KY. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] items were excavated during legally and the Shawnee Tribe.
authorized excavations performed by
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Determinations Made by the
Lee Hanson in 1963, a graduate student
Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District
at the University of Kentucky. In 1964,
Huntington District, Huntington, WV Robert Dunnell, and undergraduate at Officials of the Huntington District
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. the University, completed the have determined that:
excavation of the Fort Ancient
ACTION: Notice. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
component of the site. Burial 7 at the
the ten cultural items described above
SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of site was reported to have included the
are reasonably believed to have been
Engineers, Huntington District fragmentary skeletal remains of an
placed with or near individual human
(Huntington District), in consultation infant; unmodified faunal remains and
with the appropriate Indian tribes or pottery sherds were collected with the remains at the time of death or later as
Native Hawaiian organizations, has burial fill. No human remains associated part of the death rite or ceremony and
determined that the cultural items listed with Burial 7 have been located. The are believed, by a preponderance of the
in this notice meet the definition of skeletal remains in Burial 12 had evidence, to have been removed from a
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal completely decayed, but the specific burial site of a Native American
descendants or representatives of any construction pattern of the grave was individual.
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Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian distinct enough to permit its • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
organization not identified in this notice identification as a grave without the is a relationship of shared group
that wish to claim these cultural items actual presence of human remains. An identity that can be reasonably traced
should submit a written request to the engraved stone was collected from the between the unassociated funerary
Huntington District. If no additional burial pit of Burial 12. The items from objects and the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe
claimants come forward, transfer of these two burials have been housed at of Indians of Oklahoma, the Eastern
control of the cultural items to the lineal the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, and the
descendants, Indian tribes, or Native since their excavation. The ten Shawnee Tribe.
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Additional Requestors and Disposition Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian request transfer of control of these
Lineal descendants or representatives Tribe of Michigan; Saint Regis Mohawk human remains and associated funerary
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Tribe (previously listed as the St. Regis objects should submit a written request
organization not identified in this notice Band of Mohawk Indians of New York); with information in support of the
that wish to claim these cultural items Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa request to the Huntington District at the
should submit a written request with Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of address in this notice by January 3,
information in support of the claim to Indians (previously listed as Seneca 2017.
Mr. Rodney Parker, District Nation of New York); Seneca-Cayuga ADDRESSES: Mr. Rodney Parker, District
Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of Nation (previously listed as the Seneca- Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Huntington District, 502 Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Shawnee Engineers, Huntington District, 502
Eighth Street, Huntington, WV 25701, Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Eighth Street, Huntington, WV 25701,
telephone (304) 399–5729, email Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians telephone (304) 399–5729, email
rodney.d.parker@usace.army.mil, by of Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of rodney.d.parker@usace.army.mil.
January 3, 2017. After that date, if no Seneca (previously listed as the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
additional claimants have come Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of here given in accordance with the
forward, transfer of control of the New York); Tuscarora Nation; United Native American Graves Protection and
unassociated funerary objects to the Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; and Wyandotte Nation that 3003, of the completion of an inventory
Oklahoma, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe this notice has been published. of human remains and associated
of Oklahoma, and the Shawnee Tribe Dated: November 15, 2016. funerary objects under the control of the
may proceed. Melanie O’Brien, Huntington District and in the
The Huntington District is responsible Manager, National NAGPRA Program. possession of the Ohio Historical
for notifying the Absentee Shawnee [FR Doc. 2016–28960 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am] Society, Columbus, OH; Veterans
Tribe of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of Curation Program, Alexandria, VA;
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the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;
Indians of the Bad River Reservation, and the University of Akron, Akron,
Wisconsin; Cayuga Nation; Cherokee DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OH. The human remains and associated
Nation; Chippewa Cree Indians of the funerary objects were removed from
Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana National Park Service Bluestone Lake in Summer County, WV;
(previously listed as the Chippewa-Cree Deer Creek Lake in Pickaway County,
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22416;
Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, OH; Fishtrap Lake in Pike County, KY;
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Montana); Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Meldahl Lock and Dam in Adams
Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. County, OH; Paint Creek Lake in
Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington Highland County, OH; and Paintsville
of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee District, Huntington, WV Lake in Johnson County, KY.
Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County This notice is published as part of the
Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. National Park Service’s administrative
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and ACTION: Notice. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
Hannahville Indian Community, SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of this notice are the sole responsibility of
Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Engineers, Huntington District the museum, institution, or Federal
Community, Michigan; Lac Courte (Huntington District) has completed an agency that has control of the Native
Oreilles Band of Lake Superior inventory of human remains and American human remains and
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Little associated funerary objects in associated funerary objects. The
River Band of Ottawa Indians, consultation with the appropriate National Park Service is not responsible
Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian for the determinations in this notice.
Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be- organizations, and has determined that
nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi there is a cultural affiliation between the Consultation
Indians of Michigan; Minnesota human remains and associated funerary A detailed assessment of the human
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (six objects and present-day Indian tribes or remains was made by Huntington
component reservations: Bois Forte Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal District and the St. Louis District’s
Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; descendants or representatives of any Mandatory Center of Expertise for the
Grant Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Curation and Management of
Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); organization not identified in this notice Archaeological Collections professional
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the that wish to request transfer of control staff in consultation with
Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed of these human remains and associated representatives of the Absentee
as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Oneida funerary objects should submit a written Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Bad River
Nation (previously listed as the Oneida request to the Huntington District. If no Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of
Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin); Oneida additional requestors come forward, Chippewa Indians of the Bad River
Nation of New York; Onondaga Nation; transfer of control of the human remains Reservation, Wisconsin; Cayuga Nation;
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon and associated funerary objects to the Cherokee Nation; Chippewa Cree
Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation,
and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Montana (previously listed as the
Nation (previously listed as the Prairie this notice may proceed. Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky
Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); DATES: Lineal descendants or Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Citizen
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior representatives of any Indian tribe or Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma;
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Native Hawaiian organization not Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware
Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, identified in this notice that wish to Tribe of Indians; Eastern Band of
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