82 FR 27284 - Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 113 (June 14, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 14, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 27284-27285] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-12297] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-23404; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The State Historical Society of North Dakota, 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 objects of cultural patrimony. 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 State Historical Society of North Dakota. 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 State Historical Society of North Dakota at the address in this notice by July 14, 2017. ADDRESSES: Melissa Thompson, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 612 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505, telephone (701) 328- 2691, 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 State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND, that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony 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. [[Page 27285]] History and Description of the Cultural Item On an unknown date, an unknown number of cultural items were removed from an unknown site in an unknown location. In August of 2016, a wooden anthropomorphic figurine was found in the Museum Division storage space. The cultural item was found in a box dating to the 1950s that was used for storage of items in the possession of the State Historical Society of North Dakota (SHSND), but never formally accessioned or cataloged into the museum collection. Museum opinion is that the figurine was placed in the storage box in the 1950s, but no other provenance information is available. The object of cultural patrimony is a Can Otina. It is an object that does not belong to an individual, though individuals care for it. It is an object that would be used for protection of the camp, portending future events, helping with planting or finding food or medicines, or serving the needs of the community in other ways. It is a helper to the people and an essential part of tribal identity and the maintenance of tribal traditions. The Can Otina was identified by a Dakota spiritual leader as belonging to the Sisitunwan (Dwellers by the Fish Camp-Ground) fire of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) that make up what is often referred to as the ``Sioux Nation.'' In addition to the Sisitunwan, the Oceti Sakowin is composed of the Wahpetunwan, Bdewakantunwan, Wahpekute, Ihanktunwan, Ihanktunwanna, and Titunwan peoples, all of whom are Dakota, Lakota, or Nakota. The Sisitunwan are Dakota people. Their first reservation land was negotiated under the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851, and then initially reduced under the Treaty of 1858, relegating this council fire to a strip of land bordering the Minnesota River in southern Minnesota. These treaties were unilaterally abrogated by the United States Government after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and Dakota people were force-marched and ethnically-cleansed from their Minnesota homeland in 1863. By the late 1880s, Sisitunwan and Wahpetunwan Dakota people began returning to this portion of Minnesota and reestablishing a community near what was formerly called the Upper Sioux Agency. A new, vastly smaller reservation was established by the federal government in 1938, all of which is located on the original reservation treaty land. Upper Sioux is one of the few Oceti Sakowin reservations where a distinct segment of the population specifically identifies as Sisitunwan (others include Spirit Lake, Fort Peck, and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe), though people with Sisitunwan blood continue to live on most, if not all, Oceti Sakowin reservation communities. The distinctive Sisitunwan identity still pervasive at Upper Sioux makes this community a strong choice for repatriation of Sisitunwan NAGPRA collections. Determinations Made by the State Historical Society of North Dakota Officials of the State Historical Society of North Dakota have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the one cultural item described above has ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the object of cultural patrimony and the Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota. 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 Melissa Thompson, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 612 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505, telephone (701) 328-2691, email [email protected], by July 14, 2017. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the object of cultural patrimony to the Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota, may proceed. The State Historical Society of North Dakota is responsible for notifying the Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota, that this notice has been published. Dated: May 15, 2017. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2017-12297 Filed 6-13-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of collected from contemporary midden DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
North Dakota; White Earth Band of the deposits identified at the site is strongly
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; suggestive of Algonquian origin. The National Park Service
and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska site is located within the aboriginal
(hereafter ‘‘The Tribes Invited to lands of the Menominee as described in [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23404;
Consult’’). traditional and historical accounts, and PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
History and Description of the Remains at a date that makes these descriptions
relevant. Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
In the summer of 1956, human Items: State Historical Society of North
remains representing, at minimum, 20 Determinations Made by the University Dakota, Bismarck, ND
individuals were removed from the of Michigan
Backlund Mound Group site (20ME2) in AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
Menominee County, MI. Archeologists Officials of the University of Michigan ACTION: Notice.
from the UMMAA excavated three low, have determined that:
conical mounds on the bank of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the SUMMARY: The State Historical Society of
Menominee River. Two features within human remains described in this notice North Dakota, in consultation with the
one of the mounds held human remains represent the physical remains of 20 appropriate Indian Tribes or Native
and funerary objects. In one feature, the individuals of Native American Hawaiian organizations, has determined
human remains consist of 1 child, 4–8 that the cultural items listed in this
ancestry.
years old, sex indeterminate, and an notice meet the definition of objects of
infant, sex indeterminate. Another • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), cultural patrimony. Lineal descendants
feature within the mound, described as the 3 objects described in this notice are or representatives of any Indian Tribe or
a rock-capped ossuary, held the human reasonably believed to have been placed Native Hawaiian organization not
remains of, at minimum, 18 individuals. with or near individual human remains identified in this notice that wish to
The human remains consist of 1 older at the time of death or later as part of claim these cultural items should
adult, possibly female; 1 adult female the death rite or ceremony. submit a written request to the State
over 50 years old; 4 adult males over 50 • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Historical Society of North Dakota. If no
years old; 1 adult female over 40 years additional claimants come forward,
is a relationship of shared group
old; 1 adult male, 30–50 years old; 1 transfer of control of the cultural items
identity that can be reasonably traced
adult male, 35–49 years old; 1 adult to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,
male, 30–40 years old; 1 young adult, between the Native American human
remains and associated funerary objects or Native Hawaiian organizations stated
possibly male, 20–35 years old; 1 adult in this notice may proceed.
male, age indeterminate; 1 young adult and the Menominee Indian Tribe of
female, 20–25 years old; 1 adolescent, Wisconsin. DATES: Lineal descendants or
11–14 years old, sex indeterminate; 1 representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Additional Requestors and Disposition
child, 8–10 years old, sex indeterminate; Native Hawaiian organization not
1 child, age and sex indeterminate; 1 Lineal descendants or representatives identified in this notice that wish to
neonate; and 1 cremated adult. One lot of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian claim these cultural items should
of DNA extractions, taken from the organization not identified in this notice submit a written request with
human remains in this collection that wish to request transfer of control information in support of the claim to
between 1996 and 2006, are also of these human remains and associated the State Historical Society of North
included in this notice. The burials have funerary objects should submit a written Dakota at the address in this notice by
been dated to the Late Woodland Period July 14, 2017.
request with information in support of
(A.D. 1350, +/¥110 years) based on the request to Dr. Ben Secunda, ADDRESSES: Melissa Thompson, State
Carbon 14 analysis of charcoal from the Historical Society of North Dakota, 612
NAGPRA Project Manager, University of
site. No known individuals were East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND
Michigan, Office of Research, 4080
identified. Three associated funerary 58505, telephone (701) 328–2691, email
objects found in the mound fill are one Fleming Building, 503 Thompson
Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1340, methompson@nd.gov.
copper spear point; one perforated long
bone fragment, possibly deer; and one telephone (734) 647–9085, email SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
lot of beak fragments from a female bsecunda@umich.edu, by July 14, 2017. here given in accordance with the
eagle. After that date, if no additional Native American Graves Protection and
The human remains have been requestors have come forward, transfer Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
determined to be Native American, of control of the human remains and 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
based on cranial morphology and dental associated funerary objects to the items under the control of the State
traits. A relationship of shared group Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Historical Society of North Dakota,
identity can be reasonably traced may proceed. Bismarck, ND, that meet the definition
between the Native American human of objects of cultural patrimony under
The University of Michigan is 25 U.S.C. 3001.
remains from this site and the
responsible for notifying The Consulted
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, This notice is published as part of the
Tribes and The Tribes Invited to Consult
based on multiple lines of evidence. The National Park Service’s administrative
that this notice has been published.
mode of burial, specifically ossuary responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
burial within a conical mound, suggests Dated: April 28, 2017. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
a merging of practices between the large Melanie O’Brien, this notice are the sole responsibility of
ossuary burials recorded at late pre- Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the museum, institution, or Federal
contact sites in the northern Great Lakes [FR Doc. 2017–12290 Filed 6–13–17; 8:45 am]
agency that has control of the Native
area and earlier practices of mound American cultural items. The National
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burial observed among northern forager Park Service is not responsible for the
groups. The ceramic assemblage determinations in this notice.
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History and Description of the Cultural (others include Spirit Lake, Fort Peck, ACTION: Notice.
Item and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux
On an unknown date, an unknown Tribe), though people with Sisitunwan DATES: June 8, 2017.
number of cultural items were removed blood continue to live on most, if not
all, Oceti Sakowin reservation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
from an unknown site in an unknown
location. In August of 2016, a wooden communities. The distinctive Justin Enck (202–205–3363), Office of
anthropomorphic figurine was found in Sisitunwan identity still pervasive at Investigations, U.S. International Trade
the Museum Division storage space. The Upper Sioux makes this community a Commission, 500 E Street SW.,
cultural item was found in a box dating strong choice for repatriation of Washington, DC 20436. Hearing-
to the 1950s that was used for storage of Sisitunwan NAGPRA collections. impaired persons can obtain
items in the possession of the State Determinations Made by the State information on this matter by contacting
Historical Society of North Dakota Historical Society of North Dakota the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202–
(SHSND), but never formally 205–1810. Persons with mobility
accessioned or cataloged into the Officials of the State Historical impairments who will need special
museum collection. Museum opinion is Society of North Dakota have assistance in gaining access to the
that the figurine was placed in the determined that: Commission should contact the Office
storage box in the 1950s, but no other • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D),
of the Secretary at 202–205–2000.
provenance information is available. the one cultural item described above
General information concerning the
The object of cultural patrimony is a has ongoing historical, traditional, or
cultural importance central to the Commission may also be obtained by
Can Otina. It is an object that does not accessing its internet server (https://
belong to an individual, though Native American group or culture itself,
rather than property owned by an www.usitc.gov). The public record for
individuals care for it. It is an object that this investigation may be viewed on the
would be used for protection of the individual.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS)
camp, portending future events, helping at https://edis.usitc.gov.
is a relationship of shared group
with planting or finding food or
identity that can be reasonably traced SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
medicines, or serving the needs of the
between the object of cultural patrimony 1, 2017, the Commission established a
community in other ways. It is a helper
and the Upper Sioux Community, schedule for the conduct of this review
to the people and an essential part of
Minnesota. (82 FR 13132, March 9, 2017).
tribal identity and the maintenance of
tribal traditions. Additional Requestors and Disposition Subsequently, counsel for the domestic
The Can Otina was identified by a interested parties filed a request for
Lineal descendants or representatives
Dakota spiritual leader as belonging to consideration of cancellation of the
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
the Sisitunwan (Dwellers by the Fish hearing. Counsel indicated a willingness
organization not identified in this notice
Camp-Ground) fire of the Oceti Sakowin to submit written testimony and
that wish to claim these cultural items
(Seven Council Fires) that make up responses to any Commission questions
should submit a written request with
what is often referred to as the ‘‘Sioux in lieu of an actual hearing. No other
information in support of the claim to
Nation.’’ In addition to the Sisitunwan, party has entered an appearance in this
Melissa Thompson, State Historical
the Oceti Sakowin is composed of the review. Consequently, the public
Society of North Dakota, 612 East
Wahpetunwan, Bdewakantunwan,
Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND hearing in connection with this review,
Wahpekute, Ihanktunwan,
58505, telephone (701) 328–2691, email scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. on
Ihanktunwanna, and Titunwan peoples,
methompson@nd.gov, by July 14, 2017. Thursday, June 22, 2017, at the U.S.
all of whom are Dakota, Lakota, or
After that date, if no additional International Trade Commission
Nakota. The Sisitunwan are Dakota
claimants have come forward, transfer Building, is cancelled. Parties to this
people. Their first reservation land was
of control of the object of cultural review should respond to any written
negotiated under the Treaty of Traverse
patrimony to the Upper Sioux questions posed by the Commission in
des Sioux in 1851, and then initially
Community, Minnesota, may proceed. their posthearing briefs, which are due
reduced under the Treaty of 1858,
The State Historical Society of North to be filed on July 3, 2017.
relegating this council fire to a strip of
Dakota is responsible for notifying the
land bordering the Minnesota River in For further information concerning
Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota,
southern Minnesota. These treaties were this investigation see the Commission’s
that this notice has been published.
unilaterally abrogated by the United notice cited above and the
States Government after the U.S.-Dakota Dated: May 15, 2017.
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
War of 1862 and Dakota people were Melanie O’Brien, Procedure, part 201, subparts A through
force-marched and ethnically-cleansed Manager, National NAGPRA Program. E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207,
from their Minnesota homeland in 1863. [FR Doc. 2017–12297 Filed 6–13–17; 8:45 am] subparts A and C (19 CFR part 207).
By the late 1880s, Sisitunwan and BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
Wahpetunwan Dakota people began Authority: This investigation is being
returning to this portion of Minnesota conducted under authority of title VII of the
and reestablishing a community near Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published
INTERNATIONAL TRADE pursuant to section 207.21 of the
what was formerly called the Upper COMMISSION
Sioux Agency. A new, vastly smaller Commission’s rules.
mstockstill on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
reservation was established by the [Investigation No. 731–TA–663 (Fourth By order of the Commission.
federal government in 1938, all of which Review)]
Issued: June 8, 2017.
is located on the original reservation Paper Clips From China; Cancellation Katherine M. Hiner,
treaty land. Upper Sioux is one of the of Hearing for Full Five-Year Review Supervisory Attorney.
few Oceti Sakowin reservations where a
distinct segment of the population [FR Doc. 2017–12314 Filed 6–13–17; 8:45 am]
AGENCY: United States International
specifically identifies as Sisitunwan Trade Commission. BILLING CODE 7020–02–P
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