82_FR_40966 82 FR 40801 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

82 FR 40801 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 165 (August 28, 2017)

Page Range40801-40802
FR Document2017-18186

The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-23749; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and Arizona 
State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, in consultation with 
the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have 
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 Bureau of Indian Affairs. 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs at 
the address in this notice by September 27, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 20191, telephone 
(703) 390-6343, 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. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Washington, DC, and in the physical custody of the Arizona 
State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (ASM) 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 Items

    In the years 1963 through 1977, 2,542 cultural items were removed 
from the Grasshopper Pueblo site AZ P:14:1(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ. 
The items were removed during legally authorized excavations conducted 
by the University of Arizona Archeological Field School. Archeological 
collections from the site were brought to the museum at the end of each 
field season. The 2,542 unassociated funerary objects are 179 animal 
bones, 6 bone awls, 1 botanical specimen, 13 ceramic bowls, 12 ceramic 
jars, 1,677 ceramic sherds, 19 ceramic vessels, 16 ceramic vessel 
fragments, 8 chipped stone cores, 502 chipped stone flakes, 3 flotation 
samples, 2 hammerstones, 2 hand stones, 24 lots of mineral, 1 mosaicked 
shell, 4 polishing stones, 5 pollen samples, 5 shell beads, 14 shell 
bracelets, 3 shell pendants, 1 shell tinkler, 2 snail shells, 5 soil 
samples, 4 stone artifacts, 1 stone blade, 3 stone knives, 2 stone 
pendants, 9 stone projectile points, 1 stone projectile point fragment, 
1 stone scraper, 1 tree ring sample, 9 worked bone artifacts, 1 worked 
ceramic sherd, 1 worked shell, 3 worked stones, and 2 worked stone 
flakes.
    Site AZ P:14:1(ASM) is a large village site containing 
approximately 500 rooms in more than a dozen stone room blocks arranged 
around three main plazas. The site has been dated from A.D. 1275-1400, 
based on tree ring dates, architectural forms, building technology, and 
ceramic styles. These characteristics, the mortuary pattern, and other 
items of material culture are consistent with the archeologically-
described Upland Mogollon or prehistoric Western Pueblo tradition.
    In 1932, 2 cultural items were removed from the Canyon Creek Ruin, 
AZ C:2:8(GP)/V:2:1(ASM), in Gila County, AZ during legally authorized 
excavations conducted by the Gila Pueblo Foundation, under the 
direction of Emil Haury. In 1950, the Gila Pueblo Foundation closed and 
the collections were transferred to the Arizona State Museum. The 2 
unassociated funerary objects are 2 lots of organic material.
    Site AZ C:2:8(GP)/AZV:2:1(ASM) is a cliff dwelling site of 
approximately 140 rooms. Based on the ceramic and perishable artifact 
assemblage, the site is dated to A.D. 1300 to 1400. The ceramic and 
architectural forms are consistent with the archeologically described 
Upland Mogollon or prehistoric Western Pueblo traditions.
    A detailed discussion of the basis for cultural affiliation of 
archeological sites in the region where the above sites are located may 
be found in ``Cultural Affiliation Assessment of White Mountain Apache 
Tribal Lands (Fort Apache Indian Reservation),'' by John R. Welch and 
T.J. Ferguson (2005). To summarize, archeologists have used the terms 
Upland Mogollon or prehistoric Western Pueblo to define the 
archeological complex represented by the sites described above. 
Material culture characteristics of these traditions include a temporal 
progression from earlier pit houses to later masonry pueblos, villages 
organized in room blocks of contiguous dwellings associated with 
plazas, rectangular kivas, polished and paint-decorated ceramics, 
unpainted corrugated ceramics, inhumation burials, cradleboard cranial 
deformation, grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts. The combination of 
the material culture attributes and a subsistence pattern that included 
hunting and gathering augmented by maize agriculture helps to identify 
an earlier group. Archeologists have also remarked that there are 
strong similarities between this earlier group and present-day Tribes 
included in the Western Pueblo ethnographic group, especially the Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico. The similarities in ceramic traditions, burial practices, 
architectural forms, and settlement patterns have led archeologists to 
believe that the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mogollon Rim region 
migrated north and west to the Hopi mesas, and north and east to the 
Zuni River Valley. Certain objects found in Upland Mogollon 
archeological sites have been found to have strong resemblances with 
ritual paraphernalia that are used in continuing religious practices by 
the Hopi and Zuni. Some petroglyphs on the Fort Apache Indian 
Reservation have also persuaded archeologists of continuities between 
the earlier identified group and current-day Western Pueblo people. 
Biological information from AZ P:14:1(ASM) supports the view that the 
prehistoric occupants of the Upland Mogollon region had migrated from 
various locations to the north and west of the region.
    Hopi and Zuni oral traditions parallel the archeological evidence 
for migration. Migration figures prominently in Hopi oral tradition,

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which refers to the ancient sites, pottery, stone tools, petroglyphs, 
and other artifacts left behind by the ancestors as ``Hopi 
Footprints.'' This migration history is complex and detailed, and 
includes traditions relating specific clans to the Mogollon region. 
Hopi cultural advisors have also identified medicinal and culinary 
plants at archeological sites in the region. Their knowledge about 
these plants was passed down to them from the ancestors who inhabited 
these ancient sites. Migration is also an important attribute of Zuni 
oral tradition and includes accounts of Zuni ancestors passing through 
the Upland Mogollon region. The ancient villages mark the routes of 
these migrations. Zuni cultural advisors remark that the ancient sites 
were not abandoned. People returned to these places from time to time, 
either to reoccupy them or for religious pilgrimages--a practice that 
has continued to the present day. Archeologists have found ceramic 
evidence at shrines in the Upland Mogollon region that confirms these 
reports. Zuni cultural advisors have names for plants endemic to the 
Mogollon region that do not grow on the Zuni Reservation. They also 
have knowledge about traditional medicinal and ceremonial uses for 
these resources, which has been passed down to them from their 
ancestors. Furthermore, Hopi and Zuni cultural advisors have recognized 
that their ancestors may have been co-resident at some of the sites in 
this region during their ancestral migrations.
    There are differing points of view regarding the possible presence 
of Apache people in the Upland Mogollon region during the time that 
these sites were occupied. Some Apache traditions describe interactions 
with Ancestral Pueblo people during this time, but according to these 
stories, Puebloan people and Apache people were regarded as having 
separate identities. The White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona, does not claim cultural affiliation with the 
human remains and associated funerary objects from this site. As 
reported by Welch and Ferguson (2005), consultations between the White 
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, and the 
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 
and Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico, have indicated that that none of 
these Tribes wish to pursue claims of affiliation with sites on White 
Mountain Apache Tribal lands. Finally, the White Mountain Apache Tribe 
of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona, supports the repatriation of 
human remains and associated funerary objects from these sites and is 
ready to assist the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico, in their reburial.

Determinations Made by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, and the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

    Officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Arizona State Museum 
have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 2,544 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona and Zuni 
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Reston, 12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, VA 20191, telephone 
(703) 390-6343, email [email protected], by September 27, 2017. After 
that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of 
control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    The Arizona State Museum is responsible for notifying the Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 11, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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                                                    DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR                              the museum, institution, or Federal                   with the archeologically described
                                                                                                            agency that has control of the Native                 Upland Mogollon or prehistoric Western
                                                    National Park Service                                   American cultural items. The National                 Pueblo traditions.
                                                                                                            Park Service is not responsible for the                  A detailed discussion of the basis for
                                                    [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23749;
                                                    PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]                            determinations in this notice.                        cultural affiliation of archeological sites
                                                                                                                                                                  in the region where the above sites are
                                                                                                            History and Description of the Cultural               located may be found in ‘‘Cultural
                                                    Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural                 Items
                                                    Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,                                                                       Affiliation Assessment of White
                                                    Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington,                      In the years 1963 through 1977, 2,542              Mountain Apache Tribal Lands (Fort
                                                    DC, and Arizona State Museum,                           cultural items were removed from the                  Apache Indian Reservation),’’ by John R.
                                                    University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ                       Grasshopper Pueblo site AZ                            Welch and T.J. Ferguson (2005). To
                                                                                                            P:14:1(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ.                    summarize, archeologists have used the
                                                    AGENCY:   National Park Service, Interior.              The items were removed during legally                 terms Upland Mogollon or prehistoric
                                                    ACTION:   Notice.                                       authorized excavations conducted by                   Western Pueblo to define the
                                                                                                            the University of Arizona Archeological               archeological complex represented by
                                                    SUMMARY:   The U.S. Department of the                   Field School. Archeological collections               the sites described above. Material
                                                    Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and                 from the site were brought to the                     culture characteristics of these
                                                    Arizona State Museum, University of                     museum at the end of each field season.               traditions include a temporal
                                                    Arizona, in consultation with the                       The 2,542 unassociated funerary objects               progression from earlier pit houses to
                                                    appropriate Indian Tribes or Native                     are 179 animal bones, 6 bone awls, 1                  later masonry pueblos, villages
                                                    Hawaiian organizations, have                            botanical specimen, 13 ceramic bowls,                 organized in room blocks of contiguous
                                                    determined that the cultural items listed               12 ceramic jars, 1,677 ceramic sherds,                dwellings associated with plazas,
                                                    in this notice meet the definition of                   19 ceramic vessels, 16 ceramic vessel                 rectangular kivas, polished and paint-
                                                    unassociated funerary objects. Lineal                   fragments, 8 chipped stone cores, 502                 decorated ceramics, unpainted
                                                    descendants or representatives of any                   chipped stone flakes, 3 flotation                     corrugated ceramics, inhumation
                                                    Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian                         samples, 2 hammerstones, 2 hand                       burials, cradleboard cranial
                                                    organization not identified in this notice              stones, 24 lots of mineral, 1 mosaicked               deformation, grooved stone axes, and
                                                    that wish to claim these cultural items                 shell, 4 polishing stones, 5 pollen                   bone artifacts. The combination of the
                                                    should submit a written request to the                  samples, 5 shell beads, 14 shell                      material culture attributes and a
                                                    Bureau of Indian Affairs. If no                         bracelets, 3 shell pendants, 1 shell                  subsistence pattern that included
                                                    additional claimants come forward,                      tinkler, 2 snail shells, 5 soil samples, 4            hunting and gathering augmented by
                                                    transfer of control of the cultural items               stone artifacts, 1 stone blade, 3 stone               maize agriculture helps to identify an
                                                    to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,               knives, 2 stone pendants, 9 stone                     earlier group. Archeologists have also
                                                    or Native Hawaiian organizations stated                 projectile points, 1 stone projectile point           remarked that there are strong
                                                    in this notice may proceed.                             fragment, 1 stone scraper, 1 tree ring                similarities between this earlier group
                                                    DATES: Lineal descendants or                            sample, 9 worked bone artifacts, 1                    and present-day Tribes included in the
                                                    representatives of any Indian Tribe or                  worked ceramic sherd, 1 worked shell,                 Western Pueblo ethnographic group,
                                                    Native Hawaiian organization not                        3 worked stones, and 2 worked stone                   especially the Hopi Tribe of Arizona
                                                    identified in this notice that wish to                  flakes.                                               and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
                                                    claim these cultural items should                          Site AZ P:14:1(ASM) is a large village             Reservation, New Mexico. The
                                                    submit a written request with                           site containing approximately 500                     similarities in ceramic traditions, burial
                                                    information in support of the claim to                  rooms in more than a dozen stone room                 practices, architectural forms, and
                                                    the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the                     blocks arranged around three main                     settlement patterns have led
                                                    address in this notice by September 27,                 plazas. The site has been dated from                  archeologists to believe that the
                                                    2017.                                                   A.D. 1275–1400, based on tree ring                    prehistoric inhabitants of the Mogollon
                                                                                                            dates, architectural forms, building                  Rim region migrated north and west to
                                                    ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA                           technology, and ceramic styles. These                 the Hopi mesas, and north and east to
                                                    Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs,                  characteristics, the mortuary pattern,                the Zuni River Valley. Certain objects
                                                    12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084,                  and other items of material culture are               found in Upland Mogollon
                                                    Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390–                  consistent with the archeologically-                  archeological sites have been found to
                                                    6343, email anna.pardo@bia.gov.                         described Upland Mogollon or                          have strong resemblances with ritual
                                                    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is                    prehistoric Western Pueblo tradition.                 paraphernalia that are used in
                                                    here given in accordance with the                          In 1932, 2 cultural items were                     continuing religious practices by the
                                                    Native American Graves Protection and                   removed from the Canyon Creek Ruin,                   Hopi and Zuni. Some petroglyphs on
                                                    Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.                    AZ C:2:8(GP)/V:2:1(ASM), in Gila                      the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
                                                    3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural              County, AZ during legally authorized                  have also persuaded archeologists of
                                                    items under the control of the U.S.                     excavations conducted by the Gila                     continuities between the earlier
                                                    Department of the Interior, Bureau of                   Pueblo Foundation, under the direction                identified group and current-day
                                                    Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in                  of Emil Haury. In 1950, the Gila Pueblo               Western Pueblo people. Biological
                                                    the physical custody of the Arizona                     Foundation closed and the collections                 information from AZ P:14:1(ASM)
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                                                    State Museum, University of Arizona,                    were transferred to the Arizona State                 supports the view that the prehistoric
                                                    Tucson, AZ (ASM) that meet the                          Museum. The 2 unassociated funerary                   occupants of the Upland Mogollon
                                                    definition of unassociated funerary                     objects are 2 lots of organic material.               region had migrated from various
                                                    objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.                              Site AZ C:2:8(GP)/AZV:2:1(ASM) is a                locations to the north and west of the
                                                       This notice is published as part of the              cliff dwelling site of approximately 140              region.
                                                    National Park Service’s administrative                  rooms. Based on the ceramic and                          Hopi and Zuni oral traditions parallel
                                                    responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25                       perishable artifact assemblage, the site is           the archeological evidence for
                                                    U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in                dated to A.D. 1300 to 1400. The ceramic               migration. Migration figures
                                                    this notice are the sole responsibility of              and architectural forms are consistent                prominently in Hopi oral tradition,


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                                                    which refers to the ancient sites,                      Apache Reservation, Arizona, supports                 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                                                    pottery, stone tools, petroglyphs, and                  the repatriation of human remains and
                                                    other artifacts left behind by the                      associated funerary objects from these                National Park Service
                                                    ancestors as ‘‘Hopi Footprints.’’ This                  sites and is ready to assist the Hopi
                                                    migration history is complex and                        Tribe of Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the                [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23695;
                                                    detailed, and includes traditions                       Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, in their                PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
                                                    relating specific clans to the Mogollon                 reburial.
                                                    region. Hopi cultural advisors have also                                                                      Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
                                                    identified medicinal and culinary plants                Determinations Made by the U.S.                       Items: The Fort Worth Museum of
                                                    at archeological sites in the region.                   Department of the Interior, Bureau of                 Science and History, Fort Worth, TX
                                                    Their knowledge about these plants was                  Indian Affairs, and the Arizona State
                                                                                                                                                                  AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
                                                    passed down to them from the ancestors                  Museum, University of Arizona
                                                    who inhabited these ancient sites.                                                                            ACTION: Notice.
                                                    Migration is also an important attribute                   Officials of the Bureau of Indian
                                                                                                            Affairs and Arizona State Museum have                 SUMMARY:   The Fort Worth Museum of
                                                    of Zuni oral tradition and includes
                                                                                                            determined that:                                      Science and History, in consultation
                                                    accounts of Zuni ancestors passing
                                                                                                                                                                  with the appropriate Indian Tribes or
                                                    through the Upland Mogollon region.                        • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),                Native Hawaiian organizations, has
                                                    The ancient villages mark the routes of                 the 2,544 cultural items described above              determined that the cultural items listed
                                                    these migrations. Zuni cultural advisors                are reasonably believed to have been                  in this notice meet the definition of
                                                    remark that the ancient sites were not                  placed with or near individual human                  objects of cultural patrimony. Lineal
                                                    abandoned. People returned to these                     remains at the time of death or later as              descendants or representatives of any
                                                    places from time to time, either to                     part of the death rite or ceremony and                Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
                                                    reoccupy them or for religious                          are believed, by a preponderance of the               organization not identified in this notice
                                                    pilgrimages—a practice that has                         evidence, to have been removed from a                 that wish to claim these cultural items
                                                    continued to the present day.                           specific burial site of a Native American             should submit a written request to The
                                                    Archeologists have found ceramic                        individual.                                           Fort Worth Museum of Science and
                                                    evidence at shrines in the Upland
                                                                                                               • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there             History. If no additional claimants come
                                                    Mogollon region that confirms these
                                                                                                            is a relationship of shared group                     forward, transfer of control of the
                                                    reports. Zuni cultural advisors have
                                                                                                            identity that can be reasonably traced                cultural items to the lineal descendants,
                                                    names for plants endemic to the
                                                                                                            between the unassociated funerary                     Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian
                                                    Mogollon region that do not grow on the
                                                                                                            objects and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona                 organizations stated in this notice may
                                                    Zuni Reservation. They also have
                                                                                                                                                                  proceed.
                                                    knowledge about traditional medicinal                   and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation,
                                                    and ceremonial uses for these resources,                New Mexico.                                           DATES: Lineal descendants or
                                                    which has been passed down to them                                                                            representatives of any Indian Tribe or
                                                    from their ancestors. Furthermore, Hopi                 Additional Requestors and Disposition                 Native Hawaiian organization not
                                                    and Zuni cultural advisors have                                                                               identified in this notice that wish to
                                                                                                               Lineal descendants or representatives              claim these cultural items should
                                                    recognized that their ancestors may                     of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
                                                    have been co-resident at some of the                                                                          submit a written request with
                                                                                                            organization not identified in this notice            information in support of the claim to
                                                    sites in this region during their ancestral             that wish to claim these cultural items
                                                    migrations.                                                                                                   The Fort Worth Museum of Science and
                                                                                                            should submit a written request with                  History at the address in this notice by
                                                       There are differing points of view                   information in support of the claim to                September 27, 2017.
                                                    regarding the possible presence of                      Anna Pardo, NAGPRA Coordinator,
                                                    Apache people in the Upland Mogollon                                                                          ADDRESSES: Chanin Voss Scanlon, The
                                                                                                            Bureau of Indian Affairs, Reston, 12220               Fort Worth Museum of Science and
                                                    region during the time that these sites                 Sunrise Valley Drive, VA 20191,
                                                    were occupied. Some Apache traditions                                                                         History, 1600 Gendy Street, Fort Worth,
                                                                                                            telephone (703) 390–6343, email                       TX 76107, telephone (817) 255–9300,
                                                    describe interactions with Ancestral
                                                                                                            anna.pardo@bia.gov, by September 27,                  email cscanlon@fwmsh.org.
                                                    Pueblo people during this time, but
                                                                                                            2017. After that date, if no additional               SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
                                                    according to these stories, Puebloan
                                                    people and Apache people were                           claimants have come forward, transfer                 here given in accordance with the
                                                    regarded as having separate identities.                 of control of the unassociated funerary               Native American Graves Protection and
                                                    The White Mountain Apache Tribe of                      objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and              Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
                                                    the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona,                   Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New               3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
                                                    does not claim cultural affiliation with                Mexico may proceed.                                   items under the control of The Fort
                                                    the human remains and associated                           The Arizona State Museum is                        Worth Museum of Science and History
                                                    funerary objects from this site. As                     responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe              that meet the definition of objects of
                                                    reported by Welch and Ferguson (2005),                  of Arizona; White Mountain Apache                     cultural patrimony under 25 U.S.C.
                                                    consultations between the White                         Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation,                 3001.
                                                    Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort                       Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni                      This notice is published as part of the
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                                                    Apache Reservation, Arizona, and the                    Reservation, New Mexico, that this                    National Park Service’s administrative
                                                    Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico &                    notice has been published.                            responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
                                                    Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico;                                                                            U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
                                                    and Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico,                        Dated: July 11, 2017.                                this notice are the sole responsibility of
                                                    have indicated that that none of these                  Melanie O’Brien,                                      the museum, institution, or Federal
                                                    Tribes wish to pursue claims of                         Manager, National NAGPRA Program.                     agency that has control of the Native
                                                    affiliation with sites on White Mountain                [FR Doc. 2017–18186 Filed 8–25–17; 8:45 am]           American cultural items. The National
                                                    Apache Tribal lands. Finally, the White                 BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
                                                                                                                                                                  Park Service is not responsible for the
                                                    Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort                                                                             determinations in this notice.


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DatesLineal 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs at
FR Citation82 FR 40801 

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