82 FR 44458 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha 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 Omaha 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.

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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha 
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 Omaha 
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 Omaha District at the 
address in this notice by October 23, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: 
CENWO-PM-AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 
995-2674, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby 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 Omaha District, Omaha, NE, that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.

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    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 1953, two cultural items were removed from the Cottonwood site 
(39HU43) in Hughes County, SD, and are presently located at the South 
Dakota State Archaeological Research Center (SARC), under the 
managerial control of the Omaha District. The Cottonwood site was 
excavated in 1953 by Wesley R. Hurt and Todd G. Willy. The excavation 
was a joint effort between the W.H. Over Museum-Vermillion, the South 
Dakota Archaeological Commission, and the U.S. National Park Service. 
At least two sets of human remains were recovered and stored at the 
W.H. Over Museum until 1974, when they were moved to SARC. In 1987, the 
University of Tennessee-Knoxville received the human remains and 
conducted an inventory before returning them to SARC in 1988. The human 
remains were then housed at SARC until May 20, 1994, when they were 
repatriated to the Sioux. SARC currently has two funerary objects that 
excavation records show as having been removed from the burial of a 
specific individual from site 39HU43. The two unassociated funerary 
objects are 1 unmodified wolf canine tooth and 1 ceramic body sherd.
    The Cottonwood site (39HU43) is a farm settlement on a low terrace 
above the Missouri River that was probably occupied between 1870 and 
1880, which falls into the Historic Sioux (Teton/Lakota) (1867-1900). 
Peoria Bottom was occupied in the early 1870s by 200 to 300 Native 
Americans, as well as by the first Protestant mission in the area, 
which included a boarding school for the Lakota Sioux. The Cottonwood 
site included 15 circular houses and several outdoor cache pit 
depressions. Three houses and one outdoor cache pit were excavated. The 
houses had basin-shaped tipi floors, in common with late-nineteenth 
century Lakota farm settlements. Gun cartridges were also recovered at 
the site, not in association with the burials, but which support the 
Historic Sioux occupation.
    In 1962, six cultural items were removed from the Fort Thompson 
Burials II site (39BF10) in Buffalo County, SD, and are presently 
located at the South Dakota State Archaeological Research Center 
(SARC), under the managerial control of the Omaha District. The Fort 
Thompson Burials II site (39BF10) has six mound groups spread out along 
the left bank of the Missouri River on a terrace in the Big Bend area, 
downstream from Fort Thompson. Early in the 1960s, several burials were 
disturbed during construction of the Big Bend Dam. In December of 1962, 
Robert Grant and Joseph B. Brandon, State Archaeological Commission-
Vermillion, SD, recovered the human remains and funerary objects. At 
least 4 sets of human remains were recovered. The human remains were 
stored at the W.H. Over Museum until 1974, when they were moved to the 
Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) at Fort Meade. In 1979, the 
University of Tennessee-Knoxville received the human remains and 
conducted an inventory before returning them to the OSA. The human 
remains were then repatriated in 1982 to the Sioux. SARC currently 
holds six funerary objects that excavation records show as having been 
removed from the burial of a specific individual from site 39BF10. The 
six unassociated funerary objects are 2 linen textiles; 2 brass 
buttons; 1 wrought-iron coffin nail; and 1 bison femur fragment.
    The Fort Thompson Burials II site (39BF10) was most likely occupied 
post-1860, which falls into the Early Reservation Period and is 
associated with the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, inhabited by the 
Santee and Winnebago, who were moved to Nebraska in the mid-1860s. In 
the 1870s, the reservation was inhabited by the Yanktonai. The 
unassociated funerary objects and manner of burial are most likely 
affiliated with the Yanktonai, who occupied the reservation for a 
longer period of time post-1860, than the Santee and Winnebago.
    The Yanktonai today are represented by the Yankton Sioux Tribe of 
South Dakota. Consultation with the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota 
indicates that these kinds of funerary objects are placed with 
individuals at the time of death.

Determinations Made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

    Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 8 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 Yankton Sioux Tribe of South 
Dakota.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Engineer 
District, Omaha, ATTN: CENWO-PM-AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, Omaha, NE 
68102, telephone, (402) 995-2674, email [email protected], 
by October 23, 2017. After that date, if no additional claimants have 
come forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects 
to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, is responsible 
for notifying the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: August 2, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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from the University of Montana with are Native American based on an Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
training in Native American osteology to examination by an osteologist. Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico &
the museum to examine the remains. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Utah); and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
The remains were determined to be a human remains described in this notice Reservation, New Mexico, that this
Native American woman in her early represent the physical remains of one notice has been published.
twenties. The human remains were individual of Native American ancestry. Dated: July 25, 2017.
probably not more than a few hundred • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
Melanie O’Brien,
years old. No known individuals were relationship of shared group identity
cannot be reasonably traced between the Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
identified. No associated funerary
Native American human remains and [FR Doc. 2017–20306 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am]
objects are present.
At the time of the excavation and any present-day Indian tribe. BILLING CODE 4312–52–P

removal of these human remains, the • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i),
land from which the human remains the disposition of the human remains
may be to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
were removed was not the tribal land of
of the Southern Ute Reservation,
any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian National Park Service
Colorado.
organization. In 2017, the Luther Bean
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023937;
Museum consulted with all Indian Additional Requestors and Disposition
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
tribes who are recognized as aboriginal Representatives of any Indian tribe or
to the area from which these Native Native Hawaiian organization not Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
American human remains were identified in this notice that wish to Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
removed. These tribes are the Arapahoe request transfer of control of these Omaha District, Omaha, NE
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, human remains should submit a written
Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
request with information in support of
Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as the request to Danielle Persinger, Luther ACTION: Notice.
the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Bean Museum, 208 Edgemont SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, Boulevard, Alamosa, CO 81101, Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha
Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New telephone (719) 587–7151, email District), in consultation with the
Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico lutherbean@adams.edu, by October 23, appropriate Indian tribes or Native
(previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo 2017. After that date, if no additional Hawaiian organizations, has determined
Domingo); Kiowa Indian Tribe of requestors have come forward, transfer that the cultural items listed in this
Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona, of control of the human remains to the notice meet the definition of
New Mexico & Utah; Northern Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the unassociated funerary objects. Lineal
Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, descendants or representatives of any
Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; may proceed. Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico The Luther Bean Museum is organization not identified in this notice
(previously listed as the Pueblo of San responsible for notifying the Arapahoe that wish to claim these cultural items
Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, should submit a written request to the
Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho Omaha District. If no additional
of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as claimants come forward, transfer of
New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of control of the cultural items to the lineal
Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, descendants, Indian tribes, or Native
Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Hawaiian organizations stated in this
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico notice may proceed.
Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo (previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo
of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of DATES: Lineal descendants or
Domingo); Kiowa Indian Tribe of
Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona, representatives of any Indian tribe or
Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New New Mexico & Utah; Northern Native Hawaiian organization not
Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern identified in this notice that wish to
of Arizona; Ute Indian Tribe of the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; claim these cultural items should
Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico submit a written request with
Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as (previously listed as the Pueblo of San information in support of the claim to
the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; the Omaha District at the address in this
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo notice by October 23, 2017.
Mexico & Utah); and Zuni Tribe of the of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S.
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. None of New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN:
these Indian tribes agreed to accept Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Avenue,
control of the human remains. In 2017, Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402)
the Luther Bean Museum agreed to Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; 995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@
transfer control of the human remains to Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo usace.army.mil.
the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of hereby given in accordance with the
Determinations Made by the Luther Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Native American Graves Protection and
Bean Museum Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
of Arizona; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
Officials of the Luther Bean Museum the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; items under the control of the Omaha
have determined that: Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray District, Omaha, NE, that meet the
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute definition of unassociated funerary
human remains described in this notice Tribe (previously listed as the Ute objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.

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This notice is published as part of the the South Dakota State Archaeological evidence, to have been removed from a
National Park Service’s administrative Research Center (SARC), under the specific burial site of a Native American
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 managerial control of the Omaha individual.
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in District. The Fort Thompson Burials II • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
this notice are the sole responsibility of site (39BF10) has six mound groups is a relationship of shared group
the museum, institution, or Federal spread out along the left bank of the identity that can be reasonably traced
agency that has control of the Native Missouri River on a terrace in the Big between the unassociated funerary
American cultural items. The National Bend area, downstream from Fort objects and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of
Park Service is not responsible for the Thompson. Early in the 1960s, several South Dakota.
determinations in this notice. burials were disturbed during
Additional Requestors and Disposition
construction of the Big Bend Dam. In
History and Description of the Cultural Lineal descendants or representatives
December of 1962, Robert Grant and
Items of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
Joseph B. Brandon, State Archaeological
In 1953, two cultural items were Commission-Vermillion, SD, recovered organization not identified in this notice
removed from the Cottonwood site the human remains and funerary that wish to claim these cultural items
(39HU43) in Hughes County, SD, and objects. At least 4 sets of human remains should submit a written request with
are presently located at the South were recovered. The human remains information in support of the claim to
Dakota State Archaeological Research were stored at the W.H. Over Museum Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army
Center (SARC), under the managerial until 1974, when they were moved to Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN:
control of the Omaha District. The the Office of the State Archaeologist CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Avenue,
Cottonwood site was excavated in 1953 (OSA) at Fort Meade. In 1979, the Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402)
by Wesley R. Hurt and Todd G. Willy. University of Tennessee-Knoxville 995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@
The excavation was a joint effort received the human remains and usace.army.mil, by October 23, 2017.
between the W.H. Over Museum- conducted an inventory before returning After that date, if no additional
Vermillion, the South Dakota them to the OSA. The human remains claimants have come forward, transfer
Archaeological Commission, and the were then repatriated in 1982 to the of control of the unassociated funerary
U.S. National Park Service. At least two Sioux. SARC currently holds six objects to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of
sets of human remains were recovered funerary objects that excavation records South Dakota.
and stored at the W.H. Over Museum show as having been removed from the The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
until 1974, when they were moved to burial of a specific individual from site Omaha District, is responsible for
SARC. In 1987, the University of 39BF10. The six unassociated funerary notifying the Yankton Sioux Tribe of
Tennessee-Knoxville received the objects are 2 linen textiles; 2 brass South Dakota that this notice has been
human remains and conducted an buttons; 1 wrought-iron coffin nail; and published.
inventory before returning them to 1 bison femur fragment. Dated: August 2, 2017.
SARC in 1988. The human remains The Fort Thompson Burials II site Melanie O’Brien,
were then housed at SARC until May (39BF10) was most likely occupied post-
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
20, 1994, when they were repatriated to 1860, which falls into the Early
the Sioux. SARC currently has two [FR Doc. 2017–20295 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am]
Reservation Period and is associated
funerary objects that excavation records with the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
show as having been removed from the inhabited by the Santee and Winnebago,
burial of a specific individual from site who were moved to Nebraska in the
39HU43. The two unassociated funerary DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
mid-1860s. In the 1870s, the reservation
objects are 1 unmodified wolf canine was inhabited by the Yanktonai. The National Park Service
tooth and 1 ceramic body sherd. unassociated funerary objects and
The Cottonwood site (39HU43) is a manner of burial are most likely [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023919;
farm settlement on a low terrace above PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
affiliated with the Yanktonai, who
the Missouri River that was probably occupied the reservation for a longer
occupied between 1870 and 1880, Notice of Inventory Completion:
period of time post-1860, than the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort,
which falls into the Historic Sioux Santee and Winnebago.
(Teton/Lakota) (1867–1900). Peoria KY
The Yanktonai today are represented
Bottom was occupied in the early 1870s by the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
by 200 to 300 Native Americans, as well Dakota. Consultation with the Yankton ACTION: Notice.
as by the first Protestant mission in the Sioux Tribe of South Dakota indicates
area, which included a boarding school that these kinds of funerary objects are SUMMARY: The Kentucky Historical
for the Lakota Sioux. The Cottonwood placed with individuals at the time of Society has completed an inventory of
site included 15 circular houses and death. human remains in consultation with the
several outdoor cache pit depressions. appropriate Indian Tribes or Native
Three houses and one outdoor cache pit Determinations Made by the U.S. Army Hawaiian organizations, and has
were excavated. The houses had basin- Corps of Engineers, Omaha District determined that there is no cultural
shaped tipi floors, in common with late- Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of affiliation between the human remains
nineteenth century Lakota farm Engineers, Omaha District, have and any present-day Indian Tribes or
settlements. Gun cartridges were also determined that: Native Hawaiian organizations.
recovered at the site, not in association • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), Representatives of any Indian Tribe or
with the burials, but which support the the 8 cultural items described above are Native Hawaiian organization not
Historic Sioux occupation. reasonably believed to have been placed identified in this notice that wish to
In 1962, six cultural items were with or near individual human remains request transfer of control of these
removed from the Fort Thompson at the time of death or later as part of human remains should submit a written
Burials II site (39BF10) in Buffalo the death rite or ceremony and are request to the Kentucky Historical
County, SD, and are presently located at believed, by a preponderance of the Society. If no additional requestors

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FR Citation		82 FR 44458

82 FR 44458 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

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