83 FR 28257 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Arkansas Museum Collections, Fayetteville, AR

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The University of Arkansas Museum Collections has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request to the University of Arkansas Museum Collections. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

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Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Arkansas Museum 
Collections, Fayetteville, AR

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The University of Arkansas Museum Collections has completed an 
inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there 
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and present-day 
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of 
these human remains should submit a written request to the University 
of Arkansas Museum Collections. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains 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 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the 
University of Arkansas Museum Collections at the address in this notice 
by July 18, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Mary Suter, University of Arkansas Museum Collections, 
Biomass Building 125, 2435 North Hatch Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72704, 
telephone (479) 575-3456, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the University of Arkansas Museum Collections, 
Fayetteville, AR. The human remains were removed from the Roden Site 
(34MC215), McCurtain County, OK.
    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 human remains. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
University of Arkansas Museum Collections professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.

History and Description of the Remains

    Between 1976 and 1978, human remains representing, at minimum, 47 
individuals were removed from Roden Site (34MC215) in McCurtain, OK, by 
the Museum of the Red River, Gregory Perino, and Lester Roden. At a 
date prior to 1981, the human remains were sent to the University of 
Arkansas for bioarcheological analysis and subsequently, they were 
donated to University of Arkansas Museum Collections by Jerome Rose. 
The human remains consist of 13 adult males, 12 adult females, nine 
children, four infants, and nine adults of unknown sex (2004-4-(1-44), 
2004-4-10-1, 2 & 3, 2004-4-22-1, 2). No known individuals were 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
    The Roden site is located on an alluvial terrace of the Red River 
in southeastern Oklahoma. According to Perino, excavations and 
radiocarbon dates strongly correlate with a Caddo presence stretching 
from A.D. 1300 to 1650, which is described as the McCurtain Phase. This 
date can be split into two periods of intense use; the first being 
approximately A.D. 1300 and the second occurring between A.D.1510-1620. 
The human remains are associated with the second phase. Descendants of 
the Caddo are members of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.
    On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, seven 
individuals were removed from the Bowman/Wallace site (3LR50), Little 
River County, AR, by unknown persons. The human remains were donated to 
the University of Arkansas Anthropology Department at an unknown date. 
In 2006, they were transferred to the University of Arkansas Museum 
Collections. No known individuals were identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from the Georgia Lake site (3OU112), Ouachita 
County, AR, by unknown persons. The human remains were donated to the 
University of Arkansas Anthropology Department at an unknown date. In 
2006, they were transferred to the University of Arkansas Museum 
Collections. No known individuals were identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    Based on the geographic region, diagnostic artifacts reported at 
the sites, site organization, and methods of interment, the human 
remains removed from burials at the two sites described above date to 
the Fourche Maline period (A.D. 500-800) and/or Caddoan period

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(A.D. 800-1600). Archeological evidence suggests a cultural continuity 
through these periods. Archeological and historical evidence indicate 
that Caddoan peoples occupied the Ouachita Mountains and southwestern 
Arkansas during both time periods. The present-day descendants of the 
Caddo are members of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.

Determinations Made by the University of Arkansas Museum Collections

    Officials of the University of Arkansas Museum Collections have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 55 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Mary 
Suter, University of Arkansas Museum Collections, Biomass Building 125, 
2435 North Hatch Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72704, telephone (479) 575-
3456, email [email protected]., by July 18, 2018. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma may proceed.
    The University of Arkansas Museum Collections is responsible for 
notifying the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: May 9, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Determinations Made by the Riverside inventory of human remains, in History and Description of the Remains
Metropolitan Museum consultation with the appropriate Between 1976 and 1978, human
Officials of the Riverside Metropolitan Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian remains representing, at minimum, 47
Museum have determined that: organizations, and has determined that individuals were removed from Roden
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), there is a cultural affiliation between the Site (34MC215) in McCurtain, OK, by
the two cultural items described above human remains and present-day Indian the Museum of the Red River, Gregory
are reasonably believed to have been Tribes or Native Hawaiian Perino, and Lester Roden. At a date
placed with or near individual human organizations. Lineal descendants or prior to 1981, the human remains were
remains at the time of death or later as representatives of any Indian Tribe or sent to the University of Arkansas for
part of the death rite or ceremony and Native Hawaiian organization not bioarcheological analysis and
are believed, by a preponderance of the identified in this notice that wish to subsequently, they were donated to
evidence, to have been removed from a request transfer of control of these University of Arkansas Museum
specific burial site of a Native American human remains should submit a written Collections by Jerome Rose. The human
individual. request to the University of Arkansas remains consist of 13 adult males, 12
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Museum Collections. If no additional adult females, nine children, four
is a relationship of shared group requestors come forward, transfer of infants, and nine adults of unknown sex
identity that can be reasonably traced control of the human remains to the (2004–4–(1–44), 2004–4–10–1, 2 & 3,
between the unassociated funerary lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or 2004–4–22–1, 2). No known individuals
objects and the Rincon Band of Luiseno Native Hawaiian organizations stated in were identified. No associated funerary
Mission Indians of the Rincon this notice may proceed. objects are present.
Reservation, California. The Roden site is located on an
DATES: Lineal descendants or alluvial terrace of the Red River in
Additional Requestors and Disposition representatives of any Indian Tribe or southeastern Oklahoma. According to
Lineal descendants or representatives Native Hawaiian organization not Perino, excavations and radiocarbon
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian identified in this notice that wish to dates strongly correlate with a Caddo
organization not identified in this notice request transfer of control of these presence stretching from A.D. 1300 to
that wish to claim these cultural items human remains should submit a written 1650, which is described as the
should submit a written request with request with information in support of McCurtain Phase. This date can be split
information in support of the claim to the request to the University of into two periods of intense use; the first
Robyn G. Peterson, Ph.D., Museum Arkansas Museum Collections at the being approximately A.D. 1300 and the
Director, Riverside Metropolitan address in this notice by July 18, 2018. second occurring between A.D.1510–
Museum, 3580 Mission Inn Avenue, ADDRESSES: Mary Suter, University of 1620. The human remains are associated
Riverside, CA 92501, telephone (951) Arkansas Museum Collections, Biomass with the second phase. Descendants of
826–5792, email rpeterson@ Building 125, 2435 North Hatch the Caddo are members of the Caddo
riversideca.gov, by July 18, 2018. After Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72704, Nation of Oklahoma.
that date, if no additional claimants telephone (479) 575–3456, email On an unknown date, human remains
have come forward, transfer of control representing, at minimum, seven
msuter@uark.edu.
of the unassociated funerary objects to individuals were removed from the
the Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Bowman/Wallace site (3LR50), Little
Indians of the Rincon Reservation, here given in accordance with the River County, AR, by unknown persons.
California may proceed. Native American Graves Protection and The human remains were donated to the
The Riverside Metropolitan Museum Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. University of Arkansas Anthropology
is responsible for notifying the Rincon 3003, of the completion of an inventory Department at an unknown date. In
Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the of human remains under the control of 2006, they were transferred to the
Rincon Reservation, California that this the University of Arkansas Museum University of Arkansas Museum
notice has been published. Collections, Fayetteville, AR. The Collections. No known individuals were
Dated: May 9, 2018. human remains were removed from the identified. No associated funerary
Melanie O’Brien, Roden Site (34MC215), McCurtain objects are present.
County, OK. On an unknown date, human remains
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
representing, at minimum, one
[FR Doc. 2018–13038 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the
individual were removed from the
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Georgia Lake site (3OU112), Ouachita
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
County, AR, by unknown persons. The
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in human remains were donated to the
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this notice are the sole responsibility of University of Arkansas Anthropology
the museum, institution, or Federal Department at an unknown date. In
National Park Service agency that has control of the Native 2006, they were transferred to the
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025563; American human remains. The National University of Arkansas Museum
PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Park Service is not responsible for the Collections. No known individuals were
determinations in this notice. identified. No associated funerary
Notice of Inventory Completion:
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University of Arkansas Museum
Based on the geographic region,
Collections, Fayetteville, AR A detailed assessment of the human diagnostic artifacts reported at the sites,
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. remains was made by the University of site organization, and methods of
ACTION: Notice. Arkansas Museum Collections interment, the human remains removed
professional staff in consultation with from burials at the two sites described
SUMMARY:The University of Arkansas representatives of the Caddo Nation of above date to the Fourche Maline period
Museum Collections has completed an Oklahoma. (A.D. 500–800) and/or Caddoan period

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(A.D. 800–1600). Archeological ACTION: Notice; correction. the Federal Register (73 FR 49483,
evidence suggests a cultural continuity August 21, 2008). The additional
through these periods. Archeological SUMMARY: The Arkansas State Highway individuals and funerary objects were
and historical evidence indicate that and Transportation Department has reported to the Arkansas State Highway
Caddoan peoples occupied the Ouachita corrected an inventory of human and Transportation Department by the
Mountains and southwestern Arkansas remains and associated funerary objects University of Missouri, American
during both time periods. The present- published in a Notice of Inventory Archeology Division. Transfer of control
day descendants of the Caddo are Completion in the Federal Register on of the items in this correction notice has
members of the Caddo Nation of August 21, 2008. This notice corrects not occurred.
Oklahoma. the minimum number of individuals
and the number of associated funerary Correction
Determinations Made by the University objects. Lineal descendants or In the Federal Register (73 FR
of Arkansas Museum Collections representatives of any Indian Tribe or 499483, August, 21, 2008), column 1,
Officials of the University of Arkansas Native Hawaiian organization not paragraph 4 is corrected by substituting
Museum Collections have determined identified in this notice that wish to the following paragraph:
that: request transfer of control of these In 1988, human remains representing a
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains should submit a written minimum of 16 individuals were recovered
human remains described in this notice request to the Arkansas State Highway from the Priestly site (3PO490) in Poinsett
represent the physical remains of 55 and Transportation Department. If no County, AR, by the Center for Archaeological
individuals of Native American additional requestors come forward, Research, Southwest Missouri State
ancestry. transfer of control of the human remains University, Springfield, MO. The human
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there and associated funerary objects to the remains were sent to the University of
is a relationship of shared group lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Missouri, Columbia for analysis. The human
remains were transferred to the Arkansas
identity that can be reasonably traced Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Highway and Transportation Department in
between the Native American human this notice may proceed. 2004 and 2018 and then to the Arkansas
remains and the Caddo Nation of DATES: Lineal descendants or Archeological Survey for curation in 2008
Oklahoma. representatives of any Indian Tribe or and 2018. No known individuals were
Additional Requestors and Disposition Native Hawaiian organization not identified. The 57 associated funerary objects
identified in this notice that wish to are two Landers points, one Gary point, one
Lineal descendants or representatives request transfer of control of these point, 42 plain shell-tempered body sherds,
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian human remains and associated funerary 10 sherds, and one plain shell-tempered
organization not identified in this notice sherd from the rim of a bowl.
objects should submit a written request
that wish to request transfer of control with information in support of the In the Federal Register (73 FR
of these human remains should submit request to the Arkansas State Highway 499483, August, 21, 2008), column 2,
a written request with information in and Transportation Department at the paragraph 7, sentence 1 is corrected by
support of the request to Mary Suter, address in this notice by July 18, 2018. substituting the following sentence:
University of Arkansas Museum
ADDRESSES: Kristina Boykin, Arkansas Officials of the Arkansas Highway and
Collections, Biomass Building 125, 2435 Transportation have determined that,
North Hatch Avenue, Fayetteville, AR State Highway and Transportation
Department, P.O. Box 2261, Little Rock, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 2001 (9–10), the human
72704, telephone (479) 575–3456, email remains described above represent the
msuter@uark.edu., by July 18, 2018. AR 72203, telephone (501) 569–2079,
physical remains of at least 16 individuals of
After that date, if no additional email Kristina.Boykin@ahtd.ar.gov. Native American ancestry.
requestors have come forward, transfer SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
In the Federal Register (73 FR
of control of the human remains to the here given in accordance with the
499483, August, 21, 2008), column 2,
Caddo Nation of Oklahoma may Native American Graves Protection and
paragraph 7, sentence 2 is corrected by
proceed. Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
substituting the following sentence:
The University of Arkansas Museum 3003, of the correction of an inventory
Collections is responsible for notifying of human remains and associated Officials of the Arkansas Highway and
the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma that this funerary objects under the control of the Transportation also have determined that,
Arkansas State Highway and pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 57
notice has been published. objects described above are reasonably
Dated: May 9, 2018.
Transportation Department, Little Rock, believed to have been placed with or near
AR. The human remains and associated individual human remains at the time of
Melanie O’Brien,
funerary objects were removed from death or later as part of the death rite or
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Poinsett County, AR. ceremony.
[FR Doc. 2018–13039 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the
BILLING CODE 4312–52–P National Park Service’s administrative Additional Requestors and Disposition
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Lineal descendants or representatives
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this notice are the sole responsibility of organization not identified in this notice
National Park Service the museum, institution, or Federal that wish to request transfer of control
agency that has control of the Native of these human remains and associated
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025535; American human remains and funerary objects should submit a written
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] associated funerary objects. The request with information in support of
National Park Service is not responsible the request to Kristina Boykin, Arkansas
Notice of Inventory Completion:
for the determinations in this notice. State Highway and Transportation
Arkansas Highway and Transportation
This notice corrects the minimum Department, P.O. Box 2261, Little Rock,
Department, Little Rock, AR;
number of individuals and the number AR 72203, telephone (501) 569–2079,
Correction
of associated funerary objects published email Kristina.Boykin@ahtd.ar.gov, by
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. in a Notice of Inventory Completion in July 18, 2018. After that date, if no

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FR Citation		83 FR 28257

83 FR 28257 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Arkansas Museum Collections, Fayetteville, AR

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