83 FR 45658 - Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 175 (September 10, 2018)
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Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 175 (September 10, 2018)
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 175 (Monday, September 10, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 45658-45659] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-19528] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026290; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Boise National Forest, has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, 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 associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Boise National Forest. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to the Boise National Forest at the address in this notice by October 10, 2018. ADDRESSES: Cecilia Romero Seesholtz, Boise National Forest, 1249 South Vinnell Way, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83709, telephone (208) 373-4102, email [email protected]. [[Page 45659]] 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 and associated funerary objects under the control of the USDA, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Elmore County, ID. 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 and associated funerary objects. 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 Boise National Forest professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada. History and Description of the Remains In 1989, human remains representing, at minimum, one adult individual of indeterminate sex were removed from site 10-EL-01, in Elmore County, ID. The human remains were removed during a permitted archeological excavation of the site, but were not identified until 2012, when the Boise National Forest initiated a comprehensive analysis of the site's extensive faunal assemblage. The analysis was performed by Susanne Miller, Faunal Analysis & CRM Services, and completed in 2017. The human remains are extremely fragmentary and are evidence of extensive looting that occurred at the site. Boise National Forest records dating to the 1950s reference the ``churned'' nature of the site, which the 1989 excavation confirmed. Stratigraphic mixing of chronologically sensitive point types, the presence of historic artifacts (such as tobacco tins and modern trash), and the results of sediment and radiocarbon analyses document an extremely disturbed site. The human remains primarily consist of bones from the upper and lower torso areas--scapula, ribs, and vertebrae. A patella, a few elements of the hand and foot, and two teeth were identified. The general ``adult'' estimation of age is based on the degree of epiphyseal fusion of some of the surviving elements, specifically the scapula, proximal ribs, and features of the vertebral centra. No known individuals were identified. The 662 associated funerary objects are: Two abraders; 18 bone awls and awl fragments; seven bone and shell beads; eight bone tubes; 34 modified bones (including incised, polished, and shaped specimens); 13 biface and biface fragments; 20 cores; four drills, 59 hammerstones, seven pestles; 11 knives; 21 modified flakes; one pipe fragment, one polished bobcat canine, 82 pottery sherds; 361 projectile points and point fragments; 11 scrapers; and two unifaces. The radiocarbon dates and projectile point chronology established at 10-EL-01 indicate that Native Americans occupied the site, probably on an intermittent and seasonal basis, over a long period of time beginning in the late Early Archaic Period (8,000-5,000 B.P.) and continuing through the Protohistoric Period (A.D. 1700-1805) and possibly even into the Contact Period (1805-1870). Most of the radiocarbon dates and point types date to the Late Archaic Period (2,000-150 B.P.). The historic inhabitants of southern Idaho include the Northern Shoshone and Northern Paiute, which are distinguished primarily on the basis of language (Murphy and Murphy 1986:284). Economic lifeways and socio-political organization were similar for the Shoshone (including the Boise, Bruneau, and Weiser subgroups) and the Northern Paiute, both of which occupied southwestern Idaho at the time of historic contact (Murphy and Murphy 1960, 1986; Steward 1938). The Northern Paiute comprised the Payette, Weiser, and Bannock subgroups, with the latter defining a group of mounted hunters who moved eastward to the Fort Hall area of Idaho during the eighteenth century (Liljeblad 1957:81). The primary ethnographic sources for southern Idaho are Murphy and Murphy (1960), Steward (1938, 1941), and Steward and Wheeler-Voegelin (1974). The cultural assemblage from 10-EL-01, when viewed in the context of the geographical, archeological, historical, and ethnographic records for southern Idaho, reasonably points to a shared group identity with the Northern Shoshone and Northern Paiute peoples who occupied the Snake River Plain. The preponderance of the evidence indicates that the human remains and associated funerary objects from 10-EL-01 are culturally affiliated with present-day Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada. Determinations Made by the USDA Forest Service, Boise National Forest Officials of the USDA Forest Service, Boise National Forest have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 662 objects described in this notice 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. 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 associated funerary objects and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone- Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada. 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to Cecilia Romero Seesholtz, Boise National Forest, 1249 South Vinnell Way, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83709, telephone (208) 373-4102, email [email protected], by October 10, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone- Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada may proceed. The Boise National Forest is responsible for notifying the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone- Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada that this notice has been published. Dated: August 20, 2018. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2018-19528 Filed 9-7-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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3003, of the completion of an inventory likely removed. The names of these human remains to The Tribes may
of human remains under the control of invited tribes are available upon proceed.
the U.S. Department of the Interior, request. None of these Indian Tribes The U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, agreed to accept control of the human Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible
DC. The human remains were removed remains. In May 2018, the Bureau of for notifying The Tribes that this notice
from an unknown location in Alaska. Indian Affairs agreed to transfer control has been published.
This notice is published as part of the of the human remains to the Chinik Dated: August 3, 2018.
National Park Service’s administrative Eskimo Community (Golovin); King Melanie O’Brien,
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Island Native Community; Native
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Village of Brevig Mission; Native Village
The determinations in this notice are [FR Doc. 2018–19534 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am]
of Council; Native Village of Diomede
the sole responsibility of the museum, (aka Inalik); Native Village of Elim; BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
institution, or Federal agency that has Native Village of Gambell; Native
control of the Native American human Village of Koyuk; Native Village of
remains. The National Park Service is DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Mary’s Igloo; Native Village of Saint
not responsible for the determinations Michael; Native Village of Savoonga; National Park Service
in this notice. Native Village of Shaktoolik; Native
Village of Shishmaref; Native Village of [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA-NPS0026290;
Consultation PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Teller; Native Village of Unalakleet;
A detailed assessment of the human Native Village of Wales; Native Village
remains was made by the U.S. Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
of White Mountain; Stebbins Department of Agriculture, Forest
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Community Association; and the Village
Indian Affairs professional staff in Service, Boise National Forest, Boise,
of Solomon, hereafter referred to as ID
consultation with a physical
‘‘The Tribes.’’
anthropologist with extensive
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
experience in forensic work with Alaska Determinations Made by the U.S.
Native human remains. Based on the Department of the Interior, Bureau of ACTION: Notice.
report of the physical anthropologist, Indian Affairs SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent an Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service,
Officials of the U.S. Department of the
inventory and letters inviting Boise National Forest, has completed an
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs have
consultation to representatives of 133 inventory of human remains and
determined that:
Indian tribes (names of invited tribes
available upon request). None of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the associated funerary objects, in
human remains described in this notice consultation with the appropriate
invited tribes wished to consult. Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
are Native American based on cranial
History and Description of the Remains analysis by a physical anthropologist organizations, and has determined that
At an unknown date in or about 1973, with extensive experience performing there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains representing, at such analyses. human remains and associated funerary
minimum, two individuals were • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the objects and present-day Indian Tribes or
removed from an unknown location in human remains described in this notice Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
Alaska. On or about December 5, 2014, represent the physical remains of two descendants or representatives of any
these human remains were mailed to the individuals of Native American Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Region ancestry. organization not identified in this notice
Office in a box with a letter attached. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a that wish to request transfer of control
The writer, ‘‘Madeline Hale,’’ stated relationship of shared group identity of these human remains and associated
that, ‘‘sometime around 1973, [Ms. cannot be reasonably traced between the funerary objects should submit a written
Hale’s] then boyfriend Mike went to Native American human remains and request to the Boise National Forest. If
Alaska and came back with [the any present-day Indian Tribe. no additional requestors come forward,
enclosed human remains]. He said he’d • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i), transfer of control of the human remains
found it out in the wilderness the disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the
somewhere at an Indian burial ground.’’ may be to The Tribes. lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or
No additional information was Native Hawaiian organizations stated in
Additional Requestors and Disposition this notice may proceed.
provided. Ms. Hale did not provide a
return mailing address or any other Representatives of any Indian Tribe or DATES: Lineal descendants or
contact information, and attempts to Native Hawaiian organization not representatives of any Indian Tribe or
locate her were unsuccessful. No known identified in this notice that wish to Native Hawaiian organization not
individuals were identified. No request transfer of control of these identified in this notice that wish to
associated funerary objects are present. human remains should submit a written request transfer of control of these
At the time of the excavation and request with information in support of human remains and associated funerary
removal of these human remains, the the request to Anna Pardo, Museum objects should submit a written request
land from which the human remains Program Manager/NAGPRA with information in support of the
were removed was not the tribal land of Coordinator, U.S. Department of the request to the Boise National Forest at
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 12220 the address in this notice by October 10,
organization. In May 2015, the U.S. Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 2018.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– ADDRESSES: Cecilia Romero Seesholtz,
Indian Affairs sent letters to 133 Indian 6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov, by Boise National Forest, 1249 South
tribes who are recognized as aboriginal October 10, 2018. After that date, if no Vinnell Way, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83709,
to the area from which these Native additional requestors have come telephone (208) 373–4102, email
American human remains were most forward, transfer of control of the cseesholtz@fs.fed.us.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is specifically the scapula, proximal ribs, Determinations Made by the USDA
here given in accordance with the and features of the vertebral centra. No Forest Service, Boise National Forest
Native American Graves Protection and known individuals were identified. The
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 662 associated funerary objects are: Two Officials of the USDA Forest Service,
3003, of the completion of an inventory abraders; 18 bone awls and awl Boise National Forest have determined
of human remains and associated fragments; seven bone and shell beads; that:
funerary objects under the control of the eight bone tubes; 34 modified bones • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
USDA, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID. (including incised, polished, and human remains described in this notice
The human remains and associated shaped specimens); 13 biface and biface represent the physical remains of one
funerary objects were removed from fragments; 20 cores; four drills, 59 individual of Native American ancestry.
Elmore County, ID. hammerstones, seven pestles; 11 knives;
This notice is published as part of the 21 modified flakes; one pipe fragment, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
National Park Service’s administrative one polished bobcat canine, 82 pottery the 662 objects described in this notice
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 sherds; 361 projectile points and point are reasonably believed to have been
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in fragments; 11 scrapers; and two placed with or near individual human
this notice are the sole responsibility of unifaces. remains at the time of death or later as
the museum, institution, or Federal The radiocarbon dates and projectile part of the death rite or ceremony.
agency that has control of the Native point chronology established at 10–EL– • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
American human remains and 01 indicate that Native Americans is a relationship of shared group
associated funerary objects. The occupied the site, probably on an identity that can be reasonably traced
National Park Service is not responsible intermittent and seasonal basis, over a between the Native American human
for the determinations in this notice. long period of time beginning in the late remains and associated funerary objects
Consultation Early Archaic Period (8,000–5,000 B.P.) and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
A detailed assessment of the human and continuing through the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone-
remains was made by the Boise National Protohistoric Period (A.D. 1700–1805) Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Forest professional staff in consultation and possibly even into the Contact Reservation, Nevada.
with representatives of the Shoshone- Period (1805–1870). Most of the
radiocarbon dates and point types date Additional Requestors and Disposition
Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation and the Shoshone-Paiute to the Late Archaic Period (2,000–150
B.P.). The historic inhabitants of Lineal descendants or representatives
Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
Nevada. southern Idaho include the Northern
Shoshone and Northern Paiute, which organization not identified in this notice
History and Description of the Remains are distinguished primarily on the basis that wish to request transfer of control
In 1989, human remains representing, of language (Murphy and Murphy of these human remains and associated
at minimum, one adult individual of 1986:284). Economic lifeways and funerary objects should submit a written
indeterminate sex were removed from socio-political organization were similar request with information in support of
site 10–EL–01, in Elmore County, ID. for the Shoshone (including the Boise, the request to Cecilia Romero Seesholtz,
The human remains were removed Bruneau, and Weiser subgroups) and the Boise National Forest, 1249 South
during a permitted archeological Northern Paiute, both of which Vinnell Way, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83709,
excavation of the site, but were not occupied southwestern Idaho at the telephone (208) 373–4102, email
identified until 2012, when the Boise time of historic contact (Murphy and cseesholtz@fs.fed.us, by October 10,
National Forest initiated a Murphy 1960, 1986; Steward 1938). The 2018. After that date, if no additional
comprehensive analysis of the site’s Northern Paiute comprised the Payette, requestors have come forward, transfer
extensive faunal assemblage. The Weiser, and Bannock subgroups, with of control of the human remains and
analysis was performed by Susanne the latter defining a group of mounted associated funerary objects to the
Miller, Faunal Analysis & CRM hunters who moved eastward to the Fort Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort
Services, and completed in 2017. The Hall area of Idaho during the eighteenth Hall Reservation and the Shoshone-
human remains are extremely century (Liljeblad 1957:81). The primary Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
fragmentary and are evidence of ethnographic sources for southern Idaho Reservation, Nevada may proceed.
extensive looting that occurred at the are Murphy and Murphy (1960),
Steward (1938, 1941), and Steward and The Boise National Forest is
site. Boise National Forest records
dating to the 1950s reference the Wheeler-Voegelin (1974). responsible for notifying the Shoshone-
‘‘churned’’ nature of the site, which the The cultural assemblage from 10–EL– Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
1989 excavation confirmed. 01, when viewed in the context of the Reservation and the Shoshone-Paiute
Stratigraphic mixing of chronologically geographical, archeological, historical, Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation,
sensitive point types, the presence of and ethnographic records for southern Nevada that this notice has been
historic artifacts (such as tobacco tins Idaho, reasonably points to a shared published.
and modern trash), and the results of group identity with the Northern Dated: August 20, 2018.
sediment and radiocarbon analyses Shoshone and Northern Paiute peoples Melanie O’Brien,
document an extremely disturbed site. who occupied the Snake River Plain.
The human remains primarily consist The preponderance of the evidence Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
of bones from the upper and lower torso indicates that the human remains and [FR Doc. 2018–19528 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am]
areas—scapula, ribs, and vertebrae. A associated funerary objects from 10–EL– BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
patella, a few elements of the hand and 01 are culturally affiliated with present-
foot, and two teeth were identified. The day Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
general ‘‘adult’’ estimation of age is Fort Hall Reservation and Shoshone-
based on the degree of epiphyseal fusion Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
of some of the surviving elements, Reservation, Nevada.
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