Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, Bemidji, MN

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 103 (Friday, May 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29067-29068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13600]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Minnesota 
Indian Affairs Council, Bemidji, MN

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, 
of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects in the possession of the Minnesota Indian Affairs 
Council, Bemidji, MN.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by University 
of

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Minnesota professional staff in consultation with representatives of 
the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Indian Tribe.
    In 1984, human remains representing one individual from a site 
located on private land within the exterior boundaries of the Bois 
Forte Reservation near Lake Vermillion by Bois Forte Tribal Police. 
These human remains were turned over to the Minnesota State 
Archeologist and the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. No known 
individual was identified. The 16 associated funerary objects include 
three beaver mandibles, one lynx mandible, one elk naviculocuboid, one 
beaver innominate, one fragement of beaver incisor, six bone awls, one 
harpoon awl, one hide flesher (moose or elk metatarsal), and one iron 
tranche (ice chisel).
    Based on the associated funerary objects, this individual has been 
determined to be Native American from the historic period. These human 
remains and funerary objects were recovered within the exterior 
boundaries of the Bois Forte Reservation.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the 
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council have determined that, pursuant to 43 
CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical 
remains of one individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of 
the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council have also determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 16 objects listed 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. Lastly, officials of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council 
have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced 
between these Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Bois Forte Band of 
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. 
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact James L. (Jim) Jones, Cultural Resource 
Specialist, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, 1819 Bemidji Ave. 
Bemidji, MN 56601; telephone: (218) 755-3825, before June 28, 1999. 
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to 
the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe may begin after 
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: April 22, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
DeManager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-13600 Filed 5-27-99; 8:45 am]
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