[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 14, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55823-55824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-22786]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Denver Museum of Nature &
Science, Denver, CO; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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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 in the control of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science,
Denver, CO. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from Grand County, UT; possibly eastern Utah or western
Colorado; Montezuma County, CO; and the American ``Southwest.''
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.
This notice corrects a Notice of Inventory Completion published in
the Federal Register (75 FR 42770-42771, July 22, 2010) with the
addition of 13 associated funerary objects. Since the publication of
the notice, additional associated funerary objects likely removed from
an unknown site in eastern Utah or western Colorado by H. Marie
Wormington were found to be in the possession of the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science collections.
In the Federal Register of July 22, 2010, paragraph number 4, page
42770, is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
In the 1940s, human remains representing a minimum of four
individuals were likely removed during excavations in eastern Utah or
western Colorado by H. Marie Wormington, archeologist. In 1993,
Wormington donated these remains to the museum (DMNS catalogue (and CUI
numbers) A1985.1 (CUI 24), A1985.2 (CUI 25), A1985.3 (CUI 26), and
A1985.4 (CUI 27)). The remains include one adult female, one child of
indeterminate sex, and two adults of indeterminate sex. Most of these
individuals are represented by fragmentary remains. Newspaper wrappings
around the remains are dated to March 12, 1949. Wormingtoncoms field
expeditions during this time focused on the area between Utah and
Colorado. No known individuals were identified. The 13 associated
funerary objects are unworked rocks associated with the adult female
(DMNS catalogue number A1985.1).
In the Federal Register of July 22, 2010, paragraph number 2, page
42771, is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:
Officials of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 16 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 17 objects
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. Lastly, officials of the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
relationship of shared group identity cannot be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and any present-day Indian tribe.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Dr. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Denver Museum of
Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80205, telephone
(303) 370-6378, before October 14, 2010. Disposition of the human
remains and associated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and the Zuni
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come forward.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is responsible for notifying
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California &
Nevada; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community
of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Havasupai Tribe of the
Havasupai Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai Indian
Tribe of the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona; Jicarilla Apache
Nation, New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero
Reservation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah;
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo
of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
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Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos Apache
Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Shoshone Tribe of the
Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort
Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation, Nevada; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Ute Indian
Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe of
the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; White
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-
Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-
Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona; Ysleta Del Sur
Pueblo of Texas; Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico; and
the Southern Paiute Consortium, a non-federally recognized Indian
group, that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 8, 2010.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2010-22786 Filed 9-13-10; 8:45 am]
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