[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 181 (Monday, September 20, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57290-57292]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23414]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Colorado Museum,
Boulder, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 University of Colorado Museum, Boulder,
CO. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from
unknown locations.
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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the
University of Colorado Museum professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Bridgeport Indian Colony
of California; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche
Nation, Oklahoma; Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation,
Nevada and Utah; Crow Tribe of Montana; Death Valley Timbi-Sha Shoshone
Band of California; Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater
Reservation, Nevada; Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada; Fort McDermitt
Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation,
Nevada and Oregon; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Fort Sill
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache
Nation, New Mexico; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Las Vegas Tribe
of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada; Lovelock
Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Mescalero Apache
Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Moapa Band of Paiute
Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada; Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern
Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Northwestern Band of the Shoshoni
Nation of Utah (Washakie); Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge
Reservation, South Dakota; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly Pueblo
of San Juan); Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes,
Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of
Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes); Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the
Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony, California; Paiute-Shoshone
Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; 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 Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico;
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada;
Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud
Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Indian Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos
Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; San Juan Southern
Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley
Reservation, Nevada; Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho;
Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah; Southern Ute Indian Tribe
of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of
North & South Dakota; Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada; Susanville
Indian
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Rancheria, California; Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of
Nevada (Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South
Fork Band and Wells Band); Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold
Reservation, North Dakota; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto
Apache Tribe of Arizona; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation,
Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker
River Reservation, Nevada; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort
Apache Reservation, Arizona; Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada;
Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona;
Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony & Campbell Ranch,
Nevada; Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba Reservation, Nevada; Ysleta
Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico.
On unknown dates, human remains representing a minimum of 150
individuals were removed from unknown locations by unknown individuals.
No known individuals were identified. The six associated funerary
objects are one lot of corn, one soil matrix, one cord-wrapped ceramic
sherd, one lot of projectile points and two non-human bones (catalog
numbers 02268, 99084a-g, and A1405). One additional associated funerary
object, a shell, is missing but will be repatriated if located (catalog
number 99084h).
The human remains are represented by catalog numbers: 02268; 04798;
07704a; 07846; 07867; 32166; 32191; 99003; 99014; 99018; 99020; 99023;
99028; 99030; 99036; 99039; 99049; 99050; 99051; 99052; 99053; 99072;
99073; 99074; 99076; 99084a-d, f; 99085; 99086; 99087; 99089; 99124;
99126 (two individuals); 99127; 99136; 99139; 99141; 99512; 99516;
99517 (107 individuals); 99522; A1405-1; A1405-2; and
education collection no catalog number assigned. The human remains are
Native American based on osteological evidence obtained through non-
destructive examination by a physical anthropologist.
On an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of one
individual (catalog number 07704b) were removed from an unknown
location by unknown individuals. No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The human remains are Native American based on the physical
association with an individual described above (catalog number 07704a).
The individual (catalog number 07704a) is determined to be Native
American based on osteological evidence obtained through non-
destructive examination by a physical anthropologist.
On unknown dates, human remains representing a minimum of six
individuals were removed from unknown locations by unknown individuals.
No known individuals were identified. The three associated funerary
objects are two ceramic sherds and a non-human bone (catalog numbers
99101a and 99134).
The human remains are represented by catalog numbers: 99101-1;
99101-2; 99134a; 99134b; 99134c; and 99134d. The human remains are
Native American based on associated archeological evidence, such as the
funerary objects.
Officials of the University of Colorado Museum have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 157 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the University of Colorado Museum also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the nine 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 University of
Colorado Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
relationship of shared group identity cannot reasonably be traced
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and any present-day Indian tribe.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review
Committee (Review Committee) is responsible for recommending specific
actions for the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains.
In October 2009, the University of Colorado Museum requested that the
Review Committee recommend disposition of 235 culturally unidentifiable
individuals and associated funerary objects to the Pueblo of Isleta,
New Mexico, and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation,
Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. The Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Susanville Indian Rancheria,
California; and Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian
Reservation, Arizona, wrote letters or signed the disposition agreement
in support of the tribes requesting disposition. None of the Indian
tribes consulted objected to the determination of the ``culturally
unidentifiable'' status by the University of Colorado Museum and the
disposition to the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, and the Ute Mountain
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah.
The Review Committee considered the proposal at its October 30-31,
2009, meeting and recommended disposition of the 235 culturally
unidentifiable individuals and associated funerary objects to the
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. The Secretary of the
Interior independently reviewed the recommendation. A May 11, 2010,
letter from the Designated Federal Officer, writing on behalf of the
Secretary of the Interior, transmitted the authorization for the
University of Colorado Museum to effect disposition of the physical
remains of 157 of the 235 culturally unidentifiable individuals to the
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, contingent on the
publication of a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal
Register. This notice fulfills that requirement. In the same letter the
Secretary also recommended the transfer of the associated funerary
objects to the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, and Ute Mountain Tribe of
the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, to the
extent allowed by Federal, state, or local law.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Steve Lekson, Curator of Anthropology,
University of Colorado Museum, in care of Jan Bernstein, NAGPRA
Consultant, Bernstein & Associates, 1041 Lafayette St., Denver, CO
80218, telephone (303) 894-0648, before October 20, 2010. Disposition
of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Pueblo of
Isleta, New Mexico, and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah, may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come forward.
The University of Colorado Museum is responsible for notifying the
Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming; Bridgeport Indian Colony of California; Cheyenne
and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the
Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma;
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Nevada and Utah; Crow
Tribe of Montana; Death
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Valley Timbi-Sha Shoshone Band of California; Duckwater Shoshone Tribe
of the Duckwater Reservation, Nevada; Ely Shoshone Tribe of Nevada;
Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian
Reservation, Nevada and Oregon; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona;
Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Gila River Indian Community of the
Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of
the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona; Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma;
Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony,
Nevada; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada;
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Moapa
Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada;
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of
the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Northwestern Band of
the Shoshoni Nation of Utah (Washakie); Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine
Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Paiute
Indian Tribe of Utah; Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community
of the Bishop Colony, California; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; 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
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the
Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada; Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada;
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota;
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Indian
Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos
Reservation, Arizona; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona;
Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada; Shoshone
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; Skull Valley Band of Goshute
Indians of Utah; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South
Dakota; Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada; Susanville Indian
Rancheria, California; Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of
Nevada; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North
Dakota; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of
Arizona; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute
Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico &
Utah; Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River Reservation,
Nevada; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation,
Arizona; Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada; Yavapai-Apache Nation of
the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Yerington Paiute Tribe of
the Yerington Colony & Campbell Ranch, Nevada; Yomba Shoshone Tribe of
the Yomba Reservation, Nevada; Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: September 10, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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