Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of the Aztec Ruins National Monument, National Park Service, Aztec, NM; Correction, 31521-31522 [05-10802]
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Volcanoes National Park. The request
also includes an allegation that the park
failed to comply with the repatriation
provisions of the Act.
On January 24, 2005, the Review
Committee’s designated Federal officer
acknowledged receipt of the November
23, 2004, request and identified
questions as to whether five objects
from Forbes Cave are funerary objects
culturally affiliated with one or more
Native Hawaiian organizations as issues
of fact with which the Review
Committee might wish to assist in
resolving. The allegation of failure to
comply was referred to the Washington
Office of the National Park Service for
administrative review.
On February 18, 2005, the Review
Committee’s designated Federal officer
notified Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O
Hawai’i Nei and Hawaii Volcanoes
National Park that the Review
Committee had agreed to assist in the
resolution of the dispute at its next
meeting.
On March 1, 2005, the Review
Committee’s designated Federal officer
sent letters to 18 claimants inviting
them to provide information to the
Review Committee: representative of
Henry Auwae (deceased), representative
of Edward Kanahele (deceased), Hannah
Kane Reeves, Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands, E Nana Pono, Hawaii
Genealogy Society, Hawaii Island Burial
Council, Kekumano Ohana, Keohokalole
Ohana, Na Ali’i Lei Kawananakoa, Na
Papa Kanaka O Pu’u Kohola, Nation of
Hawai’i, Native Hawaiian Advisory
Council, Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
Puuhonua O Waimanalo, Royal
Hawaiian Academy of Traditional Arts,
State Council of Hawaiian Homestead
Associations, and Van Horn Diamond
Ohana.
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: On
March 13–15, 2005, the Review
Committee considered the dispute as
presented by representatives of Hui
Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei,
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park,
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands,
Hawaii Genealogy Society, Kekumano
Ohana, Na Ali’i Lei Kawananakoa, Na
Papa Kanaka O Pu’u Kohola, Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, Royal Hawaiian
Academy of Traditional Arts, and Van
Horn Diamond Ohana and made the
following findings:
1. The park has been very slow in
going through the NAGPRA process.
2. The number of potential claimants
of the items has increased with the
passage of time.
3. The Review Committee is
encouraged that the park is now moving
forward.
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4. The Review Committee has chosen
not to come to a finding as to whether
the five objects are cultural items as
defined by the statute and regulations.
5. The park has not done sufficient
work to investigate right of possession.
6. The park needs to expand the
involvement of Native Hawaiian
participation and testimony.
The Review Committee recommends
that:
1.Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
initiate aggressive consultation with all
claimants and other interested parties.
2. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
investigate the right of possession issue
in light of territorial law in force at the
time the objects were removed from the
cave.
3. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
take steps to ensure that it completes the
repatriation process by the end of 2005.
The National NAGPRA Program
publishes this notice as part of its
administrative and staff support for the
Review Committee. The findings and
recommendations are those of the
Review Committee and do not
necessarily represent the views of the
Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary
of the Interior has not taken a position
on these matters.
Dated: May 20, 2005.
Rosita Worl,
Chair,
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Review Committee.
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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
Control of the Aztec Ruins National
Monument, National Park Service,
Aztec, NM; Correction
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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 U.S. Department of
the Interior, National Park Service,
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec,
NM. These human remains and cultural
items were removed from sites within
and near Aztec Ruins National
Monument, Aztec, NM.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
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responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003, (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the Superintendent, Aztec Ruins
National Monument.
This notice corrects the number of
human remains reported in a notice of
inventory completion published in the
Federal Register on October 2, 1998. A
recent analysis of items from a portion
of the Aztec Ruins National Monument
collection identified a single bone as
being human. The remains had been
identified as non-human during
previous examination. The human
remains are culturally affiliated with the
same tribes as described in the original
notice.
In the Federal Register of October 2,
1998, FR Doc. 98–26418, pages 53098 53100, two paragraphs are inserted and
one paragraph is corrected as follows:
The following two paragraphs are
inserted after paragraph 12:
In 1983, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
recovered from room 221 in the West
Ruin, located within park boundaries,
during a legally authorized excavation
in conjunction with stabilization work.
No known individual was identified. No
funerary objects are present.
Based on dendrochronology of the
West Ruin and on cross dating of
associated ceramic sherds, these human
remains date to the Pueblo III period
(circa A.D. 1100–1300).
Paragraph 27 is corrected by replacing
the first sentence of the paragraph with
the following sentence:
Based on the above-mentioned
information, officials of the National
Park Service have determined that,
pursuant to 43 CFR 10 (d)(1), the human
remains listed above represent the
physical remains of 126 individuals of
Native American ancestry.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with these human remains
should contact Dennis Carruth,
Superintendent, Aztec Ruins National
Monument, 84 County Road 2900,
Aztec, NM 87410, telephone (505) 334–
6174, before July 1, 2005. Repatriation
of these human remains to the Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 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 San
Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New
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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; and Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
Aztec Ruins National Monument is
responsible for notifying the Apache
Tribe of Oklahoma; Fort McDowell
Yavapai Nation, Arizona (formerly the
Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache
Community of the Fort McDowell
Indian Reservation); Fort Sill Apache
Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New
Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico & Utah; 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 San Juan, 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; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of
the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;
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; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico that this notice has been
published.
Dated: May 20, 2005.
Paul Hoffman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife
and Parks.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, Chaco Culture
National Historical Park, Nageezi, NM
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
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to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, National Park Service, Chaco
Culture National Historical Park,
Nageezi, NM, that meet the definition of
‘‘sacred objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
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 superintendent, Chaco Culture
National Historical Park.
The cultural items are part of a bundle
that includes the following: 1 small hide
bundle tied with a leather strip; 3 small
hide pouches tied with yucca cordage;
1 tanned rodent hide; 6 hide fragments;
2 shell beads; 5 quartz crystals; 1 calcite
cylinder; 2 steatite cylinders; 4 chert
flakes; 1 chert scraper; 2 reed fragments;
more than 44 fragments of unidentified
plants, roots, and sticks; 1 piece of
cotton fabric; 4 fragments of limonite; 1
yucca quid; 14 yucca cordage fragments;
1 hank of untwisted yucca; 3 yucca
cordage fragments strung with 31 stone
beads; 1,890 small stone beads; 75
squash seeds; 1 corn cob, with kernels,
two-thirds of which is wrapped with
cotton cordage; 3 projectile points; 1
stone knife; 3 gourd rind fragments; 1
bone awl; 1 strand of yucca cordage
with 33 shell beads, 1 turquoise
pendant, 1 turquoise bead, 1 bone bead;
1 deciduous human tooth; 3 shaped
quartz crystals tied with sinew; 1 drilled
bivalve fossil; 1 drilled hematite nodule
with a fragment of leather; 4 hematite
nodules; 2 petrified wood nodules; 1
turquoise nodule; 1 unidentified
mineral nodule; 1 hollow tube
concretion; and 20 fragments of an
unidentified gray mineral.
The items were received by Chaco
Culture National Historical Park via
delivery service on September 25, 2000,
without an accompanying letter or note.
It was later determined that the person
named on the return address is
deceased. The park has no information
regarding the origin of the items or their
age. The only information available is
that the deceased requested that his
heirs send the items to Chaco Culture
National Historical Park. The park
archeologist determined the items may
have come from a container, a sealed
room, or a dry cave.
In May 2004, the park’s museum
technician determined that the items
may have been part of a medicine
bundle that would meet the NAGPRA
definition of sacred object. On July 27,
2004, the park consulted with
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico, & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico;
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Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe,
New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and the
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico. On July 29, 2004, the park
corresponded with representatives of
the Jicarilla Apache Nation, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of
the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;
Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico,
and Utah; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of
Texas. Representatives from the Navajo
Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and
Utah; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico;
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; and
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico visited the
park’s museum collection to view the
items. Representatives of the Hopi Tribe
of Arizona and Pueblo of Acoma, New
Mexico requested and received digital
photographs of the items.
In the Southwest, archeological
evidence of medicine bundles appears
limited to Basketmaker phase cave sites
(A.D. 1–700), where organic material
such as animal skins, feathers, and plant
material have been preserved from the
elements. The contents of these bundles,
which are often made of prairie dog
skin, include projectile points, shell
pendants, stringed shell and turquoise
beads, crystals, hematite, feathers,
azurite, malachite, limonite, squash
seeds, plant materials, bone and wood
dice, stone beads, and fossilized teeth.
Frequently, individual items,
particularly paints such as hematite and
limonite and beads, were placed in
smaller animal skin pouches tied with
sinew or cordage within the larger
bundle.
Navajo medicine bundles, like
Puebloan bundles, are made of
perishable materials such as skin, cloth,
yarn, feathers, reeds and other vegetal
material. Consultation with
representatives of the Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah
established that the bundle described in
this notice is not of Navajo origin.
Representatives of the Pueblo of Zia,
New Mexico identified the 2,173
cultural items as ceremonial objects
needed for the practice of traditional
religion. They identified the bundle as
one of the bundles kept by Pueblo of Zia
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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 Control of the Aztec Ruins
National Monument, National Park Service, Aztec, NM; 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 U.S. Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM. These human
remains and cultural items were removed from sites within and near
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM.
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
Superintendent, Aztec Ruins National Monument.
This notice corrects the number of human remains reported in a
notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on
October 2, 1998. A recent analysis of items from a portion of the Aztec
Ruins National Monument collection identified a single bone as being
human. The remains had been identified as non-human during previous
examination. The human remains are culturally affiliated with the same
tribes as described in the original notice.
In the Federal Register of October 2, 1998, FR Doc. 98-26418, pages
53098 - 53100, two paragraphs are inserted and one paragraph is
corrected as follows:
The following two paragraphs are inserted after paragraph 12:
In 1983, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were recovered from room 221 in the West Ruin, located within park
boundaries, during a legally authorized excavation in conjunction with
stabilization work. No known individual was identified. No funerary
objects are present.
Based on dendrochronology of the West Ruin and on cross dating of
associated ceramic sherds, these human remains date to the Pueblo III
period (circa A.D. 1100-1300).
Paragraph 27 is corrected by replacing the first sentence of the
paragraph with the following sentence:
Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the National
Park Service have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10 (d)(1), the
human remains listed above represent the physical remains of 126
individuals of Native American ancestry.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Dennis
Carruth, Superintendent, Aztec Ruins National Monument, 84 County Road
2900, Aztec, NM 87410, telephone (505) 334-6174, before July 1, 2005.
Repatriation of these human remains to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 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 San Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Santa Ana, New
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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; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
Aztec Ruins National Monument is responsible for notifying the
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona
(formerly the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort
McDowell Indian Reservation); Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 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 San Juan, 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; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; 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; and Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that this notice has been published.
Dated: May 20, 2005.
Paul Hoffman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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