Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 30967-30968 [E8-11989]
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Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: University of New Hampshire,
Durham, NH
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
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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
to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH, that meet the
definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary
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 museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
The University of New Hampshire has
consulted with the Western Abenaki
coalition representatives of the Abenaki
Nation of New Hampshire, a nonfederally recognized Indian group, and
Cowasuck Band of the PennacookAbenaki People, a non-federally
recognized Indian group. The University
of New Hampshire also engaged
Independent Archeological Consulting,
LLC, which performed an inventory of
the entire University of New Hampshire
collection and issued a report in 2006.
In March 1999, the New Hampshire
Division of Historical Resources, acting
on behalf of the University of New
Hampshire and three other museums,
presented a disposition proposal to the
NAGPRA Review Committee for
culturally unidentifiable Native
American human remains. The Review
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Committee considered the proposal at
its May 1999 meeting. On January 11,
2000, the Departmental Consulting
Archeologist, writing on behalf of the
Secretary of the Interior, transmitted the
authorization to effect disposition. The
published Notice of Inventory
Completion for the disposition of the
human remains to the Abenaki Nation
of Missisquoi on behalf of a coalition of
Western Abenaki groups, including the
Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire and
Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook–
Abenaki People, non–federally
recognized Indian groups, is in the
Federal Register of July 9, 2002 (FR Doc
02–17090, pages 45536–45539). After
disposition of the human remains, the
University of New Hampshire found
funerary objects that had been
associated with the human remains.
Under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2)(ii),
the funerary objects are now considered
to be unassociated funerary objects.
In 1975, human remains representing
a minimum of four individuals were
removed from the Rocks Road site (also
known as the Seabrook Station site),
Rockingham County, NH, during
excavations by Dr. Charles Bolian of the
University of New Hampshire. The
human remains were transferred to the
New Hampshire Division of Historical
Resources for curation in 1999. No
known individuals were identified. The
human remains were repatriated to the
Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on behalf
of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups. Subsequently, the University of
New Hampshire discovered among its
collections certain cultural items
associated with these burials, but not
previously reported. The 10
unassociated funerary objects are one lot
of 4 pottery sherds and one lot of 6
lithic materials (including copper points
recorded but missing). The University
also discovered 13 boxes of soil infill
from these burials.
During consultation, representatives
of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non–federally recognized
Indian group, and Cowasuck Band of
the Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group,
reviewed the collection and identified
the cultural items as funerary objects
associated with the Rocks Road burials.
The Rocks Road site has a radiocarbon
date from associated charcoal of 650
B.P. Archeological, historical, and
ethnographic sources, along with oral
traditions of the Western Abenaki,
indicate that this portion of New
Hampshire is within the aboriginal and
historic homeland of the Western
Abenaki from at least the Late Archaic
period (4000–2000 B.C.) through the
Historic period (post–A.D. 1500). The
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Eastern Abenaki and Wampanoag
appear also to have cultural ties to
coastal New Hampshire in the Historic
period.
In 1975, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from the Seabrook Marsh site
in Seabrook, NH, by Dr. Charles Bolian
and Brian Robinson of the University of
New Hampshire. The human remains
were transferred in 1999 to the New
Hampshire Division of Historical
Resources for curation. No known
individuals were identified. The human
remains were dispositioned to the
Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on behalf
of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups. Subsequently, the University of
New Hampshire discovered among its
collections certain cultural items
associated with these burials, but not
previously reported. The 19
unassociated funerary objects are one lot
of 10 lithic materials (including several
rocks recorded but missing) and one lot
of 9 faunal remains (not including
swordfish swords reported but missing).
During consultation, representatives
of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non–federally recognized
Indian group, and Cowasuck Band of
the Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group,
reviewed the collection and identified
the cultural items as funerary objects
associated with the Seabrook Marsh
burials. The Independent Archeological
Consulting, LLC report speculates that
one lithic artifact (a small quartzite
blade of a projectile point) may be
associated with one of the three burials
and is included in the lot of lithic
materials.
The Seabrook Marsh site is dated to
the Late Archaic period (4000–2000
B.C.) based on radiocarbon dating.
Archeological, historical, and
ethnographic sources, along with oral
traditions of the Western Abenaki,
indicate that this portion of New
Hampshire is within the aboriginal and
historic homeland of the Western
Abenaki from at least the Late Archaic
period (4000–2000 B.C.) through the
Historic period (post–A.D. 1500). The
Eastern Abenaki and Wampanoag
appear also to have cultural ties to
coastal New Hampshire in the Historic
period.
Officials of the University of New
Hampshire have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 29
cultural items 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 and are
believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a
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specific burial site of a Native American
individual. Officials of the University of
New Hampshire also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2),
there is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the unassociated funerary
objects and the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non–federally recognized
Indian group, and Cowasuck Band of
the Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Bruce Mallory,
Provost and Executive Vice President,
University of New Hampshire,
Thompson Hall 207, Durham, NH
03824, telephone (603) 862–3290, before
June 30, 2008. Disposition of the
unassociated funerary objects to the
Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, a
non–federally recognized Indian group,
and the Cowasuck Band of the
Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group, may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The University of New Hampshire is
responsible for notifying the Aroostook
Band of Micmac Indians of Maine;
Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians of
Maine; Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe;
Passamadquoddy Tribe of Maine;
Penobscot Tribe of Maine; Wampanoag
Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of
Massachusetts; Abenaki Nation of
Missisquoi, non–federally recognized
Indian group; Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, non–federally recognized
Indian group; Cowasuck Band of the
Pennacook–Abenaki People, a non–
federally recognized Indian group; First
Nation of New Hampshire, a non–
federally recognized Indian group; and
Wampanoag Confederacy, a non–
federally recognized Indian group, that
this notice has been published.
Dated: April 29, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Hastings Museum of Natural and
Cultural History, Hastings, NE
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
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Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the possession of Hastings
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, Hastings, NE. The human
remains were removed from Douglas
County, NE.
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. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Hastings Museum
of Natural and Cultural History
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska; Otoe–Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort
Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita,
Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma.
On an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of three
individuals were removed from
unknown sites in the area of Omaha,
Douglas County, NE. The human
remains were donated to the Hastings
Museum by A.M. Brooking and
cataloged between 1926 and 1931
(03194, 03195, 03196). No known
individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
On an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from an
unknown site in the area of Omaha,
Douglas County, NE. The human
remains were donated to the Hastings
Museum by J.E. Wallace and cataloged
between 1926 and 1931 (01611). No
known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The above human remains have been
identified in morphology reports as
being of Native American descent. The
region near Omaha has been occupied
by numerous cultures that have been
identified in the archeological records.
These cultures include Plains
Woodland, Central Plains Tradition,
Oneota, and historic tribes of the Oto–
Missouria and Omaha. Pawnee oral
tradition states that the Central Plains
Tradition people are ancestors to the
Arikara and Pawnee, and possibly the
Wichita. According to Pawnee oral
history, the Plains Woodlands people
are ancestors to the Pawnee, Mandan,
Arikara, Hidatsa, and Crow. Oral history
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information has some of the people of
Mill Creek staying behind and becoming
part of the Central Plains Tradition
based on common oral traditions
through origin and corn stories.
Museum officials have determined
based on museum records, geographic
location, Pawnee oral tradition, and
anthropological research that the
Central Plains Tradition people are
ancestors to the Arikara and Pawnee,
and possibly the Wichita. In addition,
museum officials have determined
based on museum records, geographic
location, and oral tradition that the
Plains Woodland people are ancestors of
the Arikara, Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan,
and Pawnee.
Based on museum records,
geographical location, and morphology
reports, museum officials have
determined that the human remains are
possibly Plains Woodland, Central
Plains Tradition, Oneota, Omaha, or
Oto–Missiouria. Descendants of the
Plains Woodland, Central Plains
Tradition, Oneota, Omaha, or Oto–
Missiouria are members of the Crow
Tribe of Montana; Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska; Otoe–Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska;
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort
Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes,
Oklahoma.
The Arikara, Pawnee, and Wichita
have entered into an agreement that
human remains and funerary objects
located between the Missouri River and
the Smokey Hill River shall be claimed
by the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. The
Hidatsa have agreed that the Pawnee
shall make the claim for the human
remains and cultural items affiliated
with the Plains Woodland from
Nebraska. The Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska; Otoe–Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; and Ponca Tribe
of Nebraska also have agreed to allow
the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma to
claim the human remains.
Officials of the Hastings Museum
have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of four individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Hastings Museum also have determined
that, 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 the Crow Tribe of Montana;
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe–
Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma;
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH
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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH, that meet the definition of ``unassociated
funerary 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
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
The University of New Hampshire has consulted with the Western
Abenaki coalition representatives of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non-federally recognized Indian group, and Cowasuck Band
of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, a non-federally recognized Indian
group. The University of New Hampshire also engaged Independent
Archeological Consulting, LLC, which performed an inventory of the
entire University of New Hampshire collection and issued a report in
2006.
In March 1999, the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources,
acting on behalf of the University of New Hampshire and three other
museums, presented a disposition proposal to the NAGPRA Review
Committee for culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains.
The Review Committee considered the proposal at its May 1999 meeting.
On January 11, 2000, the Departmental Consulting Archeologist, writing
on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitted the
authorization to effect disposition. The published Notice of Inventory
Completion for the disposition of the human remains to the Abenaki
Nation of Missisquoi on behalf of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups, including the Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire and Cowasuck Band
of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, non-federally recognized Indian
groups, is in the Federal Register of July 9, 2002 (FR Doc 02-17090,
pages 45536-45539). After disposition of the human remains, the
University of New Hampshire found funerary objects that had been
associated with the human remains. Under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2
(d)(2)(ii), the funerary objects are now considered to be unassociated
funerary objects.
In 1975, human remains representing a minimum of four individuals
were removed from the Rocks Road site (also known as the Seabrook
Station site), Rockingham County, NH, during excavations by Dr. Charles
Bolian of the University of New Hampshire. The human remains were
transferred to the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources for
curation in 1999. No known individuals were identified. The human
remains were repatriated to the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi on behalf
of a coalition of Western Abenaki groups. Subsequently, the University
of New Hampshire discovered among its collections certain cultural
items associated with these burials, but not previously reported. The
10 unassociated funerary objects are one lot of 4 pottery sherds and
one lot of 6 lithic materials (including copper points recorded but
missing). The University also discovered 13 boxes of soil infill from
these burials.
During consultation, representatives of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non-federally recognized Indian group, and Cowasuck Band
of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, a non-federally recognized Indian
group, reviewed the collection and identified the cultural items as
funerary objects associated with the Rocks Road burials.
The Rocks Road site has a radiocarbon date from associated charcoal
of 650 B.P. Archeological, historical, and ethnographic sources, along
with oral traditions of the Western Abenaki, indicate that this portion
of New Hampshire is within the aboriginal and historic homeland of the
Western Abenaki from at least the Late Archaic period (4000-2000 B.C.)
through the Historic period (post-A.D. 1500). The Eastern Abenaki and
Wampanoag appear also to have cultural ties to coastal New Hampshire in
the Historic period.
In 1975, human remains representing a minimum of three individuals
were removed from the Seabrook Marsh site in Seabrook, NH, by Dr.
Charles Bolian and Brian Robinson of the University of New Hampshire.
The human remains were transferred in 1999 to the New Hampshire
Division of Historical Resources for curation. No known individuals
were identified. The human remains were dispositioned to the Abenaki
Nation of Missisquoi on behalf of a coalition of Western Abenaki
groups. Subsequently, the University of New Hampshire discovered among
its collections certain cultural items associated with these burials,
but not previously reported. The 19 unassociated funerary objects are
one lot of 10 lithic materials (including several rocks recorded but
missing) and one lot of 9 faunal remains (not including swordfish
swords reported but missing).
During consultation, representatives of the Abenaki Nation of New
Hampshire, a non-federally recognized Indian group, and Cowasuck Band
of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, a non-federally recognized Indian
group, reviewed the collection and identified the cultural items as
funerary objects associated with the Seabrook Marsh burials. The
Independent Archeological Consulting, LLC report speculates that one
lithic artifact (a small quartzite blade of a projectile point) may be
associated with one of the three burials and is included in the lot of
lithic materials.
The Seabrook Marsh site is dated to the Late Archaic period (4000-
2000 B.C.) based on radiocarbon dating. Archeological, historical, and
ethnographic sources, along with oral traditions of the Western
Abenaki, indicate that this portion of New Hampshire is within the
aboriginal and historic homeland of the Western Abenaki from at least
the Late Archaic period (4000-2000 B.C.) through the Historic period
(post-A.D. 1500). The Eastern Abenaki and Wampanoag appear also to have
cultural ties to coastal New Hampshire in the Historic period.
Officials of the University of New Hampshire have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 29 cultural items 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a
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specific burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of the
University of New Hampshire also have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that
can be reasonably traced between the unassociated funerary objects and
the Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, a non-federally recognized Indian
group, and Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People, a non-
federally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Bruce Mallory, Provost and Executive Vice President, University
of New Hampshire, Thompson Hall 207, Durham, NH 03824, telephone (603)
862-3290, before June 30, 2008. Disposition of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, a non-
federally recognized Indian group, and the Cowasuck Band of the
Pennacook-Abenaki People, a non-federally recognized Indian group, may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The University of New Hampshire is responsible for notifying the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of Maine; Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine; Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe; Passamadquoddy Tribe of
Maine; Penobscot Tribe of Maine; Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
of Massachusetts; Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi, non-federally
recognized Indian group; Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire, non-federally
recognized Indian group; Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People,
a non-federally recognized Indian group; First Nation of New Hampshire,
a non-federally recognized Indian group; and Wampanoag Confederacy, a
non-federally recognized Indian group, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: April 29, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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