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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 Slater Museum of
Natural History, University of Puget
Sound professional staff and a
consultant in consultation with
representatives of the Akutan Tribal
Council from the Native Village of
Akutan.
On July 17, 1974, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from Akun
Island, AK. The human remains were
donated to the Slater Museum on
January 3, 1975. The identity of the
donor was recorded only as ‘‘Tim.’’ No
known individual was identified. The
29 associated funerary objects are 19
nonhuman bones (some with fine
cutmarks and others that have been
worked), 8 worked stones, and 2
obsidian flakes.
The individual is most likely of
Native American ancestry as indicated
by the association of the human remains
with the worked points and stones. The
geographical location where the human
remains were recovered is consistent
with the historically documented
territory of the Native Village of Akutan.
Furthermore, based on information
provided during consultation with tribal
representatives, there is a reasonable
belief that the human remains share a
common ancestry with members of the
Native Village of Akutan.
Officials of the Slater Museum of
Natural History have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry.
Officials of the Slater Museum of
Natural History also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A),
the 29 objects described above are
reasonably believed to have been place
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 Slater Museum of Natural
History 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 associated funerary objects and the
Native Village of Akutan
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Dr. Peter Wimberger, Slater
Museum of Natural History, 1500 N.
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Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416, telephone
(253) 879–2784, before July 17, 2008.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Native
Village of Akutan may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Slater Museum of Natural History
is responsible for notifying the Native
Village of Akutan that this notice has
been published.
Dated: May 12, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Slater
Museum of Natural History, University
of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the possession of the Slater
Museum of Natural History, University
of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA. The
human remains were removed from
Pierce County, WA.
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 the Slater
Museum of Natural History, University
of Puget Sound professional staff and a
consultant in consultation with
representatives of the Muckleshoot
Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot
Reservation, Washington; Nisqually
Indian Tribe of the Nisqually
Reservation, Washington; Puyallup
Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation,
Washington; and Squaxin Island Tribe
of the Squaxin Island Reservation,
Washington.
In 1933, human remains representing
a minimum of two individuals were
removed from Day Island in Pierce
County, WA. The human remains were
found in the Slater Museum collections
with a note reading ‘‘Day Is., Pierce Co.,
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To museum. Round Case.’’ No known
individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The postcranial remains were
examined by a contracted physical
anthropologist who determined they
represent one older adult male and one
adult female. Ancestry could not be
determined due to the lack of cranial
remains. However, there have been at
least four Native American burials
reportedly found by local residents on
Day Island since the early 20th century.
Based on the likely provenience from
museum records and previous finds of
Native American burials in that area,
officials of the Slater Museum of Natural
History, University of Puget Sound,
reasonably believe that the human
remains are most likely of Native
American ancestry.
Day Island is located in the
southeastern Puget Sound region, an
area historically utilized by the
Steilacoom, Puyallup, and Nisqually
tribes. While the Indian Claims
Commission (ICC) found Day Island to
be outside of the exclusive treaty–time
territory of any one Native group, both
the Nisqually Indian Tribe and Puyallup
Tribe of Indians included Day Island
within their original land claims
presented to the ICC. While there is no
known evidence that an ethnographic
village was located on Day Island,
evidence reviewed by the museum
demonstrates Day Island was used as a
resource procurement site by the
Nisqually and Puyallup Tribes, as well
as the Steilacoom people. There are
three recorded ethnographic villages
located within four miles of Day Island
which were occupied by members of the
Steilacoom, Puyallup, and Nisqually
peoples.
The Steilacoom are a non–federally
recognized tribe who were signatories of
the Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854) and
who were not granted exclusive
reservation land. The Nisqually Indian
Tribe provided evidence claiming
residents of the Steilacoom villages at
Clover Creek and Steilacoom (now
Chambers) Creek had joined the
Nisqually Indian Tribe after the Treaty
of Medicine Creek. Evidence also shows
that some residents of the Steilacoom
Creek village joined the Puyallup Tribe.
To the north of Day Island, across the
Narrows in Wollochet Bay, was the
third closest ethnographic village; this
was considered by the ethnographer
Marian Smith to be affiliated with the
Puyallup Tribe (1941:207). The multiple
affiliations of these nearby villages
demonstrate joint use and occupation
surrounding Day Island. Additionally,
Day Island may have been used for
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burials of Native Americans interned at
Fox Island during the Treaty Wars.
Members of the Nisqually, Puyallup,
Squaxin, and Steilacoom Tribes were
reported to have been held there
(Carpenter 1987). This evidence, in
conjunction with the Indian Claim
Commission’s determination of the area
as non–exclusive to any particular tribe,
suggests Day Island is within the
traditional territory of all three local
groups: the Steilacoom, Nisqually, and
Puyallup Tribes. The descendants of the
Steilacoom, Nisqually, and Puyallup
Tribes are members of the federally–
recognized Nisqually Indian Tribe of the
Nisqually Reservation, Washington, and
Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup
Reservation, Washington.
Officials of the Slater Museum have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of two individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Slater 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 Nisqually Indian Tribe
of the Nisqually Reservation,
Washington and Puyallup Tribe of the
Puyallup Reservation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Peter Wimberger, Slater
Museum of Natural History, University
of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner,
Tacoma, WA 98416, telephone (253)
879–2784, before July 17, 2008.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Nisqually Indian Tribe of the
Nisqually Reservation, Washington and
Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup
Reservation, Washington may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Slater Museum is responsible for
notifying the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe
of the Muckleshoot Reservation,
Washington; Nisqually Indian Tribe of
the Nisqually Reservation, Washington;
Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup
Reservation, Washington; and Squaxin
Island Tribe of the Squaxin Island
Reservation, Washington that this notice
has been published.
Dated: May 21, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Tonto National Forest,
Phoenix, AZ, and Arizona State
University, School of Evolution and
Social Change, Phoenix, AZ
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. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the control of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Tonto
National Forest, Phoenix, AZ, and in the
possession of Arizona State University,
School of Evolution and Social Change,
Phoenix, AZ. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from the Dugan Ranch Ruin,
Yavapai County, AZ.
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 Arizona State
University, School of Evolution and
Social Change (formerly Department of
Anthropology) professional staff and
Tonto National Forest professional staff
in consultation with representatives of
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Gila River Indian Community
of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Salt River Pima–Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona (collectively known
as the ‘‘Four Southern Tribes’’); Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
In 1968 and 1969, human remains
representing a minimum of 17
individuals were removed from the
Dugan Ranch Ruin [AZ O:13:0004
(ASU); AR–03–12–01–027] in Yavapai
County, AZ. The site was excavated
under a permit to the Southwestern
Society for Indian Archaeology, Walnut
City, CA, from the Tonto National
Forest. The excavations were carried out
by high school students from the Bassett
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Unified School District, Los Angeles
County, CA, under the supervision of
Charles H. Stephens. In the course of an
investigation of the activities of Mr.
Stephens by Law Enforcement officers
of the Forest Service, the collections
from the Dugan Ranch Ruin, including
all excavated human remains and
funerary objects, were recovered and
transferred to the Department of
Anthropology at Arizona State
University for curation. No known
individuals were identified. The
approximately 50 associated funerary
objects are pottery sherds.
Dugan Ranch Ruin is a masonry room
block with interior courtyards that was
occupied principally in the Late
Classical Period (A.D. 1300–1400) and
was associated with the Verde Hohokam
archeological culture in central Arizona
based on the ceramics, architecture, and
organization of the site. Based on oral
traditions and continuities of artifactual
materials, technology and architecture,
officials of the Tonto National Forest
have determined that the Ak Chin
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila
River Indian Community of the Gila
River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt
River Pima–Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono
O’odham Nation of Arizona; and to, a
lesser extent, the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation,
New Mexico, have a shared group
identity to the Native American human
remains and associated funerary objects
of the Hohokam archeological culture.
In accordance with the Plan for the
Treatment and Disposition of Human
Remains and Other Cultural Items from
the Tonto National Forest Pursuant to
the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act (as revised in
2001), it has been determined that the
primary cultural affiliation of these
human remains and associated funerary
objects is with the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River
Pima–Maricopa Indian Community of
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and
Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona;
and that they will be repatriated to the
Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona, as the designated
representative of the ‘‘Four Southern
Tribes’’ for NAGPRA issues north of the
Gila and Salt River Baseline in Arizona,
which area includes the location of
Dugan Ranch Ruin.
Officials of the Tonto National Forest
have determined that, pursuant to 25
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Slater Museum of Natural History,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
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 in the possession of the
Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma,
WA. The human remains were removed from Pierce County, WA.
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 the Slater
Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound professional staff
and a consultant in consultation with representatives of the
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington;
Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington;
Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington; and Squaxin
Island Tribe of the Squaxin Island Reservation, Washington.
In 1933, human remains representing a minimum of two individuals
were removed from Day Island in Pierce County, WA. The human remains
were found in the Slater Museum collections with a note reading ``Day
Is., Pierce Co., Wn. Indian remains about 1933. Alcorn. To museum.
Round Case.'' No known individuals were identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
The postcranial remains were examined by a contracted physical
anthropologist who determined they represent one older adult male and
one adult female. Ancestry could not be determined due to the lack of
cranial remains. However, there have been at least four Native American
burials reportedly found by local residents on Day Island since the
early 20th century. Based on the likely provenience from museum records
and previous finds of Native American burials in that area, officials
of the Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound,
reasonably believe that the human remains are most likely of Native
American ancestry.
Day Island is located in the southeastern Puget Sound region, an
area historically utilized by the Steilacoom, Puyallup, and Nisqually
tribes. While the Indian Claims Commission (ICC) found Day Island to be
outside of the exclusive treaty-time territory of any one Native group,
both the Nisqually Indian Tribe and Puyallup Tribe of Indians included
Day Island within their original land claims presented to the ICC.
While there is no known evidence that an ethnographic village was
located on Day Island, evidence reviewed by the museum demonstrates Day
Island was used as a resource procurement site by the Nisqually and
Puyallup Tribes, as well as the Steilacoom people. There are three
recorded ethnographic villages located within four miles of Day Island
which were occupied by members of the Steilacoom, Puyallup, and
Nisqually peoples.
The Steilacoom are a non-federally recognized tribe who were
signatories of the Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854) and who were not
granted exclusive reservation land. The Nisqually Indian Tribe provided
evidence claiming residents of the Steilacoom villages at Clover Creek
and Steilacoom (now Chambers) Creek had joined the Nisqually Indian
Tribe after the Treaty of Medicine Creek. Evidence also shows that some
residents of the Steilacoom Creek village joined the Puyallup Tribe. To
the north of Day Island, across the Narrows in Wollochet Bay, was the
third closest ethnographic village; this was considered by the
ethnographer Marian Smith to be affiliated with the Puyallup Tribe
(1941:207). The multiple affiliations of these nearby villages
demonstrate joint use and occupation surrounding Day Island.
Additionally, Day Island may have been used for
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burials of Native Americans interned at Fox Island during the Treaty
Wars. Members of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin, and Steilacoom
Tribes were reported to have been held there (Carpenter 1987). This
evidence, in conjunction with the Indian Claim Commission's
determination of the area as non-exclusive to any particular tribe,
suggests Day Island is within the traditional territory of all three
local groups: the Steilacoom, Nisqually, and Puyallup Tribes. The
descendants of the Steilacoom, Nisqually, and Puyallup Tribes are
members of the federally-recognized Nisqually Indian Tribe of the
Nisqually Reservation, Washington, and Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup
Reservation, Washington.
Officials of the Slater Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
Officials of the Slater 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 Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington
and Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Peter
Wimberger, Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound,
1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416, telephone (253) 879-2784, before July
17, 2008. Repatriation of the human remains to the Nisqually Indian
Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington and Puyallup Tribe of
the Puyallup Reservation, Washington may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Slater Museum is responsible for notifying the Muckleshoot
Indian Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; Nisqually
Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington; Puyallup Tribe
of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington; and Squaxin Island Tribe of
the Squaxin Island Reservation, Washington that this notice has been
published.
Dated: May 21, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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