Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA and Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 50989-50990 [E8-20107]
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funerary objects to the Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Logan Museum of Anthropology
is responsible for notifying the Grand
Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of
Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma;
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa & Chippewa
Indians, a non-federally recognized
Indian group; and Grand River Bands of
Ottawa Indians, a non-federally
recognized Indian group, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: August 14, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: New York State Museum,
Albany, NY
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 New York State
Museum, Albany, NY, 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 two cultural items are one small
copper kettle and one silver wristband.
The silver wristband bears the maker’s
mark ‘‘IS.’’
In 1956, the New York State Museum
purchased the kettle and wristband from
the Logan Museum of Anthropology,
Beloit College, WI. The cultural items
were part of a larger collection made by
Albert Green Heath who acquired the
kettle and wristband from an individual
named Lowell Lamkin between 1910
and 1916.
The Heath collection records indicate
the kettle and wristband were found in
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a grave or graves in ‘‘Emmet County,
Michigan.’’ The New York State
Museum is not in possession of the
human remains associated with the
items. Therefore, based on museum
records, the kettle and wristband are
reasonably believed to be unassociated
funerary objects. The style of the kettle
and wristband date to the post-Contact
period and are typical of metal trade
items from the mid to late 18th century.
Heath collection records identify the
tribal identification of the items as
Ottawa. Historical and traditional
evidence indicates Ottawa people
occupied Emmet County throughout the
18th century. The Ottawa people are
also called Odawa. Descendants of the
Odawa in Emmet County are members
of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa
and Chippewa Indians, Michigan, and
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
Indians, Michigan.
Officials of the New York State
Museum have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the
two 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
specific burial site of a Native American
individual. Officials of the New York
State 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 unassociated funerary
objects and Grand Traverse Band of
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan, and Little Traverse Bay Bands
of Odawa Indians, Michigan.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Lisa Anderson,
NAGPRA Coordinator, New York State
Museum, 3122 Cultural Education
Center, Albany, NY 12230, telephone
(518) 486–2020, before September 29,
2008. Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan,
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
New York State Museum is
responsible for notifying the Grand
Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
Indians, Michigan, and Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan
that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 4, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,
National Park Service, San Juan Island
National Historical Park, Friday Harbor,
WA and Thomas Burke Memorial
Washington State Museum, University
of Washington, Seattle, 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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the Thomas Burke
Memorial Washington State Museum
(Burke Museum) University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the
control of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, San Juan Island National
Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA, 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 superintendent, San Juan Island
National Historical Park.
In 1946 and 1947, human remains and
associated funerary objects were
recovered during legally authorized
excavations by University of
Washington archeologist Arden King at
the Cattle Point Site (45–SJ–01) on San
Juan Island. Cattle Point is within the
American Camp portion of San Juan
Island National Historical Park on the
southern part of San Juan Island. The
funerary objects were transferred to the
Burke Museum and later accessioned by
the National Park Service. The
whereabouts of the human remains is
not known. The 249 unassociated
funerary objects are 103 basalt flakes, 60
non-human mammalian bone fragments,
61 shell fragments, 2 bags of fish bones,
11 charcoal samples, 1 rock, 2 sediment
samples, 1 piece of obsidian, 1 fire
cracked cobble, 1 quartz flake, 1 piece
of schist, 2 pieces of slate, 1 pebble, 1
sea urchin spine, and 1 sea lion
humerus.
In 1970 and 1972, authorized
excavations of a shell midden took place
at the English Camp Site (45–SJ–24) on
San Juan Island and within the English
Camp portion of San Juan Island
National Historical Park during a
University of Idaho field school directed
by Dr. Roderick Sprague.
Four objects were recovered in 1970
from the same stratum in which a burial
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was found. The human remains were
transferred to the University of Idaho
before being repatriated to the Lummi
Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington on June 26, 1991. The four
funerary objects were transferred to the
Burke Museum and accessioned by the
National Park Service. The four
unassociated funerary objects are one
portion of a non-human mammalian
limb bone, one basalt shatter fragment,
one triangular basalt point fragment,
and one ground abrader fragment.
The 1972 excavation recovered 32
objects that were associated with three
burials. The human remains were
transferred to the University of Idaho
and subsequently repatriated to the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington on June 26, 1991. The
funerary objects were transferred to the
Burke Museum and accessioned by the
National Park Service. The 32
unassociated funerary objects are 2 fish
vertebrae, 1 antler tine fragment, 1 fused
bird wing bone, 24 fragments of nonhuman bone, 2 pieces of fire modified
rock, 1 basalt shatter fragment, and 1
point fragment.
Arden King’s analysis of archeological
data from Cattle Point resulted in the
identification of three prehistoric
phases, with the most recent
representing a maritime adaptation that
is ancestral to historic native
populations in the United States and
Canada. Archeological research and
analysis indicates continuous habitation
of San Juan Island, including the two
sites mentioned here, from
approximately 2,000 years ago through
the mid–19th century. Anthropologist
Wayne Suttles has identified the
occupants of San Juan Island as
Northern Straits language speakers, a
linguistic subset of a larger Central
Coast Salish population, who were
ancestors of the Lummi Tribe of the
Lummi Reservation, Washington.
Furthermore, Suttles’ anthropological
research in the late 1940s confirmed
that the Lummi primarily occupied San
Juan Island and other nearby islands in
the European contact period and during
the early history of the Lummi
Reservation that was established on the
mainland in 1855, through Article II of
the Treaty of Point Elliott. San Juan
Island is within the aboriginal territory
of the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington. Lummi oral
tradition, history and anthropological
data clearly associate the Lummi with
San Juan Island.
The Samish Indian Tribe, Washington
is most closely associated with the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington linguistically and
culturally, and the Samish regard San
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Juan Island to be within the usual and
accustomed territory shared by both
tribes at the time of negotiations for the
Treaty of Point Elliott, in 1855. In 2006,
the Samish Indian Tribe, Washington
and the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington entered into a
cooperative agreement to have the
Lummi Tribe take the lead in receiving
repatriated human remains and funerary
objects from San Juan Island National
Historical Park. The traditional territory
of the Swinomish Indians of the
Swinomish Reservation, Washington is
on the mainland in the vicinity of La
Conner, WA, on Whidbey Island and
Fidalgo Island, the site of their
reservation.
Officials of San Juan Island National
Historical Park have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the
285 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
specific burial sites of Native American
individuals. Officials of San Juan Island
National Historical Park 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
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Peter Dederich,
superintendent, San Juan Island
National Historical Park, P.O. Box 429,
Friday Harbor, WA 98250–04289,
telephone (360) 378–2240, before
September 29, 2008. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary objects to the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
San Juan Island National Historical
Park is responsible for notifying the
Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington; Samish Indian Tribe,
Washington; and Swinomish Indians of
the Swinomish Reservation, Washington
that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 31, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo
Field Office, Buffalo, WY
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
to repatriate cultural items in the
possession of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Land Management,
Buffalo Field Office, Buffalo, WY, 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 Federal agency that has control of
the cultural items. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
In 1986, human remains and cultural
items were removed from a site adjacent
to the location of the Dull Knife Battle,
Johnson County, WY. The Bureau of
Land Management, Buffalo Field Office,
was required to analyze potential
impacts from a proposed Federal action
pursuant to Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act on a known
burial site located on Bureau of Land
Management public lands. The burial is
adjacent to the location of the Dull Knife
Battle of November 1876 between the
U.S. Cavalry and a camp of Northern
Cheyenne. The close proximity of the
burial to the battle ground suggests a
direct association. On June 29, 1987, the
interment was removed and analyzed in
the field. Osteological analysis showed
that the human remains were of an adult
female of Native American descent. The
human remains and associated
sediments were replaced into the
original location. However, 15 funerary
objects were removed for analysis, and
subsequently stored in the Buffalo Field
Office. The 15 funerary objects are 1
brown wool fabric fragment (appears to
be from the late 19th century); 2 brown
wool fragments from a horse blanket
(appears to be from the 19th century); 7
blue wool fragments (appears to be from
an 1876–era U.S. Army blanket); 1 red
and white striped cotton fabric
fragment; 2 tanned leather fragments; 1
fragment of rawhide or un-tanned
leather; and 1 wood fragment.
A detailed assessment of the funerary
objects was made by the Bureau of Land
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of
the Interior, National Park Service, San Juan Island National
Historical Park, Friday Harbor, WA and Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, 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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the Thomas Burke
Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke Museum) University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the control of the U.S. Department of
the Interior, San Juan Island National Historical Park, Friday Harbor,
WA, 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
superintendent, San Juan Island National Historical Park.
In 1946 and 1947, human remains and associated funerary objects
were recovered during legally authorized excavations by University of
Washington archeologist Arden King at the Cattle Point Site (45-SJ-01)
on San Juan Island. Cattle Point is within the American Camp portion of
San Juan Island National Historical Park on the southern part of San
Juan Island. The funerary objects were transferred to the Burke Museum
and later accessioned by the National Park Service. The whereabouts of
the human remains is not known. The 249 unassociated funerary objects
are 103 basalt flakes, 60 non-human mammalian bone fragments, 61 shell
fragments, 2 bags of fish bones, 11 charcoal samples, 1 rock, 2
sediment samples, 1 piece of obsidian, 1 fire cracked cobble, 1 quartz
flake, 1 piece of schist, 2 pieces of slate, 1 pebble, 1 sea urchin
spine, and 1 sea lion humerus.
In 1970 and 1972, authorized excavations of a shell midden took
place at the English Camp Site (45-SJ-24) on San Juan Island and within
the English Camp portion of San Juan Island National Historical Park
during a University of Idaho field school directed by Dr. Roderick
Sprague.
Four objects were recovered in 1970 from the same stratum in which
a burial
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was found. The human remains were transferred to the University of
Idaho before being repatriated to the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington on June 26, 1991. The four funerary objects
were transferred to the Burke Museum and accessioned by the National
Park Service. The four unassociated funerary objects are one portion of
a non-human mammalian limb bone, one basalt shatter fragment, one
triangular basalt point fragment, and one ground abrader fragment.
The 1972 excavation recovered 32 objects that were associated with
three burials. The human remains were transferred to the University of
Idaho and subsequently repatriated to the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington on June 26, 1991. The funerary objects were
transferred to the Burke Museum and accessioned by the National Park
Service. The 32 unassociated funerary objects are 2 fish vertebrae, 1
antler tine fragment, 1 fused bird wing bone, 24 fragments of non-human
bone, 2 pieces of fire modified rock, 1 basalt shatter fragment, and 1
point fragment.
Arden King's analysis of archeological data from Cattle Point
resulted in the identification of three prehistoric phases, with the
most recent representing a maritime adaptation that is ancestral to
historic native populations in the United States and Canada.
Archeological research and analysis indicates continuous habitation of
San Juan Island, including the two sites mentioned here, from
approximately 2,000 years ago through the mid-19th century.
Anthropologist Wayne Suttles has identified the occupants of San Juan
Island as Northern Straits language speakers, a linguistic subset of a
larger Central Coast Salish population, who were ancestors of the Lummi
Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington. Furthermore, Suttles'
anthropological research in the late 1940s confirmed that the Lummi
primarily occupied San Juan Island and other nearby islands in the
European contact period and during the early history of the Lummi
Reservation that was established on the mainland in 1855, through
Article II of the Treaty of Point Elliott. San Juan Island is within
the aboriginal territory of the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation,
Washington. Lummi oral tradition, history and anthropological data
clearly associate the Lummi with San Juan Island.
The Samish Indian Tribe, Washington is most closely associated with
the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington linguistically and
culturally, and the Samish regard San Juan Island to be within the
usual and accustomed territory shared by both tribes at the time of
negotiations for the Treaty of Point Elliott, in 1855. In 2006, the
Samish Indian Tribe, Washington and the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington entered into a cooperative agreement to have
the Lummi Tribe take the lead in receiving repatriated human remains
and funerary objects from San Juan Island National Historical Park. The
traditional territory of the Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish
Reservation, Washington is on the mainland in the vicinity of La
Conner, WA, on Whidbey Island and Fidalgo Island, the site of their
reservation.
Officials of San Juan Island National Historical Park have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 285 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 specific burial sites of Native
American individuals. Officials of San Juan Island National Historical
Park 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 Lummi Tribe of
the Lummi Reservation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Peter Dederich, superintendent, San Juan Island National
Historical Park, P.O. Box 429, Friday Harbor, WA 98250-04289, telephone
(360) 378-2240, before September 29, 2008. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary objects to the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi
Reservation, Washington may proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
San Juan Island National Historical Park is responsible for
notifying the Lummi Tribe of the Lummi Reservation, Washington; Samish
Indian Tribe, Washington; and Swinomish Indians of the Swinomish
Reservation, Washington that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 31, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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