Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR and University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR, 62531-62532 [E8-24967]
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as a cemetery. Based on physical
characteristics, osteological evidence,
and the location of the human remains
on the island, all five individuals have
been determined to be Native American.
Lower Memaloose Island is within the
traditional territory of Chinookan- and
Sahaptin-speaking groups represented
by the present-day Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon and Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington. Per the 1855 Treaty with
the Tribes of Middle Oregon, the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon signers
were comprised of three Chinookanspeaking Wasco bands and four
Sahaptin-speaking Warm Springs bands.
The Uto-Aztecan-speaking Northern
Paiutes, also part of the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon, joined the confederation in
the 1870s. The Wasco and Warm
Springs bands traditionally occupied
the south shore of the Columbia River
and its tributaries from Cascade Locks to
just east of the present-day city of
Arlington, OR. The 14 Sahaptin, Salish,
and Chinookan-speaking tribes and
bands of the Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington, traditionally lived on the
Washington side of the Columbia River
between the eastern flanks of the
Cascade Range and the lower reaches of
the Yakima River drainage.
Representatives of the Confederated
Tribes of the Grande Ronde Community
of Oregon, whose membership also
includes Chinookan-speakers, have
indicated that Lower Memaloose Island
is outside of their pre-Contact territory.
Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of five individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District 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 Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
and/or Confederated Tribes and Bands
of the Yakama Nation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Daniel Mulligan,
NAGPRA Coordinator, Environmental
Resources Branch, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, P.O. Box
2946, Portland, OR 97208–2946,
telephone (503) 808–4768, before
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November 20, 2008. Repatriation of the
human remains to the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District is responsible for
notifying the Confederated Tribes of the
Grand Ronde Community of Oregon,
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon, and
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington that this
notice has been published.
Dated: September 10, 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 Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, Portland,
OR and University of Oregon Museum
of Natural and Cultural History,
Eugene, OR
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
for which the University of Oregon
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, Eugene, OR, and U.S.
Department of Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, Portland,
OR, have joint responsibility. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from sites on
Army Corps of Engineers land within
the The Dalles Lock and Dam Project
area, Wasco County, OR.
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
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
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History and U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon and Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington.
Native American cultural items
described in this notice were excavated
under Antiquities Act permits by the
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on
Army Corps of Engineers project lands.
Following excavations at the sites
described below, and under the
provisions of the permits, the University
of Oregon was allowed to retain the
collections for preservation.
In 1956, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from site 35–WS–1/WS–2, also
known as the Big Eddy Site, Wasco
County, OR, during excavations
conducted by the University of Oregon
prior to construction of The Dalles Dam.
No known individuals were identified.
No associated funerary objects are
present.
Site 35–WS–1/WS–2 is located 5
miles east of the city of The Dalles, OR,
on the south shore of the Columbia
River. The site is described as a Wasco
village and midden site dating from the
Late Prehistoric through Historic
periods. Based on the location of the
human remains within the site, the
individuals have been determined to be
Native American.
In 1954, human remains representing
a minimum of eight individuals were
removed from the Five Mile Rapids Site
(35–WS–4), on the south shore of the
Columbia River within The Dalles Lock
and Dam Project area, Wasco County,
OR, by the University of Oregon in
conjunction with studies undertaken
prior to the construction of The Dalles
Dam. No known individuals were
identified. The 515 associated funerary
objects are 1 knife blade; 2 knives with
wooden handles; 1 knife with a bone
handle; 1 knife with a copper handle; 1
adze blade; 1 iron hatchet head; 1
projectile point fragment; 2 sturgeon
hooks; 2 eyelets with springs; 2
composite harpoons; 1 fish scaler; 1
copper handle fragment; 10 decorated
copper disks; 3 undecorated copper
disks; 36 copper buttons; 1 phoenix
button; 1 ring around a bear claw; 371
glass beads; 1 shell bead; 30 dentalium
beads; 1 fragmentary copper tube bead;
3 stone beads; 1 bone bead; 1 lot of
assorted beads, nails, and glass
specimens; 1 reed fragment; 9 elk tooth
ornaments; 7 complete and fragmentary
dentalium shells; 3 carved bone
fragments; 1 steatite cup; 1 steatite pipe;
1 Northwest Company token; 2 red
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ochre specimens; 1 iron ore specimen;
4 mirror and glass fragments; 2 petrified
wood pieces; 2 antler pieces; 1 container
of wood, bone, iron, and lead pieces; 1
bag of cut bone and wood pieces; 1 bag
of wood pieces; 1 lock of hair; 1 lot of
fragmentary iron strips; and 1 lot of bark
fragments.
Site 35–WS–4, sometimes referred to
as 35–WS–8 or The Dalles Roadcut Site,
is located approximately 2 miles
northeast of The Dalles Dam at what
was once the headwaters of (the nowinundated) Five Mile Rapids. The Five
Mile Rapids Site is described as a
possible village site dating to between
11,000 B.P. and historic times. The site
was last occupied in the 19th Century
as a Tenino summer fishing village.
Based on the associated funerary
objects, the human remains have been
determined to be Native American.
In 1954, human remains representing
a minimum of seven individuals were
removed from site 35–WS–5, Wasco
County, OR, during excavations
conducted by the University of Oregon
prior to construction of The Dalles Dam.
Two additional individuals were
removed at a later, unknown date,
possibly during salvage operations in
1961. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Site 35–WS–5 is located on the south
shore of the Columbia River,
approximately 2 miles east of The Dalles
Dam. The site is described as a
permanent village that was occupied
prior to A.D. 1800. The site was
inundated by Lake Celilo after the
construction of The Dalles Lock and
Dam. Based on osteological evidence
and the location of the human remains
within the site, the individuals have
been determined to be Native American.
The sites described above are within
the traditional lands of the present-day
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon, which is
composed of three Wasco bands, four
Warm Springs bands and Northern
Paiutes. The Columbia River-based
Wasco were the easternmost group of
Chinookan-speaking Indians. The
Sahaptin-speaking Warm Springs bands
lived farther east along the Columbia
River and its tributaries. Northern
Paiutes, who spoke a Uto-Aztecan
language, historically occupied much of
southeastern Oregon. The Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon peoples also traditionally
shared the site area with relatives and
neighbors whose descendants may be
culturally affiliated with the 14
Sahaptin, Salish and Chinookanspeaking tribes and bands of the
present-day Confederated Tribes and
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Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington. Yakama homelands were
traditionally located on the Washington
side of the Columbia River between the
eastern flanks of the Cascade Range and
the lower reaches of the Yakima River
drainage.
Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of 20 individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District have also determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the
515 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 U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District 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
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Daniel Mulligan, NAGPRA
Coordinator, Environmental Resources
Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District, P.O. Box 2946,
Portland, OR 97208–2946, telephone
(503) 808–4768, before November 20,
2008. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District is responsible for
notifying the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
and Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Nation, Washington that
this notice has been published.
Dated: September 10, 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 Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, Portland,
OR and University of Oregon Museum
of Natural and Cultural History,
Eugene, OR
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
for which the University of Oregon
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, Eugene, OR, and U.S.
Department of Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, Portland,
OR, have joint responsibility. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from a site on
Army Corps of Engineers land within
the John Day Dam project area, Klickitat
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 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
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
History and U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington; Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon;
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon; and Nez
Perce Tribe of Idaho.
Native American cultural items
described in this notice were excavated
under an Antiquities Act permit by the
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on
Army Corps of Engineers project land.
Following excavations at the site
described below, and under the
provisions of the permits, the University
of Oregon was allowed to retain the
collections for preservation.
In 1965, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from site 45–KL–5, also known
as the Alderdale Site, Klickitat County,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army
Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR and University of
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR
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 for which the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and
Cultural History, Eugene, OR, and U.S. Department of Defense, Army
Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR, have joint
responsibility. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from sites on Army Corps of Engineers land within the The
Dalles Lock and Dam Project area, Wasco County, OR.
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 Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History and U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Nation, Washington.
Native American cultural items described in this notice were
excavated under Antiquities Act permits by the University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR, on Army Corps of Engineers project lands. Following
excavations at the sites described below, and under the provisions of
the permits, the University of Oregon was allowed to retain the
collections for preservation.
In 1956, human remains representing a minimum of three individuals
were removed from site 35-WS-1/WS-2, also known as the Big Eddy Site,
Wasco County, OR, during excavations conducted by the University of
Oregon prior to construction of The Dalles Dam. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
Site 35-WS-1/WS-2 is located 5 miles east of the city of The
Dalles, OR, on the south shore of the Columbia River. The site is
described as a Wasco village and midden site dating from the Late
Prehistoric through Historic periods. Based on the location of the
human remains within the site, the individuals have been determined to
be Native American.
In 1954, human remains representing a minimum of eight individuals
were removed from the Five Mile Rapids Site (35-WS-4), on the south
shore of the Columbia River within The Dalles Lock and Dam Project
area, Wasco County, OR, by the University of Oregon in conjunction with
studies undertaken prior to the construction of The Dalles Dam. No
known individuals were identified. The 515 associated funerary objects
are 1 knife blade; 2 knives with wooden handles; 1 knife with a bone
handle; 1 knife with a copper handle; 1 adze blade; 1 iron hatchet
head; 1 projectile point fragment; 2 sturgeon hooks; 2 eyelets with
springs; 2 composite harpoons; 1 fish scaler; 1 copper handle fragment;
10 decorated copper disks; 3 undecorated copper disks; 36 copper
buttons; 1 phoenix button; 1 ring around a bear claw; 371 glass beads;
1 shell bead; 30 dentalium beads; 1 fragmentary copper tube bead; 3
stone beads; 1 bone bead; 1 lot of assorted beads, nails, and glass
specimens; 1 reed fragment; 9 elk tooth ornaments; 7 complete and
fragmentary dentalium shells; 3 carved bone fragments; 1 steatite cup;
1 steatite pipe; 1 Northwest Company token; 2 red
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ochre specimens; 1 iron ore specimen; 4 mirror and glass fragments; 2
petrified wood pieces; 2 antler pieces; 1 container of wood, bone,
iron, and lead pieces; 1 bag of cut bone and wood pieces; 1 bag of wood
pieces; 1 lock of hair; 1 lot of fragmentary iron strips; and 1 lot of
bark fragments.
Site 35-WS-4, sometimes referred to as 35-WS-8 or The Dalles
Roadcut Site, is located approximately 2 miles northeast of The Dalles
Dam at what was once the headwaters of (the now-inundated) Five Mile
Rapids. The Five Mile Rapids Site is described as a possible village
site dating to between 11,000 B.P. and historic times. The site was
last occupied in the 19th Century as a Tenino summer fishing village.
Based on the associated funerary objects, the human remains have been
determined to be Native American.
In 1954, human remains representing a minimum of seven individuals
were removed from site 35-WS-5, Wasco County, OR, during excavations
conducted by the University of Oregon prior to construction of The
Dalles Dam. Two additional individuals were removed at a later, unknown
date, possibly during salvage operations in 1961. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
Site 35-WS-5 is located on the south shore of the Columbia River,
approximately 2 miles east of The Dalles Dam. The site is described as
a permanent village that was occupied prior to A.D. 1800. The site was
inundated by Lake Celilo after the construction of The Dalles Lock and
Dam. Based on osteological evidence and the location of the human
remains within the site, the individuals have been determined to be
Native American.
The sites described above are within the traditional lands of the
present-day Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon, which is composed of three Wasco bands, four Warm Springs bands
and Northern Paiutes. The Columbia River-based Wasco were the
easternmost group of Chinookan-speaking Indians. The Sahaptin-speaking
Warm Springs bands lived farther east along the Columbia River and its
tributaries. Northern Paiutes, who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language,
historically occupied much of southeastern Oregon. The Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon peoples also
traditionally shared the site area with relatives and neighbors whose
descendants may be culturally affiliated with the 14 Sahaptin, Salish
and Chinookan-speaking tribes and bands of the present-day Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Washington. Yakama homelands
were traditionally located on the Washington side of the Columbia River
between the eastern flanks of the Cascade Range and the lower reaches
of the Yakima River drainage.
Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human
remains described above represent the physical remains of 20
individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Portland District have also determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 515 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District 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 Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Daniel Mulligan, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Environmental Resources Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District, P.O. Box 2946, Portland, OR 97208-2946, telephone (503) 808-
4768, before November 20, 2008. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Nation, Washington may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District is responsible
for notifying the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 10, 2008.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-24967 Filed 10-20-08; 8:45 am]
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