Notice of Inventory Completion: Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, CA, 5853-5854 [E9-2124]
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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 20 / Monday, February 2, 2009 / Notices
deleting paragraphs 6 to 8, and
replacing paragraphs 4, 5, 9 and 10 with
the following paragraphs:
In 1953, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual (catalog
number DU 6000) were removed from
Marsh Pass, Navajo County, AZ, by
Arnold Withers, a University of Denver
Department of Anthropology faculty
member, who donated the remains to
the University of Denver Museum of
Anthropology that same year. No field
notes exist for these remains. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Marsh Pass is on the Navajo
Reservation. The human remains were
found in a deserted hogan. According to
the scientific literature, hogans are a
Navajo form of habitation, and under
certain circumstances are also
traditional Navajo burial places. Tribal
information also largely supports a
Navajo affiliation. The preponderance of
the evidence, including archeology,
architecture, oral traditions, and expert
opinion, indicates that a relationship of
shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and
the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico & Utah.
Officials of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and University of Denver
Department of Anthropology and
Museum of Anthropology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of a minimum of one individual
of Native American ancestry. Officials of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
University of Denver Department of
Anthropology and Museum of
Anthropology have also determined
that, based on the preponderance of the
evidence, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(2), a relationship of shared group
identity can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human
remains and the Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Dr. Christina Kreps,
University of Denver Museum of
Anthropology, Sturm 146, Denver, CO
80208, telephone (303) 871–2688, before
March 4, 2009. Repatriation of the
human remains to the Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The University of Denver Museum of
Anthropology is responsible for
notifying the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
Colorado River Indian Tribes of the
Colorado River Indian Reservation,
Arizona and California; Hopi Tribe of
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Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico & Utah; Okhay Owingeh, New
Mexico; 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
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;
Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico that this notice has been
published.
Dated: January 5, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology, Claremont, CA
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 control of the Raymond
M. Alf Museum of Paleontology,
Claremont, CA. The human remains
were removed from Kern County, CA.
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 Raymond M.
Alf Museum of Paleontology
professional staff and University of
California, Los Angeles professional
staff member Archeologist Gail
Kennedy, in consultation with
representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut
Tribe).
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At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of six
individuals were removed from the
Kern Valley area near Kernville, Kern
County, CA. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
The Kern Valley area is near
Kernville, Kern County, in the Central
California area. Museum officials
reasonably believe, based on locations
where the museum has previously
collected non-paleontological
specimens, that these six individuals
may have been collected from the same
area associated with another individual
described in a published Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal
Register (73 FR 34318, June 17, 2008),
although at the time of publication the
museum was unable to relate the six
individuals in this notice to that
individual. However, officials of the
Raymond M. Alf Museum have
subsequently determined that the six
individuals in this notice are probably
from the same area, and possibly the
same site as the individual in the June
17, 2008 notice, based on two separate
analyses, museum collection history,
and tribal consultation.
An investigation of the human
remains conducted by Dr. Gail Kennedy,
Physical Anthropologist, University of
California, Los Angeles, determined that
the individuals were California Native
American based on dental wear. Tribal
representatives of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria conducted a second analysis,
and independently concluded that the
human remains are Native American.
The Kern Valley site is most likely
either the habitation site of the
Tubatulabal from which the individual
in the June 17, 2008 notice had been
removed, or a similar site. The
Tubatulabal were loosely organized into
three discrete bands called Pahkanapil,
Palagewan, and Bankalachi
(Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of
North American Indians, Book 8, 1978).
The Tubatulabal are considered Kern
River Indians, speak an Uto-Aztecan
language, and live in the Kern River/
Lake Isabella area, which includes the
south fork (Palagewan) and the lower
Kern River below the south fork
(Tubatulabal). Their neighbors are the
Kawaiisu and the Yokuts. The
Bankalachi, who were located a few
miles from the Palagewan, resided in
Yokuts territory.
In 1857, the Kern River gold rush
began in Palagewan territory. During
1862, a few Tubatulabal joined the
Owens Valley Paiute in hostilities
against the Whites, and about this time,
a group of Koso Indians settled in the
Tubatulabal area, intermarrying with the
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Kawaiisu. In 1863, soldiers of the U.S.
Army killed 35–40 Tubatulabal and
Palagewan men near Kernville. Starting
in 1865, the Tubatulabal began to
practice agriculture and in 1893, the
majority of them and a few Palagewan
survivors were allotted land in the
South Fork and Kern Valleys. From
1900 to 1972, many Tubatulabals moved
to the Tule River Indian Reservation,
north of the Kern valley region. It is
reasonably believed that those that
survived intermarried with the Yokuts
in the Kern County area. Descendants of
these Yokuts are members of the
Federally-recognized Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California and Tule River
Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California.
Officials of the Raymond M. Alf
Museum of Paleontology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of six individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology 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 Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California
and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Don Lofgren, Director,
Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology, 1175 West Baseline Road,
Claremont, CA 91711, telephone (909)
624–2798, before March 4, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology is responsible for notifying
the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California and
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule
River Reservation, California that this
notice has been published.
Dated: January 9, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
State Museum, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA and
Northwest Museum of Arts and
Culture, Spokane, 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 control of the Thomas
Burke Memorial Washington State
Museum (Burke Museum), University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the
physical custody of the Northwest
Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane,
WA. The human remains were most
likely removed from Grant 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 Burke Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation,
Washington; Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington; and Wanapum Band, a
non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Between 1939–1940, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from an
unknown area most likely within Grant
County, WA, by Warren T. Lee
(Accn#2008–184). Mr. Lee was an
amateur archeologist working along the
Columbia River, near Vantage, Grant
County, WA, between 1938 and 1954. In
1950, the human remains were received
by the Burke Museum. They were later
mistakenly transferred to the Cheney
Cowles Museum (now the Northwest
Museum of Arts and Culture), as part of
a return of a loan of human remains
from the Collier, Hudson, and Ford
collection. The Northwest Museum of
Arts and Culture identified the human
remains of this individual during their
NAGPRA inventory. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Early and late published ethnographic
documentation indicates that the
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Vantage area was the aboriginal territory
of the Moses-Columbia or Sinkiuse,
Yakima, and Wanapum (Daugherty
1973, Miller 1998, Mooney 1896, Ray
1936, Spier 1936), whose descendents
are represented today by the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Washington; Confederated
Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington; and Wanapum Band, a
non-Federally recognized Indian group.
Officials of the Burke Museum 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
Burke Museum have also 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 Colville Reservation, Washington;
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington; and
Wanapum Band, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group. Furthermore,
officials of the Burke Museum have
determined there is a cultural
relationship between the human
remains and the Wanapum Band, a nonFederally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Megon Noble, Burke
Museum, University of Washington, Box
353010, Seattle, WA 98195–3010,
telephone (206) 685–3849, before March
4, 2009. Repatriation of the human
remains to the Confederated Tribes of
the Colville Reservation, Washington;
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington; and
Wanapum Band, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group, may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Burke Museum is responsible for
notifying the Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation, Washington;
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington; and
Wanapum Band, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: January 9, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology, Claremont, CA
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 control of the
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, CA. The human remains
were removed from Kern County, CA.
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 Raymond
M. Alf Museum of Paleontology professional staff and University of
California, Los Angeles professional staff member Archeologist Gail
Kennedy, in consultation with representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Tribe).
At an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of six
individuals were removed from the Kern Valley area near Kernville, Kern
County, CA. No known individuals were identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
The Kern Valley area is near Kernville, Kern County, in the Central
California area. Museum officials reasonably believe, based on
locations where the museum has previously collected non-paleontological
specimens, that these six individuals may have been collected from the
same area associated with another individual described in a published
Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (73 FR 34318,
June 17, 2008), although at the time of publication the museum was
unable to relate the six individuals in this notice to that individual.
However, officials of the Raymond M. Alf Museum have subsequently
determined that the six individuals in this notice are probably from
the same area, and possibly the same site as the individual in the June
17, 2008 notice, based on two separate analyses, museum collection
history, and tribal consultation.
An investigation of the human remains conducted by Dr. Gail
Kennedy, Physical Anthropologist, University of California, Los
Angeles, determined that the individuals were California Native
American based on dental wear. Tribal representatives of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria conducted a second analysis, and independently concluded that
the human remains are Native American.
The Kern Valley site is most likely either the habitation site of
the Tubatulabal from which the individual in the June 17, 2008 notice
had been removed, or a similar site. The Tubatulabal were loosely
organized into three discrete bands called Pahkanapil, Palagewan, and
Bankalachi (Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of North American
Indians, Book 8, 1978). The Tubatulabal are considered Kern River
Indians, speak an Uto-Aztecan language, and live in the Kern River/Lake
Isabella area, which includes the south fork (Palagewan) and the lower
Kern River below the south fork (Tubatulabal). Their neighbors are the
Kawaiisu and the Yokuts. The Bankalachi, who were located a few miles
from the Palagewan, resided in Yokuts territory.
In 1857, the Kern River gold rush began in Palagewan territory.
During 1862, a few Tubatulabal joined the Owens Valley Paiute in
hostilities against the Whites, and about this time, a group of Koso
Indians settled in the Tubatulabal area, intermarrying with the
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Kawaiisu. In 1863, soldiers of the U.S. Army killed 35-40 Tubatulabal
and Palagewan men near Kernville. Starting in 1865, the Tubatulabal
began to practice agriculture and in 1893, the majority of them and a
few Palagewan survivors were allotted land in the South Fork and Kern
Valleys. From 1900 to 1972, many Tubatulabals moved to the Tule River
Indian Reservation, north of the Kern valley region. It is reasonably
believed that those that survived intermarried with the Yokuts in the
Kern County area. Descendants of these Yokuts are members of the
Federally-recognized Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California.
Officials of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of six individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of
Paleontology 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 Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California and Tule River
Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Don
Lofgren, Director, Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, 1175 West
Baseline Road, Claremont, CA 91711, telephone (909) 624-2798, before
March 4, 2009. Repatriation of the human remains to the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is responsible for
notifying the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation,
California that this notice has been published.
Dated: January 9, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-2124 Filed 1-30-09; 8:45 am]
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