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artifact assemblage to be consistent with
possible associated funerary objects
from Ceramic Period burials in Maine.
The Aroostook Band of Micmac
Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented
by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, are widely recognized as
having a shared cultural relationship
with the people of the Ceramic Period
of Maine (2,000 B.P. to European
contact).
Officials of the Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst 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
Department of Anthropology, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the 128 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
Department of Anthropology, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can
reasonably be traced between the Native
American human remains and the
associated funerary objects and the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of
Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe
of Maine, and Penobscot Tribe of Maine,
represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal
Repatriation Committee, a nonFederally recognized Indian group.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Robert Paynter, Repatriation
Committee Chair, Department of
Anthropology, University of
Massachusetts, 201 Machmer Hall, 240
Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003,
telephone (413)545–2221, before April
24, 2009. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Aroostook Band of Micmac
Indians of Maine, Houlton Band of
Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine, represented
by the Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, may proceed after that
date if no additional claimants come
forward.
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The Department of Anthropology,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst is
responsible for notifying Amherst
College and Smith College, and the
Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians of
Maine, Houlton Band of Maliseet
Indians of Maine, Passamaquoddy Tribe
of Maine, Penobscot Tribe of Maine, and
Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: March 12, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Atlanta, GA
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 possession of the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources,
Atlanta, GA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Bartow County, GA.
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 Georgia
Department of Natural Resources
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of
North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
In 1954–61, 1962, 1964–65, and 1972–
73, human remains representing a
minimum of 404 individuals were
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removed from the Etowah Mounds,
Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic
Site (9BR1) in Bartow County, GA. No
known individuals were identified. The
187,060 associated funerary objects are
1 anvil fragment; 10 bone awls/
fragments; 3 stone axes; 129 copper
symbol badges/fragments; 6 woven cane
basket fragments; 4 tortoise shell batons;
2 bone beads; 1 clay bead; 19 copper
covered wooden beads/fragments; 1
copper bead; 1 blue glass bead; 8,273
pearl beads; 159,572 shell beads; 5
wooden beads; 11 stone blades; 2
copper covered wooden bodkins; 38
shell bowls/fragments; 1 wooden bowl;
11 copper celts; 1 iron celt; 22 stone
celts/fragments; 2 indeterminate celts; 6
chunkey stones; 3 copper covered wood
coils; 2 chert core; 23 quartz crystals; 42
daub samples; 36 ceramic discs; 64 mica
discs; 7 shell discs; 6 stone discs; 5
wooden discs; 2 stone drills; 54 copper
covered ear discs; 2 mica ear discs; 1
shell ear disc (nos. 3 & 4); 1 ear disc of
undocumented material; 2 wooden ear
discs; 1 clay ear ornament; 1 copper ear
spool; 2 painted stone figures; 50
charcoal samples; 75 ethnobotanical
remains; 567 cane matting; 3,957 faunal
remains; 6 split cane fragments; 6 fabric/
cloth fragments; 1 fur fragment; 567 hair
fragments; 3 leather fragments; 3
miscellaneous mixed fur/leather/fabric
fibers; 2 strings; 3 fibers; 1 bone fish
hook; 233 stone flakes; 24 copper
fragments; 10 unfired clay samples; 8
clay samples; 19 pigment samples; 4 soil
samples; 291 stones; 7 copper gorgets/
fragments; 39 shell gorgets/fragments;
23 copper hair ornaments; 1 tortoise
shell hair ornament; 5 hammerstone; 2
copper headdresses; 2 mica headdress
pieces; 13 fragments from a headdress;
1 wooden headdress fragment; 11 shell
hoes; 3 stone knives; 1 plaster cast of a
log; 23 copper-covered wooden mask
fragments; 1 shell mask; 2 pieces of cane
matting; 6 plaster casts of cane matting;
1 nutting stone; 1 baked clay cylindershaped object; 61 copper ornaments;
199 decorations/ornaments/fragments; 4
sun symbols; 17 tortoise shell
ornaments/fragments; 7 stone paint
palettes; 22 shell pendants; 13 bone
pins/fragments; 1 copper covered
wooden pin; 2 ear pins of
undocumented material; 12 shell ear
pins/fragments; 1 tortoise shell pin; 3
ear disc pins; 3 wooden pins; 13
ceramic pipes/fragments; 1 pipe
fragment; 6 stone pipes; 12 copper
plates; 4 polished stones; 13 antler
projectile points; 4 bone projectile
points; 37 stone projectile points/
knives; 2 quartz crystals; 10 wooden
rattle fragments; 1 stone ring; 2 logs;
1,348 shells/fragments; 10,791 ceramic
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sherds; 10 shell spoons/fragments; 1
wooden tablet; 19 bone tools; 1 polished
bone tube; 3 samples of unidentified
material; 27 ceramic vessels; 1 sample of
material from inside of a copper covered
coiled wooden object; 41 wood/
fragments; 1 worked shell; and 20
miscellaneous worked stone/fragments.
The excavations at the site were
primarily conducted at an area currently
identified as ‘‘Mound C,’’ which had
previously been partially excavated by
other agencies, at the edge of Mound B
and in the ‘‘Village Area’’ of the 52–acre
historic site. Radiocarbon studies
indicate that the burials date from A.D.
800 to 1400. The site is normally
identified as a ‘‘Mississippi Site’’ that
dates from A.D. 900 to 1550. There is no
absolute archeological proof that links
the site with any modern day Indian
tribe. Evidence in the form of historical
documents, early maps, and a listing of
common lifeway traits were presented
by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of
Oklahoma, Poarch Band of Creeks,
Kialegee Tribal Town, Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, and Alabama-Quassarte
Tribal Town during consultation.
Similar information was presented by
the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma,
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and
United Keetowah Band of Cherokee
Indians, who occupied the Bartow
County area at the time of forced
removal (A.D. 1838). However, the
Cherokee do not have a shared group
relationship to the Native American
human remains described in this notice,
as the Cherokee were not present in the
area prior to approximately A.D. 1450,
which post-dates the burials at Etowah.
The results of the consultation and
studies with the tribes, have determined
that there is a reasonable belief of a
shared group identity between the
Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects from the
Etowah Mounds and the modern
Muscogeean (Creek) Tribes. The
Muscogeean (Creek) Tribes are
represented by the Alabama-Quassarte
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal
Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek)
Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of
Creek Indians of Alabama; and
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Officials of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 404
individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources also
have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 187,060 objects
described above are reasonably believed
to have been placed with or near
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individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources 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
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and/
or associated funerary objects should
contact Dr. David Crass, State
Archaeologist, Department of Natural
Resources, Historic Preservation
Division, 34 Peachtree Street NW, Suite
1600, Atlanta, GA 30303, telephone
(404) 656–9344, before April 24, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Georgia Department of Natural
Resources is responsible for notifying
the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians of North Carolina; Kialegee
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee
(Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band
of Creek Indians of Alabama;
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
and United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this
notice has been published.
Dated: March 2, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Northwest Museum, Whitman College,
Walla Walla, WA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
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(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the possession of the
Northwest Museum (formerly Maxey
Museum), Whitman College, Walla
Walla, WA. The human remains were
removed from Walla Walla 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 Whitman
College and Northwest Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Oregon.
On an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from a home
site in Walla Walla, Walla Walla
County, WA. In 1929, the human
remains were donated to the Northwest
Museum at Whitman College by Mr.
Emory Frank (WHIT–X–0008; Old Cat.
No. 540, 5743 and WHIT–XX–0049; Old
Cat. No. 5743). No known individual
was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
According to museum records, the
human remains were identified as
Indian, and were found buried in a
sitting position. The human remains are
determined to be Native American
based on skeletal morphology, as well as
on museum records of the provenience.
The city of Walla Walla is within the
ceded lands of the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation,
Oregon. The ceded land of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation extends over 6.4
million acres in eastern Oregon and
southeast Washington, and was
occupied by the Weyiiletpu. Walla
Walla is in an area that the Pasxapu
band of the Weyiiletpu used for winter
quarters. The Walla Walla River and its
tributaries is where they fished for
salmon and gathered foods and
medicines along the river banks and
ridges. The Pasxapu summers were
spent hunting, fishing, and gathering
foods and medicines in the adjacent
Blue Mountains. Consultation evidence
from tribal representatives of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation further supports this
evidence of occupation. Descendants of
the Walla Walla (Waluulapam),
Umatilla (Imatalamlama), and Cayuse
(Weyiiletpu) tribes that are enrolled in
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Atlanta, GA
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 in the possession of the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, Atlanta, GA. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Bartow County, GA.
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 Georgia
Department of Natural Resources professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
In 1954-61, 1962, 1964-65, and 1972-73, human remains representing
a minimum of 404 individuals were removed from the Etowah Mounds,
Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site (9BR1) in Bartow County, GA.
No known individuals were identified. The 187,060 associated funerary
objects are 1 anvil fragment; 10 bone awls/fragments; 3 stone axes; 129
copper symbol badges/fragments; 6 woven cane basket fragments; 4
tortoise shell batons; 2 bone beads; 1 clay bead; 19 copper covered
wooden beads/fragments; 1 copper bead; 1 blue glass bead; 8,273 pearl
beads; 159,572 shell beads; 5 wooden beads; 11 stone blades; 2 copper
covered wooden bodkins; 38 shell bowls/fragments; 1 wooden bowl; 11
copper celts; 1 iron celt; 22 stone celts/fragments; 2 indeterminate
celts; 6 chunkey stones; 3 copper covered wood coils; 2 chert core; 23
quartz crystals; 42 daub samples; 36 ceramic discs; 64 mica discs; 7
shell discs; 6 stone discs; 5 wooden discs; 2 stone drills; 54 copper
covered ear discs; 2 mica ear discs; 1 shell ear disc (nos. 3 & 4); 1
ear disc of undocumented material; 2 wooden ear discs; 1 clay ear
ornament; 1 copper ear spool; 2 painted stone figures; 50 charcoal
samples; 75 ethnobotanical remains; 567 cane matting; 3,957 faunal
remains; 6 split cane fragments; 6 fabric/cloth fragments; 1 fur
fragment; 567 hair fragments; 3 leather fragments; 3 miscellaneous
mixed fur/leather/fabric fibers; 2 strings; 3 fibers; 1 bone fish hook;
233 stone flakes; 24 copper fragments; 10 unfired clay samples; 8 clay
samples; 19 pigment samples; 4 soil samples; 291 stones; 7 copper
gorgets/fragments; 39 shell gorgets/fragments; 23 copper hair
ornaments; 1 tortoise shell hair ornament; 5 hammerstone; 2 copper
headdresses; 2 mica headdress pieces; 13 fragments from a headdress; 1
wooden headdress fragment; 11 shell hoes; 3 stone knives; 1 plaster
cast of a log; 23 copper-covered wooden mask fragments; 1 shell mask; 2
pieces of cane matting; 6 plaster casts of cane matting; 1 nutting
stone; 1 baked clay cylinder-shaped object; 61 copper ornaments; 199
decorations/ornaments/fragments; 4 sun symbols; 17 tortoise shell
ornaments/fragments; 7 stone paint palettes; 22 shell pendants; 13 bone
pins/fragments; 1 copper covered wooden pin; 2 ear pins of undocumented
material; 12 shell ear pins/fragments; 1 tortoise shell pin; 3 ear disc
pins; 3 wooden pins; 13 ceramic pipes/fragments; 1 pipe fragment; 6
stone pipes; 12 copper plates; 4 polished stones; 13 antler projectile
points; 4 bone projectile points; 37 stone projectile points/knives; 2
quartz crystals; 10 wooden rattle fragments; 1 stone ring; 2 logs;
1,348 shells/fragments; 10,791 ceramic
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sherds; 10 shell spoons/fragments; 1 wooden tablet; 19 bone tools; 1
polished bone tube; 3 samples of unidentified material; 27 ceramic
vessels; 1 sample of material from inside of a copper covered coiled
wooden object; 41 wood/fragments; 1 worked shell; and 20 miscellaneous
worked stone/fragments.
The excavations at the site were primarily conducted at an area
currently identified as ``Mound C,'' which had previously been
partially excavated by other agencies, at the edge of Mound B and in
the ``Village Area'' of the 52-acre historic site. Radiocarbon studies
indicate that the burials date from A.D. 800 to 1400. The site is
normally identified as a ``Mississippi Site'' that dates from A.D. 900
to 1550. There is no absolute archeological proof that links the site
with any modern day Indian tribe. Evidence in the form of historical
documents, early maps, and a listing of common lifeway traits were
presented by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Poarch Band of
Creeks, Kialegee Tribal Town, Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, and Alabama-
Quassarte Tribal Town during consultation. Similar information was
presented by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians, and United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians, who occupied the
Bartow County area at the time of forced removal (A.D. 1838). However,
the Cherokee do not have a shared group relationship to the Native
American human remains described in this notice, as the Cherokee were
not present in the area prior to approximately A.D. 1450, which post-
dates the burials at Etowah.
The results of the consultation and studies with the tribes, have
determined that there is a reasonable belief of a shared group identity
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects from the Etowah Mounds and the modern Muscogeean (Creek)
Tribes. The Muscogeean (Creek) Tribes are represented by the Alabama-
Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
Alabama; and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Officials of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of 404 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(3)(A), the 187,060 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 Georgia Department of Natural Resources 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 Alabama-Quassarte
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek)
Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama; and
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and/or associated
funerary objects should contact Dr. David Crass, State Archaeologist,
Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division, 34
Peachtree Street NW, Suite 1600, Atlanta, GA 30303, telephone (404)
656-9344, before April 24, 2009. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation,
Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco
Tribal Town, Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is responsible for
notifying the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
Alabama; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United Keetoowah Band
of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 2, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-6507 Filed 3-24-09; 8:45 am]
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