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also states that everything except the
spear were found in a grave at Harbor
Springs, MI. However, given the storage
of the spear head with the human
remains and knife, museum officials
reasonably believe it to be an associated
funerary object and related to the other
items.
Harbor Springs is within the territory
of the Little Traverse Bay Band of
Odawa Indians, Michigan.
Officials of the Montclair Art 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
Montclair Art Museum also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the two 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
Montclair Art Museum 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 Little Traverse Bay Bands of
Odawa Indians, Michigan.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Twig Johnson, Curator of Native
American Art, Montclair Art Museum, 3
South Mountain Ave., Montclair, NJ
07042–1747, telephone (973) 746–5555,
ext. 225, before June 8, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
The Montclair Art Museum is
responsible for notifying the Little
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan that this notice has been
published.
Dated: April 3, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Virginia Department of Conservation
and Recreation, Division of State
Parks, Richmond, VA and Southwest
Virginia Museum Historical State Park,
Big Stone Gap, VA
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 Virginia
Department of Conservation and
Recreation, Division of State Parks,
Richmond, VA, and in the possession of
the Southwest Virginia Museum
Historical State Park, Big Stone Gap,
VA. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from
caves in Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties,
VA.
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 Virginia
Department of Conservation and
Recreation and Virginia Historic
Resources professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Federally-recognized Absentee-Shawnee
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee
Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians of North Carolina;
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; and United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma. The Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation and
Virginia Historic Resources professional
staff also consulted with representatives
of the following non-Federally
recognized Indian groups:
Chickahominy Tribe, Eastern
Chickahominy Tribe, Mattaponi Tribe,
Monacan Indian Tribe, Nansemond
Tribe, Pamunkey Tribe, Rappahannock
Tribe, and Upper Mattaponi Tribe.
At unknown dates, human remains
representing a minimum of three
individuals were removed from various
caves in Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties,
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VA. According to records of the
Southwest Virginia Museum Historical
State Park, portions of the human
remains have possible donation records
of 2/7/58, 8/11/53, or 6/23/70, and may
have been removed during those times.
No known individuals were identified.
The nine associated funerary objects are
one possible trade item made with glass
trade beads, three effigy pipes, one
Catlinite pipe, two bird figures, one pot,
and one steatite.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from a burial
cave in Lee County, VA. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
While scientific dating of the human
remains was not possible, similar
osteological comparisons of prehistoric
Native Americans from other mortuary
caves in southwest Virginia reveal
through radiocarbon dates and artifact
evidence that the predominant use of
mortuary caves in the region was
between circa A.D. 900–1400. Caves
used as mortuary facilities for
prehistoric Native Americans are known
throughout the southeastern United
States, and have been commonly
documented in the far upper reaches of
the Tennessee Valley drainage basin (far
southwest Virginia). Mississippian sites
of this type appeared almost
simultaneously throughout the
Southeast around A.D. 850, and were
mainly located within river floodplain
environments. Archeological
scholarship traces Cherokee beginnings
back to, at least, the beginning of the
Mississippian Period. Many scholars
refer to the Cherokee evolving out of the
Mississippian tradition in the southern
Appalachians to have maintained a
continuity of material culture.
In the 1500s, Spanish explorers found
a flourishing Cherokee culture that
dominated the southern Appalachians.
The Cherokees controlled some 140,000
square miles throughout eight presentday southern states, including the
counties of southwest Virginia. Further
historical evidence of Cherokee
territorial control of this area, in modern
times, is reflected in the Watauga Treaty
of 1775, in which the Cherokee sold the
area of present-day southwest Virginia,
Tennessee, and Kentucky to Richard
Henderson to form the new colony of
Transylvania. Both the Cherokee tribe
and the colony of Virginia later opposed
this land purchase. Today, the rich
history and culture of the Cherokee are
interpreted at sites and events
throughout the region. Regional history
books document Cherokee history and
many individuals speak of their
Cherokee ancestry. Descendants of the
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Cherokee are members of the Cherokee
Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; and
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma.
Officials of the Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation and
Southwest Virginia Museum Historical
State Park have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of at
least four individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Virginia Department of Conservation
and Recreation and Southwest Virginia
Museum Historical State Park also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the nine 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
Virginia Department of Conservation
and Recreation and Southwest Virginia
Museum Historical State 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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects and the
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians of North
Carolina; and United Keetoowah Band
of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Sharon Ewing, Virginia
Department of Conservation and
Recreation/Southwest Virginia Museum
Historical State Park, P.O. Box 742, Big
Stone Gap, VA 24219, telephone (276)
523–1322, before June 8, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians of North
Carolina; and/or United Keetoowah
Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation is
responsible for notifying the Federallyrecognized Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians of North Carolina; Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee
Tribe, Oklahoma; and United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma, that this notice has been
published. The Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation will also
notify the following non-Federally
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recognized Indian groups:
Chickahominy Tribe, Eastern
Chickahominy Tribe, Mattaponi Tribe,
Monacan Indian Tribe, Nansemond
Tribe, Pamunkey Tribe, Rappahannock
Tribe, and Upper Mattaponi Tribe.
Dated: April 22, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard
University, Boston, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 and control of
Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard
University, Boston, MA. The human
remains were removed from the Island
of Oahu, HI.
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 Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology and
Warren Anatomical Museum
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Hawaii Island
Burial Council, Hui Malama I Na
Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei, Oahu Island
Burial Council, and the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs.
In 1843, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from Oahu Island, HI, by J. H.
Lyman. The human remains were
presented to the Anatomical Museum of
the Boston Society for Medical
Improvement on an unknown date
before 1847. The Anatomical Museum
of the Boston Society for Medical
Improvement transferred its collection
to the Warren Anatomical Museum in
1871. No known individual was
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
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Osteological characteristics indicate
that the human remains are Native
American. Museum documentation
states that the human remains were
recovered from a cave in a ‘‘volcanic
mountain’’ on the eastern end of the
Island of Oahu in the ‘‘Sandwich
Islands.’’ ‘‘Sandwich Islands’’ is an
antiquated term used to describe the
islands of Hawaii. Anthropological and
historic information indicates that cave
interments are consistent with
traditional Native Hawaiian mortuary
practices. Archeological and historic
documentation combined with oral
traditions support that the human
remains are from an area considered to
be part of the aboriginal homelands of
ancestral Native Hawaiians. Present-day
groups that represent Native Hawaiians
for the Island of Oahu are Hui Malama
I Na Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei, Oahu
Island Burial Council, and the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology and Warren
Anatomical 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 Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology and Warren
Anatomical 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 Hui
Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei,
Oahu Island Burial Council, and the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe or Native Hawaiian Organization
that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, before June 8, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains to
Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai’i
Nei, Oahu Island Burial Council, and
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology and Warren Anatomical
Museum are responsible for notifying
the Hawaii Island Burial Council, Hui
Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei,
Oahu Island Burial Council, and the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs that this
notice has been published.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks, Richmond, VA and
Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park, Big Stone Gap, VA
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 control of the Virginia Department of Conservation and
Recreation, Division of State Parks, Richmond, VA, and in the
possession of the Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park, Big
Stone Gap, VA. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from caves in Lee, Scott, and Wise Counties, VA.
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 Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation and Virginia Historic
Resources professional staff in consultation with representatives of
the Federally-recognized Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North
Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma;
and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation and Virginia Historic
Resources professional staff also consulted with representatives of the
following non-Federally recognized Indian groups: Chickahominy Tribe,
Eastern Chickahominy Tribe, Mattaponi Tribe, Monacan Indian Tribe,
Nansemond Tribe, Pamunkey Tribe, Rappahannock Tribe, and Upper
Mattaponi Tribe.
At unknown dates, human remains representing a minimum of three
individuals were removed from various caves in Lee, Scott, and Wise
Counties, VA. According to records of the Southwest Virginia Museum
Historical State Park, portions of the human remains have possible
donation records of 2/7/58, 8/11/53, or 6/23/70, and may have been
removed during those times. No known individuals were identified. The
nine associated funerary objects are one possible trade item made with
glass trade beads, three effigy pipes, one Catlinite pipe, two bird
figures, one pot, and one steatite.
At an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from a burial cave in Lee County, VA. No known
individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
While scientific dating of the human remains was not possible,
similar osteological comparisons of prehistoric Native Americans from
other mortuary caves in southwest Virginia reveal through radiocarbon
dates and artifact evidence that the predominant use of mortuary caves
in the region was between circa A.D. 900-1400. Caves used as mortuary
facilities for prehistoric Native Americans are known throughout the
southeastern United States, and have been commonly documented in the
far upper reaches of the Tennessee Valley drainage basin (far southwest
Virginia). Mississippian sites of this type appeared almost
simultaneously throughout the Southeast around A.D. 850, and were
mainly located within river floodplain environments. Archeological
scholarship traces Cherokee beginnings back to, at least, the beginning
of the Mississippian Period. Many scholars refer to the Cherokee
evolving out of the Mississippian tradition in the southern
Appalachians to have maintained a continuity of material culture.
In the 1500s, Spanish explorers found a flourishing Cherokee
culture that dominated the southern Appalachians. The Cherokees
controlled some 140,000 square miles throughout eight present-day
southern states, including the counties of southwest Virginia. Further
historical evidence of Cherokee territorial control of this area, in
modern times, is reflected in the Watauga Treaty of 1775, in which the
Cherokee sold the area of present-day southwest Virginia, Tennessee,
and Kentucky to Richard Henderson to form the new colony of
Transylvania. Both the Cherokee tribe and the colony of Virginia later
opposed this land purchase. Today, the rich history and culture of the
Cherokee are interpreted at sites and events throughout the region.
Regional history books document Cherokee history and many individuals
speak of their Cherokee ancestry. Descendants of the
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Cherokee are members of the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; and United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Officials of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
and Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described
above represent the physical remains of at least four individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation and Southwest Virginia Museum Historical
State Park also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(3)(A), the nine 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 Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and Southwest
Virginia Museum Historical State 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 Native American
human remains and associated funerary objects and the Cherokee Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; and
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Sharon Ewing, Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation/Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State
Park, P.O. Box 742, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219, telephone (276) 523-1322,
before June 8, 2009. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; and/or United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is
responsible for notifying the Federally-recognized Absentee-Shawnee
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band
of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; and United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, that this notice has been published. The
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation will also notify the
following non-Federally recognized Indian groups: Chickahominy Tribe,
Eastern Chickahominy Tribe, Mattaponi Tribe, Monacan Indian Tribe,
Nansemond Tribe, Pamunkey Tribe, Rappahannock Tribe, and Upper
Mattaponi Tribe.
Dated: April 22, 2009.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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