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The burial was recorded as being in
a sitting position and was exposed by
land leveling, about two feet below the
surface. The pelvis bone was permeated
with gypsum or salt. Museum records
indicate that the cultural affiliation of
the human remains is southern/central
Yokuts, and indicates the age as
prehistoric. The Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, Tachi Yokut Tribe, has
provided the museum with information
consisting of oral stories, territory and
language family maps, and written
ethnographical information about the
Yokuts and their inter-relationships
with surrounding communities, which
also covers the territory where the
human remains were discovered, and
provides a determination of more likely
than not of cultural affiliation to the
human remains.
Officials of the San Diego Museum of
Man have determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human
remains described above represent the
physical remains of 12 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of
the San Diego Museum of Man also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(A), the 72 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 San
Diego Museum of Man 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 Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Philip Hoog, Archaeology and
NAGPRA Coordinator, San Diego
Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, Balboa
Park, San Diego, CA 92101, telephone
(619) 239–2001, before January 8, 2010.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Santa
Rosa Indian Community of the Santa
Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The San Diego Museum of Man is
responsible for notifying the Santa Rosa
Indian Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California that this notice
has been published.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area, Toledo, OH
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 an associated funerary
object in the control of the Metropolitan
Park District of the Toledo Area, Toledo,
OH. The human remains and associated
funerary object were removed from the
Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve,
Lucas County, OH.
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 Metropolitan
Park District of the Toledo Area
professional staff in consultation with
the Lucas County Coroner’s Office,
Center for Historic and Military
Archaeology at Heidelberg College, and
in consultation with representatives of
the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians
of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Hannahville Indian
Community, Michigan; Little Traverse
Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan;
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee
Tribe, Oklahoma; Wyandotte Nation,
Oklahoma; and the American Indian
Intertribal Association, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group.
In 2007, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from Audubon Islands State
Nature Preserve, Lucas County, OH, by
Dan Graham. The Lucas County
Coroner’s Office brought the human
remains to the park. No known
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individual was identified. The one
associated funerary item is an immature
raccoon skull jaw.
The Lucas County Coroner’s Office
identified the human remains as
possibly Native American based on
context, antiquity and an anteriorposterior flattening in the
subtrochanteric region of the femur that
is typical of historic/ancient Native
Americans.
A nearby 18th century Ottawa grave
demonstrates that this part of the island
may have been occupied and used as a
burial area by the Ottawa until around
the time of the 1795 Treaty of
Greenville. Audubon Island is located in
the lower Maumee Valley in northern
Ohio. Some Ottawa bands had taken up
residence in the lower Maumee Valley
by A.D. 1740–1750. Following Pontiac’s
siege of Detroit in the summer of 1763,
some of the Ottawa bands from that area
also resettled to the lower Maumee
Valley. In 1764, Captain Thomas Morris
met an Ottawa delegation at the foot of
the Maumee Rapids, adjacent to
Audubon Island. Between 1783 and
1794, Audubon Island was known as
Col. McKee’s Island, and was farmed as
part of Alexander McKee’s Department
of Indian Affairs post at the foot of the
Maumee Rapids. Several other EuroCanadian traders occupied lands in the
area, presumably with the consent of the
local Ottawa.
In 1795, many of the Great Lakes-Ohio
Valley tribes signed the Treaty of
Greenville, which produced several
land cessions, including a 12–squaremile reserve surrounding the foot of the
Maumee Rapids and Audubon Island.
Occupation of Audubon Island by the
Ohio Ottawa appears to have ceased at
that time, at which point some of them
moved to Walpole Island, Canada.
Between 1807 and 1817, the United
States established four small
reservations for the Ottawa along the
lower Maumee River. Audubon Island
lies between two of these reservations.
In 1831 to1833, the four reservations
were finally ceded to the United States
in return for lands in present-day
Franklin County, KS. In 1867, the
Kansas reservation organization was
dissolved and the Ottawa sold their
individual allotments and moved to
Oklahoma. Descendants of the Ottawa
that occupied Audubon Island are
members of the Little River Band of
Ottawa Indians, Michigan and Ottawa
Tribe of Oklahoma.
Officials of the Metropolitan Park
District of the Toledo Area 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
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American ancestry. Officials of the
Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo
Area also have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the
one object described above is 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
Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo
Area 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 object and the
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians,
Michigan, and Ottawa Tribe of
Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary object should
contact Rebecca Finch, Metropolitan
Park District of the Toledo Area, 5100
West Central Ave., Toledo, OH 43615,
telephone (419) 407–9848, before
January 8, 2010. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
object to the Little River Band of Ottawa
Indians, Michigan, and Ottawa Tribe of
Oklahoma may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area is responsible for notifying
the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians
of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Hannahville Indian
Community, Michigan; Little River
Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan;
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa
Indians, Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of
Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma;
Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma; and the
American Indian Intertribal Association,
a non-Federally recognized Indian
group, that this notice has been
published.
Dated: November 9, 2009.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Amherst College Museum of Natural
History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
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ACTION:
Notice.
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 and control of the
Amherst College Museum of Natural
History (formerly the Pratt Museum of
Natural History), Amherst College,
Amherst, MA. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Cumberland County, ME.
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 and an inventory of the
associated funerary objects were made
by the staff of the Amherst College
Museum of Natural History and its
agents, in consultation with the
Wabanaki Intertribal Repatriation
Committee, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group, representing the
Federally-recognized Aroostook Band of
Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton
Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and the
Penobscot Tribe of Maine.
In 1909, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
excavated from a coastal shell midden
on Flagg Island, Cumberland County,
ME, by Professor Frederic B. Loomis
and his associates. The human remains
have been in the possession of the
Amherst College Museum of Natural
History since that date. No known
individual was identified. The museum
holds 33 cultural objects that were also
removed from Flagg Island middens in
the same season. It is not known
whether or not these objects come from
the same burial or the same site as the
human remains. Based on their
provenience and date of removal,
however, the museum reasonably
believes the cultural items could be
associated funerary objects. The 33
associated funerary objects are 19 bone
awls, 7 bone tools, 5 hollow bone tools,
and 2 blunt horn tools.
The remains of this one individual are
represented by approximately 54 bones
or bone fragments. No cranial or pelvic
elements are present and neither femur
includes a proximal end. Therefore, no
data relating to sex or age estimation can
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be gathered. Based on size and longbone epiphyseal closure, however, this
individual was most likely an adult.
A document in the Amherst College
Archives, Pratt Museum Papers, titled
‘‘Field Record of Specimens from
‘Sawyer’s Island First Digging,’ a PaleoIndian Site’’, gives the provenience for
these materials. This ledger records the
general location (Flagg Island, Maine),
approximate date (July or August, 1909),
and specimen numbers of both the
human remains and cultural items.
Loomis interpreted the material to be
Algonquin and the people of the
middens to be related to the present-day
Abnakis of Maine, (see Loomis & Young,
American Journal of Science, v. 34, p.
41). Loomis concluded that the middens
were built between 200 to 400 years
prior to European contact, A.D. 1627,
(see Loomis, American Journal of
Science, v. 31, p. 227). According to Dr.
John Stubbs, Jr., Peabody Museum of
Archeology and Ethnology, the presence
of pottery fragments found within the
Flagg Island midden suggests the human
remains and cultural items are most
likely less than 2,700 years old. The
Federally-recognized Aroostook Band of
Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton
Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and the
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 Amherst College
Museum of Natural History 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
Amherst College Museum of Natural
History have also determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 33
objects described above are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or
near the human remains at the time of
death or later possibly as part of a death
rite or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the
Amherst College Museum of Natural
History 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
Federally-recognized Aroostook Band of
Micmac Indians of Maine, Houlton
Band of Maliseet Indians of Maine,
Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine, and
Penobscot Tribe of Maine, which are
represented by the Wabanaki Intertribal
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area, Toledo, OH
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 an associated funerary
object in the control of the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo
Area, Toledo, OH. The human remains and associated funerary object were
removed from the Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve, Lucas County,
OH.
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
Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area professional staff in
consultation with the Lucas County Coroner's Office, Center for
Historic and Military Archaeology at Heidelberg College, and in
consultation with representatives of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe
of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand
Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville
Indian Community, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians,
Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; Wyandotte
Nation, Oklahoma; and the American Indian Intertribal Association, a
non-Federally recognized Indian group.
In 2007, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from Audubon Islands State Nature Preserve, Lucas County,
OH, by Dan Graham. The Lucas County Coroner's Office brought the human
remains to the park. No known individual was identified. The one
associated funerary item is an immature raccoon skull jaw.
The Lucas County Coroner's Office identified the human remains as
possibly Native American based on context, antiquity and an anterior-
posterior flattening in the subtrochanteric region of the femur that is
typical of historic/ancient Native Americans.
A nearby 18th century Ottawa grave demonstrates that this part of
the island may have been occupied and used as a burial area by the
Ottawa until around the time of the 1795 Treaty of Greenville. Audubon
Island is located in the lower Maumee Valley in northern Ohio. Some
Ottawa bands had taken up residence in the lower Maumee Valley by A.D.
1740-1750. Following Pontiac's siege of Detroit in the summer of 1763,
some of the Ottawa bands from that area also resettled to the lower
Maumee Valley. In 1764, Captain Thomas Morris met an Ottawa delegation
at the foot of the Maumee Rapids, adjacent to Audubon Island. Between
1783 and 1794, Audubon Island was known as Col. McKee's Island, and was
farmed as part of Alexander McKee's Department of Indian Affairs post
at the foot of the Maumee Rapids. Several other Euro-Canadian traders
occupied lands in the area, presumably with the consent of the local
Ottawa.
In 1795, many of the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley tribes signed the
Treaty of Greenville, which produced several land cessions, including a
12-square-mile reserve surrounding the foot of the Maumee Rapids and
Audubon Island. Occupation of Audubon Island by the Ohio Ottawa appears
to have ceased at that time, at which point some of them moved to
Walpole Island, Canada. Between 1807 and 1817, the United States
established four small reservations for the Ottawa along the lower
Maumee River. Audubon Island lies between two of these reservations. In
1831 to1833, the four reservations were finally ceded to the United
States in return for lands in present-day Franklin County, KS. In 1867,
the Kansas reservation organization was dissolved and the Ottawa sold
their individual allotments and moved to Oklahoma. Descendants of the
Ottawa that occupied Audubon Island are members of the Little River
Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan and Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma.
Officials of the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area 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
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American ancestry. Officials of the Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(3)(A), the one object described above is 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 Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area 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 object and the Little River Band
of Ottawa Indians, Michigan, and Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
object should contact Rebecca Finch, Metropolitan Park District of the
Toledo Area, 5100 West Central Ave., Toledo, OH 43615, telephone (419)
407-9848, before January 8, 2010. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object to the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians,
Michigan, and Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area is responsible for
notifying the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County
Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan;
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay
Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee
Tribe, Oklahoma; Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma; and the American Indian
Intertribal Association, a non-Federally recognized Indian group, that
this notice has been published.
Dated: November 9, 2009.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E9-29294 Filed 12-8-09; 8:45 am]
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