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of shared group identity that can
reasonably be traced between the Native
American human remains and the
Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe 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 October 25, 2010.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of
Louisiana may proceed after that date if
no additional claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe
of Louisiana that this notice has been
published.
Dated: September 10, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
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:
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ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with provisions of 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, Gilliam
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
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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; Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington; Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon;
and Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho.
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 land.
Following excavations at the site
described below, and under the
provisions of the permits, the University
of Oregon retained the collections for
preservation.
Between 1959 and 1968, human
remains representing a minimum of 134
individuals were removed from site 35–
GM–9, also known as the Wildcat
Canyon site, Gilliam County, OR, during
excavations by the University of Oregon
prior to construction of the John Day
Dam. No known individuals were
identified. The 1,182 associated
funerary objects are 41 projectile points,
8 projectile point fragments, 2 chert
bifacial tips, 6 stone knives, 2 knife
fragments, 17 blades, 14 blade
fragments, 3 crude chert bifaces, 1
bifacially-modified obsidian crescent,
19 scrapers, 4 utilized flakes, 41 worked
flakes, 2 cores, 1 worked shale piece, 4
shaft smoothers, 3 abrading stones, 8
gravers, 1 burin, 1 needle, 1 chert drill,
3 choppers, 2 hopper mortars, 2 net
sinkers, 4 hammerstones, 3 stone mauls,
5 pestles, 2 large pestle fragments, 84
basalt fragments, 3 chert fragments, 663
unmodified flakes, 1 thermally-fractured
rock, 2 columnar slabs, 1 fractured
cobble, 1 flaked cobble, 1 stone pendant,
1 stone ring, 5 round stones, 1 girdled
stone, 2 pierced stones, 49 pebbles, 1
girdled pebble, 9 broken pebbles, 1
worked scoria piece, 34 dentalium
shells, 1 pectin shell, 1 incised bead, 8
steatite beads, 12 bone beads, 3 vials of
bone beads, 4 fossil crinoid beads, 10
stone beads, 3 unspecified beads, 21
worked antlers/fragments, 2 vials of
antler/bone, 1 vial of elk teeth, 2 faunal
effigies, 2 awls, 1 bone tube fragment, 16
worked non-human bones/fragments, 18
non-human bones/fragments, 11 burned
non-human bone fragments, 6 red ochre
pieces, and 1 green chalk piece.
Site 35–GM–9 is located along the
south side shoreline of the Columbia
River, approximately 9.5 river miles east
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of the John Day River confluence. The
multicomponent site contains multiple
activity areas that are believed to have
been repeatedly occupied from
approximately 9,000 B.P. to A.D. 1750.
Site 35–GM–9 frequently served as a
village, camping area and cemetery.
Based on distinctive osteological
evidence, the associated funerary
objects and the location of the human
remains within the site, all the
individuals have been determined to be
Native American.
Oral traditions and ethnographic
reports indicate that site 35–GM–9 lies
within the historic territory of Sahaptinspeaking Tenino or Warm Springs
peoples whose descendants are
culturally-affiliated with the presentday Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon. The
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation is composed of
three Wasco bands, four Warm Springs
bands, and Northern Paiutes. The
Columbia River-based Wasco were the
easternmost group of Chinookanspeaking Indians. The Sahaptinspeaking 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
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, and
University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), the human remains described
above represent the physical remains of
at least 134 individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District, and University of Oregon
Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, have also determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the
1,182 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
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Engineers, Portland District, and
University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural 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 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 October 25,
2010. 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 this 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, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Brigham Young University, Museum of
Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES
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 Brigham Young
University, Museum of Peoples and
Cultures, Provo, UT. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from Kane and San Juan
Counties, UT.
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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.
Between 1993 and 1996, a detailed
assessment of the human remains and
associated funerary objects was made by
the Brigham Young University, Museum
of Peoples and Cultures, professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians
of the Kaibab Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico
(formerly the Pueblo of San Juan);
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; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of 23
individuals were removed from four
unidentified caves in San Juan County,
UT. Between 1893 and 1894, Mr.
Charles Lang and Mr. Platte Lyman
donated the human remains to the
Deseret Museum, Salt Lake City, UT,
which was later incorporated into the
Church History Museum of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
Salt Lake City, UT. The collection
became known as the Lang-Lyman
Collection, and was acquired by the
Museum of Peoples and Cultures
through museum transfers in 1966 and
1995, and accessioned (Catalog Nos.
1966.55.1.1, 1966.56.1.1, 1966.57.2.1,
1966.57.3.1. 1966.57.7.1, 1966.58.1.0,
1966.58.2.0, 1966.58.3.1, 1966.58.4.1,
1966.58.5.1, 1966.58.5.2, 1966.58.6.1,
1966.58.7.1, 1966.58.8.1, 1966.58.9.1,
1966.58.10.1, 1966.59.1.1, 1966.60.1.1,
1966.61.1.1, 1966.62.1.1, 1966.62.2.1,
1966.62.4.0, and 1966.64.01.1). No
known individuals were identified. The
127 associated funerary objects are 1
spear, 1 small spear, 9 sandals, 6 animal
skins, 1 net bag, 1 net, 5 atlatl darts, 2
feathered blankets, 2 buckskin pouches,
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8 baskets, 1 piece of leather, 1 moccasin,
1 pipe, 1 onyx pipe bowl, 14 turkey
feathers, 1 bundle of human hair, 1 mug,
1 leather pouch, 1 piece of buckskin, 1
gourd container, 60 feathers, 1 bone awl,
1 stone implement, 1 ceramic bowl, 1
wooden pillow, 1 throwing stick and 3
ceramic vessels.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from an
unknown site, in either Kane or San
Juan County, UT. These remains are also
part of the previously mentioned LangLyman Collection, acquired and
accessioned by the Museum of Peoples
and Cultures through museum transfers
in 1966 (Catalog No. 1966.63.1.1). No
known individual was identified. The
four associated funerary objects are one
basket, one feather and yucca blanket,
one lot of seed corn and one feather
blanket.
Documentation surrounding the LangLyman expedition indicates that all the
burials were found within various dry
cave locations. This is consistent with
the deposition of other known
prehistoric Puebloan burials. In
addition, the typology of the objects
found with the human remains supports
the determination that these burials are
affiliated with the prehistoric Anasazi
culture.
At an unknown date, human remains
representing a minimum of three
individuals were removed from an
unknown location in Iceberg Canyon
near Lake Powell, San Juan County, UT,
by private individuals. No further
geographical information is known. In
1971, the human remains were donated
to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures
and were accessioned (Catalog No.
1971.11.5.0). No known individuals
were identified. The one associated
funerary objects is one lot of clothing
fragments.
A twisted fragment of animal hide
present on one of the sets of the human
remains may represent the remains of a
Basketmaker-style rabbitskin robe.
Based on the presence of the clothing
fragments, it is reasonably determined
that the burials date to either the late
Basketmaker or early Pueblo era of the
Anasazi culture. Based on the period to
which the burials date and the general
location in which they were found,
museum officials have determined that
the burials are prehistoric Anasazi and
affiliated with modern Puebloan
cultures.
In 1971, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from 42Sa2110, Nancy
Patterson Village, in Montezuma
Canyon, San Juan County, UT, by Nancy
Patterson. The human remains were
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 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 provisions of 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, Gilliam 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; Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Nation, Washington; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation, Oregon; and Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho.
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 land. Following
excavations at the site described below, and under the provisions of
the permits, the University of Oregon retained the collections for
preservation.
Between 1959 and 1968, human remains representing a minimum of 134
individuals were removed from site 35-GM-9, also known as the Wildcat
Canyon site, Gilliam County, OR, during excavations by the University
of Oregon prior to construction of the John Day Dam. No known
individuals were identified. The 1,182 associated funerary objects are
41 projectile points, 8 projectile point fragments, 2 chert bifacial
tips, 6 stone knives, 2 knife fragments, 17 blades, 14 blade fragments,
3 crude chert bifaces, 1 bifacially-modified obsidian crescent, 19
scrapers, 4 utilized flakes, 41 worked flakes, 2 cores, 1 worked shale
piece, 4 shaft smoothers, 3 abrading stones, 8 gravers, 1 burin, 1
needle, 1 chert drill, 3 choppers, 2 hopper mortars, 2 net sinkers, 4
hammerstones, 3 stone mauls, 5 pestles, 2 large pestle fragments, 84
basalt fragments, 3 chert fragments, 663 unmodified flakes, 1
thermally-fractured rock, 2 columnar slabs, 1 fractured cobble, 1
flaked cobble, 1 stone pendant, 1 stone ring, 5 round stones, 1 girdled
stone, 2 pierced stones, 49 pebbles, 1 girdled pebble, 9 broken
pebbles, 1 worked scoria piece, 34 dentalium shells, 1 pectin shell, 1
incised bead, 8 steatite beads, 12 bone beads, 3 vials of bone beads, 4
fossil crinoid beads, 10 stone beads, 3 unspecified beads, 21 worked
antlers/fragments, 2 vials of antler/bone, 1 vial of elk teeth, 2
faunal effigies, 2 awls, 1 bone tube fragment, 16 worked non-human
bones/fragments, 18 non-human bones/fragments, 11 burned non-human bone
fragments, 6 red ochre pieces, and 1 green chalk piece.
Site 35-GM-9 is located along the south side shoreline of the
Columbia River, approximately 9.5 river miles east of the John Day
River confluence. The multicomponent site contains multiple activity
areas that are believed to have been repeatedly occupied from
approximately 9,000 B.P. to A.D. 1750. Site 35-GM-9 frequently served
as a village, camping area and cemetery. Based on distinctive
osteological evidence, the associated funerary objects and the location
of the human remains within the site, all the individuals have been
determined to be Native American.
Oral traditions and ethnographic reports indicate that site 35-GM-9
lies within the historic territory of Sahaptin-speaking Tenino or Warm
Springs peoples whose descendants are culturally-affiliated with the
present-day Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 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,
and University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of at least 134
individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Portland District, and University of Oregon Museum
of Natural and Cultural History, have also determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 1,182 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
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Engineers, Portland District, and University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural 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 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 October 25, 2010. 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 this 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, 2010
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2010-23903 Filed 9-23-10; 8:45 am]
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