Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, White River Field Office, Meeker, CO and Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology, Fort Collins, CO, 14054-14055 [2011-5874]
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have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(2), that 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
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Shingle
Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle
Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California; United Auburn Indian
Community of the Auburn Rancheria of
California; and Wilton Rancheria,
California, as well as the non-Federally
recognized Indian groups of the El
Dorado Miwok Tribe and Nashville-El
Dorado Miwok.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Charles Gossett, Dean of the
College of Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J
St., Sacramento, CA 95819–6109,
telephone: (916) 278–6504, before April
14, 2011. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Shingle
Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle
Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California; United Auburn Indian
Community of the Auburn Rancheria of
California; and Wilton Rancheria,
California, may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
California State University,
Sacramento, is responsible for notifying
the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Cortina Indian
Rancheria of Wintun Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California;
Wilton Rancheria, California; and Yocha
Dehe Wintun Nation, California, as well
as the non-federally recognized Indian
groups of the El Dorado Miwok Tribe
and Nashville-El Dorado Miwok that
this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management, White River Field
Office, Meeker, CO and Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, Fort Collins, CO
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 U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management, White River Field Office,
Meeker, CO, and in the possession of
the Colorado State University,
Laboratory of Public Archaeology, Fort
Collins, CO. The human remains were
removed from the Canyon Pintado
National Historic District, Rio Blanco
County, CO.
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 Bureau of
Land Management, White River Field
Office, and Colorado State University
professional staff, in consultation with
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New
Mexico; Kiowa Indian Tribe of
Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona,
New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh,
New Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of
Utah; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico;
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico;
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort
Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of
the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North &
South Dakota; Ute Indian Tribe of the
Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; and
Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico &
Utah (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘The
Tribes’’).
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In 1977, human remains representing
a minimum number of one individual
were removed from site 5RB699, in Rio
Blanco County, CO, on public lands
administered by the Bureau of Land
Management, White River Field Office.
The remains are represented by a single
human tooth that was recovered from an
excavation trench during excavations
conducted by the Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology. No known individual was
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
In 1977, human remains representing
a minimum number of one individual
were removed from site 5RB761, in Rio
Blanco County, CO, on public lands
administered by the Bureau of Land
Management, White River Field Office.
The remains are represented by a partial
skeleton and associated hide and
cordage that were recovered from a rock
crevice burial during excavations
conducted by the Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology. No known individual was
identified. The two associated funerary
objects are a hide and cordage.
In 2009, Colorado State University,
Laboratory of Public Archaeology,
located the two sets of remains in their
holdings and informed the Bureau of
Land Management. Subsequently, the
Bureau of Land Management moved the
human remains and associated funerary
objects from the Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology facility to more secure
storage at the Bureau of Land
Management’s Federal collections
depository at the Museum of Western
Colorado pending repatriation.
The Bureau of Land Management has
determined that the preponderance of
evidence shows that the human remains
are Native American and have Ute
cultural affiliation. Visual inspection by
Colorado State University, Laboratory of
Public Archaeology, of the skeletal
morphology of the burial individual
from site 5RB761 demonstrated tooth
wear likely associated with Native
Americans. Rock crevice burials are
strongly associated with Native
American practices, in particular with
Ute tribes. Also, the burial was located
directly underneath a rock art panel that
is consistent with the Early Ute Historic
Style of rock art found in the region.
Site 5RB699 dated Fremont and Ute
occupations. Finally, both site 5RB761
and site 5RB699 are located within
lands that were traditionally occupied
by the Ute band that is now represented
by the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah &
Ouray Reservation, Utah.
Officials of the Bureau of Land
Management, White River Field Office,
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and Colorado State University,
Laboratory of Public Archaeology, have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of two individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Land Management, White
River Field Office, and the Colorado
State University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, have also determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that
the two objects described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains
at the time of death. Lastly, officials of
the Bureau of Land Management, White
River Field Office, and Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, have determined pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that 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
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Dan Haas, State Archaeologist,
Bureau of Land Management, Colorado
State Office, 2850 Youngfield St.,
Lakewood, CO 80215–7076, telephone
(303) 239–3647 before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Ute
Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah, may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Bureau of Land Management is
responsible for notifying The Tribes that
this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
California State Department of
Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento,
CA, and California State University,
Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
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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 California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans),
Sacramento, CA, and in the possession
of California State University,
Sacramento, CA. The human remains
and associated funerary objects were
removed from Site CA–SJO–91, also
known as French Camp Slough Site, San
Joaquin 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 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 California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; and Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe), as well as the nonFederally recognized Indian groups: The
Southern Sierra Miwoks of California,
Northern Valley Yokuts, and
Tubatulabals of Kern Valley. The
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Table Mountain Rancheria of
California; Tule River Indian Tribe of
the Tule River Reservation, California;
and Wilton Rancheria, California, were
also contacted, but did not participate in
consultation about the human remains
and associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
In 1970, human remains representing
498 individuals were removed from
CA–SJO–91 on private property, in San
Joaquin County, CA, during a salvage
excavation project. Faculty and students
from what was then Sacramento State
College (now California State
University, Sacramento) were brought in
by the California Division of Highways
(now California Department of
Transportation [Caltrans]) to conduct
salvage excavations. No known
individuals were identified. The 4,667
associated funerary objects are 3,967
beads, 16 bifaces, 4 pieces of charcoal,
1 charmstone fragment, 1 silicate core,
2 lots of debitage, 490 faunal bones, 2
flake tools, 61 tule mat impressions, 20
modified bones, 1 modified shell, 2
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modified stones, 20 pieces of ochre, 14
ornaments, 3 pestles, 20 projectile
points, 35 quartz crystals and pebbles, 6
soil samples, and 2 whistles. In
addition, there are 187 missing
associated funerary objects (156 beads, 1
piece of charcoal, 1 igneous core, 15 lots
of debitage, 5 faunal bones, 1 flake tool,
1 modified bone, 1 quartz rock, 1
steatite ring, and 5 bone whistles).
Multiple lines of evidence were used
to determine the cultural affiliation of
the CA–SJO–91 collection.
Archeological evidence indicates that
the site was occupied from the Early
Horizon through the Late Horizon. Most
of the burials were in two cemeteries
that were located 60 meters apart. Other
burials were located between the two
cemeteries or are of uncertain horizontal
provenience due to construction
activities. Cemetery I was
radiometrically dated to between
1845±90 and 2985±160 years B.P. The
burial patterns and artifact types in
Cemetery I correspond to a transitional
time period between the Early Horizon
and Middle Horizon time periods.
Cemetery II was not radiometrically
dated. Based on mode of interment and
artifact types, Cemetery II burials date
slightly earlier to the Early Horizon,
although there are similarities in
constituents between the two
cemeteries. A Late Horizon component
(1500 B.P. to European contact) at CA–
SJO–91 was essentially removed by
construction activities before salvage
excavations began.
Biological, archeological, and
linguistic evidence indicate that
population movement occurred between
the Early and Middle Horizon in the
French Camp Slough area. It may be that
the individuals buried in the Early
Horizon Cemetery II represent an
earlier, Utian speaking people
(linguistic evidence supports a
relationship of shared group identity
between early Utian speaking peoples
and contemporary Miwok tribes), while
the individuals in the Middle Horizon
Cemetery I may represent a more recent
pre-Yokut speaking people. Historical
and geographical lines of evidence
indicate that CA–SJO–91 lies on the
border of the traditional territory of the
Plains Miwok and the Northern Valley
Yokuts. At the time of first contact with
Spanish missionaries in the early 19th
century, the area is thought to have been
occupied by the Passasime, a Northern
Valley Yokuts people who were also
related to the Plains Miwok. Oral and
documentary evidence provided by
representatives of Indian tribes during
consultation demonstrates an interrelationship between Northern Valley
Yokuts and Plains Miwok tribes.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, White River Field Office, Meeker, CO and
Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology, Fort
Collins, CO
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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management, White River Field Office, Meeker, CO, and in the
possession of the Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, Fort Collins, CO. The human remains were removed from the
Canyon Pintado National Historic District, Rio Blanco County, CO.
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 Bureau
of Land Management, White River Field Office, and Colorado State
University professional staff, in consultation with representatives of
the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah;
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah; Pueblo of
Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Shoshone-
Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone Tribe of
the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North
& South Dakota; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation,
Utah; and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado,
New Mexico & Utah (hereinafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
In 1977, human remains representing a minimum number of one
individual were removed from site 5RB699, in Rio Blanco County, CO, on
public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, White River
Field Office. The remains are represented by a single human tooth that
was recovered from an excavation trench during excavations conducted by
the Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology. No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
In 1977, human remains representing a minimum number of one
individual were removed from site 5RB761, in Rio Blanco County, CO, on
public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, White River
Field Office. The remains are represented by a partial skeleton and
associated hide and cordage that were recovered from a rock crevice
burial during excavations conducted by the Colorado State University,
Laboratory of Public Archaeology. No known individual was identified.
The two associated funerary objects are a hide and cordage.
In 2009, Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, located the two sets of remains in their holdings and
informed the Bureau of Land Management. Subsequently, the Bureau of
Land Management moved the human remains and associated funerary objects
from the Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology
facility to more secure storage at the Bureau of Land Management's
Federal collections depository at the Museum of Western Colorado
pending repatriation.
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that the preponderance
of evidence shows that the human remains are Native American and have
Ute cultural affiliation. Visual inspection by Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology, of the skeletal
morphology of the burial individual from site 5RB761 demonstrated tooth
wear likely associated with Native Americans. Rock crevice burials are
strongly associated with Native American practices, in particular with
Ute tribes. Also, the burial was located directly underneath a rock art
panel that is consistent with the Early Ute Historic Style of rock art
found in the region. Site 5RB699 dated Fremont and Ute occupations.
Finally, both site 5RB761 and site 5RB699 are located within lands that
were traditionally occupied by the Ute band that is now represented by
the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah.
Officials of the Bureau of Land Management, White River Field
Office,
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and Colorado State University, Laboratory of Public Archaeology, have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of two individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Bureau of Land Management,
White River Field Office, and the Colorado State University, Laboratory
of Public Archaeology, have also determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(A), that the two objects described above are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at
the time of death. Lastly, officials of the Bureau of Land Management,
White River Field Office, and Colorado State University, Laboratory of
Public Archaeology, have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that
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 Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Dan Haas, State Archaeologist, Bureau of Land
Management, Colorado State Office, 2850 Youngfield St., Lakewood, CO
80215-7076, telephone (303) 239-3647 before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah, may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for notifying The
Tribes that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2011-5874 Filed 3-14-11; 8:45 am]
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