Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District, Prineville, OR and University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR, 36147-36148 [2011-15430]
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be Native American, and possibly of
Kalapuya cultural affiliation.
Descendants of the Kalapuya are
members of the Confederated Tribes of
the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
and Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians of Oregon.
Determinations Made by the University
of Oregon Museum of Natural and
Cultural History
Officials of the 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 one
individual of Native American ancestry.
• 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 the Confederated Tribes of
the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
and Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians of Oregon.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Dr. Pamela Endzweig,
Director of Collections, University of
Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural
History, 1224 University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97403–1224, telephone
(541) 346–5120, before July 21, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Confederated Tribes of the Grand
Ronde Community of Oregon and/or
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of
Oregon may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History is
responsible for notifying the
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon and the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of
Oregon that this notice has been
published.
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Dated: June 15, 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, Prineville District,
Prineville, OR and University of
Oregon Museum of Natural and
Cultural History, Eugene, OR
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Bureau of Land
Management, Prineville District has
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects,
in consultation with the appropriate
Indian tribes, and has determined that
there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary
objects and present-day Indian tribes.
Representatives of any Indian tribe that
believes itself to be culturally affiliated
with the human remains and associated
funerary objects may contact the Bureau
of Land Management, Prineville District.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Indian
tribes stated below may occur if no
additional claimants come forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian
tribe that believes it has a cultural
affiliation with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact the Bureau of Land
Management, Prineville District at the
address below by July 21, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Molly M. Brown, Bureau of
Land Management, 3050 NE 3rd St.,
Prineville, OR 97754, telephone (541)
416–6766.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, Prineville District,
Prineville, OR, and in the possession of
the University of Oregon Museum of
Natural and Cultural History, Eugene,
OR. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from
Jefferson 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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Bureau of
Land Management’s Prineville District
and Museum of Natural and Cultural
History professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Burns Paiute Tribe and the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1962, human remains representing
one individual were removed from site
35JE52, in Jefferson County, OR, during
excavations by University of Oregon
archeologists. No known individual was
identified. The three associated funerary
objects consist of fragments of matting.
Based on archeological context, the
individual has been determined to be
Native American. In April 1961, the site
35JE52, also known as the Peninsula II
site, was first recorded by the Klamath
County Archaeological Survey. The site
is a rockshelter with pictographs and
adjacent shell middens located at the
base of a cliff on the east bank of the
Deschutes River. The age of occupation
of the site is unknown. The Museum of
Natural and Cultural History reported
the remains to the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation in its
March 1996 NAGPRA inventory. In
2007, the Bureau of Land Management,
Prineville District, in conjunction with
Archaeological Resources Protection Act
(ARPA) investigations concerning site
35JE52, contacted the museum. At that
time, the museum learned that the site
is on Federal land, and the NAGPRA
notification process was referred to the
Bureau of Land Management officials.
Oral traditions and ethnographic
reports indicate that site 35JE52 lies
within the historic territory of Sahaptinspeaking 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 Chinookanspeaking Indians. The Sahaptinspeaking Warm Springs bands lived
farther east along the Columbia River
and its tributaries. Oral traditions and
ethnographic information also indicated
that site 35JE52 lies within a region that
was occasionally used during historic
times by Northern Paiute people whose
descendants are culturally affiliated
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with present-day members of the Burns
Paiute Tribe. Ethnographic data
indicates that the boundaries between
Sahaptin speakers and Northern Paiutes
were quite flexible allowing for
intertribal exchange. The Burns Paiute
Tribe includes Northern Paiutes, who
spoke a Uto-Aztecan language and who
historically occupied and used the
greater southeastern Oregon region.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Determinations Made by the Bureau of
Land Management, Prineville District
SUMMARY:
Officials of the Bureau of Land
Management, Prineville District have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of one
individual of Native American ancestry.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the three objects described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near the individual human
remains at the time of death or later as
part of the death rite or ceremony.
• 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 Burns Paiute Tribe and the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon.
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Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Molly M. Brown, Bureau of
Land Management, 3050 NE 3rd St.,
Prineville, OR 97754, telephone (541)
416–6766, before July 21, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Burns
Paiute Tribe and Confederated Tribes of
the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Land Management,
Prineville District is responsible for
notifying the Burns Paiute Tribe and the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon that this
notice has been published.
Dated: June 15, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler
Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
has completed an inventory of human
remains, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian tribes, and has
determined that there is no cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and any present-day Indian tribe.
Representatives of any Indian tribe that
believes itself to be culturally affiliated
with the human remains may contact
the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Disposition of the human remains to the
tribe stated below may occur if no
additional requestors come forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian
tribe that believes it has a cultural
affiliation with the human remains
should contact the Fowler Museum at
UCLA at the address below by July 21,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Wendy G. Teeter, PhD,
Curator of Archaeology, Fowler
Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los
Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone
(310) 825–1864.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 of
the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los
Angeles, CA. The human remain was
removed from Humboldt 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) and 43 CFR 10.11(d).
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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Fowler
Museum at UCLA professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Bear River Band of the Rohnerville
Rancheria, California; Blue Lake
Rancheria, California; Smith River
Rancheria, California; Wiyot Tribe,
California (formerly the Table Bluff
Reservation—Wiyot Tribe); and the
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Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation,
California. The Wiyot Tribe, California,
requested the transfer of control of the
individual described in this notice. The
Bear River Band of the Rohnerville
Rancheria, California, and the Blue Lake
Rancheria, California, sent letters of
support for the transfer of control to the
Wiyot Tribe.
History and Description of the Remains
In the first half of the 20th century, a
human remain representing one
individual was most likely removed
from Eureka, Humboldt County, CA.
The human remain is a mandible from
a female. It was found in the Bird and
Mammal collection of the UCLA
Department of Biology and subsequently
transferred to the Fowler Museum at
UCLA. According to the Bird and
Mammal collection accession records,
Loye Miller, a biologist who worked in
the first half of the 20th century,
collected it from an unknown person.
The human remain is labeled
‘‘W.H.M.M. #313 Eureka, California.’’
‘‘W.H.M.M.’’ stands for the Wellcome
Historic Medical Museum. A search of
the Wellcome archives produced no
documentation directly related to this
remain and the circumstances
surrounding its excavation or collection
are unknown. However, the Wellcome
Museum did purchase remains from
several collectors from the Eureka
region. Therefore, it is reasonably
believed that this individual was
received from one of these collectors
and removed from the Humboldt
County area. No known individual was
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Based on the records and condition of
the mandible, archeologists have
determined that the human remain
probably comes from a coastal shell
midden and is of fairly late age. The soil
in the redwood forest areas of the
Humboldt County area is very acidic,
and bone does not survive long in the
ground. However, the calcium carbonate
from the shells in the shell mounds in
the coastal areas helps preserve bone,
and thus several hundred year-old
burials are found in shell mounds in the
Eureka area. Loud (1918) recorded shell
mound sites in Eureka, on Indian
(Gunther) Island and around the
margins of Humboldt Bay, most of
which have associated Wiyot village
place names and burials and have been
dated to the Late Prehistoric Period
between A.D. 700–1100 (Loud 1918;
Heizer & Elsasser 1964; Tushingham
2010).
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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, Prineville District, Prineville, OR and
University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian tribes.
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects may contact the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Indian tribes stated below may occur if no additional claimants
come forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a
cultural affiliation with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville
District at the address below by July 21, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Molly M. Brown, Bureau of Land Management, 3050 NE 3rd St.,
Prineville, OR 97754, telephone (541) 416-6766.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, Prineville District,
Prineville, OR, and in the possession of the University of Oregon
Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, OR. The human remains
and associated funerary objects were removed from Jefferson 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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Bureau
of Land Management's Prineville District and Museum of Natural and
Cultural History professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Burns Paiute Tribe and the Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1962, human remains representing one individual were removed
from site 35JE52, in Jefferson County, OR, during excavations by
University of Oregon archeologists. No known individual was identified.
The three associated funerary objects consist of fragments of matting.
Based on archeological context, the individual has been determined
to be Native American. In April 1961, the site 35JE52, also known as
the Peninsula II site, was first recorded by the Klamath County
Archaeological Survey. The site is a rockshelter with pictographs and
adjacent shell middens located at the base of a cliff on the east bank
of the Deschutes River. The age of occupation of the site is unknown.
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History reported the remains to the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation in its March 1996
NAGPRA inventory. In 2007, the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville
District, in conjunction with Archaeological Resources Protection Act
(ARPA) investigations concerning site 35JE52, contacted the museum. At
that time, the museum learned that the site is on Federal land, and the
NAGPRA notification process was referred to the Bureau of Land
Management officials.
Oral traditions and ethnographic reports indicate that site 35JE52
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. Oral
traditions and ethnographic information also indicated that site 35JE52
lies within a region that was occasionally used during historic times
by Northern Paiute people whose descendants are culturally affiliated
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with present-day members of the Burns Paiute Tribe. Ethnographic data
indicates that the boundaries between Sahaptin speakers and Northern
Paiutes were quite flexible allowing for intertribal exchange. The
Burns Paiute Tribe includes Northern Paiutes, who spoke a Uto-Aztecan
language and who historically occupied and used the greater
southeastern Oregon region.
Determinations Made by the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville
District
Officials of the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District
have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
above represent the physical remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the three objects
described above are reasonably believed to have been placed with or
near the individual human remains at the time of death or later as part
of the death rite or ceremony.
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 Burns
Paiute Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Molly M. Brown, Bureau of Land Management, 3050
NE 3rd St., Prineville, OR 97754, telephone (541) 416-6766, before July
21, 2011. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Burns Paiute Tribe and Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District is responsible
for notifying the Burns Paiute Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon that this notice has been published.
Dated: June 15, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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