Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix, AZ and Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 58035-58036 [2011-23964]
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Museum professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Washington; Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Oregon; Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington; and the Nez Perce Tribe,
Idaho (hereinafter ‘‘The Tribes’’). The
Burke Museum also consulted with the
Wanapum Band, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group (hereinafter
‘‘The Indian Group’’).
dispersed and enrolled in the two Tribes
mentioned above, as well as the Nez
Perce Tribe, Idaho; Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation,
Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon;
and the Wanapum Band, a nonFederally recognized Indian group.
Museum documentation indicates that
the cultural items were found in
connection with the human remains.
The cultural items are consistent with
cultural items typically found in context
with burials in eastern Washington.
History and Description of the Remains
In 1920, human remains were
removed by Dr. F.S. Hall of the
Washington State Museum from the Pot
Holes site or Hall Site #7 (later assigned
45–GR–131) located on the east bank of
the Columbia River, south of Trinidad,
Grant County, WA. The human remains
were accessioned by the museum in
November 1920 (Burke Accn. #1860). In
1974, the Burke Museum legally
transferred portions of the human
remains to Central Washington
University. In 2007, a Notice of
Inventory Completion (NIC) describing
35 individuals and 685 associated
funerary objects removed from the Pot
Hole site was published in the Federal
Register [72 FR 52391–52392,
September 13, 2007]. The Burke
Museum and Central Washington
University have jointly repatriated these
human remains and funerary objects to
the culturally affiliated Tribes listed in
the NIC. In 2010, the Burke Museum
found an additional two individuals and
two associated funerary objects from the
Pot Hole site during an inventory of the
University of Washington, Department
of Anthropology Collections. No known
individuals were identified. The two
associated funerary objects are one lot of
bones (non-human) and one unmodified
rock.
Early and late published ethnographic
documentation indicates that the Pot
Hole site is located in the aboriginal
territory of the Moses-Columbia or
Sinkiuse, and the Yakima (Daugherty
1973, Miller 1998, Mooney 1896, Ray
1936, Spier 1936) whose descendents
are represented today by the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Washington, and the
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Nation, Washington.
Furthermore, information provided
during consultation indicates that the
aboriginal ancestors occupying this area
were highly mobile and traveled the
landscape for gathering resources as
well as trade. Descendents of these
Plateau communities are now widely
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Officials of the Burke Museum have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of two
individuals of Native American
ancestry.
• 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.
• 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 Tribes and The Indian Group.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian Tribe
that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Peter Lape, Burke Museum,
University of Washington, Box 35101,
Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206)
685–3849, before October 19, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to The
Tribes and The Indian Group may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Burke Museum is responsible for
notifying The Tribes and The Indian
Group that this notice has been
published.
Dated: September 13, 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
Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office,
Phoenix, AZ and Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix Area Office and Arizona State
Museum have completed an inventory
of a human remain, in consultation with
the appropriate Indian Tribes, and have
determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remain
and present-day Indian Tribes.
Representatives of any Indian Tribe that
believes itself to be culturally affiliated
with the human remain may contact the
Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area
Office. Repatriation of the human
remain 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 remain
should contact the Bureau of
Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office at the
address below by October 19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Randy Chandler, Area
Manager, Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix Area Office, 6150 West
Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ 85306–
4001.
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 a human remain in the control of the
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office,
Phoenix, AZ, and in the physical
custody of the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The
human remain was removed from Pinal
County, AZ.
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.
SUMMARY:
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remain was made by Arizona State
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Museum professional staff on behalf of
the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix
Area Office, in consultation with
representatives of the Ak-Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak-Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Remains
Between February and May 1975, a
human remain—a mandible fragment—
representing one individual was
removed from a pack rat nest located on
the talus slope below the mouth of a
rock shelter, site AZ U: 16:213(ASM), in
Pinal County, AZ, during a legally
authorized Class III (Intensive) cultural
resource survey undertaken by the
Arizona State Museum for the Bureau of
Reclamation. The site is located on the
north side of Gila River, east of
Florence, and downstream of the
‘‘Buttes’’ on the Gila River where a
proposed dam was to be built during the
Central Arizona Project. In 2010,
Arizona State Museum reviewed
uncatalogued site survey collections,
which revealed the presence of this
isolated Native American mandible
fragment from a survey on Reclamation
withdrawn lands along the Middle Gila
River. There have been other Notices of
Inventory Completion (NICs) published
in the Federal Register for the Central
Arizona Project (39 FR 8996–9002,
February 27, 2002; 67 FR 45539–45540,
July 9, 2002; and 67 FR 78247–78248,
December 23, 2002). The materials
reported in the earlier NICs were
repatriated to the affiliated Tribes in
October and November of 2002. No
known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
Site AZ U:16:213(ASM) was classified
as a secondary habitation site, and no
diagnostic ceramics were present to
place the site in a temporal or cultural
sequence. Nonetheless, on the basis of
archeological context, chronometric,
architectural, ceramic, and other types
of artifactual evidence at adjacent sites
recorded during the survey, AZ
U:16:213(ASM) most likely represents a
Hohokam occupation of the Middle
Gila.
Evidence provided by
anthropological, archeological,
biological, geographical, historical,
kinship, linguistics, and oral tradition
sources was considered in determining
the cultural affiliation of the human
remain. Bureau of Reclamation officials
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have determined that the preponderance
of the evidence suggests that the historic
O’odham groups (The Four Southern
Tribes: Ak-Chin Indian Community of
the Maricopa (Ak-Chin) Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian
Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the Salt
River Reservation, Arizona; and the
Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona,
including the San Xavier District) have
a strong cultural affiliation with the
prehistoric Hohokam who occupied the
middle Gila Valley and surrounding
areas. Great similarities in settlement
patterns, economic systems,
architecture, and material culture point
to a close relationship between the
Hohokam and the O’odham groups. The
O’odham were well established along
the rivers and in the deserts when the
Spanish first arrived in northern Sonora
and southern Arizona.
One of the two Pima moieties claims
descent from the Hohokam, while the
other moiety is said to have descended
from the ‘‘emergers,’’ those who
overthrew the Hohokam leaders.
Although the O’odham belong to the
same linguistic group (Piman) as
communities in what is now northern
Mexico, shared vocabulary and syntax
with Yuman language groups along the
Colorado River suggests a long-term
history of interaction that stretches back
into prehistoric times in what is now
southern Arizona.
Evidence also shows the affiliation of
ancestral Zuni and Hopi groups with the
prehistoric Hohokam. Interaction is
indicated by the presence of trade items,
particularly ceramics. Such interaction
continued into protohistoric and early
historic times. In addition to trade, Hopi
and Zuni migration traditions indicate
that clans originating from areas south
of the Colorado Plateau joined the
plateau communities late in prehistoric
times. These groups contributed
ceremonies, societies, and iconography
to the plateau groups. Both O’odham
and Western Pueblo oral traditions
indicate that some Hohokam groups
may have left the Salt-Gila River Basin
after disastrous floods and social
upheaval. These groups traveled north
and east, possibly to be assimilated by
the Hopi and Zuni. These ties are
reflected in some of the traditional
ceremonies maintained as part of the
annual ceremonial cycle. Their
ancestors had trade relationships and
other likely interactions with the
Hohokam, similar to those found
between groups in the early historic
period. Hopi and Zuni oral traditions
indicate that segments of the prehistoric
Hohokam population migrated to the
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areas occupied by the Hopi and Zuni
and were assimilated into the resident
populations. Therefore, the evidence
suggests that the Hopi and Zuni are also
culturally affiliated with the Hohokam.
Determinations Made by the Bureau of
Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office
Officials of the Bureau of
Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remain 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
remain and The Tribes.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian
Tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remain should
contact, in writing, Randy Chandler,
Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix Area Office, 6150 West
Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ 85306–
4001, before October 19, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remain to
The Tribes may proceed after that date
if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Bureau of Reclamation is
responsible for notifying The Tribes;
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the
Chemehuevi Reservation, California;
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Colorado
River Indian Tribes of the Colorado
River Indian Reservation, Arizona and
California; Fort McDowell Yavapai
Nation, Arizona; Fort Mohave Indian
Tribe of Arizona, California & Nevada;
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona; Quechan
Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian
Reservation, California & Arizona; San
Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos
Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache
Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache
Nation of the Camp Verde Indian
Reservation, Arizona; and YavapaiPrescott Tribe of the Yavapai
Reservation, Arizona, that this notice
has been published.
Dated: September 14, 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 Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix, AZ and Arizona
State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office and Arizona
State Museum have completed an inventory of a human remain, in
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, and have determined
that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remain and
present-day Indian Tribes. Representatives of any Indian Tribe that
believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remain may
contact the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office. Repatriation of
the human remain 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 remain should contact the Bureau of
Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office at the address below by October 19,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Randy Chandler, Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix
Area Office, 6150 West Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ 85306-4001.
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 a human remain in the
control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix, AZ, and in the physical custody of the
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. The human
remain was removed from Pinal County, AZ.
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.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remain was made by Arizona State
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Museum professional staff on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation,
Phoenix Area Office, in consultation with representatives of the Ak-
Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak-Chin) Indian Reservation,
Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico (hereinafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
History and Description of the Remains
Between February and May 1975, a human remain--a mandible
fragment--representing one individual was removed from a pack rat nest
located on the talus slope below the mouth of a rock shelter, site AZ
U: 16:213(ASM), in Pinal County, AZ, during a legally authorized Class
III (Intensive) cultural resource survey undertaken by the Arizona
State Museum for the Bureau of Reclamation. The site is located on the
north side of Gila River, east of Florence, and downstream of the
``Buttes'' on the Gila River where a proposed dam was to be built
during the Central Arizona Project. In 2010, Arizona State Museum
reviewed uncatalogued site survey collections, which revealed the
presence of this isolated Native American mandible fragment from a
survey on Reclamation withdrawn lands along the Middle Gila River.
There have been other Notices of Inventory Completion (NICs) published
in the Federal Register for the Central Arizona Project (39 FR 8996-
9002, February 27, 2002; 67 FR 45539-45540, July 9, 2002; and 67 FR
78247-78248, December 23, 2002). The materials reported in the earlier
NICs were repatriated to the affiliated Tribes in October and November
of 2002. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Site AZ U:16:213(ASM) was classified as a secondary habitation
site, and no diagnostic ceramics were present to place the site in a
temporal or cultural sequence. Nonetheless, on the basis of
archeological context, chronometric, architectural, ceramic, and other
types of artifactual evidence at adjacent sites recorded during the
survey, AZ U:16:213(ASM) most likely represents a Hohokam occupation of
the Middle Gila.
Evidence provided by anthropological, archeological, biological,
geographical, historical, kinship, linguistics, and oral tradition
sources was considered in determining the cultural affiliation of the
human remain. Bureau of Reclamation officials have determined that the
preponderance of the evidence suggests that the historic O'odham groups
(The Four Southern Tribes: Ak-Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa
(Ak-Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of
the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and the Tohono
O'odham Nation of Arizona, including the San Xavier District) have a
strong cultural affiliation with the prehistoric Hohokam who occupied
the middle Gila Valley and surrounding areas. Great similarities in
settlement patterns, economic systems, architecture, and material
culture point to a close relationship between the Hohokam and the
O'odham groups. The O'odham were well established along the rivers and
in the deserts when the Spanish first arrived in northern Sonora and
southern Arizona.
One of the two Pima moieties claims descent from the Hohokam, while
the other moiety is said to have descended from the ``emergers,'' those
who overthrew the Hohokam leaders. Although the O'odham belong to the
same linguistic group (Piman) as communities in what is now northern
Mexico, shared vocabulary and syntax with Yuman language groups along
the Colorado River suggests a long-term history of interaction that
stretches back into prehistoric times in what is now southern Arizona.
Evidence also shows the affiliation of ancestral Zuni and Hopi
groups with the prehistoric Hohokam. Interaction is indicated by the
presence of trade items, particularly ceramics. Such interaction
continued into protohistoric and early historic times. In addition to
trade, Hopi and Zuni migration traditions indicate that clans
originating from areas south of the Colorado Plateau joined the plateau
communities late in prehistoric times. These groups contributed
ceremonies, societies, and iconography to the plateau groups. Both
O'odham and Western Pueblo oral traditions indicate that some Hohokam
groups may have left the Salt-Gila River Basin after disastrous floods
and social upheaval. These groups traveled north and east, possibly to
be assimilated by the Hopi and Zuni. These ties are reflected in some
of the traditional ceremonies maintained as part of the annual
ceremonial cycle. Their ancestors had trade relationships and other
likely interactions with the Hohokam, similar to those found between
groups in the early historic period. Hopi and Zuni oral traditions
indicate that segments of the prehistoric Hohokam population migrated
to the areas occupied by the Hopi and Zuni and were assimilated into
the resident populations. Therefore, the evidence suggests that the
Hopi and Zuni are also culturally affiliated with the Hohokam.
Determinations Made by the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office
Officials of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office have
determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remain 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 remain and The Tribes.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any other Indian Tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remain should contact, in
writing, Randy Chandler, Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix
Area Office, 6150 West Thunderbird Rd., Glendale, AZ 85306-4001, before
October 19, 2011. Repatriation of the human remain to The Tribes may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for notifying The Tribes;
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation, California;
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado
River Indian Reservation, Arizona and California; Fort McDowell Yavapai
Nation, Arizona; Fort Mohave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California &
Nevada; Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma
Indian Reservation, California & Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of
the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona;
White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona;
Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona;
and Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona, that
this notice has been published.
Dated: September 14, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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