Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL, 59646-59647 [2012-23922]
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Pomo Indians, California that this notice
has been published.
Dated: August 30, 2012.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012–23920 Filed 9–27–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–11214; 2200–1100–
665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of Defense, Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal,
Huntsville, AL
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Army Garrison,
Redstone Arsenal, has completed an
inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects, in
consultation with the appropriate
Indian tribes, and has determined that
there is no cultural affiliation between
the 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 Redstone Arsenal.
Disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Indian
tribes 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 Redstone Arsenal at
the address below by October 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Ben Hoksbergen, 4488
Martin Road, Room A–328, U.S. Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,
AL 35898, telephone (256) 955–6971.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 23 U.S.C.
3003, of the completion of an inventory
of human remains and associated
funerary objects under the control of the
U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal
(Redstone Arsenal). The human remains
and associated funerary objects were
removed from three sites in Madison
County, AL.
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
sole responsibility of the museum,
institution, or Federal agency that has
control of the Native American human
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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 and associated funerary objects
was made by Redstone Arsenal and the
U. S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis,
Mandatory Center of Expertise for
Curation and Management of
Archaeological Collections in
consultation with representatives of the
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of
Texas; Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma;
Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma; Choctaw
Nation of Oklahoma; Coushatta Tribe of
Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians of North Carolina; Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi;
Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
Alabama; Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma;
Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma;
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana;
and the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
History and Description of the Remains
In March 1978, human remains
representing, at minimum, nine
individuals were discovered eroding out
of a clay floor of a cave at site 1MA165,
on Redstone Arsenal, in Madison
County, AL. The University of Alabama,
Office of Archaeological Research
conducted a surface collection of the
exposed bone found in the cave. This
investigation was undertaken as part of
a Phase I cultural reconnaissance project
of selected areas of Redstone Arsenal.
The partial and fragmentary skeletal
remains are those of adult individuals,
likely both male and female, recovered
during the University of Alabama,
Office of Archaeological Research’s
survey. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
According to Lawrence S. Alexander’s
technical report Phase I Cultural
Reconnaissance of Selected Areas of
Redstone Arsenal, Madison County,
Alabama (1979), which is on file at
Redstone Arsenal, these human remains
were exposed by the action of flowing
water from a drip pool which cut a
drainage channel through the talus
slope at the foot of the cave. Alexander
believed that this site represents a
Copena ossuary cave dating to A.D.
100–500. The human remains were
deposited into a 45-foot shaft where
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they were subsequently redeposited by
water action onto the talus slope at the
foot of the cave.
In January of 1980, human remains
representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed by New World
Research, Inc. during a reconnaissance
level cultural resource survey to
conduct testing and evaluation of a
proposed alternate corridor for a DDT
contamination study on Redstone
Arsenal, in Madison County, AL. During
testing at the extensive village site
1MA210, 18 fragmentary pieces of
human bone representing one adult of
indeterminate sex were recovered from
a shovel test. No known individuals
were identified. The 37 associated
funerary objects are 28 flakes, 1
projectile point, 7 stone debris
fragments, and 1 gastropod shell.
During the spring of 1987, human
remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed by OMS, Inc.
during an archeological investigation on
Redstone Arsenal, at the village site
1MA126, in Madison County, AL. The
partial and fragmentary remains of one
adult male were removed from a burial
pit. About half of the burial had been
disturbed by earlier mechanical
excavation. The remainder was found in
the profile of the north side of the
trench. The individual had been
interred in a sitting position within a
cylindrical pit lined with pieces of
limestone. No known individuals were
identified. The 16 associated funerary
objects are 6 chert flakes; 1 chert blank;
2 preforms; 1 rodent tooth; 1 beaver
tooth; 1 deer antler tine; 1 drilled deer
antler piece; 2 Wade points; and 1
hammerstone. The presence of
diagnostic Wade Projectile points
suggests a date for the burial sometime
during the Late Archaic (4000–1000 BP)
to Gulf Formational (2500–100 BP)
periods.
At the time of the excavation and
removal of these human remains and
associated funerary objects, the land
from which the remains and objects
were removed was not the tribal land of
any Indian tribe. In 2010 and 2011, the
Redstone Arsenal consulted with all the
Indian tribes who are recognized as
aboriginal to the area from which these
Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed. These tribes are the Cherokee
Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern Band
of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina,
and the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. None of
these tribes agreed to accept control of
the human remains and associated
funerary objects. In June of 2012, the
Redstone Arsenal agreed to transfer
control of the human remains and
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associated funerary objects to the
Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
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Determinations Made by the U.S. Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal
Officials of the U.S. Army Garrison,
Redstone Arsenal, have determined that:
• Based on non-destructive physical
analysis of the human remains and the
cultural context of the sites, the human
remains were determined to be Native
American.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a
relationship of shared group identity
cannot be reasonably traced between the
Native American human remains and
any present-day Indian tribe.
• According to the final judgment of
the Indian Claims Commission, the
human remains were removed from the
aboriginal land of the Cherokee Nation,
which includes the present-day tribes of
the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of
North Carolina, and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 11
individuals of Native American
ancestry.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the 53 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 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i),
the disposition of the human remains
and associated funerary objects is to the
Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian tribe
that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects or any other
Indian tribe that believes it satisfies the
criteria in 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1) should
contact Mr. Ben Hoksbergen, 4488
Martin Road, Room A–328, U.S. Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,
AL 35898, telephone (256) 955–6971,
before October 29, 2012. Disposition of
the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Chickasaw
Nation of Oklahoma may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants or
requestors come forward.
Redstone Arsenal is responsible for
notifying the Absentee Shawnee Tribe
of Indians of Oklahoma; AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas; AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Chickasaw
Nation, Oklahoma; Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma; Coushatta Tribe of
Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee
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Indians of North Carolina; Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi;
Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
Alabama; Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma;
Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma;
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana;
and the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: September 5, 2012.
Melanie O’Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012–23922 Filed 9–27–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–11201; 2200–1100–
665]
Notice of Inventory Completion:
California Department of Parks and
Recreation, Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The California Department of
Parks and Recreation 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
California Department of Parks and
Recreation. Repatriation of the human
remains 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 California Department of
Parks and Recreation at the address
below by October 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Patrick C. Riordan,
NAGPRA Coordinator, California
Department of Parks and Recreation,
1416 9th Street Room 902, Sacramento,
CA 95814, telephone (916) 375–5916.
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 possession of the
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California Department of Parks and
Recreation. The human remains are
believed to have been removed from the
massacre site at Wounded Knee in
Shannon County, SD.
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
remains and associated funerary objects
was made by the California Department
of Parks and Recreation professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribes of the Cheyenne River
Reservation of South Dakota; Oglala
Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge
Reservation of South Dakota; and the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and
South Dakota (hereafter referred to as
‘‘The Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Remains
In December of 1890, human remains
representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed by an
unknown person from the massacre site
at Wounded Knee in Shannon County,
SD. The human remains consist of two
hanks of hair. At an unknown date, the
remains were acquired by the California
Department of Parks and Recreation,
and these remains were included in a
1968 inventory for the Estudillo House
at Old Town San Diego State Historic
Park, along with other objects from
Oxnard, CA. In 1988, the collection was
transferred to the California Department
of Parks and Recreation Statewide
Museum Resources Center in West
Sacramento and was housed with other
human remains in the Department’s
NAGPRA Collections storage area. No
known individuals were identified. The
two associated funerary objects are
bandanas wrapped around each of the
two clusters of hair.
The Wounded Knee Massacre was the
last major armed conflict between
Indians and whites in the United States.
The confrontation occurred on
December 29, 1890, after the U.S. Army
moved a group of approximately 340
Indians under the leadership of Sitanka
(Big Foot) from their camp on the
Cheyenne River at the Cheyenne River
Agency to Wounded Knee Creek,
approximately 20 miles from Pine Ridge
Agency. Besides members of Sitanka’s
band from the Cheyenne River Agency,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-11214; 2200-1100-665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects, in
consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, and has determined
that there is no cultural affiliation between the 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 Redstone Arsenal. Disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Indian tribes 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 Redstone
Arsenal at the address below by October 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Ben Hoksbergen, 4488 Martin Road, Room A-328, U.S. Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL 35898, telephone (256) 955-
6971.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 23
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Army
Garrison, Redstone Arsenal (Redstone Arsenal). The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from three sites in Madison
County, AL.
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 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 and associated funerary
objects was made by Redstone Arsenal and the U. S. Army Engineer
District, St. Louis, Mandatory Center of Expertise for Curation and
Management of Archaeological Collections in consultation with
representatives of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma;
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma;
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Eastern Band
of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Mississippi Band of Choctaw
Indians, Mississippi; Muskogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of
Creek Indians of Alabama; Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe,
Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Tunica-Biloxi Indian
Tribe of Louisiana; and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians
in Oklahoma.
History and Description of the Remains
In March 1978, human remains representing, at minimum, nine
individuals were discovered eroding out of a clay floor of a cave at
site 1MA165, on Redstone Arsenal, in Madison County, AL. The University
of Alabama, Office of Archaeological Research conducted a surface
collection of the exposed bone found in the cave. This investigation
was undertaken as part of a Phase I cultural reconnaissance project of
selected areas of Redstone Arsenal. The partial and fragmentary
skeletal remains are those of adult individuals, likely both male and
female, recovered during the University of Alabama, Office of
Archaeological Research's survey. No known individuals were identified.
No associated funerary objects are present.
According to Lawrence S. Alexander's technical report Phase I
Cultural Reconnaissance of Selected Areas of Redstone Arsenal, Madison
County, Alabama (1979), which is on file at Redstone Arsenal, these
human remains were exposed by the action of flowing water from a drip
pool which cut a drainage channel through the talus slope at the foot
of the cave. Alexander believed that this site represents a Copena
ossuary cave dating to A.D. 100-500. The human remains were deposited
into a 45-foot shaft where they were subsequently redeposited by water
action onto the talus slope at the foot of the cave.
In January of 1980, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed by New World Research, Inc. during a
reconnaissance level cultural resource survey to conduct testing and
evaluation of a proposed alternate corridor for a DDT contamination
study on Redstone Arsenal, in Madison County, AL. During testing at the
extensive village site 1MA210, 18 fragmentary pieces of human bone
representing one adult of indeterminate sex were recovered from a
shovel test. No known individuals were identified. The 37 associated
funerary objects are 28 flakes, 1 projectile point, 7 stone debris
fragments, and 1 gastropod shell.
During the spring of 1987, human remains representing, at minimum,
one individual were removed by OMS, Inc. during an archeological
investigation on Redstone Arsenal, at the village site 1MA126, in
Madison County, AL. The partial and fragmentary remains of one adult
male were removed from a burial pit. About half of the burial had been
disturbed by earlier mechanical excavation. The remainder was found in
the profile of the north side of the trench. The individual had been
interred in a sitting position within a cylindrical pit lined with
pieces of limestone. No known individuals were identified. The 16
associated funerary objects are 6 chert flakes; 1 chert blank; 2
preforms; 1 rodent tooth; 1 beaver tooth; 1 deer antler tine; 1 drilled
deer antler piece; 2 Wade points; and 1 hammerstone. The presence of
diagnostic Wade Projectile points suggests a date for the burial
sometime during the Late Archaic (4000-1000 BP) to Gulf Formational
(2500-100 BP) periods.
At the time of the excavation and removal of these human remains
and associated funerary objects, the land from which the remains and
objects were removed was not the tribal land of any Indian tribe. In
2010 and 2011, the Redstone Arsenal consulted with all the Indian
tribes who are recognized as aboriginal to the area from which these
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed. These tribes are the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, and the United Keetoowah
Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. None of these tribes agreed to
accept control of the human remains and associated funerary objects. In
June of 2012, the Redstone Arsenal agreed to transfer control of the
human remains and
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associated funerary objects to the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Determinations Made by the U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal
Officials of the U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, have
determined that:
Based on non-destructive physical analysis of the human
remains and the cultural context of the sites, the human remains were
determined to be Native American.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American
human remains and any present-day Indian tribe.
According to the final judgment of the Indian Claims
Commission, the human remains were removed from the aboriginal land of
the Cherokee Nation, which includes the present-day tribes of the
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of
North Carolina, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
above represent the physical remains of 11 individuals of Native
American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 53 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 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i), the disposition of the
human remains and associated funerary objects is to the Chickasaw
Nation of Oklahoma.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects or any other Indian tribe that believes it satisfies the
criteria in 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1) should contact Mr. Ben Hoksbergen, 4488
Martin Road, Room A-328, U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal,
Huntsville, AL 35898, telephone (256) 955-6971, before October 29,
2012. Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
to the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants or requestors come forward.
Redstone Arsenal is responsible for notifying the Absentee Shawnee
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas;
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma;
Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma; Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Coushatta Tribe
of Louisiana; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina;
Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi; Muskogee (Creek)
Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama; Seminole
Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town,
Oklahoma; Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana; and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, that this notice has
been published.
Dated: September 5, 2012.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012-23922 Filed 9-27-12; 8:45 am]
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