Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN, 46597-46598 [2015-19267]
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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.
Oklahoma that this notice has been
published.
Dated: June 29, 2015.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–18496;
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville,
TN
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) has completed an
inventory of human remains in
consultation with the appropriate
federally recognized Indian tribes and
has determined that there is no cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and any present-day federally
recognized Indian tribes.
Representatives of any federally
recognized Indian tribe not identified in
this notice that wish to request transfer
of control of these human remains
should submit a written request to TVA.
If no additional requestors come
forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the federally
recognized Indian tribe stated in this
notice may proceed.
DATES: Representatives of any federally
recognized Indian tribe not identified in
this notice that wish to request transfer
of control of these human remains
should submit a written request with
information in support of the request to
TVA at the address in this notice by
September 4, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA,
400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11D,
Knoxville, TN 37902–1401, telephone
(865) 632–7458, email tomaher@tva.gov.
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 under the control and
possession of TVA. The human remains
were removed from site 40MI21, in
Marion County, TN.
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,
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Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by TVA’s
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Absentee
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas (previously
listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes
of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal
Town; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal
Town; Poarch Band of Creeks
(previously listed as the Poarch Band of
Creek Indians of Alabama); Shawnee
Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The
Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma;
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma;
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town; and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma.
History and Description of the Remains
Between 1964 and 1965, human
remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from site
40MI21, in Marion County, TN, by
amateur archeologists following the
building of Nickajack Dam. TVA has
under its control and in its physical
possession human remains from one
adult male and one adult female. No
known individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
Ernest A. Bachman and others
removed 20 burials from site 40MI21
between 1964 and 1965 and reported on
this in the Tennessee Archaeologist
(Bachman 1966). Bachman indicated
that an erosional trench was being cut
through the site as a result of dredging,
revealing human burials. Bachman
states that some of the non-funerary
ceramic artifacts were examined by the
University of Tennessee and identified
as representing Late Archaic (c. 3000–
1000 B.C.) and Woodland (900 B.C.–
A.D. 900) components.
Since no funerary objects
accompanied the human remains under
the control of TVA, it is not known if
they were derived from the Late Archaic
or the Woodland occupation. The lack
of any detailed information on these
human remains leads TVA to determine
that they are culturally unidentifiable.
Determinations Made by the Tennessee
Valley Authority
Officials of TVA have determined
that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
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are Native American based on their
presence in prehistoric archeological
contexts.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of 2
individuals of Native American
ancestry.
• 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 final judgments of the
Indian Claims Commission or the Court
of Federal Claims, the land from which
the Native American human remains
were removed is the aboriginal land of
the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of
Cherokee Indians, and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in
Oklahoma.
• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1)(ii),
TVA has decided to transfer control of
the culturally unidentifiable human
remains to the Cherokee Nation, Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians, and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any federally
recognized Indian tribe not identified in
this notice that wish to request transfer
of control of these human remains
should submit a written request with
information in support of the request to
Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, WT11D, Knoxville,
TN 37902–1401, telephone (865) 632–
7458, email tomaher@tva.gov, by
September 4, 2015. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the Cherokee Nation,
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and
the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma may proceed.
TVA is responsible for notifying the
Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma;
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
(previously listed as the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas); AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee
Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town;
Poarch Band of Creeks (previously listed
as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of
Alabama); Shawnee Tribe; The
Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee
(Creek) Nation of Oklahoma; The
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma;
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town; and the
United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Indians in Oklahoma that this notice has
been published.
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Dated: June 29, 2015.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
[FR Doc. 2015–19267 Filed 8–4–15; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Washington State Parks and
Recreation Commission, Olympia, WA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Washington State Parks
and Recreation Commission [hereafter
State Parks], in consultation with lineal
descendants and the appropriate Indian
tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations,
has determined that the cultural items
listed in this notice meet the definition
of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal
descendants or representatives of any
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request to State
Parks. If no additional claimants come
forward, transfer of control of the
cultural items to the lineal descendants,
Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian
organizations stated in this notice may
proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to
claim these cultural items should
submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to
State Parks at the address in this notice
by September 4, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Alicia Woods, Washington
State Parks and Recreation Commission,
P.O. Box 42650, Olympia, WA 98504–
2650, telephone (360) 902.0939, email
Alicia.Woods@parks.wa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural
items under the control of the State
Parks, Olympia, WA, that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary
objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
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
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History and Description of the Cultural
Items
In 1951, 88 cultural items were
removed from the archeological site 45–
SP–5 in Spokane County, WA, by Louis
R. Caywood with the National Park
Service and under contract with State
Parks. During the archeological
excavation of the site, the burial
location of Jacques Raphael Finlay
(1768–1828, of Saulteaux-Cree
(Chippewa)/Eastern Woodland (Ojibwe)
and Scottish descent) was discovered
and removed along with 88 documented
funerary objects. In 1976, the Finlay/
Finley family, spanning (at minimum) a
tristate region, requested and received
permission for the reburial of Mr.
Finlay’s remains. A detailed inventory
of the collection in 2005 revealed the
funerary objects had not been reburied
with Mr. Finlay’s remains. In 1951 at
the time of excavation, a Memorandum
of Agreement between the Eastern
Washington State Historical Society
(EWSHS, also now known as the
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)
and State Parks released custody and
control of all excavated material to
EWSHS. In 1976, the EWSHS
deaccessioned Mr. Finlay’s remains and
released them to Mr. Elwood Ball of Ball
and Dodd Funeral Home for reburial. In
1989, the EWSHS deaccessioned the
balance of the 1951 excavated material
in a transfer to State Parks. The funerary
objects listed below were identified in
the collection by staff at the Burke
Museum of Natural History and Culture
(Burke Museum) in 2005. The objects
were subsequently transferred to State
Parks headquarters in Olympia, WA.
The 88 unassociated funerary objects
are 3 brass buttons, 2(+) fragments of
cloth, 2 fragments of glass and 9 metal
fragments believed to have once been a
pair of spectacles, 1 bone comb
fragment, 17 nails believed to have been
from the burial vessel, 2 pipe bowl
fragments, 5 pipe stem fragments, 1
glass bead fragment, 1 porcelain
fragment, 20(+) wood fragments
believed to be from the burial vessel, 1
charcoal fragment, 1 white clay
fragment, 1 complete wood pipe and
20(+) particles of burned tobacco. One
(1) ‘‘killed’’ knife with wood handle and
1 writing slate are missing from
inventory. Efforts to track and recover
these two items over the last four years
have failed.
The site is that of Spokane House, a
fur trade fort, founded and built by Mr.
Finlay (an on-again, off-again employee
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of the North West Company and a free/
independent trader) and a colleague
under the direction of David Thompson
around 1809. The fort changed
ownership to the Hudson’s Bay
Company, who, in 1825, moved their
operation from Spokane House (Nisbet,
2003). Mr. Finlay first arrived in what
would later become the Spokane, WA,
area with a wife and children. Mr.
Finlay’s wife is believed to have been
from a similar or close tribe to that of
his mother’s. At some point Mr. Finlay
took one, possibly two more wives, both
believed to have been Native American
women, and went on to father more
children. In total he appears to have
had, at minimum, 15 children, although
possibly as many as 19 children. He
died in December of 1828, and his wife
buried him at the site of Spokane House.
State Parks staff has determined the
88 unassociated funerary objects are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near Mr. Finlay at the time of
his death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony. The surviving Finlay
family is large (some estimates put their
size at over 11,000 living in the 1990s).
State Parks performed a lineal
descendant search that resulted in 35
descendants that contacted State Parks
and 12 lineal descendants that placed
formal claims. The claimants are as
follows: Dumont, Harold Tommy;
Dumont-Friday, Michelle; Dumont,
Monte; Childress, JuLee Lain; Childress,
Michael L.; Childress, minor child #1;
Childress, minor child #2; Finley,
Marian; Loper, Donald; Salois, Britton;
Samsel, Joan; and Trahan, Albert. State
Parks has also determined there is a
relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between
Mr. Finlay’s funerary objects and
modern-day tribes. Based on a
preponderance of the following
evidence the objects are culturally
affiliated to the modern-day tribes of the
Coeur d’Alene Tribe of the Coeur
d’Alene Reservation, Idaho;
Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes of the Flathead Reservation,
Montana; Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation, Washington;
Kalispel Tribe of the Kalispel
Reservation, Washington; and Spokane
Tribe of the Spokane Reservation,
Washington. This determination is
based on ethnographic evidence that the
Upper and Middle Spokane people
predominantly resided in the area and
utilized the resources of the site both
pre and post-contact. Included in this
evidence are tribal members and tribal
descents that share kinship connections;
shared linguistic heritage, overlapping
trade networks, battle alliances, shared
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-18496; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority,
Knoxville, TN
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has completed an
inventory of human remains in consultation with the appropriate
federally recognized Indian tribes and has determined that there is no
cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-day
federally recognized Indian tribes. Representatives of any federally
recognized Indian tribe not identified in this notice that wish to
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a
written request to TVA. If no additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains to the federally recognized
Indian tribe stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Representatives of any federally recognized Indian tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of
these human remains should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to TVA at the address in this notice by
September 4, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11D,
Knoxville, TN 37902-1401, telephone (865) 632-7458, email
tomaher@tva.gov.
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 under
the control and possession of TVA. The human remains were removed from
site 40MI21, in Marion County, TN.
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 TVA's
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Absentee
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously
listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte
Tribal Town; Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern
Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town; Poarch Band of Creeks
(previously listed as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama);
Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation of
Oklahoma; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town;
and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
History and Description of the Remains
Between 1964 and 1965, human remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from site 40MI21, in Marion County, TN, by
amateur archeologists following the building of Nickajack Dam. TVA has
under its control and in its physical possession human remains from one
adult male and one adult female. No known individuals were identified.
No associated funerary objects are present.
Ernest A. Bachman and others removed 20 burials from site 40MI21
between 1964 and 1965 and reported on this in the Tennessee
Archaeologist (Bachman 1966). Bachman indicated that an erosional
trench was being cut through the site as a result of dredging,
revealing human burials. Bachman states that some of the non-funerary
ceramic artifacts were examined by the University of Tennessee and
identified as representing Late Archaic (c. 3000-1000 B.C.) and
Woodland (900 B.C.-A.D. 900) components.
Since no funerary objects accompanied the human remains under the
control of TVA, it is not known if they were derived from the Late
Archaic or the Woodland occupation. The lack of any detailed
information on these human remains leads TVA to determine that they are
culturally unidentifiable.
Determinations Made by the Tennessee Valley Authority
Officials of TVA have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice are Native American based on their presence in
prehistoric archeological contexts.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of 2 individuals of
Native American ancestry.
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 final judgments of the Indian Claims
Commission or the Court of Federal Claims, the land from which the
Native American human remains were removed is the aboriginal land of
the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1)(ii), TVA has decided to
transfer control of the culturally unidentifiable human remains to the
Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the United
Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any federally recognized Indian tribe not
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of
these human remains should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 400 West Summit
Hill Drive, WT11D, Knoxville, TN 37902-1401, telephone (865) 632-7458,
email tomaher@tva.gov, by September 4, 2015. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,
and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may
proceed.
TVA is responsible for notifying the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas (previously listed as the
Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town;
Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee
Tribe of Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town; Poarch Band of Creeks
(previously listed as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama);
Shawnee Tribe; The Chickasaw Nation; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation of
Oklahoma; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; Thlopthlocco Tribal Town;
and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this
notice has been published.
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Dated: June 29, 2015.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-19267 Filed 8-4-15; 8:45 am]
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