Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, 20623-20624 [2017-08859]
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individuals were removed from an
unknown location in Pueblo County,
CO, by a private citizen. The human
remains were discovered in the estate of
a private individual and turned over to
the Pueblo Police Department who ruled
out forensic interest. On July 25, 2016,
the Pueblo Police Department notified
the Office of the State Archaeologist and
transferred the human remains to
History Colorado. The human remains
(OAHP 318) were determined to be of
Native American ancestry and of
indeterminate sex and age. No known
individuals were identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
At the time of the excavation and
removal of these human remains, the
land from which the human remains
were removed was not the tribal land of
any Indian tribe. In January and
February 2017, History Colorado
consulted with all Indian tribes who are
recognized as aboriginal to Pueblo
County, CO, where these Native
American human remains were
removed. These tribes are the Arapaho
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho
Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as
the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of
Oklahoma); and the Northern Cheyenne
Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian
Reservation, Montana. None of these
Indian tribes agreed to accept control of
the human remains. The aboriginal land
tribes requested in writing that the
human remains be transferred according
to the Process for Consultation, Transfer
and Reburial of Culturally
Unidentifiable Native American Human
Remains and Associated Funerary
Objects Originating From Inadvertent
Discoveries on Colorado State and
Private Lands (Process) (2008,
unpublished, on file with the Colorado
Office of Archaeology and Historic
Preservation). Consultation with the
additional tribes listed under
Consultation in this notice was
conducted with tribes in the Great
Plains Consultation Region of the
Process to determine disposition. Under
the Process, the Southern Ute Indian
Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation,
Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe
of the Ute Mountain Reservation,
Colorado, New Mexico & Utah agreed to
accept transfer of the human remains.
History Colorado, in partnership with
the Colorado Commission of Indian
Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado,
and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
(previously listed as the Ute Mountain
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation,
Colorado, New Mexico & Utah),
conducted tribal consultations among
the tribes with ancestral ties to the State
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of Colorado to develop the process for
disposition of culturally unidentifiable
Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects originating
from inadvertent discoveries on
Colorado State and private lands. As a
result of the consultation, the Process
was developed.
The Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Review
Committee (Review Committee) is
responsible for recommending specific
actions for disposition of culturally
unidentifiable human remains. On
November 3–4, 2006, the Process was
presented to the Review Committee for
consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter
on behalf of the Review Committee from
the Designated Federal Officer
transmitted the provisional
authorization to proceed with the
Process upon receipt of formal
responses from the Jicarilla Apache
Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to
forthcoming conditions imposed by the
Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16,
2008, the responses from the Jicarilla
Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the
Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were
submitted to the Review Committee. On
September 23, 2008, the Assistant
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and
Parks, as the designee for the Secretary
of the Interior, transmitted the
authorization for the disposition of
culturally unidentifiable human
remains according to the Process and
NAGPRA, pending publication of a
Notice of Inventory Completion in the
Federal Register. This notice fulfills
that requirement.
43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on
March 15, 2010, to provide a process for
the disposition of culturally
unidentifiable Native American human
remains recovered from tribal or
aboriginal lands as established by the
final judgment of the Indian Claims
Commission or U.S. Court of Claims, a
treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive
Order, or other authoritative
governmental sources. As there is no
evidence to suggest that the human
remains originated from tribal land and
the tribes with aboriginal land did not
wish to accept transfer of control, the
human remains listed in this notice are
eligible for transfer of control under the
Process.
Determinations Made by History
Colorado
Officials of History Colorado have
determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
are Native American based on
osteological analysis.
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• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of three
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.
• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(i)
and the Process, the disposition of the
human remains may be to the Southern
Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute
Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as
the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New
Mexico & Utah).
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization 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 Sheila Goff, NAGPRA
Liaison, History Colorado, 1200
Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone
(303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@
state.co.us, by June 2, 2017. After that
date, if no additional requestors have
come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains to the Southern Ute
Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado, and Ute
Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as
the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New
Mexico & Utah) may proceed.
History Colorado is responsible for
notifying The Consulted and Invited
Tribes that this notice has been
published.
Dated: March 27, 2017.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Museum of Northern Arizona,
Flagstaff, AZ
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Museum of Northern
Arizona, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations, has determined
SUMMARY:
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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 the
Museum of Northern Arizona. 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
the Museum of Northern Arizona at the
address in this notice by June 2, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Elaine Hughes, Museum of
Northern Arizona, 3101 North Fort
Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001,
telephone (928) 774–5211 x228, email
ehughes@musnaz.org.
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 Museum
of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, 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
agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural
Items
In 1978 and 1979, 105 cultural items
were removed from the Cashion site
(NA14690) in Maricopa County, AZ,
during authorized archeological
investigations conducted by the
Museum of Arizona on behalf of the
Arizona Nuclear Power Project, prior to
the construction of a wastewater
conveyance system that was to provide
water to cool the Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station. The 105
unassociated funerary objects are 14
pottery and ceramic fragments, 30
jewelry items and fragments, 2 pollen
samples, 2 faunal bone fragments, 51
projectile points, and 6 tools and
implements. The cultural items are
associated with seven features identified
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by the field archeologists as secondary
human cremations. No human bone was
recovered.
Based on archeological evidence,
geographic location, and object
classification, these cultural items were
made by Native Americans.
Archeological evidence indicates that
the Cashion site (NA14690), within the
Salt River area of central Arizona, was
occupied during the period A.D. 700–
900 by the Hohokam people, for whom
cremation was a common mortuary
practice. Hopi and Zuni oral traditions
also indicate that segments of the
prehistoric Hohokam population
migrated to areas occupied by the
ancestors of the Hopi and Zuni and
were assimilated into the resident
populations. Archeological, historical,
and oral tradition evidence indicate that
there is a relationship of shared group
identity between the Hohokam people
and the present-day Piman and
O’odham cultures, represented by 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 Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to
Elaine Hughes, Museum of Northern
Arizona, 3101 North Fort Valley Road,
Flagstaff, AZ 86001, telephone (928)
774–5211 x228, email ehughes@
musnaz.org, by June 2, 2017.
After that date, if no additional
claimants have come forward, transfer
of control of the unassociated funerary
objects to 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 Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may
proceed.
The Museum of Northern Arizona is
responsible for notifying 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 PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the Salt
River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono
O’odham Nation of Arizona; and Zuni
Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico that this notice has been
published.
Determinations Made by the Museum of
Northern Arizona
Officials of the Museum of Northern
Arizona have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
the 105 cultural items 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, and
are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a
specific burial site of a Native American
individual.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the unassociated funerary
objects and 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 Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Dated: March 22, 2017.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
Department of Anthropology at Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of
Anthropology at Indiana University has
completed an inventory of human
remains in consultation with the
appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations, and has
determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and present-day Indian tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
descendants or representatives of any
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
that wish to request transfer of control
SUMMARY:
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Museum of Northern
Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Museum of Northern Arizona, in consultation with the
appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has
determined
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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 the Museum of Northern Arizona. 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 the Museum of Northern Arizona
at the address in this notice by June 2, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Elaine Hughes, Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 North Fort
Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, telephone (928) 774-5211 x228, email
ehughes@musnaz.org.
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 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, 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 agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
In 1978 and 1979, 105 cultural items were removed from the Cashion
site (NA14690) in Maricopa County, AZ, during authorized archeological
investigations conducted by the Museum of Arizona on behalf of the
Arizona Nuclear Power Project, prior to the construction of a
wastewater conveyance system that was to provide water to cool the Palo
Verde Nuclear Generating Station. The 105 unassociated funerary objects
are 14 pottery and ceramic fragments, 30 jewelry items and fragments, 2
pollen samples, 2 faunal bone fragments, 51 projectile points, and 6
tools and implements. The cultural items are associated with seven
features identified by the field archeologists as secondary human
cremations. No human bone was recovered.
Based on archeological evidence, geographic location, and object
classification, these cultural items were made by Native Americans.
Archeological evidence indicates that the Cashion site (NA14690),
within the Salt River area of central Arizona, was occupied during the
period A.D. 700-900 by the Hohokam people, for whom cremation was a
common mortuary practice. Hopi and Zuni oral traditions also indicate
that segments of the prehistoric Hohokam population migrated to areas
occupied by the ancestors of the Hopi and Zuni and were assimilated
into the resident populations. Archeological, historical, and oral
tradition evidence indicate that there is a relationship of shared
group identity between the Hohokam people and the present-day Piman and
O'odham cultures, represented by 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 Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Determinations Made by the Museum of Northern Arizona
Officials of the Museum of Northern Arizona have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 105 cultural items
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, and are believed, by a preponderance of the
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native
American individual.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and 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 Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
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 Elaine Hughes, Museum of Northern Arizona,
3101 North Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, telephone (928) 774-
5211 x228, email ehughes@musnaz.org, by June 2, 2017.
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward,
transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to 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 Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico may
proceed.
The Museum of Northern Arizona is responsible for notifying 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 Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 22, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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