Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK and the University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, 1488-1489 [2019-00837]
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Determinations Made by the San Diego
Museum of Man
Officials of the San Diego Museum of
Man have determined that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
1,567 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(3)(C),
three cultural items described above are
specific ceremonial objects needed by
traditional Native American religious
leaders for the practice of traditional
Native American religions by their
present-day adherents.
• 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, sacred objects and The
Kumeyaay Nation, as represented by the
Campo Band of Diegueno Mission
Indians of the Campo Indian
Reservation, California; Capitan Grande
Band of Mission Indians of California
(Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band
of Mission Indians of the Barona
Reservation, California; Viejas (Baron
Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of
Mission Indians of the Viejas
Reservation, California); Ewiiaapaayp
Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California;
Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California
(previously listed as the Santa Ysabel
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
the Santa Ysabel Reservation); Inaja
Band of Diegueno Indians of the Inaja
and Cosmit Reservation, California;
Jamul Indian Village of California; La
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of the La Posta Indian Reservation,
California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno
Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
the Mesa Grande Reservation,
California; San Pasqual Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of California;
and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay
Nation, hereafter referred to as ‘‘The
Tribes.’’
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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
Ben Garcia, San Diego Museum of Man,
1350 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego,
CA 32101, telephone (619) 239 -2001
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muesumofman.org, by March 6, 2019.
After that date, if no additional
claimants have come forward, transfer
of control of the unassociated funerary
objects and sacred objects to The
Kumeyaay Nation, as represented by
The Tribes, may proceed.
The San Diego Museum of Man is
responsible for notifying The Tribes that
this notice has been published.
Dated: December 4, 2018.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0027141;
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage,
AK and the University of Alaska
Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
The Alaska Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, and the University
of Alaska Museum of the North have
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects,
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 associated funerary
objects 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
of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request to the Alaska Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service and the University
of Alaska Museum of the North. If no
additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains
and associated funerary objects 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
request transfer of control of these
human remains and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request
with information in support of the
request to the Alaska Region, U.S. Fish
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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 under the control of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
and housed at the University of Alaska
Museum of the North. The human
remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from the Port Moller Hot
Springs Village archeological site
(XPM–00001), Aleutians East Borough,
AK.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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ACTION:
and Wildlife Service and the University
of Alaska Museum of the North at the
address in this notice by March 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Edward J. DeCleva, Regional
Historic Preservation Officer/
Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS–235,
Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone (907)
786–3399, email edward_decleva@
fws.gov and Dr. Joshua Reuther, Curator
of Archaeology, University of Alaska
Museum of the North, 1962 Yukon
Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, telephone
(907) 474–6945, email jreuther@
alaska.edu.
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Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Alaska
Region, USFWS, and the University of
Alaska Museum of the North
professional staff, in consultation with
representatives of the Agdaagux Tribe of
King Cove; Chignik Bay Tribal Council
(previously listed as the Native Village
of Chignik); Chignik Lake Village;
Ivanoff Bay Tribe (previously listed as
the Ivanoff Bay Tribe and the Ivanoff
Bay Village); Native Village of Belkofski;
Native Village of Chignik Lagoon;
Native Village of False Pass; Native
Village of Nelson Lagoon; Native Village
of Perryville; Native Village of Port
Heiden; Native Village of Unga; Pauloff
Harbor Village; Qagan Tayagungin Tribe
of Sand Point Village; and the Aleut
Corporation (hereafter referred to as
‘‘The Consulting Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Remains
In 1960, 1972, 1974, 1982, and 1984,
human remains representing, at
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minimum, 35 individuals were removed
from Port Moller Hot Springs Village
archeological site (XPM–00001) near
Port Moller on the Alaska Peninsula
partially within the boundary of the
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife
Refuge, AK. Professional archeological
excavations were carried out at the site
as early as 1928 and most recently in
2014. Excavations were carried out at
the site in 1960 by Chester S. Chard of
the University of Wisconsin and Sosuke
Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan.
Large-scale excavation occurred at the
site multiple times throughout the 1970s
and 1980s by Hiroaki Okada, an
archeologist at Hokkaido University in
Japan.
At an unknown time, human remains
representing, at minimum, four
individuals were removed from the Port
Moller area by an unknown individual.
These human remains are also housed
with the 35 individuals from the Port
Moller Hot Springs Village archeological
excavations.
In the years since being collected,
different portions of these human
remains have been held at various
institutions and locations. Between
2015 and 2017, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service consolidated all 39 sets
of human remains from the Port Moller
Hot Springs Village Site and Port Moller
vicinity at the University of Alaska
Museum of the North. These human
remains, which consist of cranial and
post-cranial elements, belong to
fourteen juveniles of unknown sex
(Burials PM–1, PM–3, PM–5, PM–6, 72–
1, 72 Isolate Remains–2, 82–1, 82–4, 82–
5, 82–6, 84–1, 84 Isolate Remains–3,
Box 5a–2, Box 5a–3), three adult females
(Burials PM–2, PM–7, 84–2), seven
adult males (Burials PM–4, 72–2, 72–3,
72–4, 82–2, 82–3, 82–7), nine adults of
unknown sex (Burial 72–4a, 72 Isolate
Remains–1, 74–1, 82–2a, 82–2b, 84
Isolate Remains–1, 84 Isolate Remains–
2, Box 5a–1, Individual 5), and six
individuals of unknown sex and
unknown age (Burials 74–2, 74–3, 74–4,
82–1a, 82–6a, Individual 4). No known
individuals were identified. The 217
associated funerary objects are: one
bead, six red ochre samples, 127 animal
bones, one triangular shale point, seven
chipped-stone artifacts, four
hammerstones/abraders, three pieces of
worked bone or ivory, two bone pins,
one carved ornament, one decorated
pin, one whale bone adze, one leister
prong, two stone points, two slab stones,
one sword-like bone stick, three ivory
pendants, eight buttons, five metal
objects, one lot of beads and buttons,
one length of braided hair, one lot of
cloth and leather fragments, 30 leather
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fragments, one soil sample, and seven
pieces of pottery.
The occupation of the Port Moller Hot
Springs Village site has been divided
into three phases: (1) Around 600 years
BP, (2) around 1500 years BP, and (3)
around 3000–3500 years BP. The 24
individuals removed from the site in
1960, 1972, 1974, and 1984 have been
associated with the later period of
occupation, or from approximately 600–
1500 years BP. The 11 individuals
removed from the site in 1982 are
associated with a radiocarbon date from
the oldest occupation at the site. Of the
four individuals removed from the Port
Moller area, three are associated with
artifacts indicating a protohistoric or
historic age, and one cannot be
associated with a date.
The Port Moller region is strategically
located at the junction of four important
cultural areas: the Aglemiut Eskimo to
the northeast, Aleut to the west, the
Koniaq Eskimo on Kodiak Island, and
the Eskimo of the southwestern interior
region of Alaska to the east. Cultural
affiliation between the prehistoric
populations in the area of the Hot
Springs Village site can only be
determined through analyses of
archeological and human remains, as
very little oral history information is
known concerning the use of the Port
Moller area prior to 1900. Based on the
archeological evidence, it is believed
that the site is well within the Aleut
area of influence, but some archeologists
believe that due to the site’s strategic
location, the culture represented here
likely received ideas from several
different directions. The burial contexts
of the human remains are consistent
with those observed for pre-contact
Aleut populations; namely, the custom
of burying the dead inside
compartments of semi-subterranean
houses. The physical traits of the human
remains have been determined by some
as exhibiting a close affinity to the
Alaska Eskimo, while others conclude
that they represent Paleo-Aleuts. A
biological relationship between these
human remains and the inhabitants of
the Nelson Lagoon area is supported by
an ancient DNA study published in
2010.
Determinations Made by the Alaska
Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and the University of Alaska Museum
of the North
Officials of the Alaska Region,
USFWS, and the University of Alaska
Museum of the North have determined
that:
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the
human remains described in this notice
represent the physical remains of 39
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individuals of Native American
ancestry.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
the 217 objects described in this notice
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 Native Village of Nelson
Lagoon.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or 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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written
request with information in support of
the request to Edward DeCleva, Regional
Historic Preservation Officer/
Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Alaska Region, 1011 East Tudor
Road, MS–235, Anchorage, AK 99013,
telephone (907) 786–3399, email
edward_decleva@fws.gov, and Dr.
Joshua D. Reuther, Curator of
Archaeology, University of Alaska
Museum of the North, 907 Yukon Drive,
Fairbanks, AK 99775, telephone (907)
474–6945, email jreuther@alaska.edu,
by March 6, 2019. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Native Village of Nelson
Lagoon may proceed.
The Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and the University of
Alaska Museum of the North is
responsible for notifying The Consulting
Tribes that this notice has been
published.
Dated: December 11, 2018.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027141; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Anchorage, AK and the University of Alaska Museum of the North,
Fairbanks, AK
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the
University of Alaska Museum of the North have completed an inventory of
human remains and associated funerary objects, 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 associated funerary objects 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 of these human
remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request
to the Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University
of Alaska Museum of the North. If no additional requestors come
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated
funerary objects 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
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to the Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and the University of Alaska Museum of the North at the address
in this notice by March 6, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Edward J. DeCleva, Regional Historic Preservation Officer/
Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor Road,
MS-235, Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone (907) 786-3399, email
edward_decleva@fws.gov and Dr. Joshua Reuther, Curator of Archaeology,
University of Alaska Museum of the North, 1962 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks,
AK 99775, telephone (907) 474-6945, email jreuther@alaska.edu.
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 under the control of the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS) and housed at the University of Alaska Museum
of the North. The human remains and associated funerary objects were
removed from the Port Moller Hot Springs Village archeological site
(XPM-00001), Aleutians East Borough, AK.
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 Alaska
Region, USFWS, and the University of Alaska Museum of the North
professional staff, in consultation with representatives of the
Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove; Chignik Bay Tribal Council (previously
listed as the Native Village of Chignik); Chignik Lake Village; Ivanoff
Bay Tribe (previously listed as the Ivanoff Bay Tribe and the Ivanoff
Bay Village); Native Village of Belkofski; Native Village of Chignik
Lagoon; Native Village of False Pass; Native Village of Nelson Lagoon;
Native Village of Perryville; Native Village of Port Heiden; Native
Village of Unga; Pauloff Harbor Village; Qagan Tayagungin Tribe of Sand
Point Village; and the Aleut Corporation (hereafter referred to as
``The Consulting Tribes'').
History and Description of the Remains
In 1960, 1972, 1974, 1982, and 1984, human remains representing, at
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minimum, 35 individuals were removed from Port Moller Hot Springs
Village archeological site (XPM-00001) near Port Moller on the Alaska
Peninsula partially within the boundary of the Alaska Peninsula
National Wildlife Refuge, AK. Professional archeological excavations
were carried out at the site as early as 1928 and most recently in
2014. Excavations were carried out at the site in 1960 by Chester S.
Chard of the University of Wisconsin and Sosuke Sugihara of Meiji
University in Japan. Large-scale excavation occurred at the site
multiple times throughout the 1970s and 1980s by Hiroaki Okada, an
archeologist at Hokkaido University in Japan.
At an unknown time, human remains representing, at minimum, four
individuals were removed from the Port Moller area by an unknown
individual. These human remains are also housed with the 35 individuals
from the Port Moller Hot Springs Village archeological excavations.
In the years since being collected, different portions of these
human remains have been held at various institutions and locations.
Between 2015 and 2017, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consolidated
all 39 sets of human remains from the Port Moller Hot Springs Village
Site and Port Moller vicinity at the University of Alaska Museum of the
North. These human remains, which consist of cranial and post-cranial
elements, belong to fourteen juveniles of unknown sex (Burials PM-1,
PM-3, PM-5, PM-6, 72-1, 72 Isolate Remains-2, 82-1, 82-4, 82-5, 82-6,
84-1, 84 Isolate Remains-3, Box 5a-2, Box 5a-3), three adult females
(Burials PM-2, PM-7, 84-2), seven adult males (Burials PM-4, 72-2, 72-
3, 72-4, 82-2, 82-3, 82-7), nine adults of unknown sex (Burial 72-4a,
72 Isolate Remains-1, 74-1, 82-2a, 82-2b, 84 Isolate Remains-1, 84
Isolate Remains-2, Box 5a-1, Individual 5), and six individuals of
unknown sex and unknown age (Burials 74-2, 74-3, 74-4, 82-1a, 82-6a,
Individual 4). No known individuals were identified. The 217 associated
funerary objects are: one bead, six red ochre samples, 127 animal
bones, one triangular shale point, seven chipped-stone artifacts, four
hammerstones/abraders, three pieces of worked bone or ivory, two bone
pins, one carved ornament, one decorated pin, one whale bone adze, one
leister prong, two stone points, two slab stones, one sword-like bone
stick, three ivory pendants, eight buttons, five metal objects, one lot
of beads and buttons, one length of braided hair, one lot of cloth and
leather fragments, 30 leather fragments, one soil sample, and seven
pieces of pottery.
The occupation of the Port Moller Hot Springs Village site has been
divided into three phases: (1) Around 600 years BP, (2) around 1500
years BP, and (3) around 3000-3500 years BP. The 24 individuals removed
from the site in 1960, 1972, 1974, and 1984 have been associated with
the later period of occupation, or from approximately 600-1500 years
BP. The 11 individuals removed from the site in 1982 are associated
with a radiocarbon date from the oldest occupation at the site. Of the
four individuals removed from the Port Moller area, three are
associated with artifacts indicating a protohistoric or historic age,
and one cannot be associated with a date.
The Port Moller region is strategically located at the junction of
four important cultural areas: the Aglemiut Eskimo to the northeast,
Aleut to the west, the Koniaq Eskimo on Kodiak Island, and the Eskimo
of the southwestern interior region of Alaska to the east. Cultural
affiliation between the prehistoric populations in the area of the Hot
Springs Village site can only be determined through analyses of
archeological and human remains, as very little oral history
information is known concerning the use of the Port Moller area prior
to 1900. Based on the archeological evidence, it is believed that the
site is well within the Aleut area of influence, but some archeologists
believe that due to the site's strategic location, the culture
represented here likely received ideas from several different
directions. The burial contexts of the human remains are consistent
with those observed for pre-contact Aleut populations; namely, the
custom of burying the dead inside compartments of semi-subterranean
houses. The physical traits of the human remains have been determined
by some as exhibiting a close affinity to the Alaska Eskimo, while
others conclude that they represent Paleo-Aleuts. A biological
relationship between these human remains and the inhabitants of the
Nelson Lagoon area is supported by an ancient DNA study published in
2010.
Determinations Made by the Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and the University of Alaska Museum of the North
Officials of the Alaska Region, USFWS, and the University of Alaska
Museum of the North have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of 39 individuals of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 217 objects
described in this notice 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 Native
Village of Nelson Lagoon.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or 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 and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to Edward DeCleva, Regional Historic
Preservation Officer/Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Alaska Region, 1011 East Tudor Road, MS-235, Anchorage, AK 99013,
telephone (907) 786-3399, email edward_decleva@fws.gov, and Dr. Joshua
D. Reuther, Curator of Archaeology, University of Alaska Museum of the
North, 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, telephone (907) 474-6945,
email jreuther@alaska.edu, by March 6, 2019. After that date, if no
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Native Village of
Nelson Lagoon may proceed.
The Alaska Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the
University of Alaska Museum of the North is responsible for notifying
The Consulting Tribes that this notice has been published.
Dated: December 11, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-00837 Filed 2-1-19; 8:45 am]
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