Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: Animas Museum/La Plata County Historical Society, Durango, CO, 405-406 [2023-28918]
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college in 1940–1950s from the
Alvarado area (present-day Union City).
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice were
removed from known geographic
locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more
Federally recognized Indian Tribes.
These locations are also the aboriginal
lands of the Ohlone/Costanoan Tribes
recognized by the State. The following
information was used to identify the
aboriginal land: California Native
American Heritage Commission Native
American Contact List for implementing
AB275 (dated: 9/30/2021), Unratified
Treaty E ‘‘Treaty at Dent’s and
Valentine’s Crossing (May 28, 1851)’’
(Heizer 1972).
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes, San Jose State University
has determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of five individuals of Native
American ancestry.
• The one box of associated funerary
objects described in this notice is
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.
• No relationship of shared group
identity can be reasonably traced
between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and any
federally-recognized Indian Tribe.
• The human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice
were removed from the aboriginal land
of the Wilton Rancheria, California.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian
Tribes identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian
Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization
not identified in this notice who shows,
by a preponderance of the evidence, that
the requestor is a lineal descendant or
a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization, or who
shows that the requestor is an aboriginal
land Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
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or after February 2, 2024. If competing
requests for disposition are received,
San Jose State University must
determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to disposition. Requests
for joint disposition of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
are considered a single request and not
competing requests. San Jose State
University is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 10.11.
Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items Amendment: Animas Museum/La
Plata County Historical Society,
Durango, CO
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; amendment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Animas
Museum/La Plata County Historical
Society has amended a Notice of Intent
to Repatriate published in the Federal
Register on April 4, 2018. This notice
amends the number of cultural items in
a collection removed from San Juan
County, NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after
February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Susan Jones, Museum,
Collections Manager, Animas Museum/
La Plata County Historical Society, 3065
W 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO 81301,
telephone (970) 259–2402, email
susanjones@animasmuseum.org.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the Animas
Museum. The National Park Service is
not responsible for the determinations
in this notice. Additional information
on the amendments and determinations
in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the
SUMMARY:
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summary or related records held by the
Animas Museum.
Amendment
This notice amends the
determinations published in a Notice of
Intent to Repatriate in the Federal
Register (83 FR 14497–14498, April 4,
2018). Repatriation of the items in the
original Notice of Intent to Repatriate
has not occurred. During further
analysis of the artifacts in the Museum’s
collection, documentation was found
concerning one bowl excavated by
George F. Stewart from 31 archeological
sites within Dolores, La Plata, and
Montezuma Counties in Colorado and
San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in
New Mexico was found not to have been
associated with a burial. This notice
amends the number of unassociated
funerary objects as listed in the original
notice as follows:
Between 1951 and 1971, 116
unassociated funerary objects
(previously identified as 117
unassociated funerary objects) were
removed from 31 archeological sites
within Dolores, La Plata, and
Montezuma Counties in Colorado and
San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in
New Mexico. They were excavated by
George F. Stewart, an amateur
archeologist and private collector from
La Plata County, CO, who donated most
of his collection to the La Plata County
Historical Society in 1978. These
unassociated funerary objects are all
from Ancestral Puebloan sites dating
from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500) to
the Pueblo III (A.D. 1300) periods. The
116 unassociated funerary objects
include 106 ceramic objects (53 bowls,
16 jars, 13 pitchers, seven seed jars, six
ladles, five ollas, four pipes, and two
dippers), two stone pendants, one stone
pipe, one flake, one concretion, one
sandstone bowl, one bone awl, one bone
bead, and two unidentifiable objects.
Determinations (as Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Animas Museum has
determined that:
• The 118 cultural items 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.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items in this
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notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico;
Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur
Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after February 2, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the Animas Museum must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Animas
Museum is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, 10.13,
and 10.14.
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Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville
District, Nashville, TN, and University
of Tennessee, Department of
Anthropology, Knoxville, TN
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville
District in cooperation with the
University of Tennessee, Department of
Anthropology (UTK) has completed an
inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is no cultural
affiliation between the human remains
and associated funerary objects and any
Indian Tribe. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Stewart County, TN.
DATES: Disposition of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Crystal Geiger,
Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Nashville District, 110 9th
Avenue South, Room A–405, Nashville,
TN 37203, telephone (615) 736–2472,
email crystal.l.geiger@usace.army.mil
and Dr. Ozlem Kilic, Vice Provost for
Academic Affairs, University of
Tennessee, 527 Andy Holt Tower,
Knoxville, TN 37996–0152, telephone
(865) 974–2454, email okilic@utk.edu
and vpaa@utk.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Nashville District.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Nashville District.
SUMMARY:
Description
In 1959, Michael D. Coe and F.
William Fischer of the University of
Tennessee undertook archeological
research at the Stone site (40SW23)
prior to the inundation of Lake Barkley.
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Coe and Fisher documented extensive
looting and encountered few
undisturbed areas of the site. Artifacts
indicate a Mississippian occupation.
Notices of Inventory Completion were
published in the Federal Register on
July 19, 2017 (82 FR 33155–33156), July
6, 2020 (85 FR 40314), and May 24,
2023 (88 FR 33635) listing human
remains and associated funerary objects
from this site that have been repatriated.
Subsequently, 19 additional funerary
objects associated with these
individuals were discovered in
University of Tennessee collections. The
collection is stored in the McClung
Museum, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN. The 19 associated
funerary objects are four lots of faunal
bones, four lots of lithics, four lots of
ceramic sherds, two lots of botanical
material, three lots of coal fragments,
and two dog mandible fragments.
In 1959, human remains representing,
at minimum, six individuals were
removed from the Shamble site
(40SW41) in Stewart County, TN.
Michael D. Coe and F. William Fischer
of the University of Tennessee
undertook archeological research at the
Shamble site prior to the inundation of
Lake Barkley. Artifacts indicate
Woodland and Mississippian
occupation and a mound at the site
dates to the Mississippian period. The
collection is stored in the McClung
Museum, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN. The human remains
belong to four adults of indeterminate
sex and two subadults. The 23
associated funerary objects are one lot of
lithics, three lots, 15 faunal bones, three
lots of ceramics sherds, and one lot of
coal fragments. (A Notice of Inventory
Completion for additional human
remains and associated funerary objects
from this site was published in the
Federal Register on July 19, 2017 (82 FR
33155–33156). The repatriation and
reburial of those human remains and
associated funerary objects took place in
August of 2018.)
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice were
removed from known geographic
locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more Indian
Tribes. The following information was
used to identify the aboriginal land: a
final judgment of the Indian Claims
Commission or the United States Court
of Claims and treaties.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037163; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: Animas
Museum/La Plata County Historical Society, Durango, CO
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Animas Museum/La Plata County Historical
Society has amended a Notice of Intent to Repatriate published in the
Federal Register on April 4, 2018. This notice amends the number of
cultural items in a collection removed from San Juan County, NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after February 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Susan Jones, Museum, Collections Manager, Animas Museum/La
Plata County Historical Society, 3065 W 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO 81301,
telephone (970) 259-2402, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Animas Museum. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the amendments
and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the summary or related records held by
the Animas Museum.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Intent to Repatriate in the Federal Register (83 FR 14497-14498, April
4, 2018). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of Intent to
Repatriate has not occurred. During further analysis of the artifacts
in the Museum's collection, documentation was found concerning one bowl
excavated by George F. Stewart from 31 archeological sites within
Dolores, La Plata, and Montezuma Counties in Colorado and San Juan and
Rio Arriba Counties in New Mexico was found not to have been associated
with a burial. This notice amends the number of unassociated funerary
objects as listed in the original notice as follows:
Between 1951 and 1971, 116 unassociated funerary objects
(previously identified as 117 unassociated funerary objects) were
removed from 31 archeological sites within Dolores, La Plata, and
Montezuma Counties in Colorado and San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in
New Mexico. They were excavated by George F. Stewart, an amateur
archeologist and private collector from La Plata County, CO, who
donated most of his collection to the La Plata County Historical
Society in 1978. These unassociated funerary objects are all from
Ancestral Puebloan sites dating from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500) to
the Pueblo III (A.D. 1300) periods. The 116 unassociated funerary
objects include 106 ceramic objects (53 bowls, 16 jars, 13 pitchers,
seven seed jars, six ladles, five ollas, four pipes, and two dippers),
two stone pendants, one stone pipe, one flake, one concretion, one
sandstone bowl, one bone awl, one bone bead, and two unidentifiable
objects.
Determinations (as Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Animas Museum has determined that:
The 118 cultural items 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.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items in this
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notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Santo
Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal
descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal descendant or a culturally
affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after February 2, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Animas Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Animas Museum is responsible for sending a
copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
10.13, and 10.14.
Dated: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-28918 Filed 1-2-24; 8:45 am]
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