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Valley constitutes the western Mojave individuals of Native American Federally-recognized Indian Tribes, and Desert. Archaeological and ethnographic ancestry. has determined that there is no cultural evidence suggests that this region was • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there affiliation between the human remains inhabited by Serran speakers of the is a relationship of shared group and associated funerary objects and any Takic family of languages. More identity that can be reasonably traced present-day Federally-recognized Indian specifically, based on John P. between the Native American human Tribes. Representatives of any Harrington’s notes and mission records, remains and the San Manuel Band of Federally-recognized Indian Tribe not the desert group occupying the Mission Indians, California (previously identified in this notice that wish to Antelope Valley were speakers of the listed as the San Manual Band of request transfer of control of these Serrano language. Inclusive of a few Serrano Mission Indians of the San human remains and associated funerary groups, the region was within the Manual Reservation), and, if joined, the objects should submit a written request traditional territory of the Desert Fernanden˜ o Tataviam Band of Mission to the TVA. If no additional requestors Serrano (referred to by some early Indians, a non-federally recognized come forward, transfer of control of the Spanish explorers—and later Indian group. human remains and associated funerary ethnographers referencing their objects to the Federally-recognized Additional Requestors and Disposition diaries—as the ‘‘Vanyume’’ or Indian Tribe stated in this notice may ‘‘Beneme’’). Serrano peoples’ oral Lineal descendants or representatives proceed. traditions place them in this portion of of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian DATES: Representatives of any Federally- organization not identified in this notice their ancestral territory since time recognized Indian Tribe not identified that wish to request transfer of control immemorial. Archaeologists have in this notice that wish to request of these human remains should submit traditionally suggested that Serrano transfer of control of these human a written request with information in speakers have continuously occupied remains and associated funerary objects the San Bernardino Mountains and the support of the request to Amy Gusick, should submit a written request with areas north, northwest, and west of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural information in support of the request to San Bernardino Mountains for at least History, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los the TVA at the address in this notice by 3,000 years, but newer studies have Angeles, CA 90007, telephone (213) September 4, 2019. lengthened their occupancy up to 763–3370, email [email protected], by 5,000–6,000 years B.P. September 4, 2019. After that date, if no ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, The Tataviam, a desert group that additional requestors have come Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West spoke a language distinct from Serrano, forward, transfer of control of the Summit Hill Drive, WT11C, Knoxville, are also tied to the land in the human remains to the San Manuel Band TN 37902–1401, telephone (865) 632– southwestern portion of the Antelope of Mission Indians, California 7458, email [email protected]. Valley, including the northern foothills (previously listed as the San Manual SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is of the Liebre Mountains. The Tataviam Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the here given in accordance with the language is derived from the Takic San Manual Reservation) and the Native American Graves Protection and languages of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic Fernanden˜ o Tataviam Band of Mission Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. stock, and is associated with villages Indians (if joined to San Manuel Band 3003, of the completion of an inventory that held Serrano and Kitanemuk of Mission Indians, California) may of human remains and associated speakers. proceed. funerary objects under the control of the There are mapped native settlements The Los Angeles County Museum of Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, in the Antelope Valley which are known Natural History is responsible for TN, and stored at the Alabama Museum to have been inhabited by Tataviam, notifying The Consulted and Invited of Natural History (AMNH) at the Serrano, and/or Kitanemuk- speaking Indian Tribes and Groups that this University of Alabama. The human peoples—sometimes separately and notice has been published. remains and associated funerary objects sometimes simultaneously. Such places Dated: July 9, 2019. were removed from the following in the Antelope Valley area, include but archeological sites in Lauderdale Melanie O’Brien, are not limited to, Amutskupiat/ County, AL: 1LU21, 1LU92, 1LU64, Amutskupeat, or Big Rock, and Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 1LU67, and 1LU72. Maviayek/Maviajeh’, or Little Rock [FR Doc. 2019–16683 Filed 8–2–19; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the Creek. Some of the occupants of these BILLING CODE 4312–52–P National Park Service’s administrative villages were recruited to Mission San responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Fernando and Mission San Gabriel, but U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR it also appears that some people The determinations in this notice are successfully avoided missionization. National Park Service the sole responsibility of the museum, The cultural affiliation of both Serrano institution, or Federal agency that has and Tataviam includes the well- [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0028406; control of the Native American human documented Lovejoy Springs site (CA– PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] remains and associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not LAN–942), also known as the village of Notice of Inventory Completion: responsible for the determinations in Tameobit/Tameonga. Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, this notice. Determinations Made by the Los TN Angeles County Museum of Natural Consultation AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. History ACTION: Notice. A detailed assessment of the human Officials of the Los Angeles County remains and associated funerary objects Museum of Natural History have SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley was made by TVA professional staff in determined that: Authority (TVA) has completed an consultation with representatives of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the inventory of human remains and Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas human remains described in this notice associated funerary objects in (previously listed as the Alabama- represent the physical remains of eight consultation with the appropriate Coushatta Tribes of Texas); Alabama-

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Quassarte Tribal Town; Cherokee minimum, nine individuals were was located immediately adjacent to the Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; removed from site 1LU92, Lauderdale Tennessee River. This shell mound was Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; County, AL. Excavation commenced created from the accumulation of Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; after TVA purchased this land discarded shell, village midden, and Poarch Band of Creeks (previously listed November 27, 1935 for the Pickwick alluvial soils rather than intentionally as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of project. Site 1LU92 was composed of constructed earthworks. This shell Alabama); The Chickasaw Nation; The both a village and a cemetery. midden extended to a depth of 10 feet Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The Excavations focused on the cemetery. below surface. Early flooding of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; Thlopthlocco There was no clear stratigraphy at the Pickwick reservoir abbreviated Tribal Town; and the United Keetoowah site. The excavators believed the village excavations at this site. The Union Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma midden predates the cemetery. The later Hollow site had multiple occupations, (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted occupation is attributed to the Kogers including during the Late Archaic Tribes’’). Island phase of the Mississippian period (4000–1000 B.C.), Early Woodland (500– (A.D. 1200–1500). The human remains History and Description of the Remains 100 B.C.), and Mississippian (A.D. include two adults and seven sub- 1200–1500). The one associated The sites listed in this notice were adults. The sex could not be funerary object is a Bell Plain ceramic excavated as part of TVA’s Pickwick determined. No known individuals were water bottle. reservoir project by the Alabama identified. The 121 associated funerary Museum of Natural History (AMNH) at objects are 114 shell beads, one bone Determinations Made by the Tennessee the University of Alabama, using labor awl, and six McKee Island Plain sherds. Valley Authority and funds provided by the Works From February to May 1937, and from Officials of the Tennessee Valley Progress Administration. Details February to March 1938, excavations Authority have determined that: regarding these excavations and sites took place at site 1LU64, 23 miles • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the may be found in An Archaeological downstream from Florence, AL, on the human remains described in this notice Survey of Pickwick Basin in the Tennessee River in Lauderdale County, are Native American based on their Adjacent Portions of the States of AL. TVA purchased the land presence in prehistoric archeological Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, by encompassing site 1LU64 on October sites and osteological analysis. William S. Webb and David L. 28, 1936. Site 1LU64 was a Copena • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the DeJarnette. The human remains and phase (A.D. 100–500) burial mound. human remains described in this notice associated funerary objects listed in this The four associated funerary objects are represent the physical remains of 37 notice have been in the physical two copper celts and two copper individuals of Native American custody of AMNH at the University of earspools. ancestry. Alabama since excavation but are under From June to September 1936, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the control of the TVA. Human remains excavations took place at the Long the 128 objects described in this notice and other associated funerary objects Branch site 1LU67, in Lauderdale are reasonably believed to have been from these sites were previously listed County, AL. Excavation commenced placed with or near individual human in a Notice of Inventory Completion (81 after TVA purchased three parcels of remains at the time of death or later as FR 60377–60380, September 1, 2016) land encompassing this site on January part of the death rite or ceremony. and transferred to The Chickasaw 11, 1935, September 16, 1935, and • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Nation. Additional human remains and February 8, 1936. Site 1LU67 was relationship of shared group identity associated funerary objects were found located immediately adjacent to the cannot be reasonably traced between the during a recent improvement in the Tennessee River. Although described as Native American human remains and curation of the TVA archeological a mound, this site appears to have been associated funerary objects and any collections at AMNH. from the accumulation of discarded present-day Indian Tribe. From August 1937 to April 1938, shell, village midden, and alluvial soils • According to final judgements of human remains representing, at rather than an intentionally constructed the Indian Claims Commission or the minimum, 28 individuals were removed earthwork. This shell midden extended Court of Federal Claims, the land from from site 1LU21, in Lauderdale County, to a depth of 11 feet below surface. The which the cultural items were removed AL. Excavation commenced after TVA Long Branch site had multiple is the aboriginal land of the Cherokee had acquired the land encompassing occupations, including during the Nation; Eastern Band of Cherokee this site on February 19, 1937. Middle Archaic (6000–4000 B.C.), Late Indians; and the United Keetoowah Excavations focused on the earthen Archaic (4000–1000 B.C.), Early Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. mound at this site. The mound was Woodland (500–100 B.C.), Middle • The Treaty of September 20, 1816, constructed in four stages, and Woodland (100 B.C.–A.D. 500), Late indicates that the land from which the supported at least four superimposed Woodland (A.D. 500–1000) and cultural items were removed is the structures and two peripheral single Mississippian (A.D. 900–1500). It is not aboriginal land of The Chickasaw post structures. The adjacent village was possible to determine from which level Nation. not part of these excavations. The of occupation a burial unit originated. • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1)(ii), primary occupation of this mound was The two associated funerary objects are the disposition of the cultural items may during the Kogers Island phase of the a bone atlatl hook and a stone atlatl be to the Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band Mississippian period (A.D. 1200–1500). weight. of Cherokee Indians; The Chickasaw These human remains represent four From January to February 1938, Nation; and the United Keetoowah Band infants and 24 adults. The human excavations took place at the Union of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The remains were too fragmentary to Hollow site 1LU72, in Lauderdale Cherokee Nation; Eastern Band of identify sex. No known individuals County, AL. Excavation commenced Cherokee Indians; and the United were identified. No associated funerary after TVA purchased the land Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in objects are present. encompassing this site in Lauderdale Oklahoma have declined to accept From October 1937 to December 1938, County, AL, on October 5, 1936 for the transfer of control of the human human remains representing, at Pickwick Reservoir project. Site 1LU72 remains. The Tennessee Valley

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Authority has agreed to transfer control request to the University of Oregon of Oregon), hereafter referred to as ‘‘The of the human remains to The Chickasaw Museum of Natural and Cultural Consulted Tribes.’’ Nation. History. If no additional requestors History and Description of the Remains • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(4), the come forward, transfer of control of the Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed human remains and associated funerary In 1950, human remains representing, to transfer control of the associated objects to the lineal descendants, Indian at minimum, one individual were funerary objects to The Chickasaw Tribes, or Native Hawaiian removed from Purdy Mound at Bob Nation. organizations stated in this notice may Creek in Lane County, OR. The human proceed. remains were removed by a private Additional Requestors and Disposition party and were donated to the museum DATES: Lineal descendants or Representatives of any Federally- in 1950 (acc. # 100LC). They belong to representatives of any Indian Tribe or recognized Indian Tribe not identified an adult male (cat. # 11–262). No known Native Hawaiian organization not in this notice that wish to request individuals were identified. The two identified in this notice that wish to transfer of control of these human associated funerary objects are one request transfer of control of these remains and associated funerary objects partial bone club and fragments of one human remains and associated funerary should submit a written request with elk maxillary. information in support of the request to objects should submit a written request The human remains are reasonably Dr. Thomas O. Maher, Tennessee Valley with information in support of the believed to be of Native American Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, request to the University of Oregon ancestry based on their archeological WT11C, Knoxville, TN 37902–1401, Museum of Natural and Cultural History context. Historical documents, telephone (865) 632–7458, email at the address in this notice by ethnographic sources, and oral history [email protected], by September 4, 2019. September 4, 2019. indicate that the Bob Creek site lies near After that date, if no additional ADDRESSES: Dr. Pamela Endzweig, the territorial boundary between the requestors have come forward, transfer Director of Collections, Museum of Alsea and the Siuslaw peoples. Both of control of the human remains and Natural and Cultural History, 1224 cultural groups have occupied the associated funerary objects to The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR region since pre-contact times. Based on Chickasaw Nation may proceed. 97403–1224, telephone (541) 346–5120, information obtained through The Tennessee Valley Authority is email [email protected]. consultation, the human remains are responsible for notifying The Consulted SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is identified as Alsea. The Alsea are Tribes that this notice has been here given in accordance with the members or the Confederated Tribes of published. Native American Graves Protection and Siletz Indians of Oregon. Dated: July 9, 2019. Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Determinations Made by the University Melanie O’Brien, 3003, of the completion of an inventory of Oregon Museum of Natural and Manager, National NAGPRA Program. of human remains and associated Cultural History funerary objects under the control of the [FR Doc. 2019–16690 Filed 8–2–19; 8:45 am] Officials of the University of Oregon BILLING CODE 4312–52–P University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, Museum of Natural and Cultural History OR. The human remains and associated have determined that: • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR funerary object were removed from human remains described in this notice Purdy Mound at Bob Creek, Lane represent the physical remains of one National Park Service County, OR. individual of Native American ancestry. [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0028402; This notice is published as part of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] National Park Service’s administrative the two objects described in this notice responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 are reasonably believed to have been Notice of Inventory Completion: The U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in placed with or near individual human University of Oregon Museum of this notice are the sole responsibility of remains at the time of death or later as Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, the museum, institution, or Federal part of the death rite or ceremony. OR agency that has control of the Native • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. American human remains and is a relationship of shared group associated funerary objects. The ACTION: Notice. identity that can be reasonably traced National Park Service is not responsible between the Native American human SUMMARY: The University of Oregon for the determinations in this notice. remains and associated funerary objects Museum of Natural and Cultural History Consultation and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz has completed an inventory of human Indians of Oregon (previously listed as remains and associated funerary objects, A detailed assessment of the human the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz in consultation with the appropriate remains was made by the University of Reservation). Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural organizations, and has determined that History professional staff in Additional Requestors and Disposition there is a cultural affiliation between the consultation with representatives of the Lineal descendants or representatives human remains and associated funerary Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Oregon (previously listed as the organization not identified in this notice Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Confederated Tribes of the Siletz that wish to request transfer of control descendants or representatives of any Reservation); Confederated Tribes of the of these human remains and associated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw funerary objects should submit a written organization not identified in this notice Indians; Confederated Tribes of the request with information in support of that wish to request transfer of control Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; the request to Dr. Pamela Endzweig, of these human remains and associated and the Coquille Indian Tribe Director of Collections, Museum of funerary objects should submit a written (previously listed as the Coquille Tribe Natural and Cultural History, 1224

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