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multiple Nez Perce bands used this site cairn created by the potting of a nearby Dated: March 28, 2012. during the salmon fishing season, burial. Test Pit 2 uncovered a single Sherry Hutt, including the Atskaaiwawipu, the burial. The burial was situated in a Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Tewepu, the Hasotino, the Nipihama, flexed position, and oriented in an east- [FR Doc. 2012–7881 Filed 3–30–12; 8:45 am] the Alpowamino and the Matalaimo. west direction, with the skull facing BILLING CODE 4312–50–P Additionally, this site is located within east, away from the Snake River. the judicially established land area of Fragments of steatite pipe were found the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho. scattered near the individual. The DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In 1964, human remains representing, human remains were removed and at minimum, two individuals were transported to WSU, and were National Park Service removed from site 10NP1, an open transferred to UI in 2000. No known [2253–665] village site located on the east side of individuals were identified. No the Snake River near Captain John associated funerary objects are present. Notice of Inventory Completion: Creek, in Nez Perce County, ID. Site Five lines of evidence—geographical, California Department of Parks and 10NP1 is located on lands that were to biological, archeological, Recreation, Sacramento, CA be inundated for the Asotin Dam anthropological and historical—support Reservoir, which was never constructed. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. a cultural affiliation between the Nez While the site is not on Corps property, ACTION: Notice. the Corps has taken responsibility for Perce Tribe, Idaho, and the human human remains collected at the site. A remains identified in all of the sites SUMMARY: The California Department of Washington State University (WSU) above. Parks and Recreation has completed an team surveyed and excavated site Determinations Made by the U.S. inventory of human remains and 10NP1 in 1964, in two test pits. Test Pit Department of Defense, Army Corps of associated funerary objects, in 2 contained a single cairn burial with Engineers, Walla Walla District consultation with the appropriate the human remains of two individuals Indian tribes, and has determined that (Burial 1a and 1b). The human remains Officials of the U.S. Department of there is a cultural affiliation between the were removed and transported to WSU, Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, human remains and associated funerary and were transferred to UI in 2000. No Walla Walla District, have determined objects and present-day Indian tribes. known individuals were identified. No that: Representatives of any Indian tribe that associated funerary objects are present • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the believes itself to be culturally affiliated in the collection. human remains described above with the human remains and associated According to the 1969 survey report, represent the physical remains of seven funerary objects may contact the the Burials 1a and 1b were typical of the individuals of Native American California Department of Parks and late prehistoric period. The burials ancestry. Recreation. Repatriation of the human contained the partial skeletal remains of remains and associated funerary objects • an adult male and an adult female, both Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), to the Indian tribes stated below may arranged in flexed positions. Each the 586 objects described above are occur if no additional claimants come individual was wrapped in tule matting, reasonably believed to have been placed forward. lay on an east-west axis and faced west with or near individual human remains DATES: Representatives of any Indian toward the Snake River. According to at the time of death or later as part of tribe that believes it has a cultural the report, a subsurface cairn containing the death rite or ceremony. affiliation with the human remains and a hopper mortar had been constructed • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there associated funerary objects should directly above the burial. In addition, a is a relationship of shared group contact the California Department of tubular steatite pipe and three bone identity that can be reasonably traced Parks and Recreation at the address awls reportedly were recovered in direct between the Native American human below by May 2, 2012. association with the human remains. remains and associated funerary objects ADDRESSES: Rebecca Carruthers, The location of these artifacts is and the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho. unknown. The site is in the zone of NAGPRA Coordinator, California exploitation of the Nez Perce village of Additional Requestors and Disposition Department of Parks and Recreation, ?ilaqatpa´ ?tpo. 1416 9th Street, Room 902, Sacramento, In 1964, human remains representing, Representatives of any other Indian CA 95814, telephone (916) 653–8893. at minimum, two individual were tribe that believes itself to be culturally SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is removed from site 10NP27, a burial site affiliated with the human remains and here given in accordance with the located on the east side of the Snake associated funerary objects should Native American Graves Protection and River near Buffalo Draw, in Nez Perce contact LTC David Caldwell, U.S. Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. County, ID, near the Nez Perce village Department of Defense, Army Corps of 3003, of the completion of an inventory area of hete´wisnime. Site 10NP27 is Engineers, Walla Walla District, 201 of human remains and associated located on lands that were to be North Third Ave., Walla Walla, WA funerary objects under the control of the inundated for the Asotin Dam Reservoir, 99362, telephone (509) 527–7700, before California Department of Parks and which was never constructed. While the May 2, 2012. Repatriation of the human Recreation. The human remains and site is not on Corps property, the Corps remains and associated funerary objects associated funerary objects were has taken responsibility for human to the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho, may removed from ten sites located in remains collected at the site. The site proceed after that date if no additional northeastern San Diego County, CA. was discovered during an archeological claimants come forward. This notice is published as part of the survey and test excavation of the Asotin The U.S. Department of Defense, National Park Service’s administrative Dam Reservoir area by a WSU team led Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 by Charles M. Nelson and David G. Rice. District, is responsible for notifying the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in The WSU team excavated two test pits Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho, that this notice this notice are the sole responsibility of in 1964. Test Pit 1 proved to be a false has been published. the museum, institution or Federal

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agency that has control of the Native State Park lies within the traditional individual were removed from site CA– American human remains and territory of the Cahuilla and includes SDI–2366 (Carlburg) located near Clark associated funerary objects. The the areas of Borrego Palm Canyon, Dry Lake in Anza Borrego Desert State National Park Service is not responsible Coyote Canyon, Clark Valley, the Santa Park by archeologist William Seidel. No for the determinations in this notice. Rosa Mountains, Jackass Flat, known individual was identified. No Rockhouse Canyon and Horse Canyon. associated funerary objects are present. Consultation In April of 1972, human remains The age of the human remains is A detailed assessment of the human representing, at minimum, two unknown. remains and associated funerary objects individuals were removed from site CA– At an unknown date in the 1990s, a was made by the California Department SDI–343 (Santa Caterina/Lower cremated human bone representing, at of Parks and Recreation professional Willows) in the Coyote Canyon area of minimum, one individual was removed staff in consultation with Anza Borrego Desert State Park by from the surface of site CA–SDI–16494 representatives of the Agua Caliente Professor Paul Ezell and archeology (Horse Camp) in the Coyote Canyon area Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua students from San Diego State of Anza Borrego Desert State Park by Caliente Indian Reservation, California; University. No known individuals were California State Parks Archaeologist Rae Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, identified. No associated funerary Schwaderer. No known individual was California (formerly the Augustine Band objects are present. The age of the identified. No associated funerary of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the human remains is unknown. objects are present. The age of the Augustine Reservation); Cabazon Band At an unknown date in the 1970s, a human remains is unknown. of Mission Indians, California; Cahuilla cremated human bone representing, at At an unknown date in the 1970s, Band of Mission Indians of the Cahuilla minimum, one individual was removed human bone fragments representing, at Reservation, California; Los Coyotes from site CA–SDI–489 (Ocotillo Flats) in minimum, two individuals were Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians, the Coyote Canyon area of Anza Borrego removed from an unidentified site California (formerly the Los Coyotes Desert State Park by archeologist located south of the elementary school Band of Cahuilla & Cupeno Indians of William Seidel during a survey of the in Borrego Springs, CA by archeologist the Los Coyotes Reservation); Morongo area. No known individual was William Seidel. No known individual Band of Mission Indians, California identified. No associated funerary was identified. No associated funerary (formerly the Morongo Band of Cahuilla objects are present. The age of the objects are present. The age of the Mission Indians of the Morongo human remains is unknown. human remains is unknown. Reservation); Ramona Band of Cahuilla, At an unknown date in the 1970s, a At an unknown date in the late 1950s California (formerly the Ramona Band cremated human bone representing, at or early 1960s, a human bone or Village of Cahuilla Mission Indians of minimum, one individual was removed representing, at minimum, one California); Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla from site CA–SDI–1116 in the Coyote individual was removed from an Indians, California (formerly the Santa Canyon area of Anza Borrego Desert unidentified site described as a ‘‘sand Rosa Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians State Park by archeologist William dune in Clark Dry Lake’’ approximately of the Santa Rosa Reservation); and Seidel during a survey of the area. No seven miles northeast of Borrego Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla known individual was identified. No Springs, CA, by archeologist William Indians, California (formerly the Torres- associated funerary objects are present. Wallace. No known individual was Martinez Band of Cahuilla Mission The age of the human remains is identified. No associated funerary Indians of California) (hereafter referred unknown. objects are present. The age of the to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). In 1955, human remains representing, human remains is unknown. at minimum, three individuals were On March 5, 1955, human bones History and Description of the Remains removed from site CA–SDI–1465 representing, at minimum, two The human remains and associated (Hidden Springs) in the Borrego Palm individuals were removed from an funerary objects listed in this notice Canyon and Jackass Flats areas of Anza unidentified site described as a ‘‘sand were removed from ten sites located in Borrego Desert State Park. No known dune in Clark Dry Lake’’ in Anza northeastern San Diego County, CA. The individuals were identified. The 40 Borrego Desert State Park by Ben geographical location of these ten sites associated funerary objects are 1 McCown. No known individual was indicates the human remains were quartzite flake; 8 potsherds of identified. The 181 associated funerary recovered within the historically undetermined ware; 6 buffware objects are 1 lot of burnt shell beads; 1 documented territory of the Cahuilla. potsherds; 11 potsherds in pieces; 1 granite mano fragment; 2 fragments of The traditional aboriginal territory of flake of obsidian shatter; 1 obsidian obsidian shatter; 4 wonderstone flakes; the Cahuilla, as defined by finishing/resharpening flake (source 1 wonderstone cottonwood triangular anthropologist Lowell John Bean, determined to be Obsidian Butte); 2 projectile point; 3 faunal bones; 1 lot of encompasses a geographically diverse obsidian finishing/resharpening flakes; burnt faunal bone; and 168 potsherds. area of mountains, valleys and low 1 quartz flake; 1 charred Agavaceae The age of the human remains is desert zones. The southernmost seed; 1 green fused shale biface tip; 1 unknown; however, the cottonwood boundary approximately followed a line burnt wonderstone flake; 2 burned triangular projectile suggests a date for from just below Borrego Springs to the worked faunal bone fragments; l lot of both the remains and associated north end of the Salton Basin and the faunal bone fragments; 1 lot of funerary objects in the ‘‘Late Period.’’ Chocolate Mountains. The eastern unidentified faunal bone fragments; 1 In 1975 and 1978, human remains boundary ran along the summit of the burnt Olivella dama shell bead; and 1 representing, at minimum, one San Bernardino Mountains. The burnt shell disk bead (possibly an individual were removed from site CA– northern boundary stood within the San Olivella callus or clam shell disk bead). SD–98 in the Borrego Palm Canyon area Jacinto Plain near Riverside, while the The age of the human remains and of Anza Borrego Desert State Park by base of Palomar Mountain formed the associated funerary objects is unknown. archeologist William Seidel. No known western boundary. According to Bean At an unknown date in the 1970s, individual was identified. The 33 and archeologist William D. Strong, the human cranial bone fragments associated funerary objects are 2 lots of northern end of Anza Borrego Desert representing, at minimum, one faunal bones; 8 soil samples; 1 lot of

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Olivella biplicata rough disk shell Dated: March 28, 2012. Department of Parks and Recreation beads; 2 lots of various shell fragments; Sherry Hutt, professional staff in consultation with 3 ceramic pipe fragments; 1 polished Manager, National NAGPRA Program. representatives of the Agua Caliente bone fragment; 1 rusted square nail; 2 [FR Doc. 2012–7890 Filed 3–30–12; 8:45 am] Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua rusted iron fragments; 1 sample of BILLING CODE 4312–50–P Caliente Indian Reservation, California; organic matter; 5 projectile points or Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, fragmentary projectile points; 1 lot of California (formerly the Augustine Band obsidian flakes; 1 lot of wonderstone DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the flakes; 1 lot of quartz flakes; 1 lot of Augustine Reservation); Cabazon Band National Park Service of Mission Indians, California; Cahuilla quartzite flakes; 1 lot of sherds Band of Mission Indians of the Cahuilla representing a painted pottery scoop of [2253–665] Reservation, California; Campo Band of Tumco Buffware; 1 lot of sherds of Notice of Inventory Completion: Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo pottery with an undetermined ware; and California Department of Parks and Indian Reservation, California; Capitan 1 lot of Brownware pottery sherds. Recreation, Sacramento, CA Grande Band of Diegueno Mission The human remains and associated Indians of California: Barona Group of funerary objects listed above were AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians stored at facilities within the Colorado ACTION: Notice. of the Barona Reservation, California, and Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Desert District of the California SUMMARY: The California Department of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians Department of Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation has completed an of the Viejas Reservation, California; until an inventory effort was begun in inventory of human remains, in Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay 2004. Since then, the remains have been consultation with the appropriate Indians, California; Iipay Nation of stored at the Bigole Archaeological Indian tribes, and has determined that Santa Ysabel, California (formerly the Research Center (BARC–2) in Borrego there is a cultural affiliation between the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Springs, CA. human remains and present-day Indian Indians of the Santa Ysabel tribes. Representatives of any Indian Reservation); Inaja Band of Diegueno Determinations made by the California tribe that believes itself to be culturally Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Department of Parks and Recreation affiliated with the human remains may Reservation, California; Jamul Indian contact the California Department of Officials of the California Department Village of California; La Posta Band of Parks and Recreation. Repatriation of of Parks and Recreation have Diegueno Mission Indians of the La the human remains to the Indian tribes determined that: Posta Indian Reservation, California; Los stated below may occur if no additional Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the claimants come forward. human remains described in this notice Indians, California (formerly the Los DATES: Representatives of any Indian Coyotes Band of Cahuilla & Cupeno represent the physical remains of fifteen tribe that believes it has a cultural individuals of Native American Indians of the Los Coyotes Reservation); affiliation with the human should Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission ancestry. contact the California Department of Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Parks and Recreation at the address California; Mesa Grande Band of the 254 associated funerary objects are below by May 2, 2012. Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa reasonably believed to have been placed ADDRESSES: Rebecca Carruthers, Grande Reservation, California; with or near individual human remains NAGPRA Coordinator, California Morongo Band of Mission Indians, at the time of death or later as part of Department of Parks and Recreation, California (formerly the Morongo Band the death rite or ceremony. 1416 9th Street, Room 902, Sacramento, of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the CA 95814, telephone (916) 653–8893. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Morongo Reservation); Ramona Band of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is is a relationship of shared group Cahuilla, California (formerly the here given in accordance with the Ramona Band or Village of Cahuilla identity that can be reasonably traced Native American Graves Protection and Mission Indians of California); San between the Native American human Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission remains and The Tribes. 3003, of the completion of an inventory Indians of California; Santa Rosa Band Additional Requestors and Disposition of human remains under the control of of Cahuilla Indians, California (formerly the California Department of Parks and the Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Mission Representatives of any Indian tribe Recreation. The human remains were Indians of the Santa Rosa Reservation); that believes itself to be culturally removed from three sites located in San Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation; affiliated with the human remains Diego County, CA. and Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla should contact Rebecca Carruthers, This notice is published as part of the Indians, California (formerly the Torres- NAGPRA Coordinator, California National Park Service’s administrative Martinez Band of Cahuilla Mission Department of Parks and Recreation, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Indians of California) (hereafter referred 1416 9th Street, Room 902, telephone U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). this notice are the sole responsibility of (916) 653–8893, before May 2, 2012. History and Description of the Remains Repatriation of the human remains to the museum, institution or Federal The human remains were removed The Tribes may proceed after that date agency that has control of the Native American human remains. The National from three sites located in San Diego if no additional claimants come County, CA. The geographical location forward. Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. of these sites indicates that the human The California Department of Parks remains were recovered within the and Recreation is responsible for Consultation historically documented territory shared notifying The Tribes that this notice has A detailed assessment of the human by the Cahuilla and the Kumeyaay. been published. remains was made by the California Northern areas of the Anza Borrego

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