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The Unangan Repatriation and Native Village of Atka that this and the museum. No known individuals Commission, a non–federally notice has been published. were identified. The 127 associated recognized Native Alaskan group, Dated: June 5, 2008 funerary objects are 42 assorted bidarka pieces; 1 lot of wood fragments and provided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Sherry Hutt, Service with a list of cultural affiliation other wooden objects; 1 wood bidarka Manager, National NAGPRA Program. for islands and corresponding village paddle; 1 wooden spear shaft; 4 skin corporations and tribal entities. No [FR Doc. E8–15901 Filed 7–11–08; 8:45 am] fragments from bidarka; 3 bone wedges; corporation or tribe specifically claims BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 1 bone bladder plug; 1 bone rack peg; . Cultural affiliation of 2 toggles; 3 bone points; 1 bone harpoon ancestors from unclaimed islands point; 1 bird bone awl; 2 bone awls; 1 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR lies with the Aleut Corporation, the digging tool; 1 bone fore–shaft; 1 bone regional corporation representing all National Park Service hook; 1 bone fishhook shank; 1 bone Aleut people. After Russian contact artifact; 6 bird bones; 1 ivory labret; 1 with the Aleutians began in A.D. 1751, Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. walrus tusk; 1 curved antler fragment; 7 the population declined precipitously. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish pieces of cordage; 1 cord wrapped with By the 1790s, many of the were and Wildlife Service, Region 7, skin; 1 piece of matting with black concentrated in a small number of Anchorage, AK decoration; 23 matting fragments; 1 regional centers. For the western piece of matting containing duff, wood Aleutians, most were removed to the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. and bones; 1 piece of matting with grass Native Village of Atka. Therefore, based ACTION: Notice. and hair; 2 loose human hairs; 1 lot of on historical records, geographic stuffing moss in unknown quantities; 1 Notice is here given in accordance grass bundle; 1 lot of grass padding; 1 location, and information presented with the Native American Graves during consultation, it is reasonably birch bark fragment; 1 stone chip; 1 Protection and Repatriation Act obsidian point; 2 basalt points; 1 broken determined that the descendants of (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the Tanaga Island are members of the basalt blade; 1 worked pumice block; 2 completion of an inventory of human pieces of bird feather coat remains; and present–day Aleut Corporation and remains and associated funerary objects Native Village of Atka. 2 sea otter pelt remains. in the possession of the U.S. Department Between 1947 and 1950, human Officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 have determined that, remains representing a minimum of one Service, Region 7, Anchorage, AK. The individual were removed from Warm pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains and associated funerary human remains described above Cave on Kagamil Island, AK, by objects were removed from Kagamil Theodore P. Bank II, an ethno–botanist, represent the physical remains of three Island, AK. and William S. Laughlin, a physical individuals of Native American This notice is published as part of the anthropologist. The human remains ancestry. Officials of the U.S. Fish and National Park Service’s administrative were sent to the University of Michigan. Wildlife Service, Region 7 also have responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 In 1982, at the request of the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Ounalashka Corporation and the 3001 (3)(A), the 21 objects described in this notice are the sole responsibility National Park Service, the collection above are reasonably believed to have of the museum, institution, or Federal was moved to the University of Alaska been placed with or near individual agency that has control of the Native Museum in Fairbanks. In 2002, the human remains at the time of death or American human remains. The National human remains and associated funerary later as part of the death rite or Park Service is not responsible for the artifacts were sent to The Museum of ceremony. Lastly, officials of the U.S. determinations in this notice. the Aleutians, at the request of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 A detailed assessment of the human Ounalashka Corporation and the have determined that, pursuant to 25 remains was made by U.S. Fish and museum. No known individual was U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship Wildlife Service, Region 7 professional identified. The 23 associated funerary of shared group identity that can be staff and forensic anthropologists from objects are 7 round wooden shafts; 5 reasonably traced between the Native the University of Alaska, Anchorage, wood pieces; 2 wood pieces with thong American human remains and and with assistance from the Alaska attached; 1 wooden piece bound with associated funerary objects and the State Office of History and Archaeology, gut; 1 wood object with peg holes; 1 Aleut Corporation and Native Village of in consultation with representatives of piece birch bark; 3 pieces of matting, Atka. the Chaluka Corporation. hair and fiber; 1 piece of cordage; 1 Representatives of any other Indian Between 1947 and 1950, human obsidian flake; and 1 worked shale tribe that believes itself to be culturally remains representing a minimum of 30 fragment. affiliated with the human remains and individuals were removed from Cold Between 1947 and 1950, human associated funerary objects should Cave on Kagamil Island, AK, by remains representing a minimum of four contact Debra Corbett, U.S. Fish and Theodore P. Bank II, an ethno–botanist, individuals were removed from Mask Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor Road, and William S. Laughlin, a physical Cave on Kagamil Island, AK, by Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone (907) anthropologist. The human remains Theodore P. Bank II, an ethno–botanist. 786–3399, before August 13, 2008. were sent to the University of Michigan. The human remains were sent to the Repatriation of the human remains and In 1982, at the request of the University of Michigan. In 1982, at the associated funerary objects to the Aleut Ounalashka Corporation and the request of the Ounalashka Corporation Corporation and Native Village of Atka National Park Service, the collection and the National Park Service, the may proceed after that date if no was moved to the University of Alaska collection was moved to the University additional claimants come forward. Museum in Fairbanks. In 2002, the of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks. In U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region human remains and associated funerary 2002, the human remains and associated 7 is responsible for notifying the Aleut artifacts were sent to The Museum of funerary artifacts were sent to The Corporation; Aleutian/ the Aleutians in Unalaska, AK, at the Museum of the Aleutians, at the request Association, Inc.; Atxam Corporation; request of the Ounalashka Corporation of the Ounalashka Corporation and the

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museum. No known individuals were represent the physical remains of 35 objects were removed from , identified. The 60 funerary objects are 3 individuals of Native American AK. complete or nearly complete painted ancestry. Officials of the U.S. Fish and This notice is published as part of the wood masks; approximately 29 mask Wildlife Service, Region 7 also have National Park Service’s administrative fragments; 4 figurines and carved determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 wooden objects; 17 bidarka pieces 3001 (3)(A), the 210 objects described U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations including a keel piece and a cross piece; above are reasonably believed to have in this notice are the sole responsibility 1 ivory labret; 1 ivory needle; 2 stone been placed with or near individual of the museum, institution, or Federal artifacts; 1 basalt flake; 1 shell object; human remains at the time of death or agency that has control of the Native and 1 lot of duff collected near a mask. later as part of the death rite or American human remains and All individuals found within these ceremony. Lastly, officials of the U.S. associated funerary objects. The caves are believed to be associated with Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 7 National Park Service is not responsible the modern day populations of have determined that, pursuant to 25 for the determinations in this notice. Island and Chaluka Corporation. There U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship A detailed assessment of the human are no radiocarbon dates available for of shared group identity that can be remains was made by U.S. Fish and the human remains. All known dated reasonably traced between the Native Wildlife Service, Region 7 professional cave burials from the Aleutians are American human remains and staff with assistance from the Alaska younger than 2,000 years old (Black associated funerary objects and the State Office of History and Archaeology 1982, pg 24; Black 2003, pg 36; Hayes Chaluka Corporation and Native Village and University of Alaska, Anchorage, in 2002). The human remains collected of Nikolski. consultation with representatives of the from burial caves on Kagamil Island Representatives of any other Indian Aleut Corporation; Atka IRA Council and Atxam Corporation, which were interred using traditional Aleut tribe that believes itself to be culturally represent the Native Village of Atka; and burial practices. The burial context and affiliated with the human remains and Unangan Repatriation Commission, a physical traits of the human remains are associated funerary objects should non–federally recognized Native consistent with those observed for pre- contact Debra Corbett, U.S. Fish and Alaskan group. contact Aleut populations. Skeletal Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor Road, morphology of present–day Aleut In either 1948 or 1949, human Anchorage, AK 99503, telephone (907) remains representing a minimum of two populations is similar to that of 786–3399, before August 13, 2008. prehistoric Aleut populations and individuals were removed from burial Repatriation of the human remains and demonstrates biological affiliation caves on Atka Island, AK, by Theodore associated funerary objects to the between present–day Aleut groups and P. Bank II, an ethnobotanist, during an Chaluka Corporation and Native Village prehistoric populations in the Aleutian expedition undertaken for the purpose of Nikolski may proceed after that date Islands. of collecting botanical as well as Analysis by the University of Alaska, if no additional claimants come archeological specimens, which Anchorage, with the assistance of the forward. included human remains. The human Alaska State Office of History and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region remains from Atka Island have been Archaeology, included cranio–metric 7 is responsible for notifying the curated at several institutions before analysis and non–metric analysis of the Chaluka Corporation and Native Village finally arriving at the Museum of the post cranial skeletal human remains. of Nikolski that this notice has been Aleutians, Dutch Harbor, AK, in 2002 The use of radiography was used to published. after which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife determine the contents of a small Dated: June 5, 2008 Service was informed. No known mummy bundle from Warm Cave. Sherry Hutt, individuals were identified. The 18 Analysis of the human remains Manager, National NAGPRA Program. associated funerary objects are 1 stone lamp, 2 stone lamp fragments, 2 carved concluded that these individuals are all [FR Doc. E8–15902 Filed 7–11–08; 8:45 am] of Aleut origin and are related culturally stone artifacts, 1 stone point, 1 ivory and geographically to each other and to BILLING CODE 4312–50–S artifact, 9 bone tools, 1 sea otter skull, the modern day inhabitants of Umnak and 1 water worn bear mandible. The cultural affiliation has been Island, which are members of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Chaluka Corporation and Native Village determined based on previous of Nikolski. Cultural affiliation between National Park Service occupations of the island, as well as the the late prehistoric populations on physical traits exhibited by both past Kagamil Island and the Chaluka Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. populations and those of the recovered Corporation is demonstrated by recent Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish human remains. Atka Island has been historical records. The Islands of the and Wildlife Service, Region 7, occupied for at least 2,000 years and Four Mountains were occupied by a Anchorage, AK probably close to 6,000 years by the culturally distinct group of which little Aleut people. All known dated cave is known. Contact with Russian AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. burials from the Aleutians are younger explorers was made in A.D. 1741. In the ACTION: Notice. than 2,000 years old (Black, 1982, pg 24; late 1700s, with assistance from Russian Black 2003, pg 36; Hayes 2002). The explorers, the Umnak Aleuts waged war Notice is here given in accordance skeletal morphology, other scientific on the people of the Islands of Four with the Native American Graves testing, and physical traits associated Mountains and around A.D. 1766 to Protection and Repatriation Act with prehistoric Aleut populations and 1772, that group had been substantially (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the modern day Aleuts are consistent with destroyed. Survivors of the conflict were completion of an inventory of human the human remains. The burial contexts incorporated into villages on Umnak. remains and associated funerary objects of the human remains are consistent Officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife in the possession of the U.S. Department with those observed for pre–contact Service, Region 7 have determined that, of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Aleut populations. Based on scientific pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the Service, Region 7, Anchorage, AK. The studies, burial context, and aboriginal human remains described above human remains and associated funerary occupation, the descendants of the

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