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Federal Register/Vol. 84, No. 27/Friday, February 8, 2019/Notices Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 27 / Friday, February 8, 2019 / Notices 2911 Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, University on April 18, 1874. The The Invited Tribes that this notice has Michigan and Indiana; Saginaw human remains are grouped together been published. Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, and thus cannot be linked to any of the Dated: December 11, 2018. and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of specific three locations listed as the Melanie O’Brien, Chippewa Indians, Michigan, hereafter sources. Analysis of the human remains Manager, National NAGPRA Program. referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes.’’ suggests that between twelve and Additional invitations to consult were eighteen individuals are represented. [FR Doc. 2019–01610 Filed 2–7–19; 8:45 am] sent to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Sex cannot be determined due to the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of lack of pelves or intact crania. At least the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa one individual was in early childhood DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Indians of the Bad River Reservation, (from 2–6 years old), at least one was an Wisconsin; Chippewa Cree Indians of adolescent (from 16–21 years old), and National Park Service the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana the remainder were adults. No known (previously listed as the Chippewa-Cree individuals were identified. No [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0027191; Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, associated funerary objects are present. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Montana); Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Determinations Made by Princeton Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern University Items: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, Rio Rico, Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Kickapoo Officials of Princeton University have AZ Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo determined that: Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe human remains described in this notice ACTION: Notice. of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band are Native American based on of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians associated records and Henry Gillman’s SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of 1874 publication ‘‘The Mound-Builders Service, in consultation with the the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of and Platycnemism in Michigan’’ appropriate Indian Tribes or Native the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of (Smithsonian Report for 1975). Hawaiian organizations, has determined Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the that the cultural item listed in this Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota human remains described in this notice notice meets the definition of object of (Six component reservations: Bois Forte represent the physical remains of 12 cultural patrimony. Lineal descendants Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; individuals of Native American or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; ancestry. Native Hawaiian organization not Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a identified in this notice that wish to Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe relationship of shared group identity claim this cultural item should submit of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band cannot be reasonably traced between the a written request to the U.S. Fish and Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as Native American human remains and Wildlife Service, Office of Law the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, any present-day Indian Tribe. Enforcement, Rio Rico, AZ. If no Kansas); Red Cliff Band of Lake • additional claimants come forward, Superior Chippewa Indians of According to the final judgments of the Indian Claims Commission or the transfer of control of the cultural item to Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of Court of Federal Claims, Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders, the Native Hawaiian organizations stated in Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & this notice may proceed. Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe land from which the Native American DATES: Lineal descendants or of the Mississippi in Iowa; Seneca human remains were removed is the aboriginal land of The Consulted Tribes representatives of any Indian Tribe or Nation of Indians (previously listed as Native Hawaiian organization not the Seneca Nation of New York); and The Invited Tribes. • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the identified in this notice that wish to Seneca-Cayuga Nation (previously listed claim this cultural item should submit as the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of disposition of the human remains may a written request with information in Oklahoma); Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon be to The Consulted Tribes and The support of the claim to the U.S. Fish and Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Invited Tribes. Wildlife Service, Office of Law Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Additional Requestors and Disposition Enforcement at the address in this Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously notice by March 11, 2019. listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Indians of New York); Turtle Mountain Native Hawaiian organization not ADDRESSES: Jeff Moore, Wildlife Band of Chippewa Indians of North identified in this notice that wish to Inspector, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Dakota; and the Wyandotte Nation, request transfer of control of these Service, P.O. Box 4405, Rio Rico, AZ human remains should submit a written 85648, telephone (520) 287–4625, email hereinafter referred to as ‘‘The Invited _ Tribes.’’ request with information in support of jeffery [email protected]. the request to Bryan R. Just, Princeton SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is History and Description of the Remains University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ here given in accordance with the In 1871–1873, human remains 08544, telephone (609) 258–8805, email Native American Graves Protection and representing, at minimum, 12 [email protected], by March 11, Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. individuals were removed from Circular 2019. After that date, if no additional 3005, of the intent to repatriate a Mound, Detroit River, Wayne County, requestors have come forward, transfer cultural item under the control of the MI; Great Mound, Rouge River, Wayne of control of the human remains to The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of County, MI; and Mound at Beaver Consulted Tribes and The Invited Tribes Law Enforcement, Rio Rico, AZ, that Harbor, Charlevoix County, MI, by may proceed. meets the definition of an object of Henry Gillman. Mr. Gillman donated Princeton University is responsible cultural patrimony under 25 U.S.C. the human remains to Princeton for notifying The Consulted Tribes and 3001. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Feb 07, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00105 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08FEN1.SGM 08FEN1 amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 2912 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 27 / Friday, February 8, 2019 / Notices This notice is published as part of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. National Park Service’s administrative 3003, of the completion of an inventory responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 National Park Service of human remains and associated U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0027114; funerary objects under the control of the this notice are the sole responsibility of PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of the museum, institution, or Federal Reclamation, Salt Lake City, UT. The agency that has control of the Native Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. human remains and associated funerary American cultural item. The National Department of Interior, Bureau of objects were removed from 22 Park Service is not responsible for the Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region, archeological sites in the Navajo determinations in this notice. Salt Lake City, UT; Museum of New Reservoir District in Rio Arriba County, Mexico, Museum of Indian Arts and NM; San Juan County, NM; and History and Description of the Cultural Culture, Santa Fe, NM; and Arizona Archuleta County, CO from 1956 to Item State University, School of Human 1963 by archeologists from the Museum Evolution and Social Change, Tempe, of New Mexico and School for On January 30, 2018, one cultural AZ Advanced Research (then known as the item was seized at the Port of Entry in School of American Research) under Nogales, AZ. The object seized is a deer AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. contract with the National Park Service. head. The object has been identified by ACTION: Notice. Additional excavations were conducted the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona as a at one of the sites in Archuleta County, Yaqui ceremonial deer head. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the CO, during 1987 by Complete Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Archaeological Service Associates under Determinations Made by the U.S. Fish Colorado Region (Reclamation); contract with Reclamation. This notice and Wildlife Service Museum of New Mexico, Museum of includes cultural items dating from the Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of Officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Los Pinos Phase (A.D. 1–400), Sambrito Indian Arts and Culture); and Arizona Phase (A.D. 400–700), Rosa Phase (A.D. Service have determined that: State University, School of Human • 750–850), Piedra Phase (A.D. 800–1000), Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), Evolution and Social Change (ASU) and Arboles Phase (A.D. 950–1050). the one cultural item described above have completed an inventory of human This notice is published as part of the remains and associated funerary objects, has ongoing historical, traditional, or National Park Service’s administrative in consultation with the appropriate cultural importance central to the responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Native American group or culture itself, U.S.C.
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