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10772 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 47 / Thursday, March 12, 2009 / Notices

W bowl, 1 North Creek Gray jar, 1 jar, near individual human remains at the of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 1 bowl, 1 projectile point, 1 stone, 3 time of death or later as part of the death , & ; Ysleta Shinarump sherds, and 31 sherds. The rite or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the del Sur of Texas; and Zuni Tribe following 21 objects were also identified Utah State Office, Bureau of Land of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico in museum records and the excavation Management have determined that, that this notice has been published. report as being associated with the pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is Dated: January 26, 2009. human remains, but the museum could a relationship of shared group identity Sherry Hutt, not verify their current location: 19 that can be reasonably traced between stones, 1 North Creek Gray ladle, and 1 the Native American human remains Manager, National NAGPRA Program. sherd. and associated funerary objects and the [FR Doc. E9–5346 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] The three reported burials are Tribe of . BILLING CODE 4312–50–S associated with the Virgin Anasazi. A Representatives of any other Indian report on the site excavation discusses tribe that believes itself to be culturally the three burials; it is not clear whether affiliated with the human remains and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the fourth set of human remains came associated funerary objects should National Park Service from one of these burials or from some contact Dr. Byron Loosle, Utah State other location in the site. However, it is NAGPRA Coordinator, BLM Utah State Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural reasonably believed that the fourth Office, P.O. Box 45155, 440 West 200 Items: , Great burial listed in the museum records South, Suite 600, Salt Lake City, UT Plains Regional Office, Aberdeen, SD would have the same cultural affiliation 84145–0155, telephone (801) 539–4276, since that is the primary cultural before April 13, 2009. Repatriation of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. sequence noted at the site. the human remains and associated ACTION: Notice. The Zuni Tribe of the Zuni funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Reservation, New Mexico; Hopi Tribe of Arizona may proceed after that date if Notice is here given in accordance Arizona; and San Juan Southern Paiute no additional claimants come forward. with the Native American Graves Tribe of Arizona have all made The Utah State Office, Bureau of Land Protection and Repatriation Act generalized claims for a relationship Management is responsible for notifying (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent with the Virgin Anasazi peoples in the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute to repatriate cultural items in the southwestern Utah and northwestern Reservation, and Utah; possession of the Bureau of Indian Arizona. Archeological evidence Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office, indicates that Virgin Anasazi peoples Duckwater Reservation, Nevada; Ely Aberdeen, SD, that meet the definition began to leave the area by A.D. 1150, Shoshone Tribe of Nevada; Hopi Tribe of ‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ and abandoned most locations shortly of Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute under 25 U.S.C. 3001. after A.D. 1200. Some evidence suggests Indians of the Kaibab Indian This notice is published as part of the that Paiute ancestors entered the region Reservation, Arizona; Moapa Band of National Park Service’s administrative or at least were in contact with Virgin Paiute Indians of the Moapa River responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Anasazi peoples by A.D. 1150, but there , Nevada; U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations is a distinct archeological record Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; in this notice are the sole responsibility showing two separate occupations by Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation of the museum, institution, or Federal two peoples, and evidence for a direct of Utah (Washakie); Ohkay Owingeh, agency that has control of the cultural relationship between Virgin Anasazi New Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of items. The National Park Service is not peoples and present-day Paiutes has not Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; responsible for the determinations in been shown. Cultural continuity from Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo this notice. Basketmaker through Puebloan times of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, The three cultural items are one and into the present shows cultural New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New quartzite endscraper and two bone awls. continuity of Virgin Anasazi (and other Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; A detailed assessment of the cultural Anasazi expressions) with extant Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo items was made by the . Based on general evidence, of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San State Historical Society-Archaeological extant Puebloan tribes are culturally Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Research Center professional staff under affiliated to Virgin Anasazi at some Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of the direction of the Bureau of Indian general level. There is specific evidence, Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Affairs staff in consultation with especially oral tradition and folklore, Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa representatives of the Three Affiliated with support from archeology and other Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, lines of evidence, to link the Hopi Tribe Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, . of Arizona directly to Virgin Anasazi New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New In 1977, archeological salvage culture by a simple preponderance of Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; San excavations were conducted at the the evidence. Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Indian School Village, 39HU10/94–245, Officials of the Utah State Office, Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Hughes County, SD, by Tom Haberman, Bureau of Land Management have Reservation, ; Shoshone- South Dakota State Historical Society- determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Archeological Research Center. Human 3001 (9–10), the human remains Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone-Paiute remains and funerary objects were described above represent the physical Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, found in an abandoned cache pit remains of four individuals of Native Nevada; Skull Valley Band of Goshute exposed by housing construction American ancestry. Officials of the Utah Indians of Utah; Southern Ute Indian activities. The human remains were State Office, Bureau of Land Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, reburied in the adjacent churchyard that Management also have determined that, Colorado; Te-Moak Tribes of same year. The funerary objects were pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 41 Shoshone Indians of Nevada; Ute Indian not reburied, and instead were curated objects described above are reasonably Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray at the Archaeological Research Center, believed to have been placed with or Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe Rapid City, SD.

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The Indian School Village dates to the the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Arizona State Museum since their Extended Coalescent (A.D. 1500–A.D. Dakota that this notice has been excavation. Based on architecture, 1675) and Post-Contact Coalescent (A.D. published. material culture and site organization, 1675–A.D. 1750) Periods. Evaluation of Dated: February 3, 2009. the two sites (EE:2:79 and EE:2:113) documentation from the excavation of Sherry Hutt, within the ANAMAX-Rosemont Project the Indian School Village site indicates have been identified as Pre-Classic Manager, National NAGPRA Program. that the cultural items were found in village occupations dating association with Native American [FR Doc. E9–5327 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] between A.D. 450 and 1150. human remains. Other human remains BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Continuities of ethnographic materials, from the Indian School Village have technology and architecture indicate the been identified as Native American affiliation of Hohokam sites in the area DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR based on physical anthropological of the Anamax-Rosemont Project with assessment, manner and location of National Park Service present-day O’odham cultures. The oral burial, and types of funerary objects. traditions of the Ak-Chin Indian Based on historical documents, oral Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) history, and archeological data, the Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples Forest Service, Coronado National Indian Community of the Gila River occupied what is now present-day Forest, Tucson, AZ and Arizona State Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River South Dakota and North Dakota, and are Museum, University of Arizona, Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of represented today by the Three Tucson, AZ the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Tohono O’odham Nation, Arizona, Reservation, North Dakota. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. support the cultural affiliation of these In June 2008, the Mandan, Hidatsa, ACTION: Notice. four Indian tribes with Hohokam sites in and Arikara Nation of the Three this area of southeastern Arizona. The Notice is here given in accordance Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold oral traditions of the Hopi Tribe of with the Native American Graves Reservation, North Dakota submitted a Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Protection and Repatriation Act request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Reservation, New Mexico indicate some (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent Great Plains Regional Office for cultural ties or relationships to certain to repatriate cultural items in the repatriation of cultural items from portions of southeastern Arizona in the control of the U.S. Department of central South Dakota, including the late Post-Classic Period (A.D. 1300– Agriculture, Forest Service, Coronado three unassociated funerary objects 1450). While the Hopi Tribe and Zuni National Forest, Tucson, AZ, and in the described above from the Indian School Tribe have cultural ties to certain possession of the Arizona State Village. portions of southeastern Arizona in the Officials of the Bureau of Indian Museum, University of Arizona, late Pre-Classic Period, the Ak-Chin Affairs have determined that, pursuant Tucson, AZ, that meets the definition of Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the three ‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ under Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila cultural items described above are 25 U.S.C. 3001. River Indian Community of the Gila reasonably believed to have been placed This notice is published as part of the River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt with or near individual human remains National Park Service’s administrative River Pima-Maricopa Indian at the time of death or later as part of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Community of the Salt River the death rite or ceremony and are U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono believed, by a preponderance of the in this notice are the sole responsibility evidence, to have been removed from a of the museum, institution, or Federal O’odham Nation, Arizona, have a closer specific burial site of a Native American agency that has control of the cultural cultural relationship and affiliation with individual. Officials of the Bureau of items. The National Park Service is not these Pre-Classic Period sites within the Indian Affairs have determined that, responsible for the determinations in ANAMAX-Rosemont Project. pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), a this notice. Officials of the U.S. Department of relationship of shared group identity Between 1979 and 1980, two cultural Agriculture, Forest Service, Coronado can be traced between the unassociated items were removed from a prehistoric National Forest have determined that, funerary objects and the Three Affiliated site (EE:2:79) within the ANAMAX- pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Rosemont Project in the Santa Rita three cultural items described above are North Dakota. Mountains, Coronado National Forest, reasonably believed to have been placed Representatives of any Indian tribe Pima County, AZ, during legally with or near individual human remains that believes itself to be culturally authorized excavations by the Arizona at the time of death or later as part of affiliated with the unassociated funerary State Museum, University of Arizona. the death rite or ceremony and are objects should contact Paul Hofmann, The two unassociated funerary objects believed, by a preponderance of the Chief, Division of Environment, Safety are a ceramic bowl and charcoal. evidence, to have been removed from a and Cultural Resources, Bureau of Between 1979 and 1980, one cultural specific burial site of a Native American Indian Affairs, 115 4th Ave., Aberdeen, item was removed from a prehistoric individual. Officials of the U.S. SD 57401, telephone (605) 226–7656, site (EE:2:113) within the ANAMAX- Department of Agriculture, Forest before April 13, 2009. Repatriation of Rosemont Project in the Santa Rita Service, Coronado National Forest also the unassociated funerary objects to the Mountains, Coronado National Forest, have determined that, pursuant to 25 Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Pima County, AZ, during legally U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship Berthold Reservation, North Dakota may authorized excavations by the Arizona of shared group identity that can be proceed after that date if no additional State Museum, University of Arizona. reasonably traced between the claimants come forward. The one unassociated funerary object is unassociated funerary objects and the The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great a stone palette. Ak-Chin Indian Community of the Plains Regional Office is responsible for The three cultural items have Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, notifying the Three Affiliated Tribes of remained in the possession of the Arizona; Gila River Indian Community

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