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of visitor services and has taken all consider alternatives to avoid such reasonable and appropriate steps to interruption.

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GLCA002–88 ...... Aramark Glen ...... Canyon National Recreation Area. GRTE004–98 ...... Triangle X Ranch, LLP ...... Grand Teton National Park. JODR002–90 ...... International Leisure Hosts, Ltd ...... John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. NACC001–89 ...... Golf Course Specialist, Inc ...... National Capital Parks—Central. NACC004–89 ...... Landmark Services Tourmobile, Inc ...... National Capital Parks—Central. FIIS004–02 ...... Davis Park Ferry Co ...... Fire Island National Seashore. GATE003–98 ...... Marinas of the Future, Inc ...... Gateway National Recreation Area. CHIS001–98 ...... Island Packers, Inc ...... Channel Islands National Park. LAME017–05 ...... Black Canyon/Willow Beach River Adventures ...... Lake Mead National Recreation Area. PORE003–98 ...... Golden Gate Council of American Youth Hostels ...... Point Reyes National Seashore. BISC002–04 ...... Biscayne National Underwater Park, Inc ...... Biscayne National Park. BLRI004–88 ...... Virginia Peaks of Otter ...... Blue Ridge Parkway. EVER004–98 ...... TRF Concessions Specialists of Florida, Inc ...... Everglades National Park. GUTS001–03 ...... Dudley Food and Beverage ...... Gulf Islands National Seashore.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo were sent to the Cayuga Nation of New Tuscarora Nation of New York). Based A. Pendry, Chief, Commercial Services York; Oneida Nation of New York; on the provenience, this false face mask Program, National Park Service, 1201 Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin; is considered to be culturally affiliated Eye Street, NW., 11th Floor, Seneca Nation of New York; Seneca- to the Onondaga Nation of New York. , DC 20005, Telephone 202/ Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Tonawanda Officials of the Seton Hall University 513–7156. Band of Seneca Indians of New York; Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(C), the Dated: November 24, 2009. the Mohawk Nation (which is comprised of the Mohawks of the Saint cultural object described above is a Katherine H. Stevenson, Regis Mohawk Tribe, New York; specific ceremonial object needed by Assistant Director, Business Services. Mohawk Council of Akwesasne; and traditional Native American religious [FR Doc. E9–31126 Filed 1–4–10; 8:45 am] Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs); and leaders for the practice of traditional BILLING CODE 4312–53–M the Haudenosaunee Standing Native American religions by their Committee on Burial Rules and present-day adherents. Officials of the Regulations, a non-Federally recognized Seton Hall University Museum have DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Indian group. also determined that, pursuant to 25 The artifact is a miniature false face U.S.C. 3001 (3)(D), the cultural item National Park Service mask or medicine face. The miniature described above has ongoing historical, Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural was obtained at a ‘‘reservation near traditional, or cultural importance Item: Seton Hall University Museum, Syracuse,’’ by Mr. Samuel Tarrant of central to the Native American group or Seton Hall University, South Orange, Newark, NJ. Museum officials culture itself, rather than property NJ reasonably believe that the reservation owned by an individual. Lastly, officials is the Onondaga Reservation, which is of the Seton Hall University Museum AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. near Syracuse, NY. It is not known have determined that, pursuant to 25 ACTION: Notice. when or how Mr. Tarrant obtained it. U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship The Seton Hall University Museum of shared group identity that can be Notice is here given in accordance purchased it from Mr. Tarrant in 1962 reasonably traced between the sacred with the Native American Graves or 1963. object/object of cultural patrimony and Protection and Repatriation Act Written evidence of Haudenosaunee the Onondaga Nation of New York. (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent oral tradition identifies false face masks Representatives of any other Indian to repatriate a cultural item in the as being sacred objects needed by nation or tribe that believes itself to be possession of the Seton Hall University traditional Haudenosaunee religious culturally affiliated with this sacred Museum, Seton Hall University, South leaders, as well as being objects of object/object of cultural patrimony Orange, NJ, that meets the definitions of cultural patrimony that have ongoing should contact Dr. Thomas W. ‘‘sacred object’’ and ‘‘object of cultural historical, traditional, and cultural Kavanagh, Seton Hall University patrimony’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. significance to the group and could not Museum, Seton Hall University, 400 This notice is published as part of the have been alienated by a single South Orange Ave., South Orange, NJ National Park Service’s administrative individual. The Haudenosaunee 07079, telephone (973) 275–5873, or responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Confederacy includes the Mohawk, [email protected], before U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and February 4, 2010. Repatriation of the in this notice are the sole responsibility Tuscarora Nations (which are sacred object/object of cultural of the museum, institution, or Federal represented by the following Federally- patrimony to the Onondaga Nation of agency that has control of the cultural recognized groups: Cayuga Nation of New York may proceed after that date item. The National Park Service is not New York; Oneida Nation of New York; if no additional claimants come responsible for the determinations in Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin; forward. this notice. Onondaga Nation of New York; Seneca The Seton Hall University Museum is Consultation was conducted with Nation of New York; Seneca-Cayuga responsible for notifying the representatives of the Onondaga Nation Tribe of Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Haudenosaunee Standing Committee on of New York and the Tuscarora Nation Tribe, New York; Tonawanda Band of Burial Rules and Regulations, and the of New York. Requests for consultation Seneca Indians of New York; and Cayuga Nation of New York; Oneida

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Nation of New York; Oneida Tribe of donated to the Burke Museum in 1955 people and other tribes in the area. As Indians of Wisconsin; Onondaga Nation (Burke Accn. #3979). No known human per the terms of the 1855 Point Elliot of New York; Seneca Nation of New remains are associated with the objects. Treaty, the Sammamish were assigned York; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of The 124 unassociated funerary objects to go to the Reservation. Many Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, are 12 copper bracelets, 1 decorative Sammamish people chose not to New York; Tonawanda Band of Seneca brass clip, 4 glass beads, 15 brass relocate to the Tulalip Reservation. The Indians of New York; and Tuscarora buttons, 1 brass thimble, 1 can of Sammamish people are represented by Nation of New York, that this notice has vermillion, 89 trade beads, and 1 the present-day Indian been published. blanket fragment. Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, In 1892, an unassociated funerary Dated: November 25, 2009. Washington; Snoqualmie Tribe, object was removed from Bryn Mawr, Sherry Hutt, King County, WA. The funerary object Washington; Indian Tribe of Manager, National NAGPRA Program. was collected by Frank E. Fuller and the Port Madison Reservation, [FR Doc. E9–31223 Filed 1–4–10; 8:45 am] donated to the Burke Museum by the Washington; and Tulalip Tribes of the BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Washington World’s Fair Commission Tulalip Reservation, Washington. in 1893 (Burke Accn. #1119). No known Officials of the Burke Museum have human remains are associated with the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR object. The one unassociated funerary 3001 (3)(B), the 137 cultural items object is a metal knife with incised bone National Park Service described above are reasonably believed handle. to have been placed with or near Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural The funerary objects were removed individual human remains at the time of Items: Thomas Burke Memorial from the area surrounding Lake death or later as part of the death rite Washington primarily on the southern Washington State Museum, University or ceremony and are believed, by a end. This area falls within the Southern of Washington, Seattle, WA preponderance of the evidence, to have language group of Salish been removed from a specific burial site AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. cultures. The of an Native American individual. ACTION: Notice. primarily occupied this area, specifically the Lake people (Swanton Officials of the Burke Museum also have Notice is here given in accordance 1952:423). In the 1870s, as the City of determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. with the Native American Graves Seattle developed, the Lake people were 3001 (2), there is a relationship of Protection and Repatriation Act pushed out to other areas, including the shared group identity that can be (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent Muckleshoot, Suquamish, and Tulalip reasonably traced between the to repatriate cultural items in the reservations. The Lake people also unassociated funerary objects and the possession of the Thomas Burke joined the Snoqualmie people on Lake Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Memorial Washington State Museum Sammamish and in the Snoqualmie Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; (Burke Museum), University of River drainage (Miller and Blukis Onat Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; Washington, Seattle, WA, that meet the 2004:109). Descendants of the Lake Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary people are members of the present-day Madison Reservation, Washington; and objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip This notice is published as part of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; Reservation, Washington. National Park Service’s administrative Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Representatives of any other Indian U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Madison Reservation, Washington; and tribe that believes itself to be culturally in this notice are the sole responsibility Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip affiliated with the unassociated funerary of the museum, institution, or Federal Reservation, Washington. objects should contact Dr. Peter Lape, agency that has control of the cultural In 1923, unassociated funerary objects Burke Museum, University of items. The National Park Service is not were found near Kirkland, King County, Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA responsible for the determinations in WA. The objects were found under the 98195–3010, telephone (206) 685–3849, this notice. roots of a tree and sent by Mrs. Loyal C. before February 4, 2010. Repatriation of In 1965, human remains representing Wright to Professor Meany of the the unassociated funerary objects to the a minimum of one individual were University of Washington. Prof. Meany Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the removed from south of the International subsequently transferred the objects to Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; District in Seattle, King County, WA. the Burke Museum in 1923 (Burke Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; The human remains were transferred Accn. ι2022). No known human remains Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port from the King County Coroner’s Office are associated with the objects. The six Madison Reservation, Washington; and to the Burke Museum in 1965 (Burke unassociated funerary objects are four Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Accn. #1966–77). All human remains glass beads, one copper bracelet, and Reservation, Washington may proceed are now missing. No known individual one brass button. after that date if no additional claimants was identified. The six unassociated The above-mentioned funerary objects come forward. funerary objects are one infant bracelet, were removed from the northeastern two metal spoons, one brass button, one shores of Lake Washington south of the The Burke Museum is responsible for woman’s shoe, and one glass ketchup mouth of the Sammamish River. This notifying the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe bottle. area falls within the Southern of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Before 1955, unassociated funerary Lushootseed language group of Salish Washington; Snoqualmie Tribe, objects were found between Bellevue cultures. The Sammamish people Washington; Suquamish Indian Tribe of and Renton in King County, WA. The primarily occupied this area (Ruby and the Port Madison Reservation, objects were found during road Brown 1986, Suttles and Lane 1990, Washington; and Tulalip Tribes of the construction and collected by Mrs. Swanton 1952). The Sammamish people Tulalip Reservation, Washington that Willa W. Mylroie. The objects were were closely related to the Duwamish this notice has been published.

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