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58426 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 185 / Friday, September 24, 2010 / Notices pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 32 Notice is here given in accordance people. They are also owned by the cultural items described above are with the Native American Graves Osage people and not by any single reasonably believed to have been placed Protection and Repatriation Act individual. In the past, bundles and with or near individual human remains (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent their components were the central at the time of death or later as part of to repatriate cultural items in the symbolic elements of ceremonies related the death rite or ceremony and are possession of the Thomas Gilcrease to Osage cosmology, the traditional believed, by a preponderance of the Institute of American History and Art religion practiced before adoption of the evidence, to have been removed from a (Gilcrease Museum), Tulsa, OK, that Native American Church by the Osage. specific burial site of a Native American meet the definition of objects of cultural While these specific ceremonies related individual. Officials of the American patrimony under 25 U.S.C. 3001. to Osage cosmology are no longer Museum of Natural History have This notice is published as part of the practiced today, bundles and their determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. National Park Service’s administrative components continue to hold immense 3001(2), there is a shared group identity responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 spiritual significance and sacred power that can be traced between the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in for the Osage people requiring unassociated funerary objects and the this notice are the sole responsibility of protection of these objects and Ak Chin Indian Community of the the museum, institution, or Federal extremely limited exposure. Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, agency that has control of the cultural Officials of the Gilcrease Museum Arizona; Gila River Indian Community items. The National Park Service is not have determined that, pursuant to 25 of the Gila River Indian Reservation, responsible for the determinations in U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the nine cultural Arizona; and Salt River Pima-Maricopa this notice. items described above have ongoing Indian Community of the Salt River The nine cultural items are Waxo’be historical, traditional, or cultural Reservation, Arizona. bundles belonging to the Osage people. importance central to the Native Representatives of any other Indian The bundles were part of the Emil American group or culture itself, rather tribe that believes itself to be culturally Lenders Collection that was brought to than property owned by an individual. affiliated with the unassociated funerary the Gilcrease Museum during the early Officials of the Gilcrease Museum also objects should contact Nell Murphy, half of the 20th Century. The bundles have determined that, pursuant to 25 Director of Cultural Resources, were part of a sizeable collection of U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of American Museum of Natural History, Native American artifacts acquired by shared group identity that can be Central Park West at 79th St., New York, the Gilcrease Museum for the reasonably traced between the objects of NY 10024, telephone (212) 769–5837, preservation of North American history. cultural patrimony and the Osage before October 25, 2010. Repatriation of The first bundle is made of buckskin Nation, Oklahoma. the unassociated funerary objects to the with a scalp lock and twisted wool that Representatives of any other Indian are seen from the open end (84.1749). Ak Chin Indian Community of the tribe that believes itself to be culturally The second bundle has a long buckskin Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, affiliated with the objects of cultural strap for an Osage War bundle that has Arizona; Gila River Indian Community patrimony should contact Dr. Duane H. an eagle foot and human scalp attached of the Gila River Indian Reservation, King, Executive Director, or Eric (84.1750 a-h). The third bundle is made Arizona; and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Singleton, Assistant Curator of with a wrapped buckskin strap that ties Indian Community of the Salt River Anthropology, Gilcrease Museum, 1400 a woven buffalo hair bag with eagle foot Reservation, Arizona, may proceed after N. Gilcrease Museum Rd., Tulsa, OK and human scalp attached (84.1751 a-i). that date if no additional claimants 74127, telephone (918) 596–2793 before The fourth bundle is made of buckskin come forward. October 25, 2010. Repatriation of the and laced at the ends with buckskin The American Museum of Natural objects of cultural patrimony to the thongs, buckskin tying strap, and a History is responsible for notifying the Osage Nation, Oklahoma, will proceed woven inner bag (84.1753 a-b). The fifth Ak Chin Indian Community of the after that date if no additional claimants bundle is made of buckskin and Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, come forward. contains a partially woven inner bag Arizona; Gila River Indian Community The Gilcrease Museum is responsible and woven buffalo hair bag and tied of the Gila River Indian Reservation, for notifying the Osage Nation, with two leather thongs (84.1754). The Arizona; and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Oklahoma, that this notice has been sixth bundle has an outer strip and an published. Indian Community of the Salt River outer bag, as well as two inner bags, and Reservation, Arizona, that this notice a buckskin strap for tying prisoners Dated: September 10, 2010 has been published. (84.1757 a-i). The seventh bundle has an Sherry Hutt, Dated: September 10, 2010 outer bag of woven buffalo hair with an Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Sherry Hutt, inner bag made of buckskin with a [FR Doc. 2010–23930 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] Manager, National NAGPRA Program. woven mat inside (84.1759). The outer BILLING CODE 4312–50–S [FR Doc. 2010–23933 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] strap has animal hair and human scalp BILLING CODE 4312–50–S locks on buckskin with a rawhide ring tied on the bundle with calico. The DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR eighth bundle has an outer covering of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR woven matting with borders of natural, National Park Service black and red eagle quills (84.1761). The National Park Service ninth bundle has an outer bag of woven Notice of Inventory Completion: The buffalo hair with an inner bag of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural buckskin and woven mat inside. The CO; Correction Items: Thomas Gilcrease Institute of outer strap is animal hair and human AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. American History and Art, Tulsa, OK scalp locks on buckskin (84.1762). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Waxo’be bundles and their components have on-going historical Notice is here given in accordance ACTION: Notice. and cultural importance to the Osage with the Native American Graves VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:12 Sep 23, 2010 Jkt 220001 PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24SEN1.SGM 24SEN1 srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 185 / Friday, September 24, 2010 / Notices 58427 Protection and Repatriation Act Mexico, that this notice has been Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the published. Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake completion of an inventory of human Dated: September 10, 2010 Superior Chippewa Indians, Wisconsin; remains and associated funerary objects Sherry Hutt, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior under the control of The Colorado Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Manager, National NAGPRA Program. College, Colorado Springs, CO. The Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac human remains and associated funerary [FR Doc. 2010–23919 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior objects were removed from sites in the BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Leech southwestern United States and a Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa canyon tributary of Comb Wash, San Tribe, Minnesota; Little River Band of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Juan County, UT. Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little This notice is published as part of the National Park Service Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, National Park Service’s administrative Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Notice of Inventory Completion: Office Band of Pottawatomi Indians of U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in of the State Archaeologist, Lansing, MI Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; this notice are the sole responsibility of Mille Lacs Band of the Minnesota the museum, institution, or Federal AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; agency that has control of the Native ACTION: Notice. Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the American human remains and Potawatomi, Michigan (formerly the associated funerary objects. The Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa Tribe National Park Service is not responsible of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of for the determinations in this notice. Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of This notice corrects the citation to a Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and previously published Notice of completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the Office Indiana; Prairie Band of Potawatomi Inventory Completion contained in a Nation, Kansas; Quechan Tribe of the correction Notice of Inventory of the State Archaeologist (formerly the Michigan Historical Center), Lansing, Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, Completion that was published in the California and Arizona; Red Cliff Band Federal Register (74 FR 42105–42106, MI. The human remains were removed from the vicinity of Scott Point, of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of August 20, 2009).