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Henry Jacob Bigelow. Bigelow • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the remains and associated funerary objects, transferred Mr. Quapish’s remains to the human remains described in this notice in consultation with the appropriate Warren Anatomical Museum. Museum represent the physical remains of one Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian records describe the decedent as individual of Native American ancestry. organizations, and has determined that ‘‘Qualish, the last of the Indian tribe at • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there there is a cultural affiliation between the Dedham, Mass.; was buried in 1774; aet. is a relationship of shared group human remains and associated funerary 68.’’ There is no additional information identity that can be reasonably traced objects and present-day Indian Tribes or in museum records about the context in between the Native American human Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal which these human remains were remains and the Mashpee Wampanoag descendants or representatives of any found. No associated funerary objects Tribe (previously listed as Mashpee Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian are present. Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) organization not identified in this notice Museum information shows by a and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head that wish to request transfer of control preponderance of the evidence that the (Aquinnah), Indian Tribes that represent of these human remains and associated human remains are of the Native people of Wampanoag descent. funerary objects should submit a written American individual Alexander Additional Requestors and Disposition request to Effigy Mounds National Quapish, whose name is recorded Monument. If no additional requestors variously in the historical record, for Representatives of any Indian Tribe come forward, transfer of control of the example as: Qualish, Quapes, Quapish, that believes itself to be culturally human remains and associated funerary Queppish. Primary records and affiliated with the human remains objects to the lineal descendants, Indian secondary histories indicate Mr. should contact Patricia Capone, Tribes, or Native Hawaiian Quapish and his wife, Sarah David, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and organizations stated in this notice may were Native Americans living in Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 proceed. Dedham. According to a local historian Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA DATES: Lineal descendants or and to vital records for the Town of 02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, by representatives of any Indian Tribe or Dedham, Massachusetts, Mr. Quapish September 2, 2020. After that date, if no Native Hawaiian organization not was from Yarmouth, Massachusetts, additional requestors have come identified in this notice that wish to Wampanoag territory. Mr. Quapish may forward, transfer of control of the request transfer of control of these have moved to Dedham because both human remains to the Mashpee human remains and associated funerary Dedham and Yarmouth were associated Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as objects should submit a written request with a network of Native American Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal with information in support of the Christianized settlements. Shortly after Council, Inc.) and the Wampanoag Tribe request to Effigy Mounds National Sarah David’s death in 1774, Mr. of Gay Head (Aquinnah) may proceed. Monument at the address in this notice Quapish enlisted in the Continental The Peabody Museum of Archaeology by September 2, 2020. Army. Alexander Quapish reportedly and Ethnology on behalf of the Warren died in 1776, at the age of 34, in Anatomical Museum, Harvard ADDRESSES: Jim Nepstad, Needham, Massachusetts, and may have University is responsible for notifying Superintendent, Effigy Mounds National been buried in Needham or Natick, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Monument, 151 Hwy 76, Harpers Ferry, rather than Dedham. The possibility of IA 52146, telephone (563) 873–3491 Ext. (previously listed as Mashpee _ repatriation to lineal descendants was Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, 101, email jim [email protected]. explored in consultation with Inc.); Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Wampanoag representatives. After (Aquinnah); and the Assonet Band of here given in accordance with the consultation and genealogical review, the Wampanoag Nation, a non-federally Native American Graves Protection and however, no lineal descendants have recognized Indian group, that this notice Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. been identified. has been published. 3003, of the completion of an inventory Osteological examination of the of human remains and associated Dated: July 6, 2020. human remains indicates that they are funerary objects under the control of the probably of an adult male and are of Melanie O’Brien, U.S. Department of the Interior, Native American ancestry. This Manager, National NAGPRA Program. National Park Service, Effigy Mounds information most closely matches the [FR Doc. 2020–16776 Filed 7–31–20; 8:45 am] National Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA. documented history of Alexander BILLING CODE 4312–52–P The human remains and associated Quapish. Although some documented funerary objects were removed from elements of his personal history, sites in Allamakee and Clayton including burial in Needham or Natick, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Counties, IA. death in 1776, and age at death do not National Park Service This notice is published as part of the match information in Warren National Park Service’s administrative Anatomical Museum records, historical [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030514; responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 documentation and osteological PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in examination indicate by a this notice are the sole responsibility of Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. preponderance of the evidence that this the Superintendent, Effigy Mounds Department of the Interior, National individual is Alexander Quapish. National Monument. Park Service, Effigy Mounds National Determinations Made by the Peabody Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA Consultation Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology AGENCY: A detailed assessment of the human and the Warren Anatomical Museum, National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. remains was made by Effigy Mounds Harvard University National Monument professional staff in Officials of the Peabody Museum of SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the consultation with representatives of the Archaeology and Ethnology and the Interior, National Park Service, Effigy Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard Mounds National Monument has Creek Reservation, South Dakota; University have determined that: completed an inventory of human Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South

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Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; unmodified stones, two pieces of during the mound rehabilitation project. Iowa Tribe of Kansas and ; shatter, two faunal bones, two projectile The 12 associated funerary objects are Iowa Tribe of ; Lower Sioux points, four burnt animal tooth two pieces of burnt limestone, three Indian Community in the State of fragments, one pottery sherd, nine non- utilized flakes, three flakes, and four Minnesota; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; human bone, two pieces of burned pieces of shatter. -Missouria Tribe of Indians, earth, and three pieces of charcoal. In 1962, 427 cultural items were Oklahoma; Tribe of Nebraska; In 1952, human remains representing, removed from the Nazekaw Terrace Prairie Island Indian Community in the at minimum, one individual were Mound Group in Allamakee County, IA, State of Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of removed from the Sny Magill Mound by NPS archeologist Garland Gordon in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Group in Clayton County, IA, by NPS during the mound rehabilitation project. Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe archeologist Paul Beaubien. No known The 427 associated funerary objects are of the Mississippi in Iowa; Santee Sioux individuals were identified. The 96 12 bifaces, 40 utilized flakes, 162 Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee associated funerary objects are one unmodified stones, 74 flakes, six cores, Mdewakanton Sioux Community of faunal bone, one Madison Triangular 92 pieces of shatter, 25 pottery sherds, Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of projectile point, one broken projectile one drill fragment, one Durst projectile the Lake Traverse Reservation, South point, one biface, two biface fragments, point, one possible Little Sioux Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of 15 flakes, 11 utilized flakes, five projectile point, one small corner North & South Dakota; Upper Sioux modified flakes, one Manker or Koster notched projectile point, eight modified Community, Minnesota; Winnebago projectile point, one red ocher sample, flakes, one stone tool, one utilized spall, Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton 34 pottery sherds, one projectile point and two charcoal samples. Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (hereafter base, seven pieces of shatter, three In 1962, two cultural items were referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes’’). unmodified stones, one Kramer removed from the Yellow River Mound projectile point, two Agate Basin History and Description of the Remains Group in Allamakee County, IA, by NPS lanceolate blades, five copper beads, archeologist Garland Gordon during the The human remains described below, one scraper, one expanding stemmed mound rehabilitation project. The two with the exception of the one individual projectile point, one straight stemmed associated funerary objects are pottery removed from Marquette Rockshelter, projectile point, and one hammerstone. sherds. were stolen from Effigy Mounds In 1952 and 1962, human remains In 1965, human remains representing, National Monument in 1990 and representing, at minimum, five at minimum, one individual were recovered in 2011 and 2012. individuals were removed from the Fire removed from the Fire Point Mound Because the mounds at Effigy Mounds Point Mound Group in Allamakee National Monument are burial mounds, County, IA, by NPS archeologists Group in Allamakee County, IA, by NPS all artifacts that come from these Wilfred Logan and Garland Gordon. No archeologist Garland Gordon during the mounds are considered funerary objects. known individuals were identified. The mound rehabilitation project. No known All of the funerary objects are 152 associated funerary objects are one individuals were identified. The 13 considered associated funerary objects copper breastplate, one mica sheet, one associated funerary objects are 10 because, even though these types of drill, one scraper, 109 unmodified unmodified stones, one flake, one land items likely had other uses within the stones, nine pieces of shatter, six flakes, snail shell, and one soil sample. culture, it is reasonable to believe that one nut shell, one test core, five pieces In 1965, soil samples were collected these specific funerary objects were of burned earth, three fire cracked rocks, from various mound sites in Effigy made exclusively for burial purposes one flat bone fragment, nine freshwater Mounds National Monument by the and therefore pursuant to 25 U.S.C. mussel shell fragments, and four pottery University of Wisconsin-Madison 3001(3)(A) are associated funerary sherds. during the mound rehabilitation project. objects regardless of the location of the In 1954, human remains representing, In 2016, the processed soil samples connected human remains. at minimum, 14 individuals were were returned to Effigy Mounds At an unknown date, human remains removed from the Highway 76 National Monument. One soil sample representing, at minimum, one Rockshelter in Clayton County, IA. had lost its provenience information, so individual were removed from the Excavations were initiated by Leland the mound site from which it was Marquette Rockshelter, Clayton County, Cooper from Hamline University and removed is unknown. All other soil IA, by unknown persons. It is not finished by NPS archeologist Wilfred samples were repatriated and reburied known how the remains entered the Logan. No known individuals were in 2019 or are described elsewhere in collection at Effigy Mounds National identified. The 1,572 associated this notice. The one associated funerary Monument. No known individuals were funerary objects are 8 fragments of object is a soil sample. identified. The 837 associated funerary miniature pots, 189 pottery sherds, Based on archeological context, objects are 450 faunal bones, 231 pottery 1,166 faunal bones, 159 freshwater ethnographic information, and oral sherds, three utilized flakes, 45 mussel and land snail shells, 11 traditions the human remains and unmodified stones, two flakes, 92 pieces unmodified stones, three charcoal associated funerary objects described of shell, one bone tool, 10 pieces of samples, one rectangular polished turtle above are identified as belonging to the shatter, two modified flakes, and one shell, one Waubesa projectile point, two Woodland tradition. gorget fragment. Madison Triangular projectile points, The Woodland tradition transitions In 1950, human remains representing, one clay sample, eight bone tools, six into the Oneota tradition which is at minimum, three individuals were flakes, four pieces of shatter, one core, identified as being clearly ancestral to removed from the Nazekaw Terrace five utilized flakes, two modified flakes, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Mound Group in Allamakee County, IA, one soil sample, two freshwater pearls, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; by NPS archeologist Paul Beaubien. No one bone artifact, and one biface tool. ; Omaha Tribe known individuals were identified. The In 1961, 12 cultural items were of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 33 associated funerary objects are two removed from the Marching Bear Indians, Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Snyders projectile points, one bear Mound Group in Clayton County, IA, by Nebraska; and the Winnebago Tribe of canine tooth, one flake tool, four NPS archeologist John Ingmanson Nebraska.

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The First Treaty of Prairie Du Chien Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, representatives of any Indian Tribe or of August 19, 1825 between the United Oklahoma; ; Native Hawaiian organization not States and the Sac and Fox, Dakota Prairie Island Indian Community in the identified in this notice that wish to Sioux, Ioway, Ho-Chunk, Winnebago, State of Minnesota; Santee Sioux claim these cultural items should Potawatomi, Chippewa, Menominee, Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee submit a written request to Effigy and Ottawa demonstrates the variety of Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Mounds National Monument. If no Tribes living in the area in the 1800s Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of additional claimants come forward, who have historic affiliation with Effigy the Lake Traverse Reservation, South transfer of control of the cultural items Mounds National Monument. Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, The First Treaty of Prairie du Chien, North & South Dakota; Upper Sioux or Native Hawaiian organizations stated as well as linguistic, oral tradition, Community, Minnesota; Winnebago in this notice may proceed. temporal and geographic evidence, Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton DATES: Lineal descendants or reasonably indicates that the following Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (hereafter representatives of any Indian Tribe or Sioux Indian Tribes possess ancestral referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). Native Hawaiian organization not ties to the Effigy Mounds National Additional Requestors and Disposition identified in this notice that wish to Monument region and the human claim these cultural items should remains and associated funerary objects Lineal descendants or representatives submit a written request with described above: Crow Creek Sioux of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian information in support of the claim to Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, organization not identified in this notice Effigy Mounds National Monument at South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux that wish to request transfer of control the address in this notice by September Tribe of South Dakota; Lower Sioux of these human remains and associated 2, 2020. Indian Community in the State of funerary objects should submit a written ADDRESSES: Jim Nepstad, Minnesota; Prairie Island Indian request with information in support of Community in the State of Minnesota; Superintendent, Effigy Mounds National the request to Jim Nepstad, Monument, 151 Hwy 76, Harpers Ferry, Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Superintendent, Effigy Mounds National Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux IA 52146, telephone (563) 873–3491 Ext. Monument, 151 Hwy 76, Harpers Ferry, 101, email [email protected]. Community of Minnesota; Sisseton- IA 52146, telephone (563) 873–3491 Ext. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse 101, email [email protected], by Notice is Reservation, South Dakota; Standing September 2, 2020. After that date, if no here given in accordance with the Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South additional requestors have come Native American Graves Protection and Dakota; Upper Sioux Community, forward, transfer of control of the Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Minnesota; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe human remains and associated funerary 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural of South Dakota. objects to The Tribes may proceed. items under the control of the U.S. The U.S. Department of the Interior, Department of the Interior, National Determinations Made by the U.S. Park Service, Effigy Mounds National Department of the Interior, National National Park Service, Effigy Mounds National Monument is responsible for Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA, that meet Park Service, Effigy Mounds National the definition of unassociated funerary Monument notifying The Consulted Tribes that this notice has been published. objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. Officials of the U.S. Department of the This notice is published as part of the Interior, National Park Service, Effigy Dated: June 25, 2020. National Park Service’s administrative Mounds National Monument have Melanie O’Brien, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 determined that: Manager, National NAGPRA Program. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the this notice are the sole responsibility of [FR Doc. 2020–16778 Filed 7–31–20; 8:45 am] human remains described in this notice the Superintendent, Effigy Mounds BILLING CODE 4312–52–P represent the physical remains of 25 National Monument. individuals of Native American History and Description of the Cultural ancestry. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Items the 3,145 objects described in this National Park Service At an unknown date, three cultural notice are reasonably believed to have items were removed from an unknown been placed with or near individual [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030517; site, likely in Allamakee County, IA. It human remains at the time of death or PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] is not known how they came to be in later as part of the death rite or Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural collections at Effigy Mounds National ceremony and to have been made Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Monument. Originally accessioned as a exclusively for burial purposes or to National Park Service, Effigy Mounds loan from a local collector, in 1985 the contain human remains. National Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA lender claimed they were not part of his • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there collection. In 1986, human remains that is a relationship of shared group AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. had been collected with the objects were identity that can be reasonably traced ACTION: Notice. transferred to the Iowa Office of the between the Native American human State Archaeologist for analysis. The remains and associated funerary objects SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the remains were retained and reburied by and the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Interior, National Park Service, Effigy the Office of the State Archaeologist Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Mounds National Monument, in under the authority of the 1976 Iowa Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South consultation with the appropriate Burial Law. The three unassociated Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian funerary objects are two flakes and one Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; organizations, has determined that the sample of red ocher. Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Sioux cultural items listed in this notice meet In 1950, 112 cultural items were Indian Community in the State of the definition of unassociated funerary removed from a slumped talus deposit Minnesota; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; objects. Lineal descendants or below the Hanging Rock Shelter, in

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