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6626 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 23 / Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / Notices Secretary, through the Native American Native American human remains and affiliation between the human remains Graves Protection and Repatriation any present-day Indian tribe. and associated funerary objects and Review Committee, recommend the • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.16, the present-day Indian tribes or Native proposed transfer of control of the disposition of the human remains will Hawaiian organizations. Lineal culturally unidentifiable Native be to the Eastern Band of Cherokee descendants or representatives of any American human remains in this notice Indians; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Saginaw organization not identified in this notice Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; that wish to request transfer of control Michigan and Indiana; Saginaw Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa of these human remains and associated Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Indians of Michigan; and the United funerary objects should submit a written Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in request to the Field Museum of Natural Indians of Michigan; and the United Oklahoma. History. If no additional requestors Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Additional Requestors and Disposition come forward, transfer of control of the Oklahoma. These tribes jointly human remains and associated funerary requested disposition. Representatives of any Indian tribe or objects to the lineal descendants, Indian The Review Committee, acting Native Hawaiian organization not tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations pursuant to its responsibility under 25 identified in this notice that wish to stated in this notice may proceed. request transfer of control of these U.S.C. 3006(c)(5), considered the DATES: Lineal descendants or request at its November 2013 meeting human remains should submit a written representatives of any Indian tribe or and recommended to the Secretary that request with information in support of Native Hawaiian organization not the proposed transfer of control the request to Steve Lekson, Curator of identified in this notice that wish to proceed. A December 11, 2013 letter on Anthropology, University of Colorado request transfer of control of these behalf of the Secretary of Interior from Museum of Natural History, Campus human remains and associated funerary the Designated Federal Official Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309, telephone objects should submit a written request transmitted the Secretary’s independent (303) 492–6671, [email protected], with information in support of the review and concurrence with the by March 6, 2014. After that date, if no request to the Field Museum of Natural Review Committee that: additional requestors have come History at the address in this notice by • The University of Colorado forward, transfer of control of the March 6, 2014. human remains to the Eastern Band of Museum of Natural History consulted ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation with every appropriate Indian tribe or Cherokee Indians; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Director, Field Museum of Natural Native Hawaiian organization, History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr., • None of The Consulted and Notified Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Chicago, IL 60605, telephone (312) 665– Tribes objected to the proposed transfer 7317, email [email protected]. of control, and Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan; and the United Keetoowah Band of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is • The University of Colorado Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may here given in accordance with the Museum of Natural History may proceed. Native American Graves Protection and proceed with the agreed upon transfer of The University of Colorado Museum Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. control of the culturally unidentifiable of Natural History is responsible for 3003, of the completion of an inventory human remains to the Eastern Band of notifying The Consulted and Notified of human remains and associated Cherokee Indians; Pokagon Band of Tribes that this notice has been funerary objects under the control of the Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and published. Field Museum of Natural History, Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Chicago, IL. The human remains and Dated: December 19, 2013. Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie associated funerary objects were Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Melanie O’Brien, removed from the Dumaw Creek site in and the United Keetoowah Band of Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Oceana County, MI. Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. [FR Doc. 2014–02341 Filed 2–3–14; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the Transfer of control is contingent on BILLING CODE 4312–50–P National Park Service’s administrative the publication of a Notice of Inventory responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Completion in the Federal Register. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). This notice fulfills that requirement. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The determinations in this notice are Determinations Made by the University National Park Service the sole responsibility of the museum, of Colorado Museum of Natural History institution, or Federal agency that has [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–14641; control of the Native American human Officials of the University of Colorado PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] remains and associated funerary objects. Museum of Natural History have The National Park Service is not Notice of Inventory Completion: The determined that: responsible for the determinations in Field Museum of Natural History, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the this notice. human remains described in this notice Chicago, IL Consultation are Native American based the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. collecting focus and composition of the ACTION: Notice. A detailed assessment of the human Hoofnagle collection. remains and associated funerary objects • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the SUMMARY: The Field Museum of Natural was made by the Field Museum of human remains described in this notice History has completed an inventory of Natural History (Field Museum) represent the physical remains of one human remains and associated funerary professional staff in consultation with individual of Native American ancestry. objects, in consultation with the representatives of the Absentee- • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a appropriate Indian tribes or Native Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; relationship of shared group identity Hawaiian organizations, and has Bad River Band of the Lake Superior cannot be reasonably traced between the determined that there is a cultural Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad VerDate Mar<15>2010 20:14 Feb 03, 2014 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\04FEN1.SGM 04FEN1 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 23 / Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / Notices 6627 River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills and Chippewa Indians and the Grand fragments; 1 lot of cord fragments; 1 lot Indian Community, Michigan; River Band of Ottawa Indians, non- of leather and thongs; 1 lot of braided Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Federally recognized Indian groups. grass; 1 lot of wood fragments; 1 mussel Boy’s Reservation, Montana; Citizen Hereafter, all tribes and groups listed in shell; 1 wooden shaft fragment; 1 thorn; Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; this section are referred to as ‘‘The 1 lot of pumpkin seeds; 1 box of bag Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Forest Consulting Tribes and Indian Groups.’’ remnants; 1 lot of hawk beak culmens; 1 lot of bird tail fragments; 1 box of leaf County Potawatomi Community, History and Description of the Remains Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of fragments; 1 seed; 1 bone bead; 1 shell Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, In 1915 and 1916, human remains bead; 2 celts; 1 tinkling cone; 1 lot of Michigan; Hannahville Indian representing, at minimum, 42 animal skin fragments from the above Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk individuals were removed from the animals; 2 awls; 1 spear; 1 lot of beaver Nation of Wisconsin; Keweenaw Bay Dumaw Creek site in Oceana County, incisors; 17 lots of beads; 1 lot of small Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo MI, by a local farmer, Carl Schrumpf. shell beads; 1 lump of ochre; 1 lot of Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Mr. Schrumpf sold his collection to Mr. shell pendants; 1 lot of effigy pendants; H. E. Sargent of Grand Rapids, MI, who, Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo 1 pendant; 1 lot of grass fragments; and in turn, sold a large portion of the Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe 1 box of powdered ochre. collection to Mr. Charles Nelson in the of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band In 1960, the Field Museum late 1920s or early 1930s. The Field of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of accessioned material as the result of an Museum’s Department of Zoology Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of exchange with the Wright L. Coffinberry purchased this material in 1958 from Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the the estate of Mr. Charles Nelson. The Society. This exchange was initiated by Lac de Flambeau Reservation of collection was transferred from Zoology Field Museum curator George Quimby. Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of to the Anthropology Department in Quimby wrote that this material was Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of March 1959. directly traceable to the dealer H.E. Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa Of the 42 individuals, three Sargent, who had bought the material Indians, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay individuals were children, four were from Mr. Schrumpf. The two associated Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan; juveniles, one was a young adult of funerary objects are globular vessels Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of unknown sex, three were young adult recorded as originally having been Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; females, two were young adult males, found in a burial context.