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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 177 / Tuesday, September 13, 2011 / Notices 56469

date if no additional claimants come This notice is published as part of the Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt forward. ’s administrative River Reservation, ; and Tohono The Maxwell Museum of responsibilities under NAGPRA, O’odham Nation of Arizona. These four , University of New 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The Indian tribes are one cultural group Mexico is responsible for notifying the determinations in this notice are the known as the O’odham of Jemez, , that this sole responsibility of the museum, (anthropologically known as the Pima notice has been published. institution, or Federal agency that has and Papago). The Pee Posh Dated: September 7, 2011. control of the Native American human (anthropologically known as the remains and associated funerary objects. Sherry Hutt, Maricopa) are a separate and distinct The National Park Service is not culture that is present in two of the four Manager, National NAGPRA Program. responsible for the determinations in tribes. The four tribes are separated by [FR Doc. 2011–23290 Filed 9–12–11; 8:45 am] this notice. political boundaries designated through BILLING CODE 4312–50–P Consultation the adoption/assignment of reservations by the Federal Government, and not by A detailed assessment of the human any cultural differences. The O’odham DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR remains was made by The University of people commonly refer to ancestors as Maine, Hudson Museum professional National Park Service ‘‘the Huhugam.’’ The term ‘‘Huhugam’’ staff and a forensic in refers to all of the ancestors from the consultation with representatives of the [2253–665] first of the O’odham people to walk the Indian Community of the Gila earth to those who have perished during Notice of Inventory Completion: The River , Arizona (on modern times. The term ‘‘’’ is University of Maine, Hudson Museum, behalf of themselves and the Ak Chin an English adaptation of the word Orono, ME Indian Community of the Maricopa Huhugam, and has become known in (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the larger society as an archeological AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Pima-Maricopa Indian culture. The term Huhugam is often ACTION: Notice. Community of the Salt River mistaken for the word Hohokam, Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono although the terms do not have the same SUMMARY: The University of Maine, O’odham Nation of Arizona); and the meaning and are not interchangeable. Hudson Museum has completed an Tribe of Arizona. The Zuni Tribe The four Federally-recognized O’odham inventory of human remains and an of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, Indian tribes claim cultural affiliation to associated funerary object, in was also contacted, but did not consult the Hohokam archeological cultures, as consultation with the appropriate on the human remains described in this well as to all others present in their Indian tribes, and has determined that notice. aboriginal claims area during the there is a cultural affiliation between the History and description of the remains prehistory of what is now known as human remains and associated funerary Sometime during 1929 to 1937, Arizona and Mexico. These affiliations object and present-day Indian tribes. include several other archeological Representatives of any Indian tribe that human remains representing a minimum of one individual were cultures, including but not limited to: believes itself to be culturally affiliated The Archaic, Paleo-Indian, Salado, with the human remains and associated removed from the grounds of the Vah- Ki-Inn, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ. , and . A written report, funerary object may contact The ‘‘The Four Southern Tribes and the University of Maine, Hudson Museum. Subsequently, the human remains came into the possession of Mr. Walter C. Hohokam of the Phoenix Basin,’’ given Repatriation of the human remains and to the Hudson Museum by the Gila associated funerary object to the Indian Smith who built and owned the inn from 1929 to 1940. In 1937, Mr. and River Indian Community, provides a tribes stated below may occur if no preponderance of evidence— additional claimants come forward. Mrs. William C. Wells of Orono, ME, acquired the human remains from archeological, linguistic, oral tradition, DATES: Representatives of any Indian Mr. Smith. Sometime before 1994, Mr. ethnographical, kinship, and tribe that believes it has a cultural biological—for a relationship of shared affiliation with the human remains and and Mrs. Wells donated the human remains to the museum (HM1291.1). No group identity between the Hohokam associated funerary object should culture and the present-day O’odham. contact The University of Maine, known individual was identified. The one associated funerary object is a Linguistic evidence indicates that all Hudson Museum at the address below of the O’odham speak different dialects by October 13, 2011. ceramic burial vessel (HM1291.2). The human remains are a . of the same Uto-Aztecan . ADDRESSES: Susan M. Smith, Registrar, Burial practices, the associated funerary O’odham communities were historically Hudson Museum, The University of object, and geographical location, recorded as living in the Gila River area Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, support a Hohokam cultural by Jesuit in 1687. In the Orono, ME 04469–5746, telephone (207) determination. This burial has been 1700s, when written records about the 581–1902. identified as being associated with the O’odham began, they occupied at least SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Hohokam Casa Grande Ruins Complex seven rancherias. At the time of here given in accordance with the and is Preclassic (A.D. 800–1100). European contact, the O’odham, who Native American Graves Protection and A relationship of shared group occupied land previously inhabited by Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. identity can be reasonably traced the Hohokam, mirrored the Hohokam in 3003, of the completion of an inventory between the Hohokam culture, which many ways. The Hohokam were of human remains and an associated dates from about A.D. 300 to A.D. 1450, agriculturalists who developed an funerary object in the possession of The and the Ak Chin Indian Community of elaborate system of to University of Maine, Hudson Museum, the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian irrigate their crops. At European Orono, ME. The human remains and Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian contact, it was documented that the associated funerary object were removed Community of the Gila River Indian O’odham were also desert from Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ. Reservation, Arizona; Salt River Pima- agriculturalists who utilized irrigation

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canals and rivers. Based on scientific Cultural Affiliation With the Ancient evidence. Zuni oral tradition supports a evidence, scholars view the complex Hohokam of ,’’ a relationship of shared group identity irrigation systems of the O’odham and report by T. J. Ferguson, Leigh J. between the Zuni and the Hohokam and the Hohokam as evidence for a cultural Kuwanwisiwma, Micah Loma’omvaya, Salado. The Phoenix Basin is a part of continuity between the two that Patrick Lyons, Greg Schachner, and the Zuni migration histories. Medicine involved the ability to control mass Laurie Webster, the Hopi people trace societies and groups have labor in order to construct and maintain their historical relationship with migration histories that place them in these canals. The Hohokam had a ancestral Hoopoq’yaqam groups who the Phoenix Basin. Archeological distinct settlement pattern that resided in the Hohokam area, using evidence suggests that the structure of consisted of small farmsteads scattered traditional history and geography, religious organization among the Classic throughout the landscape. The O’odham kinship, archeological materials, and Period Hohokam may have been similar practiced this same type of settlement on-going religious and cultural to the directional priesthoods of the pattern. There was general architecture practices. This information is embedded historic O’odham and also of the people through the Hohokam Period to the in the traditional knowledge, religious of the Zuni Tribe (Teague 1984b). historic O’odham Period that exhibited practices and esoteric rites that the Hopi In addition, results of a study a trend from quadrangular to round inherited from their ancestors. comparing more than 60 genetic structures through time. In addition, Corroborating evidence of a historical markers show a relatively close archeological and historical evidence relationship with the Hohokam comes relationship between modern O’odham shows that runoff farming was very from ethnographic and archeological and the Zuni Tribe (Cavalli-Sforza 1994; common throughout the Southwest for studies. Ceramic iconography, ritual The Four Southern Tribes and the over a millennium, until the early 20th artifacts and textiles constitute distinct Hohokam of the Phoenix Basin). century (Cordell, 1984). It was practiced patterns of material culture manufacture by farmers of all the and their and distribution that link Hohokam and Determinations Made by The University ancestors as well as the Tohono Hopi groups. According to oral of Maine, Hudson Museum O’odham and other tribes, including the tradition, Hopi clan migration supports Hopi and Zuni. Therefore, a relationship a shared group identity with Hohokam Officials of The University of Maine, of shared group identity can also and Salado. Modern-day ritual Hudson Museum have determined that: reasonably be traced between the pilgrimage practices support that oral • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Hohokam, and the Hopi and Zuni tribes. tradition. According to the notes of human remains described above According to , archeologist Harold S. Colton, a Hopi represent the physical remains of one American anthropologist and shrine is located near the mountain individual of Native American ancestry. archeologist, O’odham oral tradition peaks in the vicinity of Phoenix. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), tells us that some of the people Cremation was practiced by at least one the one object described above is occupying the Hohokam area migrated clan that migrated from the south to reasonably believed to have been placed northward and later built pueblos in the present-day Hopi territory. with or near individual human remains Little Valley. The descendants Architectural evidence also supports a at the time of death or later as part of of these people in due course joined the shared group identity. Hopi style the death rite or ceremony. Hopi and , with whom, have been found near Safford, in the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there according to legends, they still live. southeast corner of Arizona. Similar is a relationship of shared group These migrations occurred in underground rooms are found among identity that can be reasonably traced prehistoric times, and vague legends ruins in the Southwest, signifying ritual between the Native American human still survive among both Zuni and Hopi or cultural use by the ancient peoples of regarding the life of some of their clans the region, including the Ancient remains and associated funerary object in the south. These migration legends Pueblo People and the Hohokam. Kivas and the Ak Chin Indian Community of are supported by archeological first appeared about A.D. 750; these the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian evidence. rooms are generally believed to have Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian According to the Tumacacori National been used for religious and other Community of the Gila River Indian Historical Park, the Hopi Tribe of communal purposes. Today, the , Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona considers all of Arizona to be and other descendants still use kivas for Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa within traditional Hopi lands, or within ceremonial, religious and other special Indian Community of the Salt River those areas where Hopi clans migrated purposes. Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham in the past. Some of the Hopi accounts The ‘‘Zuni Policy Statement Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe promote the viewpoint of those who left Regarding the Protection and Treatment of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico for the northern pueblos (Courlander of Human Remains and Associated (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). 1982, Fewkes 1920, Nequatewa 1936). Funerary Objects,’’ (November 1992), Additional Requestors and Disposition There are very strong parallels between which was sent to museums in the the O’odham and Hopi stories of this 1990s, states that the Zuni people are Representatives of any other Indian period in late prehistory, including not culturally affiliated to earlier groups, tribe that believes itself to be culturally just the role of a great water serpent and including Hohokam and Salado. On July affiliated with the human remains and a flood, but also the sacrifice of children 11, 1995, the Zuni Tribe issued a associated funerary object should in the flood, commemorated among the ‘‘Statement of Cultural Affiliation With contact Susan M. Smith, Registrar, O’odham as the Children’s Shrine near Prehistoric and Historic Cultures.’’ In Hudson Museum, The University of Santa Rosa. Resolution H–70–94 signed the statement, the Zuni Tribe declared Maine, 5746 Collins Center for the Arts, on May 23, 1994, by the Hopi Tribal that it has a relationship of shared group Orono, ME 04469–5746, telephone (207) Council declares formal cultural affinity identity with Hohokam and Salado 581–1902, before October 13, 2011. and affiliation with the Hohokam and culture based on oral teachings and Repatriation of the human remains and Salado cultural groups. According to, traditions, ethno historic associated funerary object to The Tribes ‘‘Yep Hisat Hoopoq’yaqam Yeesiwa documentation, historic documentation, may proceed after that date if no (Hopi Ancestors Were Once Here): Hopi archeological documentation, and other additional claimants come forward.

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The Hudson Museum is responsible information from public review, we River Valley National Heritage Corridor for notifying The Tribes that this notice cannot guarantee that we will be able to Commission, One Depot Square, has been published. do so. Woonsocket, RI 02895. Tel.: (401) 762– _ Dated: September 7, 2011. Dated: August 15, 2011. 0250. E-mail: Jan [email protected]. Sherry Hutt, Sheridan Steele, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Superintendent, Acadia National Park. Commission meeting will be open to the public. Space and facilities to [FR Doc. 2011–23293 Filed 9–12–11; 8:45 am] [FR Doc. 2011–23361 Filed 9–12–11; 8:45 am] accommodate the public are limited and BILLING CODE 4312–50–P BILLING CODE 4310–2N–P attendees will be accommodated on a first-come basis. It is anticipated that DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR about thirty people will be able to attend the session in addition to the National Park Service National Park Service Commission members. Opportunities for oral comment will be limited to no [1700–SZM] [NPS–JHCBLAC–0829–8304; ACCOUNT #: more than 3 minutes per speaker and no 1715–685] more than 15 minutes in total. The Notice of October 3, 2011, Meeting for Board’s Chairman will determine how Acadia National Park Advisory Meeting of the John H. Chafee time for oral comments will be allotted. Commission Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission Anyone may file with the Commission AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. a written statement concerning matters AGENCY: National Heritage Corridor ACTION: Meeting notice. to be discussed. Such requests should Commission, John H. Chafee Blackstone be made prior to the meeting. Before SUMMARY: This notice sets the date of River Valley, National Park Service, including your address, telephone October 3, 2011, meeting of the Acadia Department of the Interior. number, e-mail address, or other National Park Advisory Commission. ACTION: Notice. personal identifying information in your DATES: The public meeting of the comment, you should be aware that SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in Advisory Commission will be held on your entire comment—including your accordance with the Federal Advisory Monday, October 3, 2011, at 1 p.m. personal identifying information—may Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. Appendix, that (Eastern). be made publicly available at any time. the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Location: The meeting will be held at While you can ask us in your comment Valley National Heritage Corridor the Schoodic Research and Education to withhold your personal identifying Commission will conduct a meeting on Center, Acadia National Park, Winter information from public review, we September 30, 2011. Members of the Harbor, Maine 04693. cannot guarantee that we will be able to public may attend the meeting in person Agenda: The October 3, 2011, do so. in The Museum of Work and Culture, Commission meeting will consist of the Draft minutes of the meeting will be Market Square, 42 South Main Street, following: available for public inspection about 12 Woonsocket, RI 02895. 1. Committee reports: weeks after the meeting in the John H. During this meeting the Commission Chafee Blackstone River Valley National —Land Conservation will convene for the following reasons: Heritage Corridor Commission Office at —Park Use 1. Approval of Minutes. 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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the requirements personal identifying information in your FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For of 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4), the Department of comment, you should be aware that information concerning the John H. Justice announces the membership of its your entire comment—including your Chafee Blackstone River Valley National 2011 Senior Executive Service (SES) personal identifying information—may Heritage Corridor Commission or to Standing Performance Review Boards be made publicly available at any time. request to address the Commission, (PRBs). The purpose of a PRB is to While you can ask us in your comment contact Jan H. Reitsma, Executive provide fair and impartial review of SES to withhold your personal identifying Director, John H. Chafee Blackstone performance appraisals, bonus

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