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. National Park Service’s administrative River Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono The Maxwell Museum of responsibilities under NAGPRA, O’odham Nation of Arizona. These four Anthropology, 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 Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, 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 anthropologist 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 Gila River Indian Community of the Gila earth to those who have perished during Notice of Inventory Completion: The River Indian Reservation, Arizona (on modern times. The term ‘‘Hohokam’’ 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. Salt River 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 Hopi 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. Patayan, and Sinagua. 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 cremation. of the same Uto-Aztecan language. 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 missionaries 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 desert 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 irrigation canals 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 VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:22 Sep 12, 2011 Jkt 223001 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13SEN1.SGM 13SEN1 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 56470 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 177 / Tuesday, September 13, 2011 / Notices canals and rivers. Based on scientific Cultural Affiliation With the Ancient evidence. Zuni oral tradition supports a evidence, scholars view the complex Hohokam of Southern Arizona,’’ 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 Kiva 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 Pueblos 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 Jesse Walter Fewkes, archeologist Harold S.