Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 17, 2008 / Notices 34323 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In 1972, human remains representing territorial realignments through time a minimum of one individual were and, ultimately, tribal conglomerations National Park Service removed from site 35–JA–23, also and mergers resulting from mid–19th known as the Fawn Butte Spring Site, Century treaty negotiations with the Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Jackson County, OR, during excavations U.S. Government, make determination Department of Defense, Army Corps of by Oregon State University prior to of the sites’ cultural affiliation Engineers, Portland District, Portland, construction of the proposed Lost Creek uncertain. The sites described above are OR, and Oregon State University Lake Dam. The excavations were within or near the traditional lands of Department of Anthropology, Corvallis, conducted on Fawn Butte above an the present–day Confederated Tribes of OR ephemeral branch of Lost Creek, a Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. tributary of the Rogue River. No known Indians of Oregon; Confederated Tribes ACTION: Notice. individual was identified. The 147 of the Grand Ronde Community of associated funerary objects are 1 Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Notice is here given in accordance chalcedony knife, 1 projectile point, 1 Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Cow Creek with the Native American Graves projectile point tip fragment, 5 bifaces, Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon; Protection and Repatriation Act 1 end scraper, 1 graver, 1 burin, 1 burin- Klamath Tribes, Oregon; and Modoc (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the like flake tool, 6 utilized flakes, 3 cores, Tribe of Oklahoma. The Coquille Tribe completion of an inventory of human 3 core reduction fragments, 119 debitage of Oregon has indicated both sites are remains and associated funerary objects flakes and fragments, 1 unidentified located outside of their ancestral in the control of the U.S. Department of lithic item, 1 bag of wood fragments, territory. Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, and 2 bags of burial dirt. The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Portland District, Portland, OR, and in Site 35–JA–23 is a multicomponent Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of the possession of the Oregon State village that is believed to have been Oregon traditionally inhabited the University Department of Anthropology, occupied as early as 1200 years B.P. to headwaters, valleys and estuaries of the Corvallis, OR. The human remains and approximately A.D. 1800. Based on the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw associated funerary objects were location of the human remains within Rivers along the central and south– removed from sites on Army Corps of the site and the associated artifacts, the central Oregon coast. The tribes spoke Engineers land within the Lost Creek individual has been determined to be diverse dialects within the Hanis, Lake Dam project area on the Rogue Native American. Milluk, Athapascan, Kuitsch, and River, Jackson County, OR. In 1972–1973, human remains Siuslaw language groups. The tribes This notice is published as part of the representing a minimum of two have been operating under a National Park Service’s administrative individuals were removed from site 35– confederated government since signing responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 JA–25, also known as the Far Hills a treaty with the U.S. Government in U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Ranch Site, Jackson County, OR, during 1855. Many tribal members were in this notice are the sole responsibility excavations conducted by Oregon State removed to the Siletz Reservation, the of the museum, institution, or Federal University prior to construction of the Alsea sub agency, and other federal agency that has control of the Native proposed Lost Creek Lake Dam. The military encampments along the south– American human remains and excavations were conducted below the central Oregon coast during the mid to associated funerary objects. The mouth of Long Branch Creek on the late–19th Century. The Confederated National Park Service is not responsible west bank of the Rogue River. No known Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and for the determinations in this notice. individuals were identified. The 19 Siuslaw Indians of Oregon were A detailed assessment of the human associated funerary objects are 8 shell terminated from federal recognition in remains was made by Oregon State beads, 5 olivella beads, 1 pine nut bead, 1954 and restored in 1984. University Department of Anthropology 2 shell pendants, 1 ulna awl, and 2 The Confederated Tribes of the Grand and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, lithic fragments. Ronde Community of Oregon, include at Portland District professional staff in Site 35–JA–25 is a small cemetery and least 26 tribes and bands whose consultation with representatives of the village dating from before A.D. 1400 to ancestral homelands span across Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower A.D. 1700. The cemetery appears to western Oregon, southwestern Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; have been used prior to A.D. 1400 and Washington and northern California. Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde the village was primarily occupied The Grand Ronde tribes and bands Community of Oregon; Confederated between A.D. 1500 and A.D. 1700. include the Rogue River, Umpqua, Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Ninety–two additional human burials Chasta, Kalapuya, Molala, Clackamas, Coquille Tribe of Oregon; Cow Creek located on private property at the site Salmon River, Tillamook, and Nestucca, Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon; were exhumed at an undetermined date as well as other smaller groups. At the Klamath Tribes, Oregon (formerly the prior to World War II, during time of contact, the individual groups Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon); and construction of private ranch facilities, spoke 30 dialects of the Athapascan, Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma. and re–interred approximately five Chinookan, Kalapuyan, Takelman, Native American cultural items miles to the north in Trail, OR. Based Molalan, Sahaptin, Salishan, and described in this notice were excavated on the location of the human remains Shastan language families. In 1856– under Antiquities Act permits by the within the site and the associated 1857, the U.S. Government forcibly Oregon State University Department of artifacts, both individuals removed have relocated the Grand Ronde peoples to Anthropology, Corvallis, OR, on Army been determined to be Native American. the Grand Ronde Reservation at the Corps of Engineers project lands. Ethnographic records suggest the headwaters of the South Yamhill River Following excavations at the sites areas surrounding sites 35–JA–23 and in Yamhill and Polk Counties, OR. The described below, and under the 35–JA–25 were likely occupied by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde provisions of the permits, the Oregon Takelma and possibly Southern Molala Community of Oregon were first State University Department of bands during the early Contact period. incorporated in 1935, terminated from Anthropology was allowed to retain the However, overlapping territories, shared federal recognition in 1954, and restored collections for preservation. use of resource gathering areas, possible with tribal recognition in 1983. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:10 Jun 16, 2008 Jkt 214001 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17JNN1.SGM 17JNN1 jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES 34324 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 17, 2008 / Notices The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 1954, and then restored as a federally that date if no additional claimants Reservation, Oregon, are a confederation recognized tribe in 1986. come forward. The Confederated Tribes of 30 bands whose ancestral territory The Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma and of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw ranged along the entire Oregon coast the Klamath Tribes, Oregon, have a Indians of Oregon, Coquille Tribe of and Coast Range, inland to the main shared ancestry. The traditional Modoc Oregon, and Klamath Tribes, Oregon, in divide of the Cascade Range and south homeland consisted of some 5,000 consultation with the U.S. Army Corps to the Rogue River watershed. The square miles along what is now the of Engineers, Portland District, have principal tribes include the Clatsop, California–Oregon border. Following the indicated their desire to defer their Chinook, Klickitat, Molala, Kalapuya, conclusion of the Modoc War in 1873, interest to the other mentioned Tribes. Tillamook, Alsea, Siuslaw/Lower the Modoc people were relocated to the The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Umpqua, Coos, Coquille, Upper Quapaw Reservation in Oklahoma. In Portland District is responsible for Umpqua, Tututni, Chetco, Tolowa, 1909, the Modoc were granted notifying the Confederated Tribes of Takelma or Upper Rogue River, Galice/ permission to return to Oregon. Those Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Applegate, and Shasta. The ancestors of who returned became part of the Indians of Oregon; Confederated Tribes the confederated tribes spoke at least 10 Klamath Tribes, Oregon. The Modoc of the Grand Ronde Community of different base languages, many with Tribe of Oklahoma and the Klamath Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the strong dialectic divisions even within Tribes, Oregon, have formally agreed Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Coquille the same language. In general, five that repatriation of human remains from Tribe of Oregon; Cow Creek Band of linguistic stocks – Salish, Yakonan, the historically documented territory of Umpqua Indians of Oregon; Klamath Kusan, Takelman, and Athapascan – are the Klamath Tribes should go to the Tribes, Oregon; and Modoc Tribe of represented by the tribes. The tribes Klamath Tribes, Oregon, for reburial. Oklahoma that this notice has been were forcibly removed from their Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of published. Engineers, Portland District have homelands in 1855 by the U.S. Dated: May 21, 2008 Government and placed on the Siletz determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains Sherry Hutt, and Grand Ronde reservations.