46710 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices 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; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:39 Jul 31, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00125 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03AUN1.SGM 03AUN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices 46711 Allamakee County, IA, by NPS should submit a written request with captioned investigation. The archeologist Paul Beaubien. The railroad information in support of the claim to Commission is soliciting comments on had cut through the deposit, exposing Jim Nepstad, Superintendent, Effigy public interest issues raised by the human remains and artifacts. The Mounds National Monument, 151 Hwy recommended relief, should the human remains did not enter Effigy 76, Harpers Ferry, IA 52146, telephone Commission find a violation. This Mounds National Monument collections (563) 873–3491 Ext. 101, email jim_ notice is soliciting public interest and their whereabouts is unknown. The [email protected], by September 2, 2020. comments from the public only. Parties 112 unassociated funerary objects are After that date, if no additional are to file public interest submissions 110 pottery sherds and two fish bones. claimants have come forward, transfer pursuant to Commission rules. Sometime between 1958 and 1963, of control of the unassociated funerary FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 277 cultural items were removed from objects to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Houda Morad, Office of the General the Waukon Junction Rockshelter in Wisconsin may proceed. Counsel, U.S. International Trade Allamakee County, IA, by unknown The U.S. Department of the Interior, Commission, 500 E Street SW, persons, probably as the site was being National Park Service, Effigy Mounds Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) impacted by highway construction. In National Monument is responsible for 708–4716. Copies of non-confidential 1986, human remains collected with the notifying the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of documents filed in connection with this objects were transferred to the Iowa the Crow Creek Reservation, South investigation may be viewed on the Office of the State Archaeologist and Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) retained under the authority of the 1976 South Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of at https://edis.usitc.gov. For help Iowa Burial Law. The 277 unassociated Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and accessing EDIS, please email funerary objects are one shell tool, 87 Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; [email protected]. General freshwater mussel shells, two bifaces, Lower Sioux Indian Community in the information concerning the Commission one flake, eight unmodified stones, 20 State of Minnesota; Omaha Tribe of may also be