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Vegas for further analysis. No known the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the between 1926 and 1931 (02983, 03046, individual was identified. No associated Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada that 03154, 03160, 03177, 03224, 03225, funerary objects are present. this notice has been published. 03255). No known individuals were Analysis determined that the human Dated: January 30, 2008. identified. The 17 associated funerary remains are that of a pre–contact or objects are 1 saw blade, 1 metal button, Sherry Hutt, early historic Native American 14 lead bullets, and 1 tomahawk pipe inhabitant of the Great Basin area. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. bowl (03157, 03224, 03255). Archeological evidence suggests that [FR Doc. E8–4329 Filed 3–5–08; 8:45 am] On a date prior to 1926, human the areas where the human remains BILLING CODE 4312–50–S remains representing a minimum of six were found were occupied by individuals were removed from the Pike Shoshone/Paiute groups in pre–contact Pawnee Village (25WT1) in Webster and historic times. Oral history DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR County, NE. The human remains were evidence presented by the donated to the Hastings Museum by representatives of the Pyramid Lake A.M. Brooking and cataloged between Paiute further suggests that the areas Notice of Inventory Completion: 1926 and 1931 (02438, 02984, 03228, were occupied by the Pyramid Lake Hastings Museum of Natural and 04792). No known individuals were Paiute during these time periods. Based Cultural History, Hastings, NE identified. The 31 associated funerary on these lines of evidence, the human objects include 1 brass bell, 2 copper remains and associated funerary objects AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. bracelets, and 28 beads (02985, 02986, are considered to be Native American ACTION: Notice. 2987). and culturally affiliated with the On April 20, 1925, human remains Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Notice is here given in accordance representing a minimum of three Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada. with the Native American Graves individuals were removed from the Pike Officials of the Department of Protection and Repatriation Act Pawnee Village (25WT1) in Webster Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the County, NE. The human remains were University of Nevada Las Vegas have completion of an inventory of human donated to the Hastings Museum by determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. remains and associated funerary objects A.M. Brooking, A.T. Hill, and J.E. 3001 (9–10), the human remains in the possession of Hastings Museum Wallace and cataloged between 1926 described above represent the physical of Natural and Cultural History and 1931 (03110, 03121). No known remains of three individuals of Native (Hastings Museum), Hastings, NE. The individuals were identified. No American ancestry. Officials of the human remains and associated funerary associated funerary objects are present. Department of Anthropology and Ethnic objects were removed from Howard, At unknown times, human remains Studies, University of Nevada Las Vegas Merrick, Nance, Platte, and Webster representing a minimum of three also have determined that, pursuant to Counties, NE. individuals were removed from the Pike 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the twelve objects This notice is published as part of the Pawnee Village (25WT1) in Webster described above are reasonably believed National Park Service’s administrative County, NE. One individual was to have been placed with or near responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 donated to the Hastings Museum by an individual human remains at the time of U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations unnamed donor and cataloged between death or later as part of the death rite in this notice are the sole responsibility 1926 and 1931 (10362). The second or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the of the museum, institution, or Federal individual was donated to the Hastings Department of Anthropology and Ethnic agency that has control of the Native Museum by David Mowry and cataloged Studies, University of Nevada Las Vegas American human remains and in 1936 (14693). The third individual have determined that, pursuant to 25 associated funerary objects. The was donated to the Hastings Museum by U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship National Park Service is not responsible Julia Green Bell and cataloged in 1945 of shared group identity that can be for the determinations in this notice. (25347). No known individuals were reasonably traced between the Native A detailed assessment of the human identified. No associated funerary American human remains and remains was made by Hastings Museum objects are present. associated funerary objects and the of Natural and Cultural History The Pike Pawnee Village site (25WT1) Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the professional staff in consultation with is also known as the Hill Site, Hill Farm, Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada. representatives of the Crow Tribe of and Superior 1. The site is located Representatives of any other Indian Montana; Omaha Tribe of ; between and on tribe that believes itself to be culturally – Tribe of Indians, the south bank of the . affiliated with the the human remains ; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; The site is known to be a village and associated funerary objects should Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; sporadically occupied by the Kitkehahki contact Dr. Karen Harry, Department of ; Sac & Fox (Republican) band of the Pawnee from Anthropology & Ethnic Study, Nation of in and A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1830. University of Nevada Las Vegas, 4505 Nebraska; Three Affiliated Tribes of the At an unknown date, human remains Maryland Parkway, Box 455003, Las Fort Berthold Reservation, North representing a minimum of one Vegas, NV 89154–5003, telephone (702) Dakota; and Wichita and Affiliated individual were removed from the 895–2534, before April 7, 2008. Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Samms Site (25WT2), also known as the Repatriation of the human remains and Tawakonie), Oklahoma. Thorne Site, near Bladen in Webster associated funerary objects to the During the summers of 1924 and County, NE. The human remains were Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the 1925, human remains representing a given to the Hastings Museum by J.C. Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada may minimum of 10 individuals were Samms and cataloged into the collection proceed after that date if no additional removed from the Pike Pawnee Village between 1926 and 1931 (10208). No claimants come forward. (25WT1) in Webster County, NE. The known individual was identified. No The Department of Anthropology and human remains were donated to the associated funerary objects are present. Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada Hastings Museum by A.M. Brooking, Based on research at the Nebraska Las Vegas is responsible for notifying museum founder, and cataloged State Historical Society, it was found

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that J.C. Samms and A.M. Brooking had Fullerton, Nance County, NE. The County, NE. The human remains were excavated at the Samms Site prior to human remains were donated to the donated to the Hastings Museum by March 1932. The site has been Hastings Museum by museum founder, A.M. Brooking and cataloged between culturally identified as a Lower Loup A.M. Brooking and cataloged between 1926 and 1931 (02663, 03010, 03052, village. 1926 and 1931 (03200). No known 03202, 03261, 03262, 03267, 03938, On an unknown date, human remains individual was identified. No associated 03940, 04460, 07091, 08052). No known representing a minimum of one funerary objects are present. individuals were identified. The one individual were removed from the Phil Research reveals that there is a site associated funerary object is a catlinite Cuba farm (25NC4) in Nance County, known as Horse Creek that is southwest pipe (03011). NE. The human remains were of Fullerton in Nance County, NE. This At an unknown date, human remains purchased from Phil Cuba by the site is culturally affiliated with the representing a minimum of one Hastings Museum in 1933 and cataloged Grand and Republican bands of the individual were removed from a grave at that same year (11222). No known Pawnee. Museum catalog records a site near Palmer, Merrick individual was identified. The 14 indicate that the above human remains County, NE. The human remains were associated funerary objects are 9 metal were collected southwest of Fullerton in donated to the Hastings Museum by Ora bracelets, 1 wooden bowl, 1 metal frying approximately the same location as the White and cataloged between 1926 and pan, 1 metal scissors, 1 metal and wood Horse Creek site. Original catalog 1931 (02915). No known individual was knife, and 1 metal bucket (11223, records indicated that this was ‘‘a identified. No associated funerary 11224). Mormon boy killed by Indians on objects are present. On an unknown date, human remains September 16, 1849.’’ However, the At an unknown date, human remains representing a minimum of three morphological report indicates that this representing a minimum of one individuals were removed from a grave is a female of Native American descent. individual were removed from a grave at at the Phil Cuba farm (25NC4) in Nance Based on the catalog records, a Skidi site near Palmer, Merrick County, NE. The human remains were information on the Horse Creek site, and County, NE. The human remains were purchased from Phil Cuba by the morphology report, the museum donated to the Hastings Museum by Hastings Museum in 1936 and cataloged officials have reasonably determined A.M. Brooking and A.T. Hill and that same year (15465, 15466). No that the human remains are culturally cataloged between 1926 and 1931 known individuals were identified. No affiliated with the Pawnee. (03359). No known individual was associated funerary objects are present. On November 2, 1926, human identified. No associated funerary A.T. Hill and George Lamb excavated remains representing a minimum of two objects are present. at this site in 1936, which became individuals were removed from graves known as the Cuba Site (25NC4) for the at a Skidi village near Palmer, Merrick At an unknown date, human remains Nebraska State Historical Society. The County, NE. The human remains were representing a minimum of two site contains an earthlodge village and donated to the Hastings Museum by individuals were removed from graves burials covering 10 to 20 acres. The site A.M. Brooking and George Debord and at a Skidi site near Palmer, Merrick is considered consistent with the Lower cataloged between 1926 and 1931 County, NE. The human remains were Loup Phase. (01797). No known individuals were donated to the Hastings Museum by H. On an unknown date, human remains identified. No associated funerary Goering and cataloged between 1926 representing a minimum of two objects are present. and 1931 (04741). No known individuals were removed from the Kent On August 19, 1923, human remains individuals were identified. No village at the Burkett Site (25NC1) near representing a minimum of one associated funerary objects are present. Genoa, in Nance County, NE. The individual were removed from a grave at At an unknown date, human remains human remains were donated to the a Skidi Site near Palmer, Merrick representing a minimum of one Hastings Museum by A.M. Brooking and County, NE. The human remains were individual were removed from a grave at cataloged between 1926 and 1931 donated to the Hastings Museum by a Skidi site near Palmer, Merrick (03481). No known individuals were A.M. Brooking and A.T. Hill and County, NE. The human remains were identified. No associated funerary cataloged between 1926 and 1931 purchased by the Hastings Museum objects are present. (02901). No known individual was from Vic Johnson and cataloged The Burkett Site is located four miles identified. The seven associated between 1926 and 1931 (06452). No southwest of Genoa on land once owned funerary objects are five pieces of woven known individual was identified. No by F. Burkett. A large village is located textile, one metal bell, and one coiled associated funerary objects are present. on this site and is known for the vast wire ring (02920). At an unknown date, human remains amount of pottery that has attracted On August 10, 1933, human remains representing a minimum of two many pot hunters. Waldo Wedel representing a minimum of two individuals were removed from graves identified the Burkett Site as the site individuals were removed from a grave at a Skidi site near Palmer, Merrick once reported by F.V. Hayden in an at a Skidi village near Palmer, Merrick County, NE. The human remains were annual report of the Smithsonian County, NE. The human remains were donated to the Hastings Museum by Institute in 1867, which had a vast donated to the Hastings Museum by A.M. Brooking and George Debord and amount of pottery fragments in the area A.M. Brooking, Bert Oberlies, and cataloged between 1926 and 1931 that Mr. Hayden attributed to the early George Debord, and cataloged in 1933 (08060, 09011). No known individuals Pawnee. The site is now known to (11216). No known individuals were were identified. The one associated contain cache pits, house sites, and identified. The 1,014 associated funerary object is a set of rings (08060). burials. The Nebraska State Historical funerary objects include 2 metal At an unknown date, human remains Society has identified the Burkett Site as bracelets, 4 pieces of metal spoons, and representing a minimum of one Lower Loup Phase. 1,008 glass beads (11216). individual were removed from a grave at On an unknown date, human remains At an unknown date, human remains a Skidi site near Palmer, NE. The human representing a minimum of one representing a minimum of 14 remains were purchased by the Hastings individual were removed from the individuals were removed from graves Museum from F.G. Dankert and Horse Creek Site (25NC2) near at a Skidi site near Palmer, Merrick cataloged between 1933 (11215). No

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known individual was identified. No Nebraska State Historical Society and Box 1286, Hastings, NE 68902, associated funerary objects are present. museum records are consistent with telephone (402) 461–2399, before April Research conducted at the Nebraska information on the site known as the 7, 2008. Repatriation of the human State Historical Society identifies at Hanna Larson Site. The site was remains and associated funerary objects least 15 sites in the area around Palmer. occupied form A.D. 1650 to A.D. 1750 to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma may One site is known as the Palmer Village and is culturally identified with the proceed after that date if no additional (25HW1), which is a well known site Lower Loup Focus of the Aspect claimants come forward. that was occupied by the Skidi band of of the late Ceramic Period. The Hastings Museum is responsible the Pawnee from at least A.D. 1804 to The Lower Loup Phase sites are for notifying the Crow Tribe of Montana; A.D. 1836, and was observed and located in areas also associated with Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe– recorded by a number of explorers to the historic Pawnee sites. The Lower Loup Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; area. Museum officials have been able to material culture suggests that they are Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca document Mr. Brooking and Mr. Hill as ancestors of the Pawnee. Descendants of Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca having conducted excavations at the the Pawnee are members of the Pawnee Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation of Palmer Village. Waldo Wedel conducted Nation of Oklahoma. Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Three an official survey of the Palmer Village According to museum records, the Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold on June 13, 1936 for the Nebraska State human remains were originally Reservation, North Dakota; and Wichita Historical Society. John Johnson owned cataloged as a complete or nearly and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, the land at the time of the survey and complete skeleton for each of these Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma that this allowed some work. It is likely that the individuals (02983, 03177, 03224, notice has been published 03255, 01797, 06452, 03202, 11216, some of the village spread into and Dated: January 30, 2008. resides on land once owned by H. 24733). However, during inventory review in the 1990s, only cranial and Sherry Hutt, Goering whose land is adjacent to Mr. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Johnson’s land. The site is designated as partial post cranial remains were found [FR Doc. E8–4323 Filed 3–5–08; 8:45 am] an historic Skidi Pawnee earthlodge with the accession numbers. Also village. during inventory review, the museum BILLING CODE 4312–50–S identified a number of commingled Museum officials have determined, human remains that had been in an based on museum records and evidence exhibit in the late 1930s or early 1940s, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of donors associated with the site, that which represented human remains the above human remains and taken from ossuaries. When the exhibit National Park Service associated funerary objects are from closed, unnumbered human remains sites associated with a Skidi village, Notice of Inventory Completion: were mingled together. Officials of the Hastings Museum of Natural and possibly the Palmer Village, and are Hastings Museum reasonably believe Cultural History, Hastings, NE culturally affiliated with the Pawnee. that some of the commingled remains On an unknown date, human remains are part of the individuals described AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. representing a minimum of one above. An additional site that is ACTION: Notice. individual were removed from a grave reasonably believed to have near Cushing, Howard County, NE. The commingled human remains from this Notice is here given in accordance human remains were donated to the exhibit are described in a companion with the Native American Graves Hastings Museum by Robert Merchant notice. Protection and Repatriation Act and cataloged in 1960 (29365). No Officials of the Hastings Museum (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the known individual was identified. No have determined that, pursuant to 25 completion of an inventory of human associated funerary objects are present. U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains remains and associated funerary objects There are no known sites attributed to described above represent the physical in the possession of Hastings Museum Cushing, NE. However, there are remains of 63 individuals of Native of Natural and Cultural History, numerous sites attributed to the Palmer American ancestry. Officials of the Hastings, NE. The human remains and area, which is 10 miles to the southeast Hastings Museum also have determined associated funerary objects were of Cushing. The Palmer Site (25HW1) is that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), removed from the Franklin, Harlan, and located northwest of the town of Palmer, the 1,085 objects described above are Webster Counties, NE. making it also in the vicinity of reasonably believed to have been placed This notice is published as part of the Cushing. Based on this information, with or near individual human remains National Park Service’s administrative morphology report, and geographic at the time of death or later as part of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 region of Pawnee occupation, museum the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations officials have determined that the officials of the Hastings Museum have in this notice are the sole responsibility human remains probably came from the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. of the museum, institution, or Federal Palmer site and are highly likely to be 3001 (2), there is a relationship of agency that has control of the Native culturally affiliated with the Pawnee. shared group identity that can be American human remains and On an unknown date, human remains reasonably traced between the Native associated funerary objects. The representing a minimum of five American human remains and National Park Service is not responsible individuals were removed from the associated funerary objects and the for the determinations in this notice. Hanna Larson Site (25PT1) in Platte Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. A detailed assessment of the human County, NE. The human remains were Representatives of any other Indian remains was made by Hastings Museum excavated from the yard of Wm. tribe that believes itself to be culturally of Natural and Cultural History Christman and donated by Mr. affiliated with the human remains and professional staff in consultation with Christman to the Hastings Museum in associated funerary objects should representatives of the Crow Tribe of 1944 (24733). No known individuals contact Teresa Kreutzer–Hodson, Montana; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; were identified. No associated funerary Hastings Museum of Natural and Otoe–Missouria Tribe of Indians, objects are present. Cultural History, 1330 N Burlington, PO Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma;

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