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52368 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 164 / Wednesday, August 25, 2010 / Notices individuals were identified. No remains and the Quapaw Tribe of SEL–010, an archeological site on associated funerary objects are present. Indians, Oklahoma. private land. No known individuals Based on the skeletal and dental Representatives of any other Indian were identified. No associated funerary morphology, as well as accession tribe that believes itself to be culturally objects are present. records, officials of the Memphis Pink affiliated with the human remains The Point West of Halibut Cove Site Palace Museum have determined that should contact Louella Weaver, dates to A.D. 1260 – A.D. 1418, and has the above-mentioned human remains Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 two components. The site includes a are Native American. Based on the Central Ave., Memphis, TN 38111, Precontact period Dena’ina house built ceramic styles and construction of telephone (901) 320–6322, before into a prehistoric Marine Kachemak pottery related to the sites, but that are September 24, 2010. Repatriation of the tradition (Sugpiaq Alutiiq tradition) not associated funerary objects, the human remains to the Quapaw Tribe of midden. Two burials were inside the human remains can be associated with Indians, Oklahoma, may proceed after midden. Once the crew determined that the Nodena, Parkin and Walls Phases of that date if no additional claimants they were human, the remains were the Late Mississippian and proto- come forward. covered and excavation in that area historic periods (A.D. 1350–1650). The Memphis Pink Palace Museum is ceased. No funerary artifacts were seen Oral traditional and archeological responsible for notifying the Quapaw or removed. The human remains from evidence indicate that the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, that this the excavation in the Pratt Museum are occupied and hunted in the central notice has been published. isolates from the middle of a midden that consisted of thousands of animal Mississippi Valley, including the Dated: August 19, 2010 bones and shell fragments, and some modern city of Memphis, TN, for David Tarler, generations prior to European contact. artifacts. As the human remains do not Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. comprise a burial, these artifacts are not Historical documentation identifies [FR Doc. 2010–21186 Filed 8–4–10; 8:45 am] Quapaw villages located on both sides considered to be funerary objects. BILLING CODE 4312–50–S In the 1970s, human remains of the Mississippi River in the Central representing a minimum of one Mississippi Valley as early as the mid– individual were removed from 1500s. Based on historical and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Kachemak Bay, AK. No known archeological evidence, the Bradley site individual was identified. No associated (3CT7) has been identified as Pacaha, National Park Service funerary objects are present. the principal town of the Pacaha In the 1980s, human remains Notice of Inventory Completion: Homer chiefdom during the DeSoto entrada in representing a minimum of one Society of Natural History, Pratt Arkansas (A.D. 1541–1543). Linguistic individual were removed from the Museum, Homer, AK evidence indicates a possible link surface of a beach on Kachemak Bay, between the ‘‘Capaha’’ (a.k.a. Pacaha) in AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. AK, by a private individual. The human a Spanish account, and a late 17th ACTION: Notice. remains were given to the education century Quapaw Indian village name department, but were never ‘‘Kappaha’’ or ‘‘Kappa.’’ French maps and Notice is here given in accordance accessioned. In 2010, the human documents (A.D. 1673–1720), indicate with the Native American Graves remains were found in the education that only the Quapaw had villages on Protection and Repatriation Act department’s collection. No known both sides of the Mississippi River in (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the individual was identified. No associated eastern Arkansas and western completion of an inventory of human funerary objects are present. Mississippi, and much of northeastern remains in the possession of the Homer In the 1990s, human remains Arkansas was hunting territory. Society of Natural History, Pratt representing a minimum of one Therefore, the sites are within the Museum, Homer, AK. The human individual were removed from near traditional territory of the Quapaw. remains were removed from Kachemak Cottonwood Creek Bluff, Kachemak Bay, Descendants of the Quapaw are Bay, AK. AK, by a private individual. No known members of the Quapaw Tribe of This notice is published as part of the individual was identified. No associated Indians, Oklahoma. Finally, the Quapaw National Park Service’s administrative funerary objects are present. Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, under the responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 The archeological and documentary NAGPRA process, have previously U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in evidence are in agreement that the repatriated Native American human this notice are the sole responsibility of Kachemak Bay was used by both the remains and associated funerary objects, the museum, institution, or Federal ancestors of the Seldovia Village and have been determined to be agency that has control of the Native (Dena’ina Athabascan and Sugpiaq culturally affiliated with the cultural American human remains. The National Alutiiq) and Kenaitze Indian (Dena’ina assemblages fround on archeological Park Service is not responsible for the Athabascan) tribal members. Kachemak sites related to Nodena, Parkin and determinations in this notice. Bay is the historically documented Walls phases. A detailed assessment of the human territory of both the Seldovia Village Officials of the Memphis Pink Palace remains was made by Pratt Museum Tribe and Kenaitze Indian Tribe. Museum have determined that, professional staff in consultation with Officials of the Pratt Museum have pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the representatives of the Kenaitze Indian determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. human remains described above Tribe and the Seldovia Village Tribe. 3001(9), the human remains described represent the physical remains of 17 above represent the physical remains of individuals of Native American In the summers of 1987 and 1988, eight individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the Memphis Pink human remains representing five ancestry. Officials of the Pratt Museum Palace Museum also have determined individuals were removed from the also have determined that, pursuant to that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), Point West of Halibut Cove Site (SEL– 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship there is a relationship of shared group 010), formally known as Calhoun’s of shared group identity that can be identity that can be reasonably traced Point, in Kachemak Bay, AK. The Pratt reasonably traced between the Native between the Native American human Museum sponsored the excavation of American human remains and the VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:48 Aug 24, 2010 Jkt 220001 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1 srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 164 / Wednesday, August 25, 2010 / Notices 52369 Kenaitze Indian Tribe and Seldovia in the vicinity of the city of The Dalles, U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the one object Village Tribe. Wasco County, OR, by Alonzo Hancock. described above is reasonably believed Representatives of any other Indian Mr. Hancock removed the remains after to have been placed with or near tribe that believes itself to be culturally they had been excavated during individual human remains at the time of affiliated with the Native American construction work on the south side of death or later as part of the death rite human remains should contact Dr. a roadcut. The exact location of the road or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Cusack-McVeigh, Pratt Museum, 3779 is unclear from museum records. Mr. Oregon Museum of Science and Bartlett St., Homer, AK 99603, Hancock donated the human remains to Industry have determined that, pursuant telephone (907) 235–8635, ext. 36, the Oregon Museum of Science and to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a before September 24, 2010. Repatriation Industry in 1946. No known individual relationship of shared group identity of the human remains to the Kenaitze was identified. No associated funerary that can be reasonably traced between Indian Tribe and the Seldovia Village objects are present. the Native American human remains Tribe may proceed after that date if no The human remains have been and associated funerary object and the additional claimants come forward. identified as Native American based on Confederated Tribes of the Warm The Pratt Museum is responsible for observable dental traits and museum Springs Reservation of Oregon and the notifying the Kenaitze Indian Tribe and documentation that refers to the human Confederated Tribes and Bands of the the Seldovia Village Tribe that this remains as ‘‘Chinook.’’ Yakama Indian Nation, Washington. notice has been published. In the 1930s, human remains Representatives of any other Indian representing a minimum of one Dated: August 19, 2010 tribe that believes itself to be culturally individual were removed from an area David Tarler, affiliated with the human remains and in the vicinity of the city of The Dalles, associated funerary object should Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Wasco County, OR, by an unknown contact Lori Erickson, Curator, Oregon [FR Doc. 2010–21190 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] individual. The exact location of the Museum of Science and Industry, 1945 BILLING CODE 4312–50–S area is unclear from museum records. SE Water Ave., Portland, OR 97214, The human remains were donated to the telephone (503) 797–4582, before Oregon Museum of Science and September 24, 2010. Repatriation of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Industry by an unknown individual human remains and associated funerary sometime between the 1940s and the National Park Service object to the Confederated Tribes of the 1970s.