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affiliated with the associated funerary associated funerary objects. The junction of the two rivers in Kern object should contact Ben Simons, Chief National Park Service is not responsible County, CA. Three discrete bands, the Curator, Nantucket Historical for the determinations in this notice. Pahkanapil (living along the South Fork Association, P.O. Box 1016, Nantucket, A detailed assessment of the human Kern riverbanks), the Palagewan MA 02554, telephone (508) 228–1894, remains was made by Sequoia National (situated in the Kern River valley) and ext. 303, before April 14, 2011. Forest professional staff in consultation the Bankalachi (living a few miles west Repatriation of the human remains and with representatives of the Santa Rosa of the Palagewan in Yokut territory) associated funerary object to the Indian Community of the Santa Rosa compose the Tubatulabal (Smith 1978). Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Burial customs based on ethnographic on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe), and the Tule River Indian Tribe data illustrated that the dead were Tribe, Massachusetts; Wampanoag Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, buried in shallow graves approximately of Gay Head (Aquinnah) of California. 1⁄8 mile from the living quarters on Massachusetts; and the Assonet Band of In 1948, human remains representing rocky hillsides under shelving rocks the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, a minimum of three individuals were (Voegelin 1938). Geographic proximity a non-Federally recognized Indian removed from CA–KER–14, in Kern of CA–KER–14 to the various village group, may proceed after that date if no County, CA, by two archeologists hamlets noted in Voegelin’s work, and additional claimants come forward. conducting river basin surveys for the the archeological evidence that this The University of Massachusetts, Smithsonian Institute. The two sets of burial site was located in a rock shelter Department of Anthropology, and human remains and a single tooth from and close to another extensively used Nantucket Historical Association are a third individual and their associated site, indicates the strong possibility of a responsible for notifying the Mashpee artifacts were transferred to the Phoebe settlement correlation. Wampanoag Tribe, Massachusetts; Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Historical documentation, based on Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head early European travel accounts, tell of (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; and Berkeley, CA, for research and storage. While conducting NAGPRA inventories contact between the Tubatulabal and Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Francisco Garces when Garces Nation, Massachusetts, a non-Federally for the Sequoia National Forest, it was discovered that the CA–KER–14 journeyed to the lower reaches of the recognized Indian group, that this notice Kern Valley in 1776 (Smith 1978). has been published. collection was still in storage at the Phoebe Hearst Museum and it was Contacts with the Euro-Americans Dated: March 9, 2011. subsequently transferred to the Sequoia expanded in the form of trading trips Sherry Hutt, National Forest. Examination of the when the native people would travel to Manager, National NAGPRA Program. remains by Phoebe Hearst Museum staff the coast to trade with the coastal tribes and came into contact with the [FR Doc. 2011–5887 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] indicated that one set of human remains Spaniards at the missions. Between BILLING CODE 4312–50–P was from an adult male between 35 and 50 years of age. The second set of 1850 and 1858, white settlers moved human remains was from a female into the Kern Valley to seek gold and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR between 21 and 25 years of age. The established mining camps and towns, single tooth from a third individual was and when the gold rush ended, ranching National Park Service of indeterminate age and sex. No known became the next wave of economic development. With the intrusion into [2253–665] individuals were identified. The 23 associated funerary objects are 4 the Tubatulabal territory by white Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. obsidian points, 1 olivella shell bead, 1 settlers, some of the Pahkanapil moved Department of Agriculture, Forest lot of abalone shell fragments, 1 scraper from the Hot Springs Valley to the Service, Sequoia National Forest, manufactured from a historic brown eastern end of the South Fork Kern Porterville, CA glass whiskey bottle, 1 bone sewing awl Valley (Smith 1978). In 1863, a group of (non-human bone), 1 scapula bone tool about 40 Tubatulabal men were AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. scraper (non-human bone), 4 obsidian massacred by American soldiers ACTION: Notice. scrapers, 1 quartzite scraper, 1 green following white ranchers’ complaints chert point, 2 pottery sherds, 1 steatite that their cows were being stolen by the Notice is here given in accordance bead, 1 chopper, 1 thin chalcedony local tribe (Smith 1978). By 1875, most with the Native American Graves knife base with hafting adhesive of the Tubatulabal men worked for Protection and Repatriation Act attached, 1 large obsidian bifacial knife, white ranchers, and by 1893, the (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 1 steatite bowl fragment, and 1 large surviving Palagewan and Pahkanapil completion of an inventory of human grinding metate. bands were allotted land in the Kern remains and associated funerary objects The presence of a flaked scraper made and South Fork Kern Valleys in the possession and control of the U.S. from a historic brown whiskey bottle (Theodoratus 2009). From 1900 to 1972, Department of Agriculture, Forest would suggest a proto-historic or many Tubatulabal moved to adjacent Service, Sequoia National Forest, historic age for the remains. Tubatulabal tribes. Adjacent tribes with cultural Porterville, CA. The human remains and occupation for this time frame in the affiliation to these remains include the associated funerary objects were vicinity of CA–KER–14 is well Tule River Indian Reservation removed from Kern County, CA. documented through tribal oral tradition (established in 1873), north of the Kern This notice is published as part of the and formal ethnographic study. Valley region; the Paiute-Shoshone National Park Service’s administrative Ethnographic data places the CA– Indians of the Bishop Community of the responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 KER–14 site close to the village hamlets Bishop Colony (Bishop Tribe), east of U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in of the Tubatulabal (Voegelin 1938). The the Kern Valley Region; and the Santa this notice are the sole responsibility of habitation sites of the Tubatulabal once Rosa Indian Community of the Santa the museum, institution, or Federal spanned the drainage area of the Kern Rosa Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut agency that has control of the Native and South Fork Kern rivers from near Tribe), west of the Kern Valley (Smith American human remains and Mount Whitney to just below the 1978).

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Ethnohistorical and official funerary objects to the Tule River Indian Office, P.O. Box 30740, 702 W. documents link the inhabitants of the Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48909–8240, Kern and South Fork Kern river California; Paiute-Shoshone Indians of telephone (517) 373–4765. drainages to the Tule River Indian the Bishop Community of the Bishop SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Reservation; Tachi Yokut Tribe and the Colony, California; and the Santa Rosa here given in accordance with the Bishop Tribe. Based on the intrusion of Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Native American Graves Protection and white settlers in the valley of the Kern Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. River, which brought diseases and loss Tribe), may proceed after that date if no 3003, of the completion of an inventory of native cultures, many Tubatulabal left additional claimants come forward. of human remains and associated their land and sought refuge with the The Sequoia National Forest is funerary objects in the possession of the other native groups, such as the Yokuts responsible for notifying the Paiute- Office of the State Archaeologist, at the Tule River Indian Reservation and Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Michigan Historical Center, Lansing, MI. Tachi Tribe, as well as the Paiute of the Community of the Bishop Colony, The human remains and associated Bishop Tribe. It can be reasonably California; Santa Rosa Indian funerary objects were removed from concluded that the Tubatulabal Community of the Santa Rosa Fayette Historic State Park (20DE19), intermarried with the Yokut and Paiute Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Delta County, MI. in the Kern County region. Descendants Tribe); and the Tule River Indian Tribe This notice is published as part of the of these Yokuts and Paiutes are of the Tule River Reservation, National Park Service’s administrative members of the Federally-recognized California, that this notice has been responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule published. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). River Indian Reservation, California; Dated: March 9, 2011. The determinations in this notice are Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Sherry Hutt, the sole responsibility of the museum, Community of the Bishop Colony, California; and Santa Rosa Indian Manager, National NAGPRA Program. institution, or Federal agency that has Community of the Santa Rosa [FR Doc. 2011–5878 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] control of the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects. Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut BILLING CODE 4312–50–P Tribe). Finally, representatives of all The National Park Service is not three tribes provided documentation responsible for the determinations in including oral tradition that supported DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this notice. cultural affiliation. Consultation Officials of the Sequoia National National Park Service A detailed assessment of the human Forest have determined, pursuant to 25 [2253–665] U.S.C. 3001(9), that the human remains remains was made by the Office of the described above represent the physical Notice of Inventory Completion: Office State Archaeologist professional staff in remains of three individuals of Native of the State Archaeologist, Michigan consultation with representatives of the American ancestry. Officials of the Historical Center, Lansing, MI Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Sequoia National Forest also have Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills 3001(3)(A), that the 23 objects described ACTION: Notice. Indian Community, Michigan; Bois above are reasonably believed to have Forte Band (Nett Lake) of the Minnesota SUMMARY: The Office of the State Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Chippewa- been placed with or near individual Archaeologist, Michigan Historical human remains at the time of death or Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Center has completed an inventory of Reservation, Montana; Fond du Lac later as part of the death rite or human remains and associated funerary ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, objects, in consultation with the Minnesota; Grand Portage Band of the Sequoia National Forest also have appropriate Indian Tribes, and has determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; determined that there is no cultural Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and 3001(2), that there is a relationship of affiliation between the remains and shared group identity that can be Chippewa Indians, Michigan; associated funerary objects and any Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, reasonably traced between the Native present-day Indian Tribe. American human remains and Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Representatives of any Indian Tribe that associated funerary objects and the Tule Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of believes itself to be culturally affiliated River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of with the human remains and associated Reservation, California; Paiute- Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the funerary objects may contact the Office Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Lac du Flambeau Reservation of of the State Archaeologist, Michigan Community of the Bishop Colony, Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Historical Center. Disposition of the California; and the Santa Rosa Indian Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, human remains to the Indian Tribe Community of the Santa Rosa Michigan; Leech Lake Band of the stated below may occur if no additional Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; requestors come forward. Tribe). Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Representatives of any other Indian DATES: Representatives of any Indian Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of tribe that believes itself to be culturally Tribe that believes it has a cultural Odawa Indians, Michigan; Menominee affiliated with the human remains and affiliation with the human remains and/ Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Mille Lacs associated funerary objects should or associated funerary objects should Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, contact Karen Miller, Forest contact the Office of the State Minnesota; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Archeologist, Sequoia National Forest, Archaeologist, Michigan Historical Minnesota; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; 1839 South Newcomb St., Porterville, Center at the address below by April 14, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior CA 93257, telephone (559) 784–1500, 2011. Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red before April 14, 2011. Repatriation of ADDRESSES: Scott M. Grammer, Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, the human remains and associated Michigan State Historic Preservation Minnesota; St. Croix Chippewa Indians

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