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Between 1890 and 1900, human Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Tribes of the Colville Reservation, remains representing a minimum of two Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) Washington. individuals were removed from 496–3702, before April 16, 2007. In 1908, human remains representing Watson’s Hill, south side of Town Repatriation of the human remains to a minimum of one individual were Brook, in Plymouth, Plymouth County, the Wampanoag Repatriation removed from Winthrop in Okanogan MA, by the Douglas family while the Confederation on behalf of the County, WA, by CPT Frank Lord. In family was digging a cellar for their Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head 1910, the human remains were received house. The human remains were (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; Assonet from Captain Lord and accessioned by transferred to Dr. George H. Jackson of Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a non- the Burke Museum (Burke Accn. No. Plymouth at an unknown date. In 1939, federally recognized Indian group; and 242). No known individual was the human remains were donated to the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe, a identified. No associated funerary Peabody Museum of Archaeology and non-federally recognized Indian group objects are present. Ethnology by Dr. Jackson through the may proceed after that date if no The human remains had previously Pilgrim Society of Plymouth. No known additional claimants come forward. been identified non- Native American. individuals were identified. No The Peabody Museum of Archaeology However, after further review, the associated funerary objects are present. and Ethnology is responsible for preponderance of the evidence Osteological characteristics indicate notifying the Wampanoag Repatriation identifies the human remains as Native that the individuals are Native Confederation, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay American. The original donor identified American. The interments most likely Head (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; the human remains as ‘‘Indian’’. The date to the Late Woodland period or Assonet Band of the Wampanoag majority of the osteological evidence later (post-A.D. 1000). Historical Nation, a non-federally recognized identified by physical anthropologists documentation, as well as information Indian group; and Mashpee Wampanoag determined that the human remains are from the Pilgrim Society, describes Indian Tribe, a non-federally recognized Native American. Watson’s Hill as a known Late Indian group that this notice has been According to early and late Woodland (A.D. 1000–1500) and published. ethnographic documentation the Historic/Contact period (post-A.D. 1500) Methow Tribe are the aboriginal Native American site. Oral tradition and Dated: January 30, 2007 occupants of the Winthrop area (Miller historical documentation also indicate Sherry Hutt, 1998; Mooney 1896; Ray 1936; Spier that Plymouth is within the aboriginal National NAGPRA Program. 1936). The Colville Reservation was and historic homeland of the [FR Doc. E7–4727 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] established by Executive Order in 1872 Wampanoag Nation. The present-day BILLING CODE 4312–50–S for Methow Tribe and other tribes. The tribes that are most closely affiliated Moses Columbia Reservation was later with the Wampanoag Nation are the established in 1879 and also included Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR members of the Methow Tribe. In 1886, (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts; Assonet the Moses Columbia Reservation was Band of the Wampanoag Nation, a non- National Park Service disbanded and the residents were federally recognized Indian group; and moved to the Colville Reservation. Notice of Inventory Completion: Descendants of the Methow Tribe are Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribe, a Thomas Burke Memorial Washington non-federally recognized Indian group. members of the Confederated Tribes of State Museum, University of Officials of the Peabody Museum of the Colville Reservation, Washington. Washington, Seattle, WA Archaeology and Ethnology have Officials of the Burke Museum have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains ACTION: Notice. 3001 (9–10), the human remains described above represent the physical described above represent the physical remains of two individuals of Native Notice is here given in accordance remains of one individual of Native American ancestry. Officials of the with the Native American Graves American ancestry. Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Protection and Repatriation Act Burke Museum also have determined Ethnology also have determined that, (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is completion of an inventory of human there is a relationship of shared group a relationship of shared group identity remains in the possession of the Thomas identity that can be reasonably traced that can be reasonably traced between Burke Memorial Washington State between the Native American human the Native American human remains Museum (Burke Museum), University of remains and the Confederated Tribes of and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Washington, Seattle, WA. The human the Colville Reservation, Washington. (Aquinnah) of Massachusetts. remains were removed from Okanogan Representatives of any other Indian Furthermore, officials of the Peabody County, WA. tribe that believes itself to be culturally Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology This notice is published as part of the affiliated with the human remains have determined that there is a cultural National Park Service’s administrative should contact Dr. Peter Lape, Burke relationship between the human responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Museum, University of Washington, Box remains and the Assonet Band of the U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 353010, Seattle, WA 98195–3010, Wampanoag Nation, a non-federally in this notice are the sole responsibility telephone (206) 685–2282, before April recognized Indian group, and Mashpee of the museum, institution, or Federal 16, 2007. Repatriation of the human Wampanoag Indian Tribe, a non- agency that has control of the Native remains to the Confederated Tribes of federally recognized Indian group. American human remains. The National the Colville Reservation, Washington Representatives of any other Indian Park Service is not responsible for the may proceed after that date if no tribe that believes itself to be culturally determinations in this notice. additional claimants come forward. affiliated with the human remains A detailed assessment of the human The Burke Museum is responsible for should contact Patricia Capone, remains was made by Burke Museum notifying the Confederated Tribes of the Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody professional staff in consultation with Colville Reservation, Washington that Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, representatives of the Confederated this notice has been published.

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Dated: January 26, 2007. temporary abandonment during the material culture of their shared Sherry Hutt, Pueblo I period, approximately A.D. 750 relationship. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. - 900. Based on the general continuity Archeological, historical and [FR Doc. E7–4732 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] in the material culture and the linguistic evidence presently points to Navajo migration to the Yellow Jacket BILLING CODE 4312–50–S architecture of these sites, it appears that the community that lived in this and Monument Ruin area after A.D. area had long-standing ties to the region 1300. During consultation, the Navajo DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and returned to sites even after Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah migrations away from the locale that emphasized their long presence in the National Park Service lasted more than one hundred years. Four Corners and their origin in this However, by the late 13th century, both area, but there is not a preponderance of Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural the Yellow Jacket sites and the nearby the evidence to support Navajo cultural Items: University of Colorado Museum, Mesa Verde region showed no evidence affiliation. Boulder, CO of human habitation. The sites are not Based on a preponderance of used again until the 1920s when the evidence, including oral tradition, AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. locale was homesteaded and farmed. folklore, linguistic, geographic, ACTION: Notice. The archeological evidence supports archeology, historical, and scientific identification with Basketmaker and studies, cultural affiliation can be traced Notice is here given in accordance later Pueblo (Hisatsinom, Ancestral between the 68 unassociated funerary with the Native American Graves Puebloan, or Anasazi) cultures, which objects and modern Puebloan peoples. Protection and Repatriation Act prehistorically occupied southwestern Modern Puebloan peoples are members (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent Colorado. Both Basketmaker and Pueblo of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of to repatriate cultural items in the occupations are represented in the Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, possession of the University of Colorado archeology at the Yellow Jacket site. New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Museum, Boulder, CO, that meet the Archeologists have noted in the Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary scientific literature the striking Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. similarity between the technology and of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of This notice is published as part of the style of material culture of 13th century Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of National Park Service’s administrative archeological sites in southwestern Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Colorado and the material culture Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations remains of 14th century Puebloan sites Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San in this notice are the sole responsibility in Arizona and New Mexico. Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, of the museum, institution, or Federal Oral-tradition evidence, which New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New agency that has control of the cultural consists of migration stories, clan Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New items. The National Park Service is not histories, and origin stories, was Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New responsible for the determinations in provided by representatives of the Hopi Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; this notice. Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo Between 1954 and 1990, cultural Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of of Zia, New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur items were legally excavated on private Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the land near Yellow Jacket Pueblo (5MT5), New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. Montezuma County, CO, by Dr. Joe Ben Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Officials of the University of Colorado Wheat, during University of Colorado Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo Museum have determined that, Museum sponsored archeological field of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 68 schools. The excavated cultural items Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San cultural items described above are were collected from graves and legally Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, reasonably believed to have been placed transferred to the museum each season. New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, with or near individual human remains The human remains were not collected New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New at the time of death or later as part of due to deterioration or other Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New the death rite or ceremony and are circumstances. The 68 cultural items are Mexico; Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur, New believed, by a preponderance of the 66 ceramic items (whole vessels, broken Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and evidence, to have been removed from a vessels, and sherd lots), 1 stone ax, and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New specific burial site of an Native 1 bone awl. Mexico. Folkloric evidence in the form American individual. Officials of the The three habitation sites, identified of songs was provided by tribal University of Colorado Museum also on the National Register of Historic representatives of the Pueblo of Acoma, have determined that, pursuant to 25 Places as the Joe Ben Wheat Site New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship Complex, are at the head of Yellow Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; of shared group identity that can be Jacket Canyon to the west of Tatum Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; and reasonably traced between the Draw and southwest of the very large Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico. unassociated funerary objects and the archeological site, Yellow Jacket Pueblo. Tribal representatives of the Pueblo of Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of The Yellow Jacket burials were Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, predominantly single interments, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New appearing in a wide variety of locations, New Mexico; and Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; including abandoned rooms and kivas, Mexico provided linguistic evidence Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo storage pits, subfloor burial pits, rooted in place names. Pueblo of of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of extramural burial pits, and middens. Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of The habitation sites were occupied at New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San various times during the Basketmaker New Mexico; and Pueblo of Santa Clara, Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San III, Pueblo II, and Pueblo III periods, New Mexico provided archeological Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San approximately A.D. 550 - 1250, with a evidence based on architecture and Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia,

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