Federal Register/Vol. 72, No. 243/Wednesday
Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 243 / Wednesday, December 19, 2007 / Notices 71949 individual were removed from a Skidi Oklahoma. The descendants of the ACTION: Notice. village near Genoa, Nance County, NE. Wichita are members of the Wichita and The human remains were donated to the Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco Notice is here given in accordance Hastings Museum by A.M. Brooking and & Tawakonie), Oklahoma. with the Native American Graves cataloged in 1942 (22316). No known The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Protection and Repatriation Act individual was identified. No associated Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent funerary objects were present. Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and to repatriate cultural items in the Numerous sites in Nance County are Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, possession of the Hastings Museum of attributed to a number of cultures, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma Natural and Cultural History (Hastings including Central Plains Tradition and have entered into an agreement that Museum), Hastings, NE that meet the historic Pawnee. This is also the human remains and funerary objects definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary location of the last land the Pawnee located between the Missouri River and objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. This notice is published as part of the Tribe occupied prior to moving to the Smokey Hill River shall be claimed National Park Service’s administrative Oklahoma. Museum officials have by the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 determined, based on museum records, Officials of the Hastings Museum that the human remains are likely U.S.C.
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