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The Native American Graves the associated funerary objects to the ACTION: Notice. Protection and Repatriation Review Indian tribes listed above to the extent Committee (Review Committee) is allowed by Federal, state, or local law. Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves responsible for recommending specific Representatives of any other Indian Protection and Repatriation Act actions for disposition of culturally tribe that believes itself to be culturally unidentifiable human remains. In (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the affiliated with the human remains and completion of an inventory of human February 2009, the Museum of Cultural associated funerary objects should and Natural History requested that the remains and associated funerary objects contact Dr. Pamela Gates, NAGPRA in the possession of the Field Museum Review Committee recommend Representative, Museum of Cultural and disposition of the 144 culturally of Natural History, Chicago, IL. The Natural History, 103 Rowe Hall, Central human remains and associated funerary unidentifiable human remains and University, Mt. Pleasant, MI associated funerary objects. Supporters objects were removed from various 48859, telephone (989) 774–3341, before locations on the Hopi Indian of the disposition were the Bay Mills September 2, 2010. Disposition of the Indian Community, Michigan; Grand Reservation, Coconino County, AZ. human remains and associated funerary This notice is published as part of the Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa objects to the Bay Mills Indian National Park Service’s administrative Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Community, Michigan; Grand Traverse responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Indian Community, Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian this notice are the sole responsibility of Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert the museum, institution, or Federal Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Band of Lake Superior Chippewa agency that has control of the Native Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of American human remains and Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little associated funerary objects. The Traverse Bay Bands of Indians, Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, National Park Service is not responsible Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish for the determinations in this notice. Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Band of Pottawatomi Indians of A detailed assessment of the human Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Michigan; Saginaw Chippewa Indian remains was made by the Field Museum Indians, Michigan; Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie of Natural History professional staff in Indian Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan; consultation with representatives of the Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of and/or Wyandotte Nation, , Hopi Tribe of Arizona. Michigan; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; may proceed after that date if no In 1900, human remains representing and Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma. additional claimants come forward. a minimum of 71 individuals were According to documentation submitted The Museum of Cultural and Natural removed from Awatobi, Burned Corn by the museum, parties of the History is responsible for notifying the House, Chukuli, Mishongovi, Old disposition agreement were the Bay Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Mishongovi, Payapki, Kishuba, Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Shongopovi, and Sityatki, on the Hopi Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Indian Reservation, Coconino County, Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, AZ, by Charles L. Owen for the Field Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Museum of Natural History (Field Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Museum accession number 709). No Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Band of Lake Superior Chippewa known individuals were identified. The Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of 51 associated funerary objects are 5 Indians, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little ceramic jars, 26 bowls, 5 pots, 5 ladles, Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2 vases, 2 mugs, 2 beads, 1 figure, 1 Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish chert flake, 1 lot of paint, and 1 piki Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Band of Pottawatomi Indians of stone. Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi In 1901, human remains representing Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Indians, Michigan and ; Sac & a minimum of 180 individuals were Chippewa Indians of Michigan; and Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Saginaw removed from Old Walpi on the Hopi Wyandotte Nation, Oklahoma. Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Indian Reservation, Coconino County, The Review Committee considered Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa AZ, by Charles L. Owen for the Field the proposal at its May 23 - 24, 2009, Indians of Michigan; and Wyandotte Museum of Natural History (Field meeting and recommended disposition Nation, Oklahoma, that this notice has Museum accession numbers 769, 780). of the human remains and associated been published. No known individuals were identified. funerary objects to the Indian tribes. The Dated: July 26, 2010 The 100 associated funerary objects are Secretary of the Interior concurred with 30 ceramic jars, 26 bowls, 16 pots, 5 Sherry Hutt, the Review Committee’s bahos, 4 pitchers, 6 ladles, 3 vases, 2 recommendation. A September 16, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. mugs, 1 lot of stone images, 1 lot of 2009, letter on behalf of the Secretary of [FR Doc. 2010–19000 Filed 8–2–10; 8:45 am] stone slabs, 4 faunal remains, 1 bead, Interior from the Designated Federal BILLING CODE 4312–50–S and 1 seed. Official transmitted the authorization The human remains have been for the museum to effect disposition of identified as Native American based on the culturally unidentifiable human DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the burial context and the specific remains and associated funerary objects National Park Service cultural and geographic attribution in contingent on the publication of a Field Museum of Natural History Notice of Inventory Completion in the Notice of Inventory Completion: Field records. All of the remains were Federal Register. This notice fulfills Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL identified as ‘‘Hopi’’ from archeological that requirement. In the same letter, the sites on the Hopi Indian Reservation, Secretary recommended the transfer of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. AZ. ‘‘Hopi’’ descendants from the Hopi

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Indian Reservation are represented by Conservation, Division of Archaeology, located in Brentwood, Williamson the present-day Hopi Tribe of Arizona. Nashville, TN. The human remains and County, TN. In October 1920, William E. Officials of the Field Museum of associated funerary objects were Myer conducted the first recorded Natural History have determined that, removed from the Fewkes archeological exploration of this site for the pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the site (40WM1), Williamson County, TN. Smithsonian Institution. The results of human remains described above This notice is published as part of the this exploration were published in the represent the physical remains of 251 National Park Service’s administrative 41st Annual Report of the Bureau of individuals of Native American responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 American Ethnology (pages 561–615), in ancestry. Officials of the Field Museum U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). 1928. Myer recorded five mounds of Natural History also have determined The determinations in this notice are (platform and burial), an extensive that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the sole responsibility of the museum, habitation area, and numerous ‘‘stone- the 151 objects described above are institution, or Federal agency that has box’’ graves during his investigation. reasonably believed to have been placed control of the Native American human Among the recovered artifacts were with or near individual human remains remains and associated funerary objects. shell-tempered pottery jars, bowls, at the time of death or later as part of The National Park Service is not bottles, and pans. The recorded the death rite or ceremony. Officials of responsible for the determinations in earthworks, stone-box graves, and shell- the Field Museum of Natural History this notice. tempered ceramic vessels provide have determined that, pursuant to 25 A detailed assessment of the human unequivocal evidence that this site dates U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of remains was made by the Tennessee to the Mississippian period in middle shared group identity that can be Department of Environment and Tennessee, approximately A.D. 1000– reasonably traced between the Native Conservation, Division of Archaeology, 1475. Results from modern American human remains and professional staff in consultation with archeological investigations at the site associated funerary objects and the Hopi representatives of the Absentee- support this cultural assignment Tribe of Arizona. Tribe of Oklahoma; Alabama- (Tennessee Department of Representatives of any other Indian Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Transportation, 1995–1998; Middle tribe that believes itself to be culturally Nation, Oklahoma; Tennessee State University, 2004; and affiliated with the human remains and Nation, Oklahoma; Choctaw Nation of Tennessee Department of Environment associated funerary objects should Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee and Conservation, Division of contact Helen Robbins, Repatriation Indians of North Carolina; Eastern Archaeology, 2006). Director, Field Museum of Natural of Oklahoma; Kialegee Extensive archeological research History, 1400 South Lake Shore Dr., Tribal Town, Oklahoma; within the Middle Cumberland River Chicago, IL 60605–2496, telephone (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band valley has identified a virtual (312) 665–7317, before September 2, of Creek Indians, Alabama; abandonment of the area by native 2010. Repatriation of the human Tribe of Oklahoma; Nation of residents around A.D. 1450 (K. Smith remains and associated funerary objects Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; 1992; Moore et al. 2006; Moore and to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona may , Oklahoma; Smith 2009). This drastic population proceed after that date if no additional and the United Keetoowah Band of reduction has been studied as claimants come forward. Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma. supporting evidence for the ‘‘Vacant The Field Museum of Natural History In 1998, human remains representing Quarter’’ hypothesis (Williams 1990; is responsible for notifying the Hopi a minimum of 21 individuals were Cobb and Butler 2002). This hypothesis Tribe of Arizona that this notice has removed from the Fewkes archeological notes the general abandonment of been published. site (40WM1), in Williamson County, Mississippian sites within portions of TN, by a Tennessee Department of the , Mississippi, Tennessee, and Dated: July 26, 2010 Transportation contractor during a data Cumberland River drainages around Sherry Hutt, recovery excavation for a state-funded A.D. 1450–1550. Given the current level Manager, National NAGPRA Program. road improvement project. In August of archeological knowledge, and that [FR Doc. 2010–18990 Filed 8–2–10; 8:45 am] 1999, the individuals were transferred there are no tribal lands in Tennessee, BILLING CODE 4312–50–S from the Tennessee Department of officials of the Tennessee Department of Transportation contractor to the Environment and Conservation, Tennessee Department of Environment Division of Archaeology, are not able to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and Conservation, Division of identify the descendants of the Fewkes Archaeology. In February 2008, the site residents. National Park Service associated funerary objects were Officials of the Tennessee Department transferred. No known individuals were of Environment and Conservation, Notice of Inventory Completion: identified. The 17 associated funerary Division of Archaeology, have Tennessee Department of Environment objects are 2 ceramic earplugs, 1 determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. and Conservation, Division of ceramic earplug fragment, 1 ceramic 3001(2), a relationship of shared group Archaeology, Nashville, TN Beckwith Incised frog effigy jar, 1 identity cannot be reasonably traced AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ceramic human effigy hooded bottle, 1 between the Native American human ACTION: Notice. ceramic Matthews Incised frog effigy jar, remains and associated funerary objects 1 ceramic disk, 1 Clovis biface/preform, and any present-day Indian tribe. Notice is here given in accordance 2 Madison-style projectile points, 1 The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians with the Native American Graves Sand Mountain-style projectile point, 2 of North Carolina is the aboriginal land Protection and Repatriation Act greenstone celts, 1 shale gorget, 1 turkey tribe under 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the bone awl, 1 drilled dog tooth, and 1 according to the decision of the Indian completion of an inventory of human bone pin fragment. Claims Commission (Land Claim Map remains and associated funerary objects The Fewkes archeological site ι37). In addition, the , in the possession of the Tennessee (40WM1) is a late prehistoric Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Cherokee Department of Environment and Mississippian period mound center Indians of North Carolina; and the

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