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434 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 2 / Tuesday, January 5, 2010 / Notices Nation of New York; Oneida Tribe of donated to the Burke Museum in 1955 people and other tribes in the area. As Indians of Wisconsin; Onondaga Nation (Burke Accn. #3979). No known human per the terms of the 1855 Point Elliot of New York; Seneca Nation of New remains are associated with the objects. Treaty, the Sammamish were assigned York; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of The 124 unassociated funerary objects to go to the Tulalip Reservation. Many Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, are 12 copper bracelets, 1 decorative Sammamish people chose not to New York; Tonawanda Band of Seneca brass clip, 4 glass beads, 15 brass relocate to the Tulalip Reservation. The Indians of New York; and Tuscarora buttons, 1 brass thimble, 1 can of Sammamish people are represented by Nation of New York, that this notice has vermillion, 89 trade beads, and 1 the present-day Muckleshoot Indian been published. blanket fragment. Tribe of the Muckleshoot Reservation, In 1892, an unassociated funerary Dated: November 25, 2009. Washington; Snoqualmie Tribe, object was removed from Bryn Mawr, Sherry Hutt, King County, WA. The funerary object Washington; Suquamish Indian Tribe of Manager, National NAGPRA Program. was collected by Frank E. Fuller and the Port Madison Reservation, [FR Doc. E9–31223 Filed 1–4–10; 8:45 am] donated to the Burke Museum by the Washington; and Tulalip Tribes of the BILLING CODE 4312–50–S Washington World’s Fair Commission Tulalip Reservation, Washington. in 1893 (Burke Accn. #1119). No known Officials of the Burke Museum have human remains are associated with the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR object. The one unassociated funerary 3001 (3)(B), the 137 cultural items object is a metal knife with incised bone National Park Service described above are reasonably believed handle. to have been placed with or near Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural The funerary objects were removed individual human remains at the time of Items: Thomas Burke Memorial from the area surrounding Lake death or later as part of the death rite Washington primarily on the southern Washington State Museum, University or ceremony and are believed, by a end. This area falls within the Southern of Washington, Seattle, WA preponderance of the evidence, to have Lushootseed language group of Salish been removed from a specific burial site AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. cultures. The Duwamish people of an Native American individual. ACTION: Notice. primarily occupied this area, specifically the Lake people (Swanton Officials of the Burke Museum also have Notice is here given in accordance 1952:423). In the 1870s, as the City of determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. with the Native American Graves Seattle developed, the Lake people were 3001 (2), there is a relationship of Protection and Repatriation Act pushed out to other areas, including the shared group identity that can be (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent Muckleshoot, Suquamish, and Tulalip reasonably traced between the to repatriate cultural items in the reservations. The Lake people also unassociated funerary objects and the possession of the Thomas Burke joined the Snoqualmie people on Lake Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Memorial Washington State Museum Sammamish and in the Snoqualmie Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; (Burke Museum), University of River drainage (Miller and Blukis Onat Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; Washington, Seattle, WA, that meet the 2004:109). Descendants of the Lake Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary people are members of the present-day Madison Reservation, Washington; and objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip This notice is published as part of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; Reservation, Washington. National Park Service’s administrative Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Representatives of any other Indian U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Madison Reservation, Washington; and tribe that believes itself to be culturally in this notice are the sole responsibility Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip affiliated with the unassociated funerary of the museum, institution, or Federal Reservation, Washington. objects should contact Dr. Peter Lape, agency that has control of the cultural In 1923, unassociated funerary objects Burke Museum, University of items. The National Park Service is not were found near Kirkland, King County, Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA responsible for the determinations in WA. The objects were found under the 98195–3010, telephone (206) 685–3849, this notice. roots of a tree and sent by Mrs. Loyal C. before February 4, 2010. Repatriation of In 1965, human remains representing Wright to Professor Meany of the the unassociated funerary objects to the a minimum of one individual were University of Washington. Prof. Meany Muckleshoot Indian Tribe of the removed from south of the International subsequently transferred the objects to Muckleshoot Reservation, Washington; District in Seattle, King County, WA. the Burke Museum in 1923 (Burke Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington; The human remains were transferred Accn. ι2022). No known human remains Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port from the King County Coroner’s Office are associated with the objects. The six Madison Reservation, Washington; and to the Burke Museum in 1965 (Burke unassociated funerary objects are four Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip Accn. #1966–77). All human remains glass beads, one copper bracelet, and Reservation, Washington may proceed are now missing. No known individual one brass button. after that date if no additional claimants was identified. The six unassociated The above-mentioned funerary objects come forward. funerary objects are one infant bracelet, were removed from the northeastern two metal spoons, one brass button, one shores of Lake Washington south of the The Burke Museum is responsible for woman’s shoe, and one glass ketchup mouth of the Sammamish River. This notifying the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe bottle. area falls within the Southern of the Muckleshoot Reservation, Before 1955, unassociated funerary Lushootseed language group of Salish Washington; Snoqualmie Tribe, objects were found between Bellevue cultures. The Sammamish people Washington; Suquamish Indian Tribe of and Renton in King County, WA. The primarily occupied this area (Ruby and the Port Madison Reservation, objects were found during road Brown 1986, Suttles and Lane 1990, Washington; and Tulalip Tribes of the construction and collected by Mrs. Swanton 1952). The Sammamish people Tulalip Reservation, Washington that Willa W. Mylroie. The objects were were closely related to the Duwamish this notice has been published. VerDate Nov<24>2008 16:41 Jan 04, 2010 Jkt 220001 PO 00000 Frm 00099 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05JAN1.SGM 05JAN1 srobinson on DSKHWCL6B1PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 2 / Tuesday, January 5, 2010 / Notices 435 Dated: November 25, 2009 The human remains were accessioned Islands back 7,000 to 9,000 years. Sherry Hutt, into the Field Museum of Natural Geographical, archeological, and oral Manager, National NAGPRA Program. History the same year. No known history evidence indicate a shared group [FR Doc. E9–31220 Filed 1ndash;4–10; 8:45 individual was identified. No associated identity between these human remains am] funerary objects are present. from San Miguel, San Nicolas, and BILLING CODE 4312–50–S In 1897, human remains were Santa Catalina Islands and the Santa removed from San Nicolas Island, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians Barbara County, CA, by A.B. Chappell. of the Santa Ynez Reservation, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Later that year, the Field Museum of California, the present-day tribe most Natural History purchased human closely associated with the prehistoric National Park Service remains representing a minimum of one and historic Chumash Indians. individual from that removal from A.B. Officials of the Field Museum of Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Chappell (Field Museum of Natural Natural History have determined that, Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL History catalog number 42705, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. accession number 522). The human human remains described above are ACTION: Notice. remains were accessioned into the Field reasonably believed to be the physical Museum of Natural History the same remains of 14 individuals of Native Notice is here given in accordance year. No known individual was American ancestry. Officials of the Field with the Native American Graves identified. No associated funerary Museum of Natural History also have Protection and Repatriation Act objects are present. determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the In 1904, F.H. Sellers donated human 3001 (2), there is a relationship of completion of an inventory of human remains representing a minimum shared group identity that can be remains in the possession of the Field number of two individuals to the Field reasonably traced between the Native Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL. Museum of Natural History (Field American human remains and the Santa The human remains were removed from Museum of Natural History catalog Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians the Channel Islands in Santa Barbara numbers 42715 and 42716,