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the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; on verified original collection history, Notice is here given in accordance Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; documented tribal identification in with the Native American Graves and Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the early records with the human remains, Protection and Repatriation Act Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and written and scholarly accounts of (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.8 (f), of the intent Montana. scalping and Arapaho presence at the to repatriate cultural items in the According to museum records, in Sand Creek Massacre, the human possession of the State Historical 1864, human remains representing one remains are most likely to be culturally Society of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, that meet individual were removed from the site affiliated with the Arapahoe Tribe of the the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary of the Sand Creek Massacre along Big Wind River Reservation, Wyoming and objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. Sandy Creek, about 50 miles north of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of This notice is published as part of the the current city of Lamar, Kiowa Oklahoma. National Park Service’s administrative County, CO, by William B. Jacobs. The Officials of the Denver Museum of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR human remains are a scalp. At an Nature & Science have determined that, 10.8 (f). The determinations within this unknown date, the human remains pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the notice are the sole responsibility of the became part of the George A. Cuneo human remains listed above represent museum, institution, or Federal agency collection. No information regarding the the physical remains of one individual that has control of the cultural items. transfer from Mr. Jacobs to Mr. Cuneo is of Native American ancestry. Officials of The National Park Service is not known. The Cuneo collection consisted the Denver Museum of Nature & Science responsible for the determinations primarily of historic Southwestern and also have determined that, pursuant to within this notice. The 415 cultural items are 272 Plains Indian objects that Mr. Cuneo 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a chipped and ground stone tools, flakes, collected during the late 19th and early relationship of shared group identity and debris; 1 unmodified stone; 4 20th centuries. Mr. Cuneo’s collection that can be reasonably traced between catlinite and limestone pipes; 4 pieces was on loan to the Denver Art Museum the Native American human remains of worked hematite; 15 ceramic pots and from 1937 to 1956. Mr. Cuneo died in and the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind 1939 and the collection remained at the 7 ceramic sherds; 1 metal bead; 11 metal River Reservation, Wyoming and the Denver Art Museum under the control ornaments; 5 iron tools and fragments; Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. of his estate. Mr. Cuneo’s estate sold 1 copper tool; 7 copper bracelets; 1 part of the collection, including this Representatives of any other Indian copper ear pendant; 1 copper snake; 5 scalp, to Mr. Eric Kohlberg of Kohlberg’s tribe that believes itself to be culturally copper tubes; 20 copper beads; 1 piece Antiques and Indian Arts in Denver, CO affiliated with the human remains of worked bone; 15 worked bone beads; in 1956. Later in 1956, Mary W. A. should contact Dr. Ella Maria Ray, 19 worked bone tools; 1 worked bone Crane and Francis V. Crane purchased NAGPRA Officer, Department of whistle; 8 pieces of unworked animal the human remains from Mr. Kohlberg. Anthropology, Denver Museum of bone; 1 piece of sinew from a necklace; The Cranes donated the human remains Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado 3 clamshell spoons; 1 piece of worked to the museum in 1972, which Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, shell; 2 shell beads; and 9 glass beads accessioned the human remains into the telephone (303) 370–6056, before April and fragments. collection the same year. Accompanying 26, 2004. Repatriation of the human In 1930, Dr. F.J. Becker, a collector of the human remains was a card written remains to the Arapahoe Tribe of the archeological materials from Iowa sites, in the hand of George A. Cuneo stating Wind River Reservation, Wyoming and donated a portion of his collection to that William B. Jacobs took the scalp the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of the State Historical Society of Iowa. from an Arapaho chief at the Sand Creek Oklahoma may proceed after that date if Among the items in the collection were Massacre, November 29, 1864. The no additional claimants come forward. two cultural items that, according to Arapaho individual’s name is not The Denver Museum of Nature museum documentation, were found in documented. No known individual was &Science is responsible for notifying the a grave in the Upper Iowa River valley, identified. No associated funerary Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Allamakee County, northeastern Iowa objects are present. Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne- (Site 13AMOq). The two cultural items Based on museum records and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; and are a single tubular copper bead with a historical accounts of the Sand Creek Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the short length of braided sinew preserved Massacre, the human remains are Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, inside it. According to museum determined to be Native American. A Montana that this notice has been documentation, the bead was the largest William B. Jacobs is listed among the published. of a number of beads forming a necklace. The State Historical Society of members of Colonel John Chivington’s Dated: January 22, 2004. 3rd Regiment of Colorado Volunteer Iowa is not in possession of the human John Robbins, Cavalry, which attacked the sleeping remains from this burial. Cheyenne and a few Arapaho at the tipi Assistant Director, Cultural Resources. The exact location of the burial site is camp at Sand Creek. The event is [FR Doc. 04–6654 Filed 3–24–04; 8:45 am] not known, but two factors suggest that documented in several historical BILLING CODE 4310–50–S the grave may have been an Oneota sources, and eyewitness accounts verify interment. The site is in an area of that cavalry members took Indian known Oneota habitation and cemetery scalps. Consultations held with the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR sites, and the style and method of Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River manufacture of the bead, as well as its National Park Service Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne- excellent state of preservation, suggest Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; and Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural that it dates to the protohistoric or early Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Items: State Historical Society of Iowa, Historic/Contact period. Evidence Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Iowa City, IA presented during consultation indicates Montana corroborate that tribal histories that the cultural items from the site are place Cheyenne and some Arapaho AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. consistent with Oneota material culture individuals at the site and as victims of and that the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; ACTION: Notice. the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. Based Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; and

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Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, protohistoric and historic Oneota In 1936, Ellison Orr recovered 42 Oklahoma are the present-day tribes culture. cultural items during excavations on most closely affiliated with the In 1934, Ellison Orr and Charles behalf of the State Historical Society of protohistoric and historic Oneota Keyes undertook excavations on behalf Iowa at Burke’s Mound (13AM67), a culture. of the State Historical Society of Iowa at cemetery site on the north side of Bear In two donations in 1933 and 1947, the Elephant Terrace site (13AM59), on Creek about a mile west of its Ellison Orr donated his collection, the north side of the Upper Iowa River, confluence with the Upper Iowa River, known as the Orr Donation, to the State Allamakee County, IA. Mr. Orr and Mr. Allamakee County, IA. Records indicate Historical Society of Iowa. Some of the Keyes recovered 18 cultural items that Mr. Orr was also given 9 cultural materials were collected by Mr. Orr during excavations in 1934, and Mr. Orr items from this site by various during excavations he conducted in the obtained 2 cultural items from an collectors. The 51 cultural items are 24 1930s under the direction of Charles R. unnamed individual who reported ground and chipped stone tools, 2 Keyes. Museum documentation having taken them from a burial at this worked hematite pieces, 1 limestone indicates that 53 cultural items were site. The 20 cultural items are 18 pipe, 3 shell-tempered ceramic pots, 7 recovered from burials in Iowa, chipped and ground stone tools and metal spiral ear ornaments, 1 copper although the specific location of the flakes; 1 shell-tempered ceramic pot; bead, 4 bone awls, 1 bison rib shaft burials is unknown. The 53 cultural and 1 copper awl. The State Historical straightener, 4 bone beads, 1 shell bead, items are 18 chipped stone tools and Society of Iowa is not in possession of and 3 clamshell spoons. The State flakes, 2 catlinite pipes, 1 hematite the human remains from these burials. Historical Society of Iowa, Keyes ornament, 4 shell-tempered ceramic The Elephant Terrace site includes a Collection is not in possession of the pots, 1 shell-tempered ceramic sherd; 7 Woodland-period habitation site and an human remains from these burials. copper bracelets, 1 copper ear pendant, Oneota village with an associated Archeological evidence indicates that 1 copper snake, 1 copper bead; 3 copper cemetery. On the basis of typology and the Burke’s Mound site is an Oneota tubes, 1 metal bead, 2 metal spiral ear style, the ceramic pot and the chert cemetery. Evidence presented during ornaments, 4 bone beads; 2 bone shaft knife are identifiable as Oneota. consultation indicates that the cultural straighteners, 3 antler points; and 2 Evidence presented during consultation items from this site are consistent with cervid phalanges. The State Historical indicates that the cultural items from Oneota material culture and that the Society of Iowa is not in possession of this site are consistent with Oneota Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- the human remains from this burial. material culture and that the Iowa Tribe Evidence presented during Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and consultation indicates that the cultural are the present-day tribes most closely Nebraska; and Otoe-Missouria Tribe of items in the Orr Donation are consistent affiliated with the protohistoric and Indians, Oklahoma are the present-day with Oneota material culture and that historic Oneota culture. the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe tribes most closely affiliated with the In 1936, during excavations of Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- protohistoric and historic Oneota conducted by Ellison Orr on behalf of Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma culture. the State Historical Society of Iowa at are the present-day tribes most closely In 1896, Ellison Orr recovered five Hogback Mound Group (13AM86), 119 affiliated with the protohistoric and cultural items from Woolstrom cemetery cultural items were recovered. The historic Oneota culture. (13AM61), Allamakee County, IA, and Hogback Mound Group is located donated them to the State Historical between the Upper Iowa River and Bear In 1934, during excavations Society in 1933. In 1936, Mr. Orr Creek, Allamakee County, IA. The 119 undertaken by Ellison Orr, under the recovered an additional four cultural cultural items, which were recovered direction of Charles R. Keyes, on behalf items from the same site, and at an from Oneota burial contexts, are 103 of the State Historical Society of Iowa, unknown date, he received one cultural chipped and ground stone tools, flakes, at the O’Regan Terrace site (13AM21), item from an unknown individual, and debris; 1 limestone pipe; 1 metal Allamakee County, northeastern Iowa, which also came from Woolstrom spiral ear ornament; 1 worked antler 76 cultural items were removed from cemetery. The 10 cultural items are 3 tine; 1 bone arrow shaft straightener; 1 burials. The 76 cultural items are 38 chipped and ground stone tools, 3 bone bone awl; 6 bone beads; 1 shell bead; 1 chipped and ground stone tools, flakes, awls, 1 bone whistle, 1 piece of worked worked clamshell; and 3 glass beads. and debris; 1 unmodified stone; 4 shell- bone, 1 bird bone, and 1 cervid phalanx. The State Historical Society of Iowa is tempered ceramic pots; 2 iron knives; 3 The State Historical Society of Iowa is not in possession of the human remains pieces of iron; 18 copper tubes beads; 1 not in possession of human remains from these burials. metal spiral ear ornament; 2 bone awls; from these burials. The Hogback Mound Group site 1 bison or elk scapula hoe; and 6 glass The Woolstrom cemetery site is one of contains mounds that were constructed bead fragments. The State Historical several cemeteries along Bear Creek, a during the late Middle Woodland period Society of Iowa is not in possession of major tributary of the Upper Iowa River, (circa A.D. 200–400), but were the human remains from these burials. Allamakee County, IA, that Mr. Keyes, subsequently used as burial sites for The O’Regan Terrace site has been Mr. Orr, and others identified as Oneota Oneota people living in the area in the identified as an Oneota village and on the basis of material culture and site early Historic/Contact period. Evidence cemetery on the basis of material culture typology. Evidence presented during presented during consultation indicates and site typology. Evidence presented consultation indicates that the cultural that the cultural items from this site are during consultation indicates that the items from this site are consistent with consistent with Oneota material culture cultural items from this site are Oneota material culture and that the and that the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; consistent with Oneota material culture Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; and and that the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; and Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma Oklahoma are the present-day tribes Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, are the present-day tribes most closely most closely affiliated with the Oklahoma are the present-day tribes affiliated with the protohistoric and protohistoric and historic Oneota most closely affiliated with the historic Oneota culture. culture.

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In 1934 and 1936, Ellison Orr of death or later as part of the death rite responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 recovered 24 cultural items from burials or ceremony and are believed, by a U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations at the Lane Farm Mounds site preponderance of the evidence, to have within this notice are the sole (13AM104) on the Hartley Terrace been removed from specific burial sites responsibility of the museum, overlooking the Upper Iowa River, of Native American individuals. institution, or Federal agency that has Allamakee County, IA. The excavations Officials of the State Historical Society control of the Native American human were undertaken on behalf of the State of Iowa also have determined that remains and associated funerary objects. Historical Society of Iowa. The 24 pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is The National Park Service is not cultural items are 11 chipped stone a relationship of shared group identity responsible for the determinations tools, flakes, and debris; 1 piece of that can be reasonably traced between within this notice. polished hematite; 1 shell-tempered the unassociated funerary objects and An assessment of the human remains, ceramic pot and 6 shell-tempered the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe and catalog records and associated ceramic sherds; 1 bone or quill of Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- documents relevant to the human fragment; and 4 bison or elk scapula Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma. remains, was made by Phoebe A. Hearst hoes. The State Historical Society of Representatives of any other Indian Museum of Anthropology professional Iowa is not in possession of the human tribe that believes itself to be culturally staff in consultation with remains from these burials. affiliated with the unassociated funerary representatives of the Big Valley Band of The Lane Farm Mounds complex objects should contact Jerome Pomo Indians of the Big Valley includes a Late Woodland habitation Thompson, State Historical Society of Rancheria, California; Cloverdale site, an Oneota village, and burial Iowa, New Historical Building, 600 East Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; mounds that were used by both the Locust, Des Moines, IA 50319–0290, Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians of Woodland and Oneota populations. telephone (515) 281–4221, before April California; Dry Creek Rancheria of Pomo Excavation records indicate that the 26, 2004. Repatriation of the Indians of California; Elem Indian items were identified by Mr. Orr as unassociated funerary objects to the Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Oneota. Evidence presented during Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Bank Rancheria, California; Grindstone consultation indicates that the cultural Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- Indian Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki items from this site are consistent with Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma Indians of California; Guidiville Oneota material culture and that the may proceed after that date if no Rancheria of California; Hopland Band Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of additional claimants come forward. of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Kansas and Nebraska; and Otoe- The State Histocial Society of Iowa is Rancheria, California; Kashia Band of Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma responsible for notifying the Iowa Tribe Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point are the present-day tribes most closely of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Rancheria, California; Lower Lake affiliated with the protohistoric and Nebraska; and Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Rancheria, California; Lytton Rancheria historic Oneota culture. Indians, Oklahoma that this notice has of California; Manchester Band of Pomo In 1934 and 1936, Charles Keyes and been published. Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Ellison Orr on behalf of the State Rancheria, California; Middletown Historical Society of Iowa collected 61 Dated: February 9, 2004. Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; cultural items from the New Galena John Robbins, Pinoleville Rancheria of Pomo Indians Mounds site (13AM108), located on a Assistant Director, Cultural Resources. of California; Potter Valley Rancheria of terrace on the south side of the Upper [FR Doc. 04–6643 Filed 3–24–04; 8:45 am] Pomo Indians of California; Redwood Iowa River about .5 mile west of its BILLING CODE 4310–50–S Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of confluence with Bear Creek in California; Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Allamakee County, IA. The 61 cultural Indians of California; Round Valley items are 57 chipped and ground stone DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Indian Tribes of the Round Valley tools, flakes, and debris; 2 shell- Reservation, California; Scotts Valley tempered ceramic pots, and 2 copper National Park Service Band of Pomo Indians of California; tubes. The State Historical Society of Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Notice of Inventory Completion: Iowa is not in possession of the human Indians of California; and Upper Lake Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of remains from these burials. Band of Pomo Indians of Upper Lake Anthropology, University of California, The New Galena Mounds are Rancheria of California. Woodland-period burial mounds with Berkeley, Berkeley, CA In 1951, human remains representing intrusive Oneota burials. The cultural AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. at least four individuals were removed items derive from the Oneota burials. ACTION: Notice. from site CA-Men–500, Mendocino Evidence presented during consultation County, CA, by C.W. Meighan, during indicates that the cultural items from Notice is here given in accordance fieldwork sponsored by the University this site are consistent with Oneota with the Native American Graves of California. No known individuals material culture and that the Iowa Tribe Protection and Repatriation Act were identified. The 56 associated of Oklahoma; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the funerary objects are 1 mussel shell, 1 Nebraska; and Otoe-Missouria Tribe of completion of an inventory of human carnivore mandible, 37 glass beads, 1 Indians, Oklahoma are the present-day remains and associated funerary objects steatite bead, 4 pestles, 3 stone scrapers, tribes most closely affiliated with the in the possession of the Phoebe A. 2 projectile point fragments, and 7 protohistoric and historic Oneota Hearst Museum of Anthropology, projectile points. culture. University of California, Berkeley, At an unknown time prior to 1972, Officials of the State Historical Berkeley, CA. The human remains and human remains representing at least two Society of Iowa have determined that, associated funerary objects were individuals were removed from site CA- pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the removed from two sites in Mendocino Men-NL–10, Mendocino County, CA, by 415 cultural items described above are County, CA. an unknown individual. Museum reasonably believed to have been placed This notice is published as part of the records identify the locality of the site with or near human remains at the time National Park Service’s administrative as ‘‘the Willits area.’’ The human

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