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The FEIS analyzes leasing all of the cannot guarantee that we will be able to same accession were not Native South Gillette Area coal tracts as a do so. American. The human remains are of an separate Proposed Action. Under the adult and a second, younger adult Donald A. Simpson, Proposed Action, a competitive sale individual. Since that time, based on would be held and a lease issued for State Director. skeletal and dental morphology, the Federal coal contained in the tracts as [FR Doc. E9–20026 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am] older individual has been identified as applied for by each of the applicants. As BILLING CODE 4310–22–P being of mixed European and Native part of the coal leasing process, the BLM American ancestry. There is insufficient is evaluating adding or subtracting evidence to positively determine the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Federal coal to the tracts to avoid biological affiliation of the younger bypassing coal or to prompt competitive National Park Service individual, but they may also be of interest in unleased Federal coal in this mixed European and Native American area. The alternate tract configurations Notice of Inventory Completion: ancestry. No known individuals were for each of the LBAs that BLM is Museum of Anthropology, University identified. No associated funerary evaluating are described and analyzed of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI objects are present. as separate alternatives in the FEIS. Accession and other collections Under these alternatives, competitive AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. information suggests that the human sales would be held and leases issued ACTION: Notice. remains were recovered from the for Federal coal lands included in tracts Wequetonsing area near Harbor Springs, Notice is here given in accordance MI. Rev. Rowland’s catalog indicates modified by the BLM. The FEIS also with the Native American Graves analyzes the alternative of rejecting the that glass beads were found with the Protection and Repatriation Act human remains. Based on the application(s) to lease Federal coal as (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the the No Action Alternative. The observation of glass trade beads, the completion of an inventory of human human remains most likely date to the Proposed Actions and alternatives for remains in the possession of the each of the LBAs being considered in post-contact era in northern Michigan Museum of Anthropology, University of (circa A.D. 1600–1800). the FEIS are in conformance with the Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The human Approved Resource Management Plan Based on historical documents and remains were removed from the consultation with the Little Traverse for Public Lands Administered by the Wequetonsing area near Harbor Springs, Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan, Emmet County, MI. the Odawa occupied the Wequetonsing Field Office (2001). A Record of This notice is published as part of the Decision (ROD) will be prepared after area throughout much of the historic National Park Service’s administrative era. The Wequetonsing area is within the close of the 30-day review period for responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 the area granted to the Odawa for the FEIS. Comments received on the U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations settlement in treaties signed in 1836 and FEIS will be considered during in this notice are the sole responsibility 1855, and is within the current preparation of the ROD. of the museum, institution, or Federal reservation boundary of the Little Requests to be included on the agency that has control of the Native Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, mailing list for this project and to American human remains. The National Michigan. While historic sources also request copies of the FEIS may be sent Park Service is not responsible for the mention the presence of Potawatomi, in writing, by facsimile, or determinations in this notice. Mascouten, and Ojibwa in the general electronically to the addresses A detailed assessment of the human area, the Odawa are the predominant previously stated at the beginning of remains was made by Museum of group associated with the Wequetonsing this notice. The BLM asks that those Anthropology professional staff in and Harbor Springs locality. submitting comments on the FEIS make consultation with representatives of the While the biological ancestry of the them as specific as possible with Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa two individuals may be mixed, based on reference to page numbers and chapters Indians, Michigan. the burial treatment of the individual, of the document. Comments that In 1924, a collection containing appearance of grave features as contain only opinions or preferences human remains and a variety of described by Rev. Rowland, and will not receive a formal response; archeological materials collected from consultation with tribal representatives, however, they will be considered as part around Michigan and North America officials of the Museum of Anthropology of the BLM decision-making process. was purchased by the University of reasonably believe the human remains Please note that comments and Michigan from Rev. L.P. Rowland of have a Native American cultural information submitted including names, Detroit, MI. The human remains and identity. Based on the observation of street addresses, and e-mail addresses of many of the artifacts were recovered glass beads, the interments likely date to respondents will be available for public from the Lake Michigan shore area in the historic era. Given the location of review and disclosure at the above Emmet County, MI. A substantial the interments, they are most likely address during regular business hours portion of this collection, including one culturally affiliated with the Little (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday set of human remains (Accession #206) Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, through Friday, except holidays. and cultural items were determined to Michigan. Before including your address, phone be culturally affiliated with the Little Officials of the Museum of number, e-mail address, or other Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Anthropology, University of Michigan personal identifying information in your Michigan. The individual and cultural have determined that, pursuant to 25 comment, you should be aware that items were described in a Notice U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains your entire comment—including your published in the Federal Register (62 described above represent the physical personal identifying information—may FR 8265–8266, February 24, 1997), and remains of two individuals of Native be made publicly available at any time. were subsequently repatriated later that American ancestry. Officials of the While you can ask us in your comment same year. At that time it was Museum of Anthropology, University of to withhold your personal identifying determined that two comingled sets of Michigan also have determined that, information from public review, we human remains that were part of the pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is

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a relationship of shared group identity Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; The contexts from which the three that can be reasonably traced between Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern collections of human remains were the Native American human remains Band of Cherokee Indians of North reportedly removed suggest that they are and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of all prehistoric Native Americans. Since Odawa Indians, Michigan. Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; there is no specific provenience Representatives of any other Indian and United Keetoowah Band of information, other than general site tribe that believes itself to be culturally Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. locations within a broad temporal affiliated with the human remains At an unknown date, human remains context, there is insufficient contextual should contact Dr. John O’Shea, representing a minimum of one information to culturally affiliate the NAGPRA Coordinator, Museum of individual were removed from site human remains with any specific, Anthropology, University of Michigan, 15Ll86, Laurel County, KY. The human present-day Indian tribe. Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1079, telephone remains were found in an artifact Officials of the Daniel Boone National (734) 764–0485, before September 21, collection stored at the Daniel Boone Forest have determined that, pursuant 2009. Repatriation of the human National Forest while doing a to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains to the Little Traverse Bay Bands collections inventory. The human remains described above represent the of Odawa Indians, Michigan may remains from this site were collected physical remains of eight individuals of proceed after that date if no additional from looter backdirt piles by Forest Native American ancestry. Officials of claimants come forward. Service archaeologists who first the Daniel Boone National Forest also The Museum of Anthropology, recorded the site in 1983. No known have determined that, pursuant to 25 University of Michigan is responsible individual was identified. No associated U.S.C. 3001 (2), a relationship of shared for notifying the Little Traverse Bay funerary objects are present. group identity cannot be reasonably Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan that Artifacts recovered from the site traced between the Native American this notice has been published. indicate that this site was occupied from human remains and any present-day the Middle Archaic through Middle Indian tribe. Dated: July 16, 2009. The Native American Graves Woodland cultural periods dating from Sherry Hutt, Protection and Repatriation Review 6000 B.C. to A.D. 300. The fragmentary Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Committee (Review Committee) is human remains are from unknown [FR Doc. E9–19970 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am] responsible for recommending specific contexts within the site. BILLING CODE 4312–50–S actions for the disposition of culturally At an unknown date, human remains unidentifiable human remains. In 2008, representing a minimum of one the Daniel Boone National Forest DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR individual were removed from the Cane requested that the Review Committee Creek locality in Powell County, KY. recommend disposition of the eight National Park Service The human remains were a turned over culturally unidentifiable human to the Daniel Boone National Forest remains to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. anonymously. The donor claimed to Department of Agriculture, Forest of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee have been given the human remains by Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Service, Daniel Boone National Forest, an individual who had removed them Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; Winchester, KY from an unidentified site in the Cane Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Creek area of the Daniel Boone National AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; and United Forest. No known individual was ACTION: Notice. Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in identified. No associated funerary Oklahoma, as aboriginal and historic Notice is here given in accordance objects are present. occupants of lands in Kentucky. The with the Native American Graves The human remains are from one tribes have also requested for the direct Protection and Repatriation Act middle-aged female (30–50 years). A reburial of the culturally unidentifiable (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the non-human femoral head was human remains in the Indian Rest Place completion of an inventory of human commingled with the remains, but is not Cemetery on the Daniel Boone National remains in the possession of the U.S. considered to be an associated funerary Forest, and for the reburial to be Department of Agriculture, Forest object. The human remains are believed witnessed and directed by Service, Daniel Boone National Forest, to have come from a prehistoric context, representatives of the United Keetoowah Winchester, KY. The human remains and probably predate A.D. 1700. Band of Cherokee Indians. The Review were removed from three locations in Sometime in the 1960s, human Committee considered the request at its Laurel, McCreary, and Powell Counties, remains representing a minimum of six May 15–16, 2008 meeting and KY. individuals were removed from a recommended disposition of the human This notice is published as part of the rockshelter, probably site 15McY1066, remains to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe National Park Service’s administrative on Forest Service land in McCreary of Indians of Oklahoma; Cherokee responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 County, KY, by a road construction Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations crew. The human remains were Cherokee Indians of North Carolina; in this notice are the sole responsibility anonymously turned over to the Daniel Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; of the museum, institution, or Federal Boone National Forest. No known Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; and United agency that has control of the Native individuals were identified. No Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in American human remains. The National associated funerary objects are present. Oklahoma. A January 27, 2009, letter Park Service is not responsible for the This is the largest of the three from the Designated Federal Official on determinations in this notice. collections reported in this notice, and behalf of the Secretary of the Interior A detailed assessment of the human one diagnostic artifact was recovered. transmitted the authorization for the remains was made by University of Though it is not considered an Daniel Boone National Forest to effect Kentucky/Kentucky Archaeological associated funerary object, it indicates disposition of the human remains of the Survey professional staff in consultation that the site dates from A.D. 900 to eight culturally unidentifiable with representatives of the Absentee- 1700. individuals to the tribes listed above

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