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known individual was identified. No State Historical Society and Box 1286, Hastings, NE 68902, associated funerary objects are present. museum records are consistent with telephone (402) 461–2399, before April Research conducted at the Nebraska information on the site known as the 7, 2008. Repatriation of the human State Historical Society identifies at Hanna Larson Site. The site was remains and associated funerary objects least 15 sites in the area around Palmer. occupied form A.D. 1650 to A.D. 1750 to the Pawnee Nation of may One site is known as the Palmer Village and is culturally identified with the proceed after that date if no additional (25HW1), which is a well known site Lower Loup Focus of the Aspect claimants come forward. that was occupied by the band of of the late Ceramic Period. The Hastings Museum is responsible the Pawnee from at least A.D. 1804 to The Lower Loup Phase sites are for notifying the Crow of Montana; A.D. 1836, and was observed and located in areas also associated with Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; – recorded by a number of explorers to the historic Pawnee sites. The Lower Loup Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; area. Museum officials have been able to material culture suggests that they are Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; document Mr. Brooking and Mr. Hill as ancestors of the Pawnee. Descendants of Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca having conducted excavations at the the Pawnee are members of the Pawnee Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation of Palmer Village. Waldo Wedel conducted Nation of Oklahoma. Missouri in and Nebraska; Three an official survey of the Palmer Village According to museum records, the Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold on June 13, 1936 for the Nebraska State human remains were originally Reservation, North Dakota; and Wichita Historical Society. John Johnson owned cataloged as a complete or nearly and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, the land at the time of the survey and complete skeleton for each of these Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma that this allowed some work. It is likely that the individuals (02983, 03177, 03224, notice has been published 03255, 01797, 06452, 03202, 11216, some of the village spread into and Dated: January 30, 2008. resides on land once owned by H. 24733). However, during inventory review in the 1990s, only cranial and Sherry Hutt, Goering whose land is adjacent to Mr. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Johnson’s land. The site is designated as partial post cranial remains were found [FR Doc. E8–4323 Filed 3–5–08; 8:45 am] an historic Skidi Pawnee earthlodge with the accession numbers. Also village. during inventory review, the museum BILLING CODE 4312–50–S identified a number of commingled Museum officials have determined, human remains that had been in an based on museum records and evidence exhibit in the late 1930s or early 1940s, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of donors associated with the site, that which represented human remains the above human remains and taken from ossuaries. When the exhibit associated funerary objects are from closed, unnumbered human remains sites associated with a Skidi village, Notice of Inventory Completion: were mingled together. Officials of the Hastings Museum of Natural and possibly the Palmer Village, and are Hastings Museum reasonably believe Cultural History, Hastings, NE culturally affiliated with the Pawnee. that some of the commingled remains On an unknown date, human remains are part of the individuals described AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. representing a minimum of one above. An additional site that is ACTION: Notice. individual were removed from a grave reasonably believed to have near Cushing, Howard County, NE. The commingled human remains from this Notice is here given in accordance human remains were donated to the exhibit are described in a companion with the Native American Graves Hastings Museum by Robert Merchant notice. Protection and Repatriation Act and cataloged in 1960 (29365). No Officials of the Hastings Museum (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the known individual was identified. No have determined that, pursuant to 25 completion of an inventory of human associated funerary objects are present. U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains remains and associated funerary objects There are no known sites attributed to described above represent the physical in the possession of Hastings Museum Cushing, NE. However, there are remains of 63 individuals of Native of Natural and Cultural History, numerous sites attributed to the Palmer . Officials of the Hastings, NE. The human remains and area, which is 10 miles to the southeast Hastings Museum also have determined associated funerary objects were of Cushing. The Palmer Site (25HW1) is that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), removed from the Franklin, Harlan, and located northwest of the town of Palmer, the 1,085 objects described above are Webster Counties, NE. making it also in the vicinity of reasonably believed to have been placed This notice is published as part of the Cushing. Based on this information, with or near individual human remains National Park Service’s administrative morphology report, and geographic at the time of death or later as part of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 region of Pawnee occupation, museum the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations officials have determined that the officials of the Hastings Museum have in this notice are the sole responsibility human remains probably came from the determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. of the museum, institution, or Federal Palmer site and are highly likely to be 3001 (2), there is a relationship of agency that has control of the Native culturally affiliated with the Pawnee. shared group identity that can be American human remains and On an unknown date, human remains reasonably traced between the Native associated funerary objects. The representing a minimum of five American human remains and National Park Service is not responsible individuals were removed from the associated funerary objects and the for the determinations in this notice. Hanna Larson Site (25PT1) in Platte Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. A detailed assessment of the human County, NE. The human remains were Representatives of any other Indian remains was made by Hastings Museum excavated from the yard of Wm. tribe that believes itself to be culturally of Natural and Cultural History Christman and donated by Mr. affiliated with the human remains and professional staff in consultation with Christman to the Hastings Museum in associated funerary objects should representatives of the Crow Tribe of 1944 (24733). No known individuals contact Teresa Kreutzer–Hodson, Montana; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; were identified. No associated funerary Hastings Museum of Natural and Otoe–Missouria Tribe of Indians, objects are present. Cultural History, 1330 N Burlington, PO Oklahoma; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma;

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Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; In 1932, human remains representing Crow. Oral history information has ; Sac & Fox a minimum of three individuals were some of the people of Mill Creek staying Nation of Missouri in Kansas and removed from unknown sites near behind and becoming part of the Central Nebraska; Three Affiliated Tribes of the in Webster County, NE. The Plains Tradition based on common oral Fort Berthold Reservation, North human remains were donated to the traditions through origin and corn Dakota; and Wichita and Affiliated Hastings Museum by J.C. Samms and stories. Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & A.T. Hill and cataloged in 1934 (12645, Museum officials have determined Tawakonie), Oklahoma. 12646, 12647). No known individuals based on museum records, geographic In June 1926, human remains were identified. No associated funerary location, Pawnee oral tradition, and representing a minimum of one objects are present. anthropological research that the individual were removed from the On an unknown date, human remains Central Plains Tradition people are Marshall Ossuary (25HN1) in Harlan representing a minimum of two ancestors to the and Pawnee, County, NE. The human remains were individuals were removed from one or and possibly the Wichita. In addition, donated to the Hastings Museum by more ossuaries near Guide Rock, museum officials have determined A.M. Brooking, the museum founder Webster County, NE. The human based on museum records, geographic (03635). No known individual was remains were donated to the Hastings location and oral tradition that the identified. The 2,339 associated Museum by unknown donors and Plains Woodland people are ancestors of funerary objects are 2,339 shell beads of cataloged between 1934 and 1935 the Arikara, Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan, various sizes (03636). (14015, 13120). No known individuals and Pawnee. The Arikara, Pawnee, and The Marshall Ossuary is located on were identified. No associated funerary Wichita have entered into an agreement the and is believed to objects are present. that human remains and funerary have been used by the people of the According to museum records, the objects located between the Missouri Plains Woodland or Central Plains human remains from 2 miles southwest River and the Smokey Hill River shall Tradition. of Franklin in Franklin County were be claimed by the Pawnee Nation of On April 1, 1938, human remains originally cataloged as a complete or Oklahoma. The Hidatsa have also agreed representing a minimum of one nearly complete skeleton for each of the that the Pawnee shall make the claim for individual were removed from the individuals (16019). However, during people and items affiliated with the Wentworth site in Franklin County, NE. inventory review in the 1990s, only Plains Woodland from Nebraska. The human remains were donated to the cranial and partial post cranial remains museum by Les Goldsbury and were found with the accession numbers. Officials of the Hastings Museum cataloged in 1938 (18072). No known Also during inventory review, the have determined that, pursuant to 25 individual was identified. No associated museum identified a number of U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains funerary objects are present. commingled human remains that had described above represent the physical Archeological evidence indicates that been in an exhibit in the late 1930s or remains of 15 individuals of Native the Plains Woodland, Central Plains early 1940s, which represented human American ancestry. Officials of the Tradition, and have remains taken from ossuaries. When the Hastings Museum also have determined sporadically lived and hunted in what exhibit closed, unnumbered human that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), is now Franklin County. remains were mingled together. Officials the 2,339 objects described above are On unknown date, human remains of the Hastings Museum reasonably reasonably believed to have been placed representing a minimum of two believe that some of the commingled with or near individual human remains individuals were removed from a grave remains are part of the individuals at the time of death or later as part of 2 miles southwest of Franklin in described above. Additional sites with the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, Franklin County, NE. The human commingled human remains are listed officials of the Hastings Museum have remains were given to the Hastings in a companion notice. determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Museum by Les Goldsbury and Franklin and Webster Counties are 3001 (2), there is a relationship of cataloged in 1936 (16019). No known spanned by the Republican River and shared group identity that can be individuals were identified. No have rich river bottoms conducive to reasonably traced between the Native associated funerary objects are present. agriculture. The Plains Woodland, American human remains and On an unknown date, human remains Central Plains Tradition, and Pawnee associated funerary objects and the representing a minimum of four people have sporadically lived and Crow Tribe of Montana; Pawnee Nation individuals were removed from an hunted in this region for over 1,000 of Oklahoma; Three Affiliated Tribes of unknown site around Bloomington, years. There are several known village the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Franklin County, NE. The human sites, burial mounds, and ossuaries Dakota; and Wichita and Affiliated remains were donated to the Hastings located within the counties that Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Museum by Les Goldsbury, Garret document all three cultural occupations Tawakonie), Oklahoma. Fritzson and A.M. Brooking, and of this area. Based on museum records, Representatives of any other Indian cataloged in 1936 (16024). No known geographic region, documented sites, tribe that believes itself to be culturally individuals were identified. No and morphology reports, museum affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary objects are present. officials have determined that the associated funerary objects should On an unknown date, human remains human remains are likely associated contact Teresa Kreutzer–Hodson, representing a minimum of two with Plains Woodland, Central Plains Hastings Museum of Natural and individuals were removed from an Tradition or Pawnee. Cultural History, 1330 N Burlington, PO ossuary near Guide Rock, Webster Pawnee oral tradition states that the Box 1286, Hastings, NE 68902, County, NE. The human remains were Central Plains Tradition people are telephone (402) 461–2399, before April donated to the Hastings Museum by ancestors to the Arikara and Pawnee, 7, 2008. Repatriation of the human A.M. Brooking and cataloged in 1934 and possibly the Wichita. According to remains and associated funerary objects (12620). No known individuals were Pawnee oral history the Plains to the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma may identified. No associated funerary Woodlands people are ancestor to the proceed after that date if no additional objects are present. Pawnee, Mandan, Arikara, Hidatsa, and claimants come forward.

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The Hastings Museum of Natural and debitage, and 2 organic matter activities disturbed and mixed the Cultural History is responsible for (nutshells). earlier occupation artifacts into the notifying the Crow Tribe of Montana; In 1975, human remains representing burial fill and surrounding soil. As a Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe– a minimum of two individuals were result it is impossible to determine if Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; removed from the Alex Justiss Site, excavated artifacts such as debitage, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca 41TT13, in Titus County, TX. No known sherds, and broken tools were Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca individuals were identified. The 251 intentional funerary objects or Tribe of Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation of associated funerary objects are 73 accidentally incorporated into the Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Three ceramic sherds, 4 Talco arrow points, 3 Cemetery complex. However, Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Maud arrow points, 1 Alba arrow point, based on the preponderance of the Reservation, North Dakota; and Wichita 1 Perdiz arrow point, 5 Gary dart points, evidence, officials of the Texas and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, 1 Yarbrough dart point, 1 gouge, 1 pitted Department of Transportation Waco & Tawakonie), Oklahoma that this stone, 2 ground stones, 1 hammerstone, reasonably believe the artifacts are notice has been published. 1 end scraper, 6 bifaces, 4 cores, and associated funerary objects. 147 pieces of lithic debitage. Ceramic types represented in the Dated: January 30, 2008. In 2001, human remains representing burial assemblage include Wilder Sherry Hutt, a minimum of 18 individuals were Engraved, Bullard Brushed, Pease Manager, National NAGPRA Program. removed from the Alex Justiss Site, Brushed–Incised, La Rue Neck Banded, [FR Doc. E8–4325 Filed 3–5–08; 8:45 am] 41TT13, in Titus County, TX. No known Taylor Engraved, Ripley Engraved, and BILLING CODE 4312–50–S individuals were identified. The 1,089 Keno Trailed. The types of decorated associated funerary objects are 14 ceramics represented in the ceramic ceramic vessels (ceramic vessels include assemblage and the abundance of Talco DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 6 jars, 5 bottles, and 3 carinated bowls); arrow points indicate that the cemetery 313 ceramic sherds; 1 pipe stem; 70 was used by a Caddo group during the National Park Service Talco arrow points; 1 Bassett arrow Titus phase (A.D. 1400–1680). Texas point; 1 Harrell arrow point; 1 Perdiz Notice of Inventory Completion: Texas Department of Transportation has arrow point; 3 Washita arrow points; 2 Department of Transportation, Austin, determined that based upon the lithic untyped arrow points; 1 celt; 4 Gary dart TX and ceramic assemblages that the Alex points; 6 untyped dart point and Justiss site was occupied by a Caddo AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. fragments; 3 groundstones; 1 group. Descendants of the Caddo are ACTION: Notice. hammerstone; 4 cores; 529 pieces of members of the Caddo Nation of lithic debitage; 73 non-human bones; 1 Oklahoma. Notice is here given in accordance snail shell; 43 soil samples; and 18 Officials of the Texas Department of with the Native American Graves carbon samples. Transportation have determined that, Protection and Repatriation Act In 1959, the Alex Justiss Site, 41TT13, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the was identified by a local collector, human remains described above completion of an inventory of human Edward German, when a firebreak on represent the physical remains of 21 remains and associated funerary objects the property of Alex Justiss exposed a individuals of Native American in the possession of the Texas prehistoric burial. There is evidence of ancestry. Officials of the Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, earlier occupation at site 41TT13 during Department of Transportation also have TX. The human remains and associated the Late Archaic and Late Caddo determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. funerary objects were removed from periods. In 1973, plans were made to 3001 (3)(A), the 1,434 objects described Titus County, TX. widen SH 49 between FM 144 and FM above are reasonably believed to have This notice is published as part of the 1735, and test excavations by the Texas been placed with or near individual National Park Service’s administrative Department of Transportation confirmed human remains at the time of death or responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 the presence of a Titus phase Caddo later as part of the death rite or U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations cemetery on the south side of the ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Texas in this notice are the sole responsibility highway. The site was determined Department of Transportation have of the museum, institution, or Federal eligible for listing in the National determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 agency that has control of the Native Register of Historic Places and data (2), there is a relationship of shared American human remains and recovery excavations were designed to group identity that can be reasonably associated funerary objects. The mitigate the effects of the construction traced between the Native American National Park Service is not responsible on the site. These excavations were human remains and associated funerary for the determinations in this notice. conducted in 1975, but SH 49 was not objects and the Caddo Nation of A detailed assessment of the human widened at that time. Oklahoma. remains was made by the professional In 2000, the plan to widen SH 49 was Representatives of any other Indian archeological staff of the Texas re–evaluated. Archeological avoidance tribe that believes itself to be culturally Department of Transportation in was not feasible and determined that the affiliated with the human remains and consultation with representatives of the earlier excavation did not meet current associated funerary objects should Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. archeological standards. In contact Scott Pletka, Ph.D., Supervisor, In 1973, human remains representing consultations with the Caddo Nation of Archeological Studies Program, Texas a minimum of one individual were Oklahoma it was determined that the Department of Transportation, 125 E. removed from the Alex Justiss Site, portion of the Caddo cemetery within 11th Street, Austin, TX 78701–2483, 41TT13, in Titus County, TX. No known the right of way of SH 49 was to be re– telephone (512) 416–2631, before April individual was identified. The 94 excavated. These excavations took place 7, 2008. Repatriation of the human associated funerary objects are 39 in 2001 and additional human remains remains and associated funerary objects ceramic sherds, 1 Talco arrow point, 2 were removed from the site. The later to the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma may untyped arrow points, 1 core, 1 grooved development of the Caddo Cemetery, proceed after that date if no additional hematitic sandstone, 48 pieces of lithic and 19th and 20th century’s historic claimants come forward.

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