64562 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 212 / Thursday, November 2, 2006 / Notices

Seattle, WA 98195–3010, telephone WA. Ten burials were found in a flexed and are from Satus Creek, WA. In 1905, (206) 685–2282, before December 4, position with stones placed on the the cultural items were donated to the 2006. Repatriation of the human human remains. The human remains Burke Museum (Burke Accession #40). remains and associated funerary objects were in a fragile condition and were not The two unassociated funerary objects to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of collected with the exception of two are one iron spear and one iron axe the Yakama Nation, Washington may crania. The crania were not accessioned head. proceed after that date if no additional by the Burke Museum and the The two cultural items are consistent claimants come forward. whereabouts of the two individuals are with other funerary objects known to be The Burke Museum is responsible for unknown. In 1989, the unassociated associated with Yakama burials. The notifying the Confederated Tribes and funerary objects were donated to the Se’tas-lema and Lower Yakama bands Bands of the Yakama Nation, Burke Museum (Burke Accession were the groups ethnographically noted Washington; Confederated Tribes of the #1989–57). The 1,546 unassociated to have occupied the Satus Creek area. Colville Reservation, Washington; funerary objects are 1 copper ore, 5 Satus Creek is within the aboriginal Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla abalone shell gorgets, 5 shell pendants, territory of the Confederated Tribes and Reservation, Oregon; and Confederated 2 shell fragments, 1 steatite pipe, 2 Bands of the Yakama Nation, Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation points, and 1,530 beads. Washington. Satus Creek falls within of Oregon that this notice has been Ethnographic and archeological the lands ceded in the Yakama Treaty of published. evidence indicates that rockslide burials 1855. in talus slopes were customary burial Officials of the Burke Museum have Dated: September 28, 2006 practices of the Yakama. It was also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Sherry Hutt, customary for the Yakama to bury 3001 (3)(B), the cultural items described Manager, National NAGPRA Program. individuals with many of their personal above are reasonably believed to have [FR Doc. E6–18479 Filed 11–1–06; 8:45 am] belongings. The burial practices and been placed with or near individual BILLING CODE 4312–50–S funerary objects are consistent with human remains at the time of death or practices of the Confederated Tribes and later as part of the death rite or Bands of the Yakama Nation, ceremony and are believed, by a DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Washington. Selah is within the preponderance of the evidence, to have aboriginal territory of the Confederated been removed from a specific burial site National Park Service Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, of a Native American individual. Officials of the Burke Museum also have Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Washington and within the land claims determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Items: Thomas Burke Memorial boundaries of Indian Claims 3001 (2), there is a relationship of Washington State Museum, University Commission decisions (12 ICC 301 shared group identity that can be of Washington, Seattle, WA (1963); 7 ICC 794 (1959)). In 1995, one cultural item was reasonably traced between the 1,549 AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. accessioned by the museum when it was unassociated funerary objects and the ACTION: Notice. found in collections (Burke Accession Confederated Tribes and Bands of the #1995–64). The circumstances Yakama Nation, Washington. Notice is here given in accordance surrounding how the cultural item came Representatives of any other Indian with the Native American Graves into Burke Mueum’s collection is tribe that believes itself to be culturally Protection and Repatriation Act unknown. According to museum affiliated with the unassociated funerary (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent documentation, the cultural item was objects should contact Dr. Peter Lape, to repatriate cultural items in the collected from a burial immediately Burke Museum, University of possession of the Thomas Burke south of Priest Rapids Dam, Yakima Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA Memorial Washington State Museum County, WA. The one unassociated 98195–3010, telephone (206) 685–2282, (Burke Museum), University of funerary object is a fragment of leather before December 4, 2006. Repatriation of Washington, Seattle, WA, that meet the attached to a basketry fragment. the unassociated funerary objects to the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary Museum documentation includes a note Confederated Tribes and Bands of the objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. indicating it was from the Earnest Yakama Nation, Washington may This notice is published as part of the Combes Collection, that copper was also proceed after that date if no additional National Park Service’s administrative found with the burial, and the human claimants come forward. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 remains were those of a child. The The Burke Museum is responsible for U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations human remains and copper are not notifying the Confederated Tribes and in this notice are the sole responsibility located at the Burke Museum and no Bands of the Yakama Nation, of the museum, institution, or Federal further information could be located. Washington that this notice has been agency that has control of the cultural Ethnographic and archeological data published. items. The National Park Service is not suggests that deceased Yakama people Dated: September 28, 2006 responsible for the determinations in were commonly wrapped in buckskin, Sherry Hutt, this notice. blankets, and tule mats in preparation Manager, National NAGPRA Program. The 1,549 cultural items are 1 copper for burial. The leather and basketry [FR Doc. E6–18482 Filed 11–1–06; 8:45 am] ore, 5 abalone shell gorgets, 5 shell fragments are consistent with this pendants, 2 shell fragments, 1 steatite information. Priest Rapids Dam is BILLING CODE 4312–50–S pipe, 2 points, 1,530 beads, 1 basketry within the aboriginal territory of the fragment with leather, 1 iron spear, and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 1 iron axehead. Yakama Nation, Washington. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Between 1950 and 1960, Dr. Harold In 1896, two cultural items were Justice Management Division; No Bergen, an avocational archeologist, acquired through trade with the Hudson FEAR Act Notice collected funerary objects from the Bay Company by Dr. R.E Stewart. Bergen site #20, along the foot of a rocky According to museum documentation, AGENCY: Justice Management Division, bluff outside of Selah, Yakima County, the cultural items were found on a grave Department of Justice.

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