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58796 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 191 / Monday, October 2, 2000 / Notices determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR A detailed assessment of the human remains are too fragmentary to assign 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared remains and associated funerary objects temporal or cultural affiliation. group identity that can be reasonably was made by University of - In 1937, human remains representing traced between these Native American Lincoln professional staff in one individual were recovered from a human remains and associated funerary consultation with representatives of the sand pit at the Hemmingford fossil objects and the Mandan and Hidatsa River Tribe of the quarries in Box Butte County, NE by a tribes, members of the Three Affiliated Cheyenne River Reservation, South Works Progress Administration worker. Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, Dakota; the Iowa Tribe of ; the No known individual was identified. No North Dakota. Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the associated funerary objects are present. This notice has been sent to officials Kickapoo Reservation in ; the Based on the recovery location and of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge copper staining of the human remains, Berthold Reservation, North Dakota. Reservation, ; the Omaha this individual has been determined to Representatives of any other Indian tribe Tribe of Nebraska; the Pawnee Nation of be Native American from the historic that believes itself to be culturally Oklahoma; the Tribe of Nebraska; period. affiliated with these human remains and the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; During the 1970’s, human remains associated funerary objects should the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud representing one individual were contact Jerome Thompson, State , South Dakota; the recovered from site 25BF179, Buffalo Historical Society of Iowa, New Santee Sioux Tribe of the Santee County, NE by members of the Historical Building, 600 East Locust, Reservation of Nebraska; the Winnebago University of Nebraska Department of Des Moines, IA 50319–0290, telephone Tribe of Nebraska; the Yankton Sioux Anthropology. No known individual (515) 281–4221, before November 1, Tribe of South Dakota; and the North was identified. The one associated 2000. Repatriation of these human Dakota Intertribal Reinterment funerary object present is an antler remains and associated funerary objects Committee representing the Standing fragment. In the 1960’s, this individual was to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South originally disturbed by county residents Berthold Reservation, North Dakota may Dakota; the Spirit Lake Tribe, North and re-interred in a metal can. The begin after that date if no additional Dakota; the Three Affiliated Tribes of original burial was said to have been in claimants come forward. the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Turtle Mountain Band a sitting position. An additional Dated: September 19, 2000. of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. associated funerary object, a John Robbins, In 1955, human remains representing bannerstone believed to be mid-Archaic, Assistant Director, Cultural Resources one individual were recovered from the was retained by πBus’ Curd of Amherst, Stewardship and Partnerships. Sheep Mountain site (25BN1), Banner NE. [FR Doc. 00–25254 Filed 9–29–00; 8:45 am] County, NE during a University of Based on the reported manner of BILLING CODE 4310±70±F Nebraska field school directed by E.M. interment, associated funerary objects, Davis. No known individual was and highly mineralized condition of the identified. No associated funerary human remains, this individual has DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR objects are present. been identified as Native American from Based on archeological evidence, this the Archaic period. individual has been identified as Native In 1958, human remains representing American from the Archaic period. seven individuals were excavated from Notice of Inventory Completion for In 1977, human remains representing site 25BF229, 2.5–3 miles southeast of Native American Human Remains and one individual from site 25BO8, Boone Gibbon, Buffalo County, NE by T. Witty Associated Funerary Objects in the County, NE was acquired under and P. Holder. No known individuals Possession of the University of unknown circumstances from person(s) were identified. No associated funerary Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE unknown. No known individual was objects are present. identified. The one associated funerary Based on the condition of the human AGENCY: National Park Service. object is a soil sample with red ochre. remains, these individuals have been ACTION: Notice. Based on dental morphology and identified as Native American, dating to wear, the condition of the human the . Notice is hereby given in accordance remains, and the presence of red ochre, In 1913, human remains representing with provisions of the Native American this individual has been identified as one individual were lent to the Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Native American from the Archaic University of Nebraska State Museum (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the period. by A.A. McReynolds of Nehawka, NE. completion of an inventory of human In 1973, human remains representing These remains are presumed to have remains and associated funerary objects nine individuals were excavated from been recovered from the vicinity of in the possession of the University of an ossuary (probably 25BO12) located Nehawka, Cass County, NE. These Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. north of Cedar Rapids, Boone County, human remains now are considered part This notice is published as part of the NE by Steve Holen and John O’Shea. In of the permanent collection. No known National Park Service’s administrative 1976, these human remains were individual was identified. No associated responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR transferred to the University of Nebraska funerary objects are present. 10.2 (c). The determinations within this State Museum from the University of Based on dental morphology and the notice are the sole responsibility of the Nebraska Department of Anthropology. condition of the human remains, this museum, institution, or Federal agency No known individuals were identified. individual has been identified as Native that has control of these Native No associated funerary objects are American dating to the Woodland or American human remains and present. Central Plains Tradition period. associated funerary objects. The The condition of these human In 1965, human remains representing National Park Service is not responsible remains resembles those from known one individual were catalogued into the for the determinations within this Archaic, Woodland, or Central Plains collections of the University of Nebraska notice. Tradition sites, however, these human State Museum. The associated

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At an unknown date, human remains to have been recovered from Cass Based on the condition of the human representing one individual from Chase County, NE. Based on dental remains, these individuals have been County, NE were sent to the University morphology and the condition of the identified as Native American dating to of Nebraska State Museum by Sheriff human remains, this individual has the Great Oasis/Late Woodland period. Clifton Morrison of Imperial, NE. No been identified as Native American In 1941, human remains representing known individual was identified. No dating to the Archaic to Woodland two individuals were recovered from associated funerary objects are present. period. the Fort site, 25CD11, in Cedar County, Based on dental wear and At an unknown date, human remains NE during excavations conducted under morphology, this individual has been representing two individuals were the supervision of A. C. Spaulding and identified as Native American. removed from the Sterns site (25CC28) John Champe of the University of In 1973, human remains representing in Cass County, NE by person(s) Nebraska. No known individuals were one individual were donated to the unknown. Remains of one of the identified. A minimum of 152 University of Nebraska by James Lutter individuals are highly mineralized and associated funerary objects includes a of Valentine, NE. These human remains probably date from an earlier period minimum of 149 glass beads, 1 shell are believed to have come from Cherry than the other individual. No known bead, and 1 cup and 1 mirror broken County, NE. No known individual was individuals were identified. No into a minimum of 12 fragments. identified. No associated funerary associated funerary objects are present. Based on the associated funerary objects are present. Between 1914–1968, the Sterns site Based on osteological features and the objects and red staining on the human (also known as the Walker-Gilmore site) condition of the human remains, this remains, these individuals have been was investigated numerous times. Based individual has been identified as Native identified as Native American from the on material culture and the preservation American. historic period. of the human remains, these individuals In 1949, human remains representing At an unknown date, human remains have been identified as Native American one individual were excavated by representing one individual were from a multiple site with Late Morris Skinner and his father from a recovered from site 25CD12, Cedar Woodland (Sterns Creek) and Nebraska ‘‘blowout’’ on a ranch belonging to County, NE by members of the Phase components. Henry Voss in southern Cherry County, At an unknown date, human remains Department of Anthropology at the NE. No known individual was representing three individuals were University of Nebraska-Lincoln. No identified. The three associated funerary recovered from the Swallow Hill site known individual was identified. No objects include one leather knife sheath (25CC47), Cass County, NE by R. associated funerary objects are present. with associated metal and leather Cuming. No known individuals were Based on the condition of the human fragments, a piece of glass, and a red identified. The one associated funerary remains and material culture at site paint stone. object is a split-rib awl. 25CD12, this individual has been Based on the associated funerary Based on dental wear, the associated identified as Native American dating to objects, this individual has been funerary object, and red ochre staining the Great Oasis/Late Woodland period. determined to be Native American from on the human remains, these In 1958, human remains representing the historic period. individuals have been identified as seven individuals were excavated from In 1962, human remains representing Native American, dating to the the Burney site (25CD21), Cedar County, one individual were collected from a Woodland period or earlier. NE during a University of Nebraska field wet gravel pit near West Point, Cuming In 1951 and 1959, human remains school under the direction of Franklin County, NE by the Central Gravel representing eight individuals were Fenenga. No known individuals were Company and donated to the University recovered from the Ashland Burial identified. The 27 associated funerary of Nebraska. No known individual was Mound (Ossuary) site, Cass County, NE objects are beads made from bone and identified. No associated funerary by R. Wood or Dr. Hathaway of the shell, and pieces of worked and objects are present. Anthropology Lab at the University of unworked shell. At the time of acquisition, this Nebraska-Lincoln. No known Based on ceramics, the Burney site individual was identified as Native individuals were identified. A has been identified as a multi- American by museum staff. Based on minimum of 124 associated funerary component site with both Woodland osteololgical evidence and the wet objects includes a minimum of 15 shell and Central Plains Tradition gravel pit location of these human bead fragments, 1 fragmented shell occupations. Based on archeological remains, this individual has been pendant, a minimum of 8 pieces of evidence, including ceramics and the identified as Native American from an unmodified shell, and a minimum of condition of the human remains, these unknown period. 100 wood fragments. individuals have been identified as At an unknown date, human remains Based on the condition of the human Native American dating to the Loeske representing one individual were found remains, the manner of interment Creek or Sterns Creek foci of the in a box with material from the gravel (bundle burials), and the east-west Woodland period and the Central Plains pits in Cuming County, NE. No known burial orientation, these individuals Tradition period. individual was identified. No associated have been identified as Native American In 1958, human remains representing funerary objects are present. from the pre-contact period, probably one individual were recovered from the Based on the condition of the human Woodland. Elliot site (25CD22), Cedar County, NE remains, this individual has been In 1941, human remains representing by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln identified as Native American. The five individuals were recovered from Field School. No known individual was remains are highly mineralized,

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No Based on material culture and the collected from the Wisner sand pit, associated funerary objects are present. condition of the human remains, these Cuming County, NE by unknown Based on the condition of the human individuals have been identified as person(s) and donated to the University remains and skeletal evidence, these Native American dating to the of Nebraska. No known individual was individuals have been identified as Woodland period. identified. No associated funerary Native Americans from the pre-contact In 1938, human remains representing objects are present. period. 105 individuals were excavated by S. Based on osteological evidence and In 1939, human remains representing Bartos, Jr. from the farm of A. E. Enders the sand pit settling location where 35 individuals were recovered from the (25DX4), Dixon County, NE during these human remains were recovered, Ryan site (25DK2A), Dakota County, NE Works Progress Administration Project this individual has been identified as during Works Progress Administration #4148 conducted under the direction of Native American from an unknown excavations. No known individuals Earl H. Bell. No known individuals were period. were identified. No associated funerary identified. The three associated funerary During the 1940’s, human remains objects are present. objects are bone beads. representing two individuals were Based on material culture and the Based on the associated funerary recovered from the Schmidt gravel pit, condition of the human remains, site objects and reported manner of west of West Point, Cuming County, NE 25DK2A has been identified as a interments, these individuals have been by unknown person(s) and donated to Woodland burial mound. Based on identified as Native American dating to the University of Nebraska. No known material culture, skeletal morphology the Woodland period. individual was identified. No associated and the condition of the human In 1950, human remains representing funerary objects are present. remains, these individuals have been one individual were collected from a Based on osteological evidence and identified as Native American from the gravel pit (25DD101) in Dodge County, the condition of the human remains, Woodland period. NE by members of the Division of these individuals have been determined In 1939, human remains representing Vertebrate Paleontology, University of to be Native American from an one individual were excavated from a Nebraska State Museum. No known unknown period. mound at the Ryan site (25DK2B), individual was identified. No associated At an unknown date, human remains Dakota County, NE during a Works funerary objects are present. representing four individuals were Project Administration project. No Based on the circumstances of collected from a wet gravel pit (25CM2) known individual was identified. No discovery of the human remains during near West Point, Cuming County, NE by associated funerary objects are present. paleontological excavations and the The Ryan site consists of a series of unknown person(s) and donated to the geologic location from which the human three mounds with multi-component University of Nebraska. No known remains were recovered, this individual features. Based on the good condition of individuals were identified. No has been identified as Native American these human remains, this individual associated funerary objects are present. from an unknown period. has been identified as Native American Based on osteological evidence, these At an unknown date, human remains from the late pre-contact or historic individuals have been identified as representing one individual were periods. Native American from an unknown In 1941, human remains representing recovered from Scribner Air Base in period. One individual has been one individual were collected by S. Dodge County, NE. The remains were suggested to date to the Paleoindian or Bartos, Jr. following their disturbance by donated to the University of Nebraska Early Archaic periods. the Nebraska State Highway Department State Museum by Robert E. Lucas. No At an unknown date, human remains in Dakota County, NE from site 25DK16. known individual was identified. The representing two individuals were dug No known individual was identified. No one associated funerary object is a out of a hilltop near Cornstock, Custer associated funerary objects are present. copper ring. County, NE by unknown parties and Based on skeletal morphology, this Based on the associated funerary donated to the University of Nebraska. individual has been identified as Native object, this individual has been No known individuals were identified. American from an unknown period. determined to be Native American from No associated funerary objects are At an unknown date, human remains the historic period. present. representing one individual from site In 1895, human remains representing Based on osteological evidence, these 25DK17 were acquired by the University one individual from Omaha, Douglas individuals have been identified as of Nebraska State Museum under County, NE were donated to the Native American from an unknown unknown circumstances. No known University of Nebraska State Museum period. individual was identified. No associated by the City of Omaha, NE. No known At an unknown date, human remains funerary objects are present. individual was identified. No associated representing one individual were found This individual has been identified as funerary objects are present. behind a schoolhouse in Dakota County, Native American from an unknown These human remains were boxed NE by person(s) unknown. No known period. together in the museum collection with individual was identified. No associated In 1938 and 1959, human remains remains collected from the ‘‘Loess Man’’ funerary objects are present. representing 35 individuals were site 25DO26 excavated by R.F. Gilder in Based on geographic location and the recovered from the Brewer site (25DX3), 1906. This individual is likely to be condition of the human remains, this Dixon County, NE. The 1938 from an earlier collection by Mr. Gilder. individual has been identified as Native excavations were by S. Bartos, Jr. and S. This individual has been identified as American dating to the Archaic or Wimberley during Works Progress Native American from an unknown Woodland period. Administration Project #4842 under the period.

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In 1906, human remains representing At an unknown date, human remains The individuals have been identified 15 individuals were excavated from representing one individual were as Native American from an unknown Long’s Hill, north of Florence, Douglas recovered from the Dill site (25FR10), period. County, NE by R.F. Gilder, who near Oak Grove, Franklin County, NE by At an unknown date, human remains described the site as a burial mound. No person(s) unknown. No known representing one individual were known individuals were identified. No individual was identified. No associated recovered under unknown associated funerary objects are present. funerary objects are present. circumstances by person(s) unknown Based on archeological evidence and Based on the condition of the human from Harlan County, NE. No known the condition of the human remains, remains and reported presence of individual was identified. No associated these individuals have been identified Woodland ceramics at the Dill site, this funerary objects are present. as Native American from the Woodland individual has been identified as Native Based on the condition of the human period. American dating to the Woodland remains, the individual has been In 1908, human remains representing period. identified as Native American from the one individual were donated to the At an unknown date, human remains pre-contact period. University of Nebraska State Museum representing one individual were In 1930, human remains representing by person(s) unknown following the recovered from Frontier County, NE two individuals were recovered from discovery of these human remains from ‘‘25FT Burial 1’’ by person(s) Marshall Ossuary (25HN1) west of the under a porch at 1318 Colonial Avenue, unknown under unknown Graham Site (25HN5) in Harlan County, Omaha, Douglas County, NE. No known circumstances. No known individual NE by W. Wedel in an excavation under individual was identified. No associated was identified. No associated funerary the direction of W. D. Strong for the funerary objects are present. objects are present. Nebraska State Archaeological Survey. Based on the condition of the human Given the circumstances of discovery No known individuals were identified. remains, this individual has been in 1908 and the condition of the The 41 associated funerary objects identified as Native American from the remains, this individual has been include 39 freshwater shell beads, shell historic period. fragments, 1 piece of burnt antler, and identified as Native American from the In 1942, human remains representing historic period. 1 stone tool. one individual were recovered from the Based on material culture and the In 1917, human remains representing Dunn Ossuary (25FT2) in Frontier condition of the human remains, these four individuals were removed from site County, NE by A.T. Hill in an individuals have been identified as 25DO8, known as the ‘‘Indian burial excavation for the Nebraska State Native American from the Woodland ground’’ at Cabannes Trading Post in Historical Society. No known individual period. Douglas County, NE during excavations was identified. The seven associated In 1950, human remains representing by R.F. Gilder. No known individuals funerary objects are three shell beads three individuals were recovered from were identified. The one associated and four shell fragments. the Sappa Creek Site (25HN17) in funerary object is a tin cup. Based on material culture, the Harlan County, NE by J. and D. Based on the associated funerary Nebraska State Historical Society Gunnerson and J. Champe. No known object, copper staining, and the attributes this site to the Woodland individuals were identified. No preservation of the human remains, period. This individual has been associated funerary objects are present. these individuals have been identified identified as Native American from the Based on the derivation of the human as Native American from the historic Woodland period. remains from a known Native American period. In 1955, human remains representing archeological site and the condition of In 1905, human remains representing 16 individuals were recovered from the the human remains, these individuals eight individuals were excavated at the Flodine site (25FN11), Fumas County, have been identified as Native American Fort Lisa site (25DO9001), Douglas NE during excavations conducted under from an unknown period. County, NE by R.F. Gilder. No known the supervision of E. Mott Davis and F. At an unknown date, human remains individuals were identified. No Fenenga of the University of Nebraska representing one individual were associated funerary objects are present. Department of Anthropology. No known recovered from the north shore of Based on the skeletal morphology and individuals were identified. A Harlan County Reservoir (25HN46) near the condition of the human remains, minimum of 1,942 associated funerary Republican City, Harlan County, NE by these individuals have been identified objects includes a minimum of 169 disc- Sandy Frazier. No known individual as Native American possibly from the shaped beads, 4 worked fragments from was identified. No associated funerary Woodland or Central Plains Tradition freshwater clam shells, a minimum of objects are present. periods. 1,768 beads made from cut sections of Based on the condition of the human In 1930, human remains representing mammal bones and rodent incisors, and remains, this individual has been one individual were recovered southeast a triangular shell pendant broken into 3 determined to be Native American from of Ohiowa, Fillmore County, NE by fragments. an unknown period. In 1978, Harry Theobald and Miles Hurley who Based on associated funerary objects archeological investigations described donated these human remains to the and the condition of the human site 25HN46 as a pit burial, including University of Nebraska State Museum. remains, these individuals have been evidence of bark lining, charcoal, and The remains were transferred to the identified as Native American dating to yellow ochre fragments, that is not University of Nebraska State Museum the Woodland period. present in University of Nebraska- by J.C. Steele and Dr. Hartford of Prior to 1960, human remains Lincoln collections. No known Ohiowa. No known individual was representing five individuals were individual was identified. No associated identified. No associated funerary turned over to the University of funerary objects are present. objects are present. Nebraska from the County Attorney’s Based on the condition of the human Based on the condition of the human Office in Grand Island, Hall County, NE. remains and on the manner of interment remains, the individual has been No known individuals were identified. (pit burial), this individual has been identified as Native American possibly No associated funerary objects are determined to be Native American from from the Woodland period. present. an unknown period.

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In 1936, human remains representing was identified. No associated funerary the Woodland or Central Plains one individual were pumped out of a objects are present. Tradition periods. gravel pit at McCook, Hitchcock County, Based on the circumstances of In 1910, human remains representing NE and donated to the University of recovery, this individual has been one individual were donated to the Nebraska State Museum by W.B. Hall, identified as Native American from an University of Nebraska State Museum Stratton, NE. No known individual was unknown period. by ‘‘Guthrie.’’ No known individual was identified. No associated funerary In 1931, human remains representing identified. No associated funerary objects are present. one individual from a site southeast of objects are present. Based on osteological evidence and Verdigre, Knox County, NE were Donor information states these human on circumstances of the recovery, this donated to the University of Nebraska remains were recovered ‘‘2–1/2 hours individual has been identified as Native State Museum by Vac Randa following north of Havelock.’’ Havelock since has American from an unknown period. the disturbance of this burial during been incorporated by the City of In 1950, human remains representing plowing by Frank Haylick. No known Lincoln, NE. The recovery location was five individuals were collected from the individual was identified. No associated probably in northern Lancaster County site (25HK13), funerary objects are present. or southern Saunders County, NE. Based Hitchcock County, NE by M. Kivett. No Based on skeletal morphology and on the condition of the remains, this known individuals were identified. No dental wear patterns, this individual has individual has been identified as Native associated funerary objects are present. been identified as a mixed-blood Native American from an unknown period. Based on Nebraska State Historical American/Caucasian from the historic In 1907, human remains representing Society records and the condition of the period. According to the documentation two individuals were donated to the human remains, these individuals have for this individual, the remains were University of Nebraska State Museum been identified as Native American found enclosed in a box in a sitting by J.R.C. Miller of Lincoln, NE. No dating to the Middle Woodland period. position. It is not known whether the known individuals were identified. No In 1938, human remains representing burial dates from the post-reservation associated funerary objects are present. 22 individuals were excavated by P. period. Donor information states these human Newell and S. Bartos from the Eagle In 1937, human remains representing remains were recovered ‘‘from near the Creek site (25HT1), Holt County, NE 31 individuals were excavated from the B&M [railroad] cut through hill, and at during Works Project Administration Davis site (35KX6), Knox County, NE the point of the divide, in Denton Project #4841. No known individuals during Works Project Administration precinct in SE 1/4, Sec.T.9, R.5E’’ in were identified. The six associated Work Project #3140 conducted under Lancaster County, NE. Based on the funerary objects are chipped and ground the direction of P. Newell of the condition of the human remains, these stone tools. Nebraska Archaeological Survey. No individuals have been identified as Based on material culture at the Eagle known individuals were identified. The Native American from the pre-contact Creek site and manner of interments, minimum of 54 associated funerary period. these individuals have been identified objects are shell beads, bead fragments, In 1935, human remains representing as Native American dating to the and worked shell fragments. two individuals were sent to the Woodland period. Based on reported material culture, University of Nebraska State Museum At an unknown date, human remains manner of interments, and the condition by H.E. Weakly, agronomist at the representing one individual were of the human remains, these individuals University of Nebraska. Documentation recovered from the Mallory Dam site have been identified as Native American for these remains suggests that they (25HT9), Holt County, NE by F. Hood. dating to the Woodland period. were recovered from a gravel pit near No known individual was identified. No In 1937, human remains representing North Platte, Lincoln County, NE. No associated funerary objects are present. two individuals were excavated from known individuals were identified. No Based on a ceramic sherd at the site the Larson Mounds site (25KX8), Knox associated funerary objects are present. and the condition of the human County, NE during Works Project Based on good preservation, copper remains, this individual has been Administration Project #165–81–8095, staining, and osteological evidence of identified as Native American dating to Work Project #3140, conducted under horseback riding, these individuals have the Woodland period the direction of P. Newell of the been determined to be Native American In 1947, human remains representing Nebraska Archaeological Survey. No from the historic period. two individuals were recovered near known individuals were identified. No In 1935, human remains representing Mullen, Hooker County, NE and associated funerary objects are present. six individuals were donated to the donated to the University of Nebraska Based on the condition of the human University of Nebraska State Museum State Museum by Ioa Campbell. No remains and heavy dental wear patterns, by H.E. Weakly, agronomist, University known individuals were identified. No these individuals have been identified of Nebraska. The remains are believed to associated funerary objects are present. as Native American dating to the have been found in a gravel pit, Based on the condition of the human Woodland period. probably near North Platte, Lincoln remains, these individuals have been In 1937, human remains representing County, NE. No known individuals were identified as Native American. One 15 individuals were excavated from the identified. No associated funerary individual may be from the historic Niobara School site (25KX12), Knox objects are present. period; the other individual is from an County, NE by E. Bell for the Nebraska Based on osteological evidence and unknown period. State Archaeological Survey. No known circumstances of recovery, these In 1962, human remains representing individuals were identified. The 58 individuals have been determined to be one individual believed to be from associated funerary objects include 44 Native American from an unknown either Omaha Beach at Lake bone beads, 13 shell beads, and 1 bone period. McConaughy or the ‘‘Foundation’’ site artifact. At an unknown date, human remains (location unknown) were excavated by Based on associated funerary objects representing one individual were ‘‘McEvoy,’’ a student in the University and the condition of the human recovered from the Brady site (25LN0), of Nebraska Department of remains, these individuals have been Lincoln County, NE by Robert Parsons Anthropology. No known individual determined to be Native American from of Brady, NE. No known individual was

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At an unknown date, human remains recovered from a wet gravel pit At an unknown date, human remains representing one individual were (25Rw102) in Red Willow County, NE representing one individual were recovered from the Norfolk Gravel Pit in during excavations conducted by the recovered from site 25RH20, Richardson Madison County, NE and donated to the University of Nebraska State Museum County, NE by person(s) unknown University of Nebraska State Museum Vertebrate Paleontology Division. No under unknown circumstances. No by Frank Medelman. No known known individual was identified. No known individual was identified. No individual was identified. No associated associated funerary objects are present. associated funerary objects are present. funerary objects are present. Based on location and the condition Based on material culture and the Based on skeletal morphology, this of the human remains, this individual condition of the human remains, this individual has been identified as Native has been identified as Native American individual has been identified as Native American from an unknown period. from an unknown period. American from an unknown period. In 1983, human remains representing At an unknown date, human remains At an unknown date, human remains one individual were recovered from the representing one individual were representing one individual were Medelman gravel pit (25MD101), recovered from a wet gravel pit removed during excavation for a Norfolk County, NE and donated to the (25Rw108) in Red Willow County, NE courthouse from the Wahoo Creek burial University of Nebraska State Museum during excavations conducted by the ground on lots 1 and 2 during the by S. Holen. No known individual was University of Nebraska State Museum original survey of the City of Wahoo, identified. No associated funerary Vertebrate Paleontology Division. No Saunders County, NE. In 1917, these objects are present. known individual was identified. No human remains were donated to the Based on skeletal morphology, this associated funerary objects are present. University of Nebraska State Museum individual has been identified as Native Based on location and the condition by Judge Newman through C. Petrus American from an unknown period. of the human remains, this individual Peterson. No known individual was At an unknown date, human remains has been identified as Native American. identified. No associated funerary representing two individuals were At an unknown date, human remains objects are present. While the Wahoo Creek burial ground recovered during road grading from an representing one individual were has been identified as an historic undesignated site 100 feet from recovered from a wet gravel pit Omaha cemetery, it cannot be 25MO62, a surface site south of (25Rw109) in Red Willow County, NE determined whether the individual Alliance, Morrill County, NE by T.C. during excavations conducted by the dates from the historic period. The Middleswart. In 1994, these human University of Nebraska State Museum individual has been identified as Native remains were donated to the University Vertebrate Paleontology Division. No American from an unknown period. of Nebraska-Lincoln by Mrs. Gwen known individual was identified. No During the late 1950’s, human Rusch, daughter of Mr. Middleswart. No associated funerary objects are present. remains representing one individual known individuals were identified. The Based on location and the condition from a cemetery west of Morse Bluffs, 20 associated funerary objects are 15 of the human remains, this individual Saunders County, NE were donated to dentalia shells, 1 bone gaming piece, has been identified as Native American the University of Nebraska Museum by and 4 fragments of copper bracelets. from an unknown period. Adolph Havelka and Victor Pabien, who Based on dental morphology, At an unknown date, human remains recovered these human remains while associated funerary objects, and good representing two individuals were preparing a grave at the site. No known preservation, these individuals have found 1.5 miles north of Rulo, NE and individual was identified. No associated been identified as Native American from secured by the University of Nebraska funerary objects are present. the historic period. State Museum from C. Edwards through Based on skeletal and dental At an unknown date, human remains Robert F. Gilder. Remains of six other morphology and the preservation of the representing one individual were individuals and a 15th century gold human remains, this individual has donated to the University of Nebraska coin are known to have been found 7.5 been identified as a mixed-blood Native State Museum by person(s) unknown. feet below the surface of this site at a American/Caucasian from the historic The tag with the remains has the later date, but none of these are in the period. designation ‘‘MO10’’ which may University collection. No known In 1936, human remains representing indicate derivation from Morrill County, individuals were identified. No four individuals were excavated from NE. No known individuals were associated funerary objects are present. site 25SD10, Saunders County, NE by identified. No associated funerary Based on material culture reported W. Wedel. No known individuals were objects are present. from the same site, these individuals identified. No associated funerary Based on osteological evidence and have been identified as Native American objects are present. skeletal morphology, this individual has from an unknown period. Based on the condition of these been identified as Native American from In 1960, human remains representing human remains, these individuals have an unknown period. two individuals were recovered from been identified as Native American, In 1926, human remains representing the Leary site (25RH1), Richardson possibly of great antiquity. one individual were donated to the County, NE during excavations During 1931–1932, human remains University of Nebraska State Museum conducted by the University of representing three individuals were by A.T. Lobdell of McCook, NE. No Nebraska-Lincoln. No known recovered from the site known individual was identified. No individuals were identified. No (25SF1), southeast of Scottsbluff in associated funerary objects are present. associated funerary objects are present. Scotts Bluff County, NE, possibly by C.

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B. Schultz, who collected at the site miles south of Blair, Washington Sioux Tribe of the Santee Reservation of following excavations conducted by the County, NE during excavations Nebraska; the Winnebago Tribe of Smithsonian Institution. No known conducted by R.F. Gilder. No known Nebraska; the Yankton Sioux Tribe of individuals were identified. No individuals were identified. No South Dakota; and the North Dakota associated funerary objects have been associated funerary objects are present. Intertribal Reinterment Committee identified in University of Nebraska Based on the condition of the human representing the Standing Rock Sioux State Museum collections. remains, these individuals have been Tribe of North and South Dakota; the Based on archeological evidence, the identified as Native American. Based on Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; the Signal Butte site has been identified as dental evidence, the individuals are Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort a multi-component occupation from the possibly from the pre-contact period. Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and Archaic, Woodland, and Central Plains At an unknown date, human remains the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Tradition periods. Based on the representing one individual were Indians of North Dakota. This notice has condition of these human remains, these recovered in western Washington been sent to officials of the Cheyenne individuals have been identified as County, NE (25WN31) by Alan Wite. No River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Native American, possibly from the known individual was identified. No Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Central Plains Tradition component. associated funerary objects are present. Reservation, South Dakota; the Iowa In 1946, human remains representing Based on the condition of the human Tribe of Oklahoma; the Kickapoo Tribe 46 individuals were recovered from the remains, this individual is identified as of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation Gering site (25SF10), Scotts Bluff Native American possibly from the pre- in Kansas; the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the County, NE during excavations contact period. Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; conducted by M.F. Kivett for the In 1947, human remains representing the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; the Nebraska State Archaeological Survey. one individual were found ‘‘on the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; the Ponca No known individuals were identified. banks of the near Tribe of Nebraska; the Ponca Tribe of A minimum of 134 associated funerary , Webster County,’’ NE and Indians of Oklahoma; the Rosebud objects includes 102 bone beads, 17 were donated to the University of Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian chipped stone tools, 6 pieces of worked Nebraska State Museum by the Webster Reservation, South Dakota; the Santee bone, 9 boatstones and groundstone County Attorney. No known individual Sioux Tribe of the Santee Reservation of artifacts. was identified. No associated funerary Based on the associated funerary objects are present. Nebraska; the Winnebago Tribe of objects, manner of interments, and the Based on the condition of the human Nebraska; the Yankton Sioux Tribe of condition of the human remains, these remains, this individual is identified as South Dakota; the North Dakota individuals have been identified as Native American possibly from the Intertribal Reinterment Committee; the Native American dating to the historic period. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and Woodland period, approximately A.D. Based on the above-mentioned South Dakota; the Spirit Lake Tribe, 600–800. information, officials of the University North Dakota; the Three Affiliated In 1936 and 1938, human remains of Nebraska have determined that, Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, representing two individuals were pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the North Dakota; and the Turtle Mountain recovered from Stanton or Indian Creek human remains listed above represent Band of Chippewa Indians of North Village site 25ST1 in Stanton County, the physical remains of 491 individuals Dakota. Representatives of any other NE. The recovery of one individual was of Native American ancestry. Officials of Indian tribe that believes itself to be by person(s) unknown. The other the University of Nebraska also have culturally affiliated with these human individual was recovered in 1938 was determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR remains and associated funerary objects during an excavation under the 10.2 (d)(2), the minimum of 2,896 should contact Dr. Priscilla Grew, direction of H. Angelino for the Works objects listed above are reasonably NAGPRA Coordinator, University of Project Administration. No known believed to have been placed with or Nebraska-Lincoln, 301 Bessey Hall, individuals were identified. No near individual human remains at the Lincoln, NE 68588–0381, telephone associated funerary objects are present. time of death or later as part of the death (402) 472–7854, before November 1, Based on material culture, this is a rite or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the 2000. Repatriation of the human mixed site that included Central Plains University of Nebraska have determined remains and associated funerary objects Tradition, Oneota, and Omaha cultural that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of traditions. These individuals have been is a relationship of shared group the Cheyenne River Reservation, South identified as Native American from an identity on the basis of oral history and Dakota; the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; the unknown period. aboriginal homelands that can be Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the In 1938, human remains representing reasonably traced between these Native Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; the two individuals were recovered during American human remains and Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge construction of a basement in Stanton associated funerary objects from Reservation, South Dakota; the Omaha County, NE. No known individuals were Nebraska and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of Nebraska; the Pawnee Nation of identified. No associated funerary Tribe of the Cheyenne River Oklahoma; the ; objects are present. Reservation, South Dakota; the Iowa the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Based on the preservation of the Tribe of Oklahoma; the Kickapoo Tribe the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud human remains that suggests great of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation Indian Reservation, South Dakota; the antiquity, and the absence of any in Kansas; the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Santee Sioux Tribe of the Santee indication of a marked grave, these Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Reservation of Nebraska; the Winnebago individuals have been identified as the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; the Tribe of Nebraska; the Yankton Sioux Native American from an unknown Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; the Ponca Tribe of South Dakota; and the North period. Tribe of Nebraska; the Ponca Tribe of Dakota Intertribal Reinterment In 1907, human remains representing Indians of Oklahoma; the Rosebud Committee representing the Standing 11 individuals were recovered from a Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South hilltop site on the Hovendick farm, 2 Reservation, South Dakota; the Santee Dakota; the Spirit Lake Tribe, North

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Dakota; the Three Affiliated Tribes of Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South individual was identified. No associated the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; the Spirit Lake Tribe, North funerary objects are present. Dakota; and the Turtle Mountain Band Dakota; the Three Affiliated Tribes of The collection number ‘‘2–23–11–03’’ of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota the Fort Berthold Reservation, North has no known documentation. It may begin after that date if no Dakota; and the Turtle Mountain Band resembles the ‘‘Barbour numbers’’ used additional claimants come forward. of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. by the Museum during the first half of the 20th century. Based on the Dated: September 19, 2000. At an unknown date, human remains condition of the human remains, this John Robbins, representing one individual were recovered from an unknown location by individual has been identified as Native Assistant Director, Cultural Resources American possibly from the pre-contact Stewardship and Partnerships. person(s) unknown under unknown circumstances. They were acquired by period. [FR Doc. 00–25126 Filed 9–29–00; 8:45 am] the University of Nebraska State At an unknown date, human remains BILLING CODE 4310±70±F Museum at an unknown date under representing seven individuals were unknown circumstances. No known recovered from an unknown location by person(s) unknown under unknown DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are present. circumstances. They were acquired by the University of Nebraska State National Park Service The collection number ‘‘1–20–6–34’’ has no known documentation. It Museum in 1895 as part of the ‘‘Moody Notice of Inventory Completion for resembles the ‘‘Barbour numbers’’ used Collection.’’ No known individuals were Native American Human Remains and by the Museum during the first half of identified. No associated funerary Associated Funerary Objects in the the 20th century. Based on the objects are present. The collection number ‘‘28–22–4–95’’ Possession of the University of condition of the human remains, this has no known documentation. Much of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE individual has been identified as Native the ‘‘Moody Collection’’ is known to American of an unknown period. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. have been derived from Illinois or Ohio, At an unknown date, human remains but the source of these human remains ACTION: Notice. representing one individual were is unknown. These individuals have recovered from an unknown location by Notice is hereby given in accordance been identified as Native American of person(s) unknown under unknown with provisions of the Native American an unknown period. Graves Protection and Repatriation Act circumstances. They were acquired by At an unknown date, human remains (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the the University of Nebraska State representing one individual were completion of an inventory of human Museum at an unknown date under recovered from an unknown location by remains and associated funerary objects unknown circumstances. No known person(s) unknown under unknown in the possession of the University of individual was identified. No associated circumstances. The human remains Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. funerary objects are present. with collection number ‘‘4–28–3–31’’ This notice is published as part of the The collection number ‘‘11–0–13’’ has were donated in 1931 to the University National Park Service’s administrative no known documentation. It resembles of Nebraska State Museum by Mrs. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR the ‘‘Barbour numbers’’ used by the Charles Fritch of Pawnee County, 10.2 (c). The determinations within this Museum during the first half of the 20th Nebraska. No known individual was notice are the sole responsibility of the century. Based on dental morphology identified. No associated funerary museum, institution, or Federal agency and the condition of the human objects are present. that has control of these Native remains, this individual has been This individual has been identified as American human remains and identified as Native American, possibly Native American of an unknown period. associated funerary objects. The from the pre-contact period. At an unknown date, human remains National Park Service is not responsible At an unknown date, human remains representing two individuals were for the determinations within this representing one individual were recovered from an unknown location by notice. recovered from an unknown location by person(s) unknown under unknown A detailed assessment of the human person(s) unknown under unknown circumstances. They were acquired by remains was made by University of circumstances. They were acquired by the University of Nebraska State Nebraska-Lincoln professional staff in the University of Nebraska State Museum at an unknown date under consultation with representatives of the Museum at an unknown date under unknown circumstances. No known Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the unknown circumstances. No known individuals were identified. No Cheyenne River Reservation, South individual was identified. No associated associated funerary objects are present. Dakota; the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; the funerary objects are present. The assigned number ‘‘1229’’ has no Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the The collection number ‘‘11–13–07’’ known documentation. Based on the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; the has no known documentation. It condition of the human remains, these Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge resembles the ‘‘Barbour numbers’’ used individuals have been identified as Reservation, South Dakota; the Omaha by the Museum during the first half of Native American possibly from the pre- Tribe of Nebraska; the Pawnee Nation of the 20th century. This individual has contact period. Oklahoma; the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; been identified as Native American of At an unknown date, human remains the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; an unknown period. representing four individuals were the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud At an unknown date, human remains recovered from an unknown location by Indian Reservation, South Dakota; the representing one individual were person(s) unknown under unknown Santee Sioux Tribe of the Santee recovered from an unknown location by circumstances. They were acquired by Reservation of Nebraska; the Winnebago person(s) unknown under unknown the University of Nebraska State Tribe of Nebraska; the Yankton Sioux circumstances. They were acquired by Museum at an unknown date under Tribe of South Dakota; and the North the University of Nebraska State unknown circumstances. No known Dakota Intertribal Reinterment Museum at an unknown date under individuals were identified. No Committee representing the Standing unknown circumstances. No known associated funerary objects are present.

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