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(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the places their manufacture at pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is completion of an inventory of human approximately A.D. 1800. Navajo a relationship of shared group identity remains in the possession of the diyugi–style blankets were commonly that can be reasonably traced between University of Colorado Museum, traded to northern allies in Colorado, the Native American human remains Boulder, CO. The human remains were such as the Ute, in the late 18th century. and associated funerary objects and the removed from Montezuma County, CO. In the last 250 years, the presence of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the This notice is published as part of the Ute tribes in the area of western Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute National Park Service’s administrative Colorado has been historically Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 documented by both Spanish and U.S. Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations records. The present northern boundary Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, in this notice are the sole responsibility of the Ute Mountain Reservation is only Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. of the museum, institution, or Federal 12 miles to the south of the burial site. Representatives of any other Indian agency that has control of the Native In consultations, representatives of the tribe that believes itself to be culturally American human remains. The National Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the affiliated with the human remains and Park Service is not responsible for the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado and associated funerary objects should determinations in this notice. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of the Ute contact Steve Lekson, Curator of A detailed assessment of the human Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Anthropology, University of Colorado remains was made by University of Mexico & Utah provided evidence in the Museum, Henderson Building, Campus Colorado Museum professional staff in form of histories and oral traditions that Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309–0218, consultation with representatives of the place their tribes in a very large area telephone (303) 492–6671, before Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the that encompasses the location of the August 1, 2007. Repatriation of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute burial. Representatives from both Indian human remains and associated funerary Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray tribes identified details about the burial objects to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain as possibly Ute. of the Southern Ute Reservation, Ute Tribe of the Ute Mountain At the estimated time of the burial, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & historical accounts located the Ute & Ouray Reservation, Utah; and Ute Utah. bands whose descendants are now In 1954, human remains representing Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain members of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & a minimum of one individual were Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Utah may proceed after that date if no excavated by Hod Stevenson on his Colorado and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of additional claimants come forward. property at the edge of Yellow Jacket the Ute Mountain Reservation, Canyon, Montezuma County, CO. In Colorado, New Mexico & Utah in an University of Colorado Museum is 1959, Mr. Stevenson donated the human area stretching from southwestern to responsible for notifying the Southern remains and associated funerary objects south central Colorado to northwestern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute to the museum. No known individual New Mexico. Historical accounts placed Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe was identified. The seven associated the other Ute bands whose descendants of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, funerary objects are two plain–weave, are members of the Ute Indian Tribe of Utah; and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute diyugi–style Navajo blankets; one coil of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah in Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New braided rawhide; one small piece of an area between the Gunnison River in Mexico & Utah that this notice has been twined hair; one basket in the shape of Colorado and the Uintah Basin in Utah published. a dipper; one lot of juniper bark; and in A.D. 1800. Officials of the University Dated: June 11, 2007 one lot of charcoal. A piece of rolled of Colorado Museum reasonably believe Sherry Hutt, leather was not collected when the the human remains are Ute based on the Manager, National NAGPRA Program. burial was excavated. preponderance of the evidence [FR Doc. E7–12711 Filed 6–29–07; 8:45 am] The human remains were found in a including geographical, archeological, BILLING CODE 4312–50–S flexed, seated position facing east and historical, oral–tradition, and expert wrapped in two plain–weave, diyugi– opinion. Descendants of the Ute are style Navajo blankets in an east–facing members of the Southern Ute DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR rock shelter, and appear to have been Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe placed in a shallow pit. The burial had of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, National Park Service been covered with juniper bark and the Utah; and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of the pit had been filled with sandy sediment. Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, Notice of Inventory Completion: In 1959, University of Colorado New Mexico & Utah University of Colorado Museum, Museum curator, Joe Ben Wheat, visited Officials of the University of Colorado Boulder, CO; Correction the site and found a small charcoal Museum have determined that, pictograph of a long–legged horse and pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. rider at the back of the rock shelter from human remains described above ACTION: Notice; correction. which the burial had been removed. represent the physical remains of one Based on the burial context, the human individual of Native American ancestry. Notice is here given in accordance remains are Native American. Officials of the University of Colorado with the Native American Graves The Indian Land Areas Judicially Museum also have determined that, Protection and Repatriation Act Established 1978 Map indicates the pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003 (5), of the claim to land in southwestern Colorado seven objects described above are completion of an inventory of human is based upon historic use by the Ute reasonably believed to have been placed remains and associated funerary objects and Navajo tribes. The style of the with or near individual human remains in the possession of the University of drawing found in the rock shelter is at the time of death or later as part of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO. The similar to historic Ute pictographs the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, human remains and cultural items were (Legacy on Stone, Sally J. Cole, 1990). officials of the University of Colorado removed from Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, An analysis of the blanket fragments Museum also have determined that, Boulder, Fremont, Huerfano, Larimer,

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Logan, Morgan, Saguache, Sedgwick, Cheyenne–Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; University of Colorado Museum is and Yuma Counties, CO Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the responsible for notifying the Apache This notice is published as part of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of National Park Service’s administrative Dakota; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Crow Tribe of Montana; Fort Sill Cheyenne–Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the in this notice are the sole responsibility Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Cheyenne River Reservation, South of the museum, institution, or Federal Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero Dakota; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; agency that has control of the Native Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Crow Tribe of Montana; Fort Sill American human remains and Reservation, New Mexico; Northern Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla associated funerary objects. The Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa National Park Service is not responsible Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero for the determinations in this notice. Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Apache Tribe of the Mescalero This notice corrects the minimum Reservation, South Dakota; Pawnee Reservation, New Mexico; Northern number of individuals and number of Nation of Oklahoma; Rosebud Sioux Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern tribes that were determined to be Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; culturally affiliated in a Notice of Reservation, South Dakota; Southern Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Inventory Completion previously Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, South Dakota; Pawnee published in the Federal Register of Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Nation of Oklahoma; Rosebud Sioux February 1, 2006 (FR Doc E6–1273, Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Tribe of the Rosebud Indian pages 5369–5373). The minimum Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Reservation, South Dakota; Southern number of individuals is raised from 47 Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute to 48. The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock and Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort have been added to the list of culturally Colorado, New Mexico & Utah. Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute affiliated Indian Tribes. Representatives of any other Indian Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray In the Federal Register of February 1, Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain 2006, paragraph number 31 is corrected tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with the human remains and Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, by substituting the following paragraph: Colorado, New Mexico & Utah that this In 1951, human remains representing associated funerary objects should notice has been published. a minimum of two individuals were contact Steve Lekson, Curator of removed from an unknown area near the Anthropology, University of Colorado Dated: June 19, 2007 old toll station in Boulder Canyon, Museum, Henderson Building, Campus Sherry Hutt, Boulder County, CO. The human Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309–0218, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. remains were either transferred to the telephone (303) 492–6671, before [FR Doc. E7–12713 Filed 6–29–07; 8:45 am] University of Colorado Museum by August 1, 2007. Repatriation of the BILLING CODE 4312–50–S another University of Colorado human remains and associated funerary department or anonymously donated objects to the Apache Tribe of prior to 1993. No known individuals Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR were identified. No associated funerary River Reservation, Wyoming; objects are present. Cheyenne–Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; Bureau of Reclamation In the Federal Register of February 1, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the 2006, paragraph numbers 56 to 58 are Cheyenne River Reservation, South Agency Information Collection; corrected by substituting the following Dakota; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Activities Under OMB Review; paragraphs: Crow Tribe of Montana; Fort Sill Comment Request Officials of the University of Colorado Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Museum have determined that, Apache Nation, New Mexico; Kiowa Interior. pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Mescalero ACTION: Notice of renewal of a currently human remains described above Apache Tribe of the Mescalero approved collection (OMB No. 1006– represent the physical remains of a Reservation, New Mexico; Northern 0023). minimum of 48 individuals of Native Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern American ancestry. Officials of the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; SUMMARY: In accordance with the University of Colorado Museum also Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 have determined that, pursuant to 25 Reservation, South Dakota; Pawnee U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 79 objects Nation of Oklahoma; Rosebud Sioux announces the Bureau of Reclamation described above are reasonably believed Tribe of the Rosebud Indian (we, our, or us) has forwarded the to have been placed with or near Reservation, South Dakota; Southern following Information Collection individual human remains at the time of Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Request (ICR) to the Office of death or later as part of the death rite Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Management and Budget (OMB) for or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; review and approval: Forms to University of Colorado Museum have Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Determine Compliance by Certain determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Landholders, 43 CFR part 426, OMB 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Control Number: 1006–0023. As a result group identity that can be reasonably Reservation, Utah; and Ute Mountain of the regulatory requirements to ensure traced between the Native American Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, compliance with Federal reclamation human remains and the Apache Tribe of Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may law and assessment of the appropriate Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind proceed after that date if no additional water rate [43 CFR 426.6(b)(2) and 43 River Reservation, Wyoming; claimants come forward. CFR 426.9(b)], a new ‘‘Religious or

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