Wednesday April 14, 2004

Part IV

Department of the Interior

Notice of Inventory Completion: The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ruin. Some of the numbers correspond traced between the Native American to numbers painted on the human human remains and associated funerary National Park Service remains. Evidence indicates that the object and the Tribe of ; human remains were donated to The of Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; Notice of Inventory Completion: The Colorado College in the late 1800s and ; Pueblo of Jemez; Pueblo Colorado College, Colorado Springs, became a part of the former Colorado of Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of CO College museum collections, which Picuris; Pueblo of Pojoaque; Pueblo of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. were transferred to the San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; ACTION: Notice. Department in the 1960s and 1970s. The Pueblo of San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; human remains were curated in the Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Notice is here given in accordance Anthropology Department Archaeology Clara; Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo with the Native American Graves Laboratory, which until 1989 was in of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of Protection and Repatriation Act Palmer Hall. From 1989 until the Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the present, the laboratory has been in the Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New completion of an inventory of human Biological Anthropology Classroom/ Mexico. remains and associated funerary objects Laboratory of Barnes Science Center. No Representatives of any other Indian in the possession of The Colorado known individuals were identified. The tribe that believes itself to be culturally College, Colorado Springs, CO. The one associated funerary object is a string affiliated with the human remains and human remains and associated funerary and feather blanket that encases the associated funerary object should object were removed from Canyon de human remains of one of the contact Joyce Eastburg, Legal Assistant, Chelly, Apache County, AZ. individuals. That individual is an The Colorado College, 14 East Cache La This notice is published as part of the infant. Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO National Park Service’s administrative The Colorado College has determined 80903, telephone (719) 389–6703, before responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 that the lands from which the human May 14, 2004. Repatriation of the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations remains and associated funerary object human remains and associated funerary within this notice are the sole were collected were not Federal lands at object to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; responsibility of the museum, the time of collection. Pueblo of Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; institution, or Federal agency that has A physical anthropological Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo of Jemez; Pueblo control of the Native American human assessment of the human remains of Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of remains and associated funerary objects. resulted in a determination that the Picuris; Pueblo of Pojoaque; Pueblo of The National Park Service is not remains are ancestral Puebloan based on San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; responsible for the determinations the type of cranial deformation. This Pueblo of San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; within this notice. determination is supported by the A detailed assessment of the human funerary object associated with one of Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa remains was made by The Colorado the individuals, as well as the Clara; Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo College professional staff in provenience. Canyon de Chelly, which of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of consultation with representatives the is also known as Chinlee Canon, was a Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni Hopi Tribe of Arizona; , site of ancestral Puebloan occupation. Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Arizona, & Utah; Pueblo of Currently, the site is within the Navajo Mexico may proceed after that date if no Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; Pueblo of . A relationship of additional claimants come forward. Isleta; Pueblo of Jemez; Pueblo of shared group identity can reasonably be The Colorado College is responsible Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of traced between ancestral Puebloan and for notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Picuris; Pueblo of Pojoaque; Pueblo of modern Puebloan peoples based on oral Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; tradition, folklore, and scientific Utah; Pueblo of Acoma; Pueblo of Pueblo of San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; studies. Cochiti; Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo of Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Officials of The Colorado College have Jemez; Pueblo of Laguna; Pueblo of Clara; Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Nambe; Pueblo of Picuris; Pueblo of of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of 3001(9–10), the human remains Pojoaque; Pueblo of San Felipe; Pueblo Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni described above represent the physical of San Ildefonso; Pueblo of San Juan; Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New remains of 11 individuals of Native Pueblo of Sandia; Pueblo of Santa Ana; Mexico. American ancestry. Officials of The Pueblo of Santa Clara; Pueblo of Santo On an unknown date in the 19th Colorado College also have determined Domingo; Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of century, human remains representing 11 that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Tesuque; Pueblo of Zia; Ysleta del Sur individuals were removed from Canyon the one object described above is Pueblo; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni de Chelly, Apache County, AZ. The reasonably believed to have been placed Reservation, New Mexico that this specific provenience is unknown, but with or near individual human remains notice has been published. records from the former Colorado at the time of death or later as part of Dated: February 25, 2004. College museum indicate that the the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, human remains are likely from a ‘‘cliff officials of The Colorado College have John Robbins, ruin’’ in ‘‘Chinlee Canon.’’ The records determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Assistant Director, Cultural Resources. include a ground plan of a ruin with 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared [FR Doc. 04–8170 Filed 4–9–03; 8:45 am] numbered burials in the front of the group identity that can be reasonably BILLING CODE 4310–50–S

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