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agency that has control of the cultural Fine Arts Center also have determined of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, items. The National Park Service is not that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), Montana; Cheyenne and Arapaho responsible for the determinations in there is a relationship of shared group Tribes, Oklahoma; Cheyenne River this notice. identity that can be reasonably traced Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River In 1951, the Taylor Museum between the object of cultural patrimony Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche purchased a Northwest Coast totem pole and the Organized Village of Kasaan Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Tribe of (TM 3991) from Ralph C. Altman/ Representatives of any other Indian Montana; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Lumber Yard of Joshua Marks, Los tribe that believes itself to be culturally Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Angeles, CA. The piece was officially affiliated with the object of cultural Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South accessioned into the museum’s patrimony should contact Tariana Dakota; Kiowa Indian Tribe of collection on May 7, 1951. Navas-Nieves, Curator of Hispanic and Oklahoma; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of The totem pole, dated circa 1870, is Native American Art, Taylor Museum of the Lower Brule Reservation, South from the Haida village of Old Kasaan, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Dakota; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Prince of Wales Island, southeastern 30 West Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Alaska. The totem pole originally stood 80903, telephone (719) 477–4334, before Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine in front of a house, and both were used September 2, 2010. Repatriation of the Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; by Chief Son-i-hat, ‘‘Southeast Wind,’’ of object of cultural patrimony to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud the Eagle phratry and one of the great Organized Village of Kasaan may Indian Reservation, South Dakota; chiefs of Old Kasaan. The house was proceed after that date if no additional Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; named Adolescent Girl House. Chief claimants come forward. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & Son-i-Hat also had a home not far from The Taylor Museum of the Colorado South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of present-day Kasaan, which is currently Springs Fine Arts Center is responsible the Fort Berthold Reservation, North the only remaining traditional Haida for notifying the Organized Village of Dakota; and Yankton Sioux Tribe of longhouse in Alaska. Kasaan that this notice has been South Dakota. The pole was bought by a man from published. In 1948, 1949, 1952, 1956, or 1963, Los Angeles around 1908. The pole and human remains representing a Dated: July 26, 2010 house were taken to Los Angeles, and minimum of one individual were the dismantled house was rebuilt on a Sherry Hutt, removed from a cave at Little Box Elder smaller scale. Chief Son-i-hat, who took Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Site, in Converse County, WY. The along dancing paraphernalia, also [FR Doc. 2010–18997 Filed 8–2–10; 8:45 am] human remains were removed by either accompanied the house and pole. Chief BILLING CODE 4312–50–S a museum archeological crew, which Son-i-hat stayed about two years, and excavated the site in 1948 (test), 1949, according to his son, staged dances and 1952, and 1956, or by Dr. Robinson, gave speeches about the ways of his DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Paleontology Curator Emeritus, who fellow Haida people. When the Taylor excavated stratigraphically at the site in Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine National Park Service 1963. The property is private and Arts Center acquired the pole, it was Notice of Inventory Completion: belonged to Orsa D. Ferguson who laying in a lumber yard ready to be University of Colorado Museum, passed away in the 1950s, and then it sawed up for wood pulp. Boulder, CO belonged to his brother-in-law, William In approximately early 2007, the Barber. The human remains were found museum began researching the pole and AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. in the Paleontology section of the started consultations with tribal ACTION: Notice. museum during re-analysis and representatives from the Organized transferred to the Anthropology section Village of Kasaan. Totem poles in the Notice is here given in accordance of the museum for NAGPRA Haida culture represent clans, serve as with the Native American Graves compliance. No known individual was grave markers, and also relate important Protection and Repatriation Act identified. No associated funerary events. According to representatives of (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the objects are present. the Organized Village of Kasaan, the completion of an inventory of human The human remains are Native totem pole is clan property. A totem remains in the control of the University American based on the biological pole is not property owned by an of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO. The assessment and the site context. The individual, and no single individual can human remains were removed from cave dates from recent time to 15,000 alienate or convey this clan property. Converse County, WY. years before present. Evidence of human Furthermore, the totem pole was clan This notice is published as part of the occupation was present in the upper property at the time of its alienation, National Park Service’s administrative levels. The earliest levels contained a and ownership of the totem pole and responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 ‘‘nest’’ of three spherical stones of crest designs depicted are owned by the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in material foreign to the cave deposits, clan, Yaadas of Gasa’aan (Old Kasaan). this notice are the sole responsibility of suggesting the possibility of human Therefore, the totem pole is an object of the museum, institution, or Federal occupation at that time. During cultural patrimony under NAGPRA. agency that has control of the Native preliminary re-study of material from Officials of the Taylor Museum of the American human remains. The National the cave, two tools were identified. Both Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center have Park Service is not responsible for the were made from elements of extinct determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. determinations in this notice. horse (Equus conversidens). The site 300(3)(D), the one cultural item A detailed assessment of the human also yielded several tools made from described above has ongoing historical, remains was made by the University of mountain goat humeri and metapodial. traditional, or cultural importance Colorado Museum professional staff in Although not extinct, mountain goat is central to the Native American group or consultation with representatives of the no longer present in the region of Little culture itself, rather than property Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Box Elder. owned by an individual. Officials of the Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Officials of the University of Colorado Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Wyoming; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Museum have determined that,

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pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Wyoming, may proceed after that date if American human remains. The National human remains described above no additional claimants come forward. Park Service is not responsible for the represent the physical remains of one The University of Colorado Museum determinations in this notice. individual of Native American ancestry. is responsible for notifying the Apache A detailed assessment of the human Lastly, officials of the University of Tribe of Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of remains was made by Siuslaw National Colorado Museum have determined the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Forest professional staff in consultation that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort with representatives of the Confederated relationship of shared group identity Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and cannot reasonably be traced between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; Native American human remains and Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde any present-day Indian tribe. of the Cheyenne River Reservation, Community of Oregon; Confederated The Native American Graves South Dakota; Comanche Nation, Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon; and Protection and Repatriation Review Oklahoma; Crow Tribe of Montana; the Coquille Tribe of Oregon. Committee (Review Committee) is Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow At an unknown date prior to 1988, responsible for recommending specific Creek Reservation, South Dakota; human remains representing a actions for disposition of culturally Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South minimum of one individual were unidentifiable human remains. In Dakota; Kiowa Indian Tribe of removed near Cape Perpetua, near October 2009, the University of Oklahoma; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of Yachats, Lincoln County, OR, and given Colorado Museum requested that the the Lower Brule Reservation, South to the Cape Perpetua Visitor Center. No Review Committee recommend Dakota; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the known individual was identified. No disposition of the culturally Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, associated funerary objects are present. unidentifiable human remains to the Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine The Visitor Center held the human Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; remains in secure storage until Reservation, Wyoming, based on Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud transferring to the Forest Archaeologist. Arapaho aboriginal land claims and Indian Reservation, South Dakota; No information accompanied the human supported by oral tradition, as well as Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; remains regarding the specific location the support of the other Indian tribes Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & and conditions of discovery other than consulted. The Comanche Nation, South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of the remains were retrieved from a Oklahoma, signed the disposition the Fort Berthold Reservation, North crevice in the rocky shoreline between agreement in support of the disposition Dakota; and Yankton Sioux Tribe of Cape Perpetua and Yachats. Consultation evidence and the to the Arapahoe Tribe. Furthermore, South Dakota, that this notice has been ethnographic record show that this area none of the Indian tribes consulted published. objected to the determination of was part of the ancestral territory of the ‘‘culturally unidentifiable’’ status by the Dated: July 26, 2010 Alsea Indians. At Contact, the territory University of Colorado Museum and the Sherry Hutt, of the Alsea extended along the Oregon disposition to the Arapahoe Tribe of the Manager, National NAGPRA Program. coast and rivers from approximately 8 Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. [FR Doc. 2010–19004 Filed 8–2–10; 8:45 am] miles south of Yachats to approximately The Review Committee considered BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 10 miles north of Waldport. In 1855, the proposal at its October 30–31, 2009, this land base and the Alsea people meeting and recommended disposition were included within the Coast Indian of the human remains to the Arapahoe DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Reservation. This reservation was later Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, referred to as the Siletz Indian Wyoming. The Secretary of Interior National Park Service Reservation. For approximately 10 years agreed with the Review Committee’s during the reservation era, other tribes, Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. recommendation. An April 19, 2010, including the Coos, Lower Umpqua, Department of Agriculture, Forest letter from the Designated Federal Coquille, and some Siuslaw people Service, Siuslaw National Forest, Officer, writing on behalf of the whose traditional territories lay to the Secretary of the Interior, transmitted the Waldport, OR south of the Alsea, were forcibly held at authorization for the University of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. the Alsea Sub-agency of the Coast Colorado Museum to effect disposition ACTION: Notice. Indian Reservation, which was located of the physical remains of the culturally at present-day Yachats. Of these tribal unidentifiable individual to the Notice is here given in accordance peoples, only the Alsea are known to Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River with the Native American Graves have primarily practiced above ground Reservation, Wyoming, contingent on Protection and Repatriation Act interment at locations similar to that the publication of a Notice of Inventory (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the identified for this individual. Completion in the Federal Register. completion of an inventory of human Descendants of the Alsea are members This notice fulfills that requirement. remains in the possession of the U.S. of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Representatives of any other Indian Department of Agriculture, Forest Indians of Oregon. tribe that believes itself to be culturally Service, Siuslaw National Forest, Officials of the Siuslaw National affiliated with the human remains Waldport, OR. The human remains were Forest have determined that, pursuant should contact Steve Lekson, Curator of removed from the Cape Perpetua Visitor to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains Anthropology, University of Colorado Center, Lincoln County, OR. described above represent the physical Museum, in care of Jan Bernstein, This notice is published as part of the remains of one individual of Native NAGPRA Consultant, Bernstein & National Park Service’s administrative American ancestry. Officials of the Associates, 1041 Lafayette St., Denver, responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Siuslaw National Forest also have CO 80218, telephone (303) 894-0648, U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. before September 2, 2010. Disposition of this notice are the sole responsibility of 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared the human remains to the Arapahoe the museum, institution, or Federal group identity that can be reasonably Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, agency that has control of the Native traced between the Native American

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