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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 112 / Wednesday, June 10, 2020 / Notices 35437 History Colorado is responsible for 7544, telephone (509) 963–2671, email staining on the human remains is notifying The Consulted and Invited [email protected] and consistent with historic Native Tribes that this notice has been Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University American burial practices in this area. published. of Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA The city of Sultan is situated at the Dated: May 15, 2020. 98195, telephone (206) 685–3849 Ext. 2, confluence of the Skykomish and Sultan email [email protected]. Rivers and was previously the site of a Melanie O’Brien, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is large permanent Skykomish village. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. here given in accordance with the Information provided during [FR Doc. 2020–12554 Filed 6–9–20; 8:45 am] Native American Graves Protection and consultations, as well as historical and BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. anthropological sources, indicate that 3003, of the completion of an inventory the area around Sultan is within the of human remains and associated traditional territory of the Skykomish DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR funerary objects under the control of and Snohomish (Haeberlin and Gunther, National Park Service Central Washington University, 1930; Hollenbeck, 1987). Ruby and Ellensburg, WA, and the Thomas Burke Brown (1986), Suttles (1990) and Spier [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030316; Memorial Washington State Museum, (1936) associate the area around the PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Sultan River with the Skykomish. The human remains and associated Mooney (1896) associates the area Notice of Inventory Completion: funerary objects were removed from around the Sultan River with the Central Washington University, near the Sultan River near the city of Snohomish. The Skykomish and Ellensburg, WA, and Thomas Burke Sultan, Snohomish County, WA. Snohomish people relocated to the Memorial Washington State Museum, This notice is published as part of the Tulalip Reservation per the Point Elliot University of Washington, Seattle, WA National Park Service’s administrative Treaty of 1855. The present-day Tulalip AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Tribes of Washington are the successors ACTION: Notice. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in in interest to the Skykomish and this notice are the sole responsibility of Snohomish. SUMMARY: the museum, institution, or Federal Central Washington Determinations Made by Central agency that has control of the Native University and the Thomas Burke Washington University and the Burke American human remains and Memorial Washington State Museum Museum (Burke Museum) have completed an associated funerary objects. The inventory of human remains and National Park Service is not responsible Officials of Central Washington associated funerary objects, in for the determinations in this notice. University and the Burke Museum have determined that: consultation with the appropriate Consultation • Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the organizations and have determined that A detailed assessment of the human human remains described in this notice there is a cultural affiliation between the remains was made by Central represent the physical remains of two human remains and associated funerary Washington University and Burke individuals of Native American Museum professional staff in ancestry. objects and present-day Indian Tribes or • Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal consultation with representatives of the Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), descendants or representatives of any Snoqualmie Indian Tribe (previously the 15 objects described in this notice Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian listed as Snoqualmie Tribe, Washington) are reasonably believed to have been organization not identified in this notice and the Tulalip Tribes of Washington placed with or near individual human that wish to request transfer of control (previously listed as Tulalip Tribes of remains at the time of death or later as of these human remains and associated the Tulalip Reservation, Washington). part of the death rite or ceremony. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there funerary objects should submit a written History and Description of the Remains is a relationship of shared group request to Central Washington At an unknown date, human remains identity that can be reasonably traced University or the Burke Museum. If no representing, at minimum, two between the Native American human additional requestors come forward, individuals were removed from near the remains and associated funerary objects transfer of control of the human remains Sultan River, a branch of the Skykomish and the Tulalip Tribes of Washington and associated funerary objects to the River, near the city of Sultan in (previously listed as Tulalip Tribes of lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Snohomish County, WA. The human the Tulalip Reservation, Washington). Native Hawaiian organizations stated in remains and associated funerary objects this notice may proceed. were removed by Mr. Dennis Osier and Additional Requestors and Disposition DATES: Lineal descendants or Mr. Robert Franz and donated to the Lineal descendants or representatives representatives of any Indian Tribe or Burke Museum in 1966 (Burke Accn. of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Native Hawaiian organization not #1966–75). In 1974, the Burke Museum organization not identified in this notice identified in this notice that wish to legally transferred the human remains to that wish to request transfer of control request transfer of control of these Central Washington University (CWU of these human remains and associated human remains and associated funerary Accn. BN). No known individuals were funerary objects should submit a written objects should submit a written request identified. The 15 funerary objects are request with information in support of with information in support of the one leather shoe, one shell button, one the request to Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon, request to Central Washington lot of wool fragments, and 12 rusted Department of Anthropology, Central University or the Burke Museum at the nails. The funerary objects are still in Washington University, 400 East address in this notice by July 10, 2020. the possession of the Burke Museum. University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926– ADDRESSES: Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon, The human remains have been 7544, telephone (509) 963–2671, email Department of Anthropology, Central determined to be Native American [email protected], and Washington University, 400 East based on osteological and archeological Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University University Way, Ellensburg, WA 98926– evidence. The presence of copper of Washington, Box 353010, Seattle, WA VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:06 Jun 09, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10JNN1.SGM 10JNN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 35438 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 112 / Wednesday, June 10, 2020 / Notices 98195, telephone (206) 685–3849 Ext. 2, ADDRESSES: Sam Gappmayer, Director, one clay animal effigy, six boxes of email [email protected], by July 10, 2020. John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 geology/plant specimens (each box After that date, if no additional New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI approx. 3″ x 12″ x 9″), seven beaded requestors have come forward, transfer 53081, telephone (920) 458–6114, email belts/saches, one beaded pouch/bag, one of control of the human remains and [email protected]. beaded footwear (pair), two beaded associated funerary objects to the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is bands, and three beaded necklaces. Tulalip Tribes of Washington here given in accordance with the Consultation with Eben Crawford, (previously listed as Tulalip Tribes of Native American Graves Protection and Curator and NAGPRA Assistant for the the Tulalip Reservation, Washington) Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. may proceed. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, supports Central Washington University and items under the control of the John determination that the objects listed in the Burke Museum are responsible for Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, this notice are cultural items. According notifying the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe WI, that meet the definition of objects of to Mr. Crawford ‘‘The aforementioned (previously listed as Snoqualmie Tribe, cultural patrimony under 25 U.S.C. objects currently in the possession of Washington) and the Tulalip Tribes of 3001. the John Michael Kohler Arts Center are Washington (previously listed as This notice is published as part of the either identified by accession Tulalip Tribes of the Tulalip National Park Service’s administrative information as belonging to the Tribe or Reservation, Washington) that this responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 were collected in the area the Tribe and notice has been published. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in its ancestors historically inhabited.’’ this notice are the sole responsibility of Dated: May 11, 2020. the museum, institution, or Federal Determinations Made by the John Melanie O’Brien, agency that has control of the Native Michael Kohler Arts Center Manager, National NAGPRA Program. American cultural items. The National Officials of the John Michael Kohler [FR Doc. 2020–12551 Filed 6–9–20; 8:45 am] Park Service is not responsible for the Arts Center have