46708 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices Henry Jacob Bigelow. Bigelow • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the remains and associated funerary objects, transferred Mr. Quapish’s remains to the human remains described in this notice in consultation with the appropriate Warren Anatomical Museum. Museum represent the physical remains of one Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian records describe the decedent as individual of Native American ancestry. organizations, and has determined that ‘‘Qualish, the last of the Indian tribe at • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there there is a cultural affiliation between the Dedham, Mass.; was buried in 1774; aet. is a relationship of shared group human remains and associated funerary 68.’’ There is no additional information identity that can be reasonably traced objects and present-day Indian Tribes or in museum records about the context in between the Native American human Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal which these human remains were remains and the Mashpee Wampanoag descendants or representatives of any found. No associated funerary objects Tribe (previously listed as Mashpee Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian are present. Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, Inc.) organization not identified in this notice Museum information shows by a and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head that wish to request transfer of control preponderance of the evidence that the (Aquinnah), Indian Tribes that represent of these human remains and associated human remains are of the Native people of Wampanoag descent. funerary objects should submit a written American individual Alexander Additional Requestors and Disposition request to Effigy Mounds National Quapish, whose name is recorded Monument. If no additional requestors variously in the historical record, for Representatives of any Indian Tribe come forward, transfer of control of the example as: Qualish, Quapes, Quapish, that believes itself to be culturally human remains and associated funerary Queppish. Primary records and affiliated with the human remains objects to the lineal descendants, Indian secondary histories indicate Mr. should contact Patricia Capone, Tribes, or Native Hawaiian Quapish and his wife, Sarah David, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and organizations stated in this notice may were Native Americans living in Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 proceed. Dedham. According to a local historian Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA DATES: Lineal descendants or and to vital records for the Town of 02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, by representatives of any Indian Tribe or Dedham, Massachusetts, Mr. Quapish September 2, 2020. After that date, if no Native Hawaiian organization not was from Yarmouth, Massachusetts, additional requestors have come identified in this notice that wish to Wampanoag territory. Mr. Quapish may forward, transfer of control of the request transfer of control of these have moved to Dedham because both human remains to the Mashpee human remains and associated funerary Dedham and Yarmouth were associated Wampanoag Tribe (previously listed as objects should submit a written request with a network of Native American Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal with information in support of the Christianized settlements. Shortly after Council, Inc.) and the Wampanoag Tribe request to Effigy Mounds National Sarah David’s death in 1774, Mr. of Gay Head (Aquinnah) may proceed. Monument at the address in this notice Quapish enlisted in the Continental The Peabody Museum of Archaeology by September 2, 2020. Army. Alexander Quapish reportedly and Ethnology on behalf of the Warren died in 1776, at the age of 34, in Anatomical Museum, Harvard ADDRESSES: Jim Nepstad, Needham, Massachusetts, and may have University is responsible for notifying Superintendent, Effigy Mounds National been buried in Needham or Natick, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Monument, 151 Hwy 76, Harpers Ferry, rather than Dedham. The possibility of IA 52146, telephone (563) 873–3491 Ext. (previously listed as Mashpee _ repatriation to lineal descendants was Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, 101, email jim [email protected]. explored in consultation with Inc.); Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Wampanoag representatives. After (Aquinnah); and the Assonet Band of here given in accordance with the consultation and genealogical review, the Wampanoag Nation, a non-federally Native American Graves Protection and however, no lineal descendants have recognized Indian group, that this notice Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. been identified. has been published. 3003, of the completion of an inventory Osteological examination of the of human remains and associated Dated: July 6, 2020. human remains indicates that they are funerary objects under the control of the probably of an adult male and are of Melanie O’Brien, U.S. Department of the Interior, Native American ancestry. This Manager, National NAGPRA Program. National Park Service, Effigy Mounds information most closely matches the [FR Doc. 2020–16776 Filed 7–31–20; 8:45 am] National Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA. documented history of Alexander BILLING CODE 4312–52–P The human remains and associated Quapish. Although some documented funerary objects were removed from elements of his personal history, sites in Allamakee and Clayton including burial in Needham or Natick, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Counties, IA. death in 1776, and age at death do not National Park Service This notice is published as part of the match information in Warren National Park Service’s administrative Anatomical Museum records, historical [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030514; responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 documentation and osteological PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in examination indicate by a this notice are the sole responsibility of Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. preponderance of the evidence that this the Superintendent, Effigy Mounds Department of the Interior, National individual is Alexander Quapish. National Monument. Park Service, Effigy Mounds National Determinations Made by the Peabody Monument, Harpers Ferry, IA Consultation Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology AGENCY: A detailed assessment of the human and the Warren Anatomical Museum, National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. remains was made by Effigy Mounds Harvard University National Monument professional staff in Officials of the Peabody Museum of SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the consultation with representatives of the Archaeology and Ethnology and the Interior, National Park Service, Effigy Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard Mounds National Monument has Creek Reservation, South Dakota; University have determined that: completed an inventory of human Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:39 Jul 31, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00123 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03AUN1.SGM 03AUN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 149 / Monday, August 3, 2020 / Notices 46709 Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; unmodified stones, two pieces of during the mound rehabilitation project. Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; shatter, two faunal bones, two projectile The 12 associated funerary objects are Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Sioux points, four burnt animal tooth two pieces of burnt limestone, three Indian Community in the State of fragments, one pottery sherd, nine non- utilized flakes, three flakes, and four Minnesota; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; human bone, two pieces of burned pieces of shatter. Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, earth, and three pieces of charcoal. In 1962, 427 cultural items were Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; In 1952, human remains representing, removed from the Nazekaw Terrace Prairie Island Indian Community in the at minimum, one individual were Mound Group in Allamakee County, IA, State of Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of removed from the Sny Magill Mound by NPS archeologist Garland Gordon Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Group in Clayton County, IA, by NPS during the mound rehabilitation project. Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe archeologist Paul Beaubien. No known The 427 associated funerary objects are of the Mississippi in Iowa; Santee Sioux individuals were identified. The 96 12 bifaces, 40 utilized flakes, 162 Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee associated funerary objects are one unmodified stones, 74 flakes, six cores, Mdewakanton Sioux Community of faunal bone, one Madison Triangular 92 pieces of shatter, 25 pottery sherds, Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of projectile point, one broken projectile one drill fragment, one Durst projectile the Lake Traverse Reservation, South point, one biface, two biface fragments, point, one possible Little Sioux Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of 15 flakes, 11 utilized flakes, five projectile point, one small corner North & South Dakota; Upper Sioux modified flakes, one Manker or Koster notched projectile point, eight modified Community, Minnesota; Winnebago projectile point, one red ocher sample, flakes, one stone tool, one utilized spall, Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton 34 pottery sherds, one projectile point and two charcoal samples. Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (hereafter base, seven pieces of shatter, three In 1962, two cultural items were referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes’’). unmodified stones, one Kramer removed from the Yellow River Mound projectile point, two Agate Basin History and Description of the Remains Group in Allamakee County,