12192 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 50 / Thursday, March 15, 2007 / Notices Dated: January 26, 2007. temporary abandonment during the material culture of their shared Sherry Hutt, Pueblo I period, approximately A.D. 750 relationship. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. - 900. Based on the general continuity Archeological, historical and [FR Doc. E7–4732 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] in the material culture and the linguistic evidence presently points to Navajo migration to the Yellow Jacket BILLING CODE 4312–50–S architecture of these sites, it appears that the community that lived in this and Monument Ruin area after A.D. area had long-standing ties to the region 1300. During consultation, the Navajo DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and returned to sites even after Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah migrations away from the locale that emphasized their long presence in the National Park Service lasted more than one hundred years. Four Corners and their origin in this However, by the late 13th century, both area, but there is not a preponderance of Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural the Yellow Jacket sites and the nearby the evidence to support Navajo cultural Items: University of Colorado Museum, Mesa Verde region showed no evidence affiliation. Boulder, CO of human habitation. The sites are not Based on a preponderance of used again until the 1920s when the evidence, including oral tradition, AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. locale was homesteaded and farmed. folklore, linguistic, geographic, ACTION: Notice. The archeological evidence supports archeology, historical, and scientific identification with Basketmaker and studies, cultural affiliation can be traced Notice is here given in accordance later Pueblo (Hisatsinom, Ancestral between the 68 unassociated funerary with the Native American Graves Puebloan, or Anasazi) cultures, which objects and modern Puebloan peoples. Protection and Repatriation Act prehistorically occupied southwestern Modern Puebloan peoples are members (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent Colorado. Both Basketmaker and Pueblo of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of to repatriate cultural items in the occupations are represented in the Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, possession of the University of Colorado archeology at the Yellow Jacket site. New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Museum, Boulder, CO, that meet the Archeologists have noted in the Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary scientific literature the striking Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo objects’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. similarity between the technology and of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of This notice is published as part of the style of material culture of 13th century Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of National Park Service’s administrative archeological sites in southwestern Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Colorado and the material culture Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations remains of 14th century Puebloan sites Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San in this notice are the sole responsibility in Arizona and New Mexico. Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, of the museum, institution, or Federal Oral-tradition evidence, which New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New agency that has control of the cultural consists of migration stories, clan Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New items. The National Park Service is not histories, and origin stories, was Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New responsible for the determinations in provided by representatives of the Hopi Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; this notice. Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo Between 1954 and 1990, cultural Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of of Zia, New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur items were legally excavated on private Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the land near Yellow Jacket Pueblo (5MT5), New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. Montezuma County, CO, by Dr. Joe Ben Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Officials of the University of Colorado Wheat, during University of Colorado Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo Museum have determined that, Museum sponsored archeological field of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 68 schools. The excavated cultural items Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San cultural items described above are were collected from graves and legally Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, reasonably believed to have been placed transferred to the museum each season. New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, with or near individual human remains The human remains were not collected New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New at the time of death or later as part of due to deterioration or other Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New the death rite or ceremony and are circumstances. The 68 cultural items are Mexico; Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur, New believed, by a preponderance of the 66 ceramic items (whole vessels, broken Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and evidence, to have been removed from a vessels, and sherd lots), 1 stone ax, and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New specific burial site of an Native 1 bone awl. Mexico. Folkloric evidence in the form American individual. Officials of the The three habitation sites, identified of songs was provided by tribal University of Colorado Museum also on the National Register of Historic representatives of the Pueblo of Acoma, have determined that, pursuant to 25 Places as the Joe Ben Wheat Site New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship Complex, are at the head of Yellow Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; of shared group identity that can be Jacket Canyon to the west of Tatum Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; and reasonably traced between the Draw and southwest of the very large Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico. unassociated funerary objects and the archeological site, Yellow Jacket Pueblo. Tribal representatives of the Pueblo of Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of The Yellow Jacket burials were Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, predominantly single interments, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New appearing in a wide variety of locations, New Mexico; and Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; including abandoned rooms and kivas, Mexico provided linguistic evidence Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo storage pits, subfloor burial pits, rooted in place names. Pueblo of of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of extramural burial pits, and middens. Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of The habitation sites were occupied at New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San various times during the Basketmaker New Mexico; and Pueblo of Santa Clara, Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San III, Pueblo II, and Pueblo III periods, New Mexico provided archeological Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San approximately A.D. 550 - 1250, with a evidence based on architecture and Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, VerDate Aug<31>2005 14:20 Mar 14, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\15MRN1.SGM 15MRN1 rmajette on PROD1PC67 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 50 / Thursday, March 15, 2007 / Notices 12193 New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent cultural patrimony and the Hopi Tribe Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New to repatriate cultural items in the of Arizona. Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New possession of the University of Kansas, Representatives of any other Indian Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Lawrence, KS that meet the definitions tribe that believes itself to be culturally Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of ‘‘sacred objects and ‘‘objects of affiliated with the sacred objects/objects of Zia, New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur cultural patrimony’’ under 25 U.S.C. of cultural patrimony should contact Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the 3001. Thomas A. Foor, NAGPRA Coordinator, Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. This notice is published as part of the ARCC, University of Kansas, Spooner Representatives of any other Indian National Park Service’s administrative Hall, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 5B, tribe that believes itself to be culturally responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Lawrence, KS 66045–7500, telephone affiliated with the unassociated funerary U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations (785) 766–5476, before April 16, 2007. objects should contact Stephen Lekson, in this notice are the sole responsibility Repatriation of the sacred objects/ Curator of Anthropology, University of of the museum, institution, or Federal objects of cultural patrimony to the Colorado Museum, Henderson Building, agency that has control of the cultural Hopi Tribe of Arizona may proceed after Campus Box 218, Boulder, CO 80309– items. The National Park Service is not that date if no additional claimants 0218, telephone (303) 492–6671, before responsible for the determinations in come forward. April 16, 2007. Repatriation of the this notice. The University of Kansas is unassociated funerary objects to the The four cultural items are four Hopi responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico may ‘‘spirit friends’’ or Katsina masks (Matia, of Arizona that this notice has been proceed after that date if no additional Hopak, Woe, and Mudhead). In 1966, published. claimants come forward. Mrs. Agnese N. Haury purchased masks Dated: January 24, 2007. University of Colorado Museum is of the Hopi deities Matia, Hopak, and responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe Sherry Hutt, Woe at O’Reilly’s Plaza Art Galleries, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, Inc., in New York. Mrs. Haury donated [FR Doc. E7–4726 Filed 3–14–07; 8:45 am] New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, the three Katsina masks to the New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New University of Kansas in 1990.