[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 38 (Monday, February 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7121-7122]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4200]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of Hubbell Trading Post 
National Historic Site, National Park Service, Ganado, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 
3003(d), of the completion of the inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects in the control of the National Park 
Service, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, AZ.
    A detailed assessment and inventory of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects has been made by professional staff of the 
National Park Service in consultation with representatives of the 
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Tribe, the 
Fort Sill Apache Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, the 
Mescalero Apache Tribe, the Kaibab Paiute Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the 
San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Pueblo of Laguna, the 
Pueblo of Nambe, the Pueblo of Pojoaque, the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, 
the Pueblo of Tesuque, the Southern Ute Tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute 
Tribe, the White Mountain Apache Tribe, and the Zuni Tribe.
    Human remains representing four individuals were recovered along 
with 970 funerary objects from a site approximately half a mile from 
Hubbell Trading Post in 1971 and 1978. No known individuals were 
identified. Funerary objects include one hemispherical bowl resembling 
later Zuni ware, one Kana'a bowl, one White Mound bowl, two Lino bowls, 
one Lino seed jar, 135 potsherds, two pieces of yellow ochre, five 
olivella shell beads, 808 beads possibly made from juniper berry seed, 
one flake, one grinding stone, one polishing stone, nine chipped stone 
fragments, and two animal bone fragments.
    The above-mentioned materials have been dated between AD 400 and 
the Basketmaker/Pueblo Period transition in AD 900. This period is 
recognized as the time the territorial units of the western Anasazi 
were still in development. Because Anasazi territories in this region 
did not become well-defined until after AD 900, artifactual evidence 
does not allow specific identification of a single culturally 
affiliated Indian tribe. However, examination of cultural materials 
(e.g., ceramics, stone tools, and other items) and oral history 
regarding traditional and religious practice indicate probable cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and various Pueblo Indian groups. The oral traditions of both the Hopi 
Tribe and the Zuni Tribe indicate affiliation with Basketmaker and 
Anasazi sites.
    Human remains representing one individual were recovered in 1972 
from Wide Reed, a pueblo ruin located east of Hubbell Trading Post. No 
known individual was identified. No funerary objects are present.
    The Wide Reed site has been identified as a Pueblo III Period 
Kayenta Anasazi site, dating to AD 1145-1345. Archeological evidence--
including ceramics and architecture--and oral traditions suggests that 
Kayenta Anasazi are culturally affiliated with the Hopi Tribe. The Zuni 
Tribe also claim affiliation with this site based on oral tradition. 
The National Park Service evidence shows that in addition to the 
traditional data linking the descendants of Wide Reed with modern Hopi 
and Zuni, Navajo oral tradition indicates ancestral ties to this site.

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    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Hubbell 
Trading Post National Historic Site have determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10 (d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical 
remains of at least five individuals of Native American ancestry. 
Historic Site officials have also determined that, pursuant to 25 
U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A) and (B), the 970 items listed above are reasonably 
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at 
or near the time of death as part of the death rite or ceremony. 
Historic Site officials have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 
3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be 
reasonably traced between the four Native American human remains and 
970 associated funerary objects from the site one half mile from 
Hubbell Trading Post and the Hopi Tribe and the Zuni Tribe. Further, 
Historic Site officials have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 
3001 (2), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be 
reasonably traced between the one individual from Wide Reed and the 
Hopi Tribe, the Zuni Tribe, and the Navajo Nation.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Apache Tribe of 
Oklahoma, the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Tribe, the Fort Sill Apache 
Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, the Mescalero Apache 
Tribe, the Kaibab Paiute Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the San Carlos 
Apache Tribe, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Pueblo of Laguna, the Pueblo of 
Nambe, the Pueblo of Pojoaque, the Pueblo of San Ildefonso, the Pueblo 
of Tesuque, the Southern Ute Tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the 
White Mountain Apache Tribe, and the Zuni Tribe. Representatives of any 
other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated 
with these human remains and associated funerary objects should contact 
Nancy Stone, Superintendent, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic 
Site, P.O. Box 150, Ganado, AZ 86505; telephone: (520) 755-3254, before 
thirty days after publication in the Federal Register. Repatriation of 
the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe, 
Zuni Tribe, or Navajo Nation may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: February 16, 1996.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Archeology and Ethnography 
Program.
[FR Doc. 96-4200 Filed 2-23-96; 8:45 am]
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