[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8209-8210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4013]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


REVISION--Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American 
Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of Tonto 
National Forest, United States Forest Service, Phoenix, 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), 43 CFR 10.9, 
of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects in the control of Tonto National Forest, United States 
Forest Service, Phoenix, AZ. This notice was originally published 
September 26, 1996. 
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by U.S. Forest 
Service professional staff, American Museum of Natural History 
professional staff, Arizona State Museum professional staff, Arizona 
State University professional staff, Museum of Northern Arizona 
professional staff, and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Ak-Chin 
Indian Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Hopi Tribe, the 
Pueblo of Zuni, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the 
Tohono O'odham Nation, and the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe. Since 
publication of the original notice, consultation has also been 
conducted with the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Tribe, 
and the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Copies of the original notice were 
also sent to these Indian tribes. 
    Continuities of ethnographic materials, technology, and 
architecture indicate affiliation of the above mentioned sites with 
historic and present-day Piman and O'odham cultures. Oral traditions 
presented by representatives of the Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Gila 
River Indian Community, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, 
and the Tohono O'odham Nation support affiliation with the Salado and 
Hohokam sites in this area of central Arizona. Based upon further oral

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tradition evidence provided by representatives of the Hopi Tribe and 
Pueblo of Zuni since publication of the original notice, the USDA 
Forest Service has revised its determinations of cultural affiliation 
for the Hohokam and Salado human remains and associated funerary 
objects. The USDA Forest Service has determined, based on the 
preponderance of the additional evidence presented, that the Hopi Tribe 
and the Pueblo of Zuni are culturally affiliated with the Hohokam and 
Salado human remains and associated funerary objects, although to a 
lesser extent than the Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Gila River Indian 
Community, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and the 
Tohono O'odham Nation.  
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the USDA 
National Forest Service have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical remains 
of 1,376 individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the USDA 
Forest Service have also determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 
(3)(A), the 5,326 objects listed above are reasonably believed to have 
been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death 
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
    Officials of the USDA National Forest Service have determined that, 
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(2)(B), there is a relationship of shared 
group identity which can be reasonably traced between these 1,376 
Native American human remains and 5,326 associated funerary objects and 
the Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Tohono O'odham Nation. While 
not clearly culturally affiliated, officials of the USDA National 
Forest Service have further determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3003 
(d)(2)(C), there is a reasonable belief of shared group identity given 
the totality of the circumstances surrounding the acquisition of these 
1,376 Native American human remains and 5,326 associated funerary 
objects with the Hopi Tribe and Pueblo of Zuni.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Ak-Chin Indian 
Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Hopi Tribe, the Pueblo 
of Zuni, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Tohono 
O'odham Nation, the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, the San Carlos 
Apache Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Tribe, and the White Mountain Apache 
Tribe. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself 
to be culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should contact Dr. Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA 
Coordinator, Southwestern Region, USDA Forest Service, 517 Gold Ave. 
SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102; telephone: (505) 842-3238, fax (505) 842-
3800, before [thirty days after publication in the Federal Register]. 
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to 
the Ak-Chin Indian Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Tohono O'odham Nation, the 
Hopi Tribe and the Pueblo of Zuni, as indicated above, may begin after 
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: February 10, 1998.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 98-4013 Filed 2-17-98; 8:45 am]
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