[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 75 (Monday, April 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19511-19514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10326]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Minnesota
Indian Affairs Council, Bemidji, MN
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 possession of the Minnesota Indain Affairs
Council, Bemidji, MN.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Hamline
University professional staff in consultation with representatives of
the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Santee Sioux Tribe of
Nebraska, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Lower Sioux
Indian Community of Minnesota, Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota,
Prairie Island Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota, Yankton Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota, Shakopee Dakota Community of Minnesota, and the
Upper Sioux Indian Community of the Upper Sioux Reservation.
In 1938, human remains representing one individual were removed
from a Spirit Lake Sioux cemetery overlooking the river near Tokio, ND
by unknown person(s) and ``dropped off'' at the University of
Minnesota. No known individual was identified. The one associated
funerary object is a celluloid pin.
Based on the cemetary location and use, these human remains have
been identified as Native American. Based on the associated funerary
object, these human remains are also estimated to date from the late
nineteenth century. This cemetery is known to have been exclusively
used by the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe during this time.
In 1946, human remains representing four individuals were recovered
from the Saienga Mound, Chippewa County, MN during excavations
conducted by L.A. Wilford of the University of Minnesota. No known
individuals were identified. The eight associated funerary objects
include a catlinite elbow pipe, iron nails, gunflints, a striking
steel, a coiled spring, a ring, a broken knife, and a ``washer''
ornament.
Based on the associated funerary objects, these individuals have
been identified as Native American. These burial are from the post
contact period, and represent intrusive burials into a precontact
mound. Based on the trade goods present and manner of interment, these
individuals have been identified as Sisseton-Wahpeton.
In 1963, human remains representing one individual were recovered
from the Kemnitz site, Renville County, MN during excavations conducted
by Anderson and Norquist of the University of Minnesota. No known
individual was identified. The ten associated funerary objects include
metal earrings, a coffin nail, a bone comb, glass beads, human hair, a
feather, iron scissors, fabric, fabric with feathers, and coffin wood
fragments.
Based on the associated funerary objects, these individuals have
been identified as Native American. The location, age of the associated
funerary objects, and manner of interment of these individuals indicate
affiliation with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe.
In 1940, human remains representing six individuals were recovered
from the Huber Mound site, Scott County, MN during excavations
conducted by L.A. Wilford of the University of Minnesota. No known
individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object is a
scraper.
Based on material culture, the Huber Mound site has been identified
at a Late Woodland--Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation. Based on
continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and construction,
archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of this area by
the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined Brainerd to
Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani, present during
the Late Woodland and early
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Contact periods, are generally regarded as the ancestors of the Dakota.
Manner of interment of these individuals are consistent with known
ancestral Dakota practice.
In 1950, human remains representing 28 individuals were recovered
from the Brown's Mounds (also known as Eck Mounds), Hennepin County, MN
during excavations conducted by L.A. Wilford of the University of
Minnesota. No known individuals were identified. The seven associated
funerary objects include a potsherd, three canine teeth, a biface/knife
face, a broken end scraper, and a snail shell bead.
Based on material culture, the Brown's Mounds site has been
identified at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation.
Based on continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and
construction, archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of
this area by the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined
Brainerd to Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani,
present during the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are
generally regarded as the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment
of these individuals are consistent with known ancestral Dakota
practice.
In 1938, human remains representing 19 individuals were recovered
from the Fingerson Mound site, Pope County, MN during excavations
conducted by L.A. Wilford of the University of Minnesota. No known
individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object is a
headless buffalo calf skeleton.
Based on material culture, the Fingerson Mound site has been
identified at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation.
Based on continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and
construction, archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of
this area by the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined
Brainerd to Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani,
present during the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are
generally regarded as the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment
of these individuals are consistent with known ancestral Dakota
practice.
In 1964, human remains representing 54 individuals were recovered
formt he Steele Mounds (Shakopee Mounds), Scott County, MN during
excavations conducted by Elden Johnson of the University of Minnesota.
No known individuals were identified. The 54 associated funerary
objects include bison teeth, shell, a horse bit, a ring with stone, tin
strip and tinklers, coffin nails, a bell, two pipestone heads, a
knife,earrings, a crucifix, brooches, cloth, hair, a shroud, glass
beads, shell bead, hawk bells with fabric fragments, spoons, a lock,
bracelets, a disk, a pewter medallion, deer tooth, porcelin fragments,
, metal point, projectile points, piece of pipe tube, Germain silver
breast plate, mound birchbark, brass and copper disk fragments,
crockery, nails, iron rings, brass stud, turtle shell, worked bones,
metal armband fragments, buckle, metal fragments, gunflints, potsherd,
end scrapers, utilized flake, rounded stone, hammerstone, side scraper,
17 bags of charcoal wood, and bark, burned birchbark with sewing holes,
burned needle/awl, charred wood and burned bone fragments, woven
fabric, shroud fabric, board fragments.
Based on the types of associated funerary objects and manner of
interments, these human remains have been determined to be Native
American. The apparent age of the associated funerary objects place the
date of burial to the late 18th and early 19th century. The apparent
age of the burials, associated funerary objects, manner of interment,
and location of the burial indicate affiliation with the Mdewakanton
Dakota.
In 1938, human remains representing ten individuals were recovered
from the Bartke Mound Group, Pope County, MN during excavations
conducted by L.A. Wilford of the University of Minnesota. No known
individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
Based on material culture, the Bartke Mound Group has been
identified at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation.
Based on continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and
construction, archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of
this area by the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined
Brainerd to Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani,
present during the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are
generally regarded as the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment
of these individuals are consistent with known ancestral Dakota
practice.
In 1951, human remains representing 23 individuals were recovered
from the McKee site, Washington County, MN during excavations conducted
by L.A. Wilford of the University of Minnesota. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
Based on material culture, the McKee site has been identified at a
Woodland-Mille Lacs focus (900-1300 A.D.) occupation. Based on
continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and construction,
archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of this area by
the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined Brainerd to
Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani, present during
the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are generally regarded as
the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment of these individuals
are consistent with known ancestral Dakota practice.
In 1960, human remains representing 37 individuals were recovered
from the Crookston site, Polk County, MN during excavations conducted
by Elden Johnson of the University of Minnesota. No known individuals
were identified. The three associated funerary objects include aunal
remains, a stone flake, a worked shell, and burial soil matrix samples.
Based on material culture, the Crookston site has been identified
at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation. Based on
continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and construction,
archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of this area by
the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined Brainerd to
Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani, present during
the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are generally regarded as
the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment of these individuals
are consistent with known ancestral Dakota practice.
In 1950, human remains representing one individual were recovered
from an unknown location in Crow Wing County, MN by three fishermen
(un-named) and donated to the University of Minnesota. No known
individual was identified. The two associated funerary objects include
an Ogechie vessel and a bone flesher.
Based on the associated funerary objects, this individual has been
determined to be Native American dating to approximately 1000-1750 A.D.
Based on continuties of Ogechie ceramic style with ceramics at
documented Mdewankanton sites in the Mille Lacs area, this individual
has been determined to be affiliated with the Mdewankanton Dakota.
In 1969, human remains representing one individual were recovered
from the Cooper site, Mille Lacs County, MN during excavations
conducted by Jan Streiff of the University of Minnesota. No known
individual was identified. The two associated funerary objects are two
mortuary ceramic vessels.
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In 1967, human remains representing ten individuals were recovered
from the Cooper site by Gordon Lothson and donated to the University of
Minnesota. No known individuals were identified. The 102 associated
funerary objects include mortuary vessels, projectile points, a harpoon
point, iron fragments, an arrowshaft wrench, knives, glass beads,
copper jingles, a bird bone whistle, arrowshaft abraders, knife
sharpener, bone beads, birch bark, lithic core, hammerstone, knife
handle fragments, two beaver incisors, metal fragments, bone tubes,
fire-cracked rock, a brass ring, gypsum piece, scrapers, brass jingles,
sherds, flake, wood fragments, shell spoons, flotation materials from
burial matrix, a green stone pendent, a small catlinite elbow pipe,
orchre, bone needles, burial matrix, brass/copper bracelet, fishbone,
bone flakes, and shells.
In 1965, human remains representing 11 individuals were recovered
from the Cooper site by L.R. Cooper and donated to the University of
Minnesota. No known individuals were identified. The two associated
funerary objects are mortuary vessels.
At an unknown date, human remains representing four individuals
were recovered from the Cooper site under unknown circumstances and
accessioned into the University of Minnesota's collections with the
accession number UM0636. No known individuals were identified. The two
associated funerary objects are a catlinite disc pipe and a mortuary
vessel.
At an unknown date, human remains representing six individuals were
recovered from the Cooper site under unknown circumstances and
accessioned in to the University of Minnesota's collections with the
accession number UM0664. No known individuals were identified. The four
associated funerary objects are morturary vessels.
Based on the associated funerary objects and manner of interment,
these individuals have been identified as Native American. Based on
material culture, manner of interment, and village subsistence
practices, the Cooper site has been identified as a Mdewankanton Dakota
occupation dating after 1670 A.D.
In 1934, human remains representing three individuals were
recovered from the Davis and Findlay Mounds, Hennepin County, MN during
excavations conducted by G.F. Ekhom of the University of Minnesota. No
known individuals were identified. The five associated funerary objects
include a metal scraper, a metal bracelet, coffin wood, a clam shell,
and iron nails.
Based on material culture, the Davis and Findlay Mounds, described
as being located ``on the south end of Third Avenue, Minneapolis'',
have been identified as Mulicomponent Woodland with intrusive historic
period burials. Based on the associated funerary objects and manner of
interment, these individuals have been identified as Native American
from the historic period. During the historic period, the area of the
Davis and Findlay mounds were heavily used by the Mdewankanton Dakota.
Prior to 1905, human remains representing one individual were
recovered from a mound on Phelp's Island by Alfred J. Hill, who donated
his collections to the University of Minnesota in 1905. No known
indivdiual was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
Based on material culture, the Phelp's Island site has been
identified at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation.
Based on continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and
construction, archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of
this area by the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined
Brainerd to Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani,
present during the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are
generally regarded as the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment
of these individuals are consistent with known ancestral Dakota
practice.
In 1934, human remains representing 18 individuals were recovered
from the Round Mound, Traverse County, MN during excavations conducted
by A.E. Jenks of the University of Minnesota. No known individuals were
identified. The nine associated funerary objects include bone armbands,
a bone awl, a platform pipe, a quartzite knife, an atlatl weight, a
soil matrix cor, and ochre.
Based on material culture, the Round Mound site has been identified
at a Late Woodland-Kathio phase (900-1300 A.D.) occupation. Based on
continuities of material culture in ceramic styles and construction,
archeological evidence indicates long-term occupation of this area by
the same cultural group, from the archeologically-defined Brainerd to
Kathio-Clam River-Blackduck to Psinomani. The Psinomani, present during
the Late Woodland and early Contact periods, are generally regarded as
the ancestors of the Dakota. Manner of interment of these individuals
are consistent with known ancestral Dakota practice.
Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council have determined that, pursuant to 43
CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical
remains of 238 individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of
the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council have also determined that,
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 213 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. Lastly, officials of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced
between these Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Santee
Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota,
Lower Sioux Indian Community of Minnesota, Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe of
North Dakota, Prairie Island Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota,
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Shakopee Dakota Community of
Minnesota, and the Upper Sioux Indian Community of the Upper Sioux
Reservation.
This notice has been sent to officials of the Flandreau Santee
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Sisseton-
Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Lower Sioux Indian Community of
Minnesota, Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, Prairie Island
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota, Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota, Shakopee Dakota Community of Minnesota, and the Upper Sioux
Indian Community of the Upper Sioux Reservation. Representatives of any
other Indian tribe that believes itself to be culturally affiliated
with these human remains and associated funerary objects should contact
James L. (Jim) Jones, Cultural Resource Specialist, Minnesota Indian
Affairs Council, 1819 bemidji Ave. Bemidji, MN 56601; telephone: (218)
755-3825, before May 20, 1998. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota, Lower Sioux Indian Community of Minnesota,
Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, Prairie Island Mdewakanton
Sioux Community of Minnesota, Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota,
Shakopee Dakota Community of Minnesota, and the Upper Sioux Indian
Community of the
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Upper Sioux Reservation may begin after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
Dated: April 14, 1998.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
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