[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 165 (Thursday, August 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46719-46720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22161]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items From Shannon 
County, SD in the Possession of the Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, WY


AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
cultural items in the possession of the Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne, 
WY which meet the definition of ``sacred objects'' under Section 2 of 
the Act.
    The cultural items are two arrows with steel points and fletched 
with feathers; a wooden bow with pink ribbons attached at knocks, front 
stained blue and belly stained red; and a pipestem.
    In 1919, John Hunton of Fort Laramie, WY donated these cultural 
items to the Wyoming State Museum. Donor information accompanying these 
cultural items indicates that on December 29, 1890, they were picked up 
on the Wounded Knee Massacre site by a U.S. Army scout Baptiste 
``Little Bat'' Garnier, who later gave them to John Hunton.
    The donor information accompanying these cultural items clearly 
indicates that they were removed without permission of the owners or 
relatives following the massacre. Consultation evidence provided by 
representatives of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe states that 
``mourning [associated with Wounded Knee].. cannot end until all of the 
property stolen away from the dead... is returned... and all necessary 
spiritual ceremonies relating to the traditional burial rites of the 
Lakota have been performed and executed by Lakota spiritual leaders.''
    Officials of the Wyoming State Museum have determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(3), these four cultural items are specific 
ceremonial objects needed by traditional Native American religious 
leaders for the practice of traditional Native American religions by 
their present-day adherents. Officials of the Wyoming State Museum have 
also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced 
between these items and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux 
Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, and Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the 
Rosebud Indian Reservation.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, Rosebud Sioux 
Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe 
of North and South Dakota. Representatives of any other Indian tribe 
that believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these objects 
should contact Jennifer Alexander, Supervisor of Collections, Wyoming 
State Museum, 6101 Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, WY 82002; telephone: 
(307) 777-5472 before September 27, 1999. Repatriation of these objects 
to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge 
Reservation, and Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation 
may begin after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
    The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations 
within or the content of this notice.

    Dated: January 21, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-22161 Filed 8-25-99; 8:45 am]
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