[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59199-59200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25399]


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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 Control of the New Mexico State 
Office, Bureau of Land Management, Santa Fe, NM

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

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 the New Mexico State Office, Bureau 
of Land Management, Santa Fe, NM.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The 
determinations within this

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notice are the sole responsibility of the museum, institution, or 
Federal agency that has control of these Native American human remains 
and associated funerary objects. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations within this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
University of Colorado Museum, Eastern New Mexico University, the 
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology (University of New Mexico), the New 
Mexico State University Museum, the Museum of New Mexico, the San Juan 
County Museum, and Bureau of Land Management professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, 
the Pueblo of Acoma, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Pueblo of Isleta, the 
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, the Pueblo of Zia, and the Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation.
    In 1981, human remains representing eight individuals were 
recovered from site LA 282 in New Mexico during legally authorized 
excavations and collections conducted by the Archeological Field School 
of the University of New Mexico. These human remains are presently 
curated at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New 
Mexico. No known individuals are identified. The 11 associated funerary 
objects are pottery bowls and sherds.
    Based on material culture, architecture, and site organization, 
site LA 282 has been identified as an Anasazi pueblo occupied between 
A.D.1300-1600.
    Continuities of ethnographic materials, technology, and 
architecture indicate affiliation of Anasazi sites in this area of New 
Mexico with historic and present-day Puebloan cultures. Oral tradition 
presented by representatives of the Pueblo of Isleta indicate cultural 
affiliation with the Anasazi sites in this portion of New Mexico.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the New 
Mexico State Office of the Bureau of Land Management have determined 
that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed above 
represent the physical remains of eight individuals of Native American 
ancestry. Officials of the New Mexico State Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(d)(2), the 11 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 New Mexico State Office of the Bureau of Land Management have 
determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship 
of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between these 
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and the 
Pueblo of Isleta and the Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur. This notice has been 
sent to officials of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Pueblo of 
Acoma, the Pueblo of Jemez, the Pueblo of Isleta, the Pueblo of San 
Ildefonso, the Pueblo of Zia, and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with these human remains and 
associated funerary objects should contact Stephen L. Fosberg, State 
Archeologist and NAGPRA Coordinator, New Mexico State Office, Bureau of 
Land Management, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM 87502-0115, telephone 
(505) 438-7415, before November 3, 2000. Repatriation of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects to the Pueblo of Isleta and the 
Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: September 26, 2000.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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