[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 81884]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32919]


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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 Southwestern 
Region, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, 
NM, and in the Possession of the Office of the State Archaeologist, 
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

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 Southwestern Region, U.S. Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, NM, and in the 
possession of the Office of the State Archaeologist, University of 
Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
    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 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 Office 
of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Ak Chin Indian Community of 
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River 
Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; the 
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of 
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham Nation of 
Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
    At an unknown date, human remains representing one individual were 
removed by an unknown person from a grave in the Sierra Ancha 
Experimental Forest, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, AZ. In 1994, 
the remains were discovered in the collections of the Iowa State 
University, Ames, IA, and transferred to the Office of the State 
Archaeologist Burials Program. No known individual was identified. No 
associated funerary objects are present.
    Limited accession information indicates that these human remains 
were recovered from a grave within the Sierra Ancha Experimental 
Forest, Tonto National Forest, AZ. Morphological cranial features and 
craniometric evidence indicate that this individual is Native American. 
Archeological and settlement sites within the Sierra Ancha Experimental 
Forest have been identified as Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam, and 
historically Hopi, Zuni, and Pima. The Anasazi, Mogollon, and Hohokam 
sites in this area are considered ancestral to the Ak Chin Indian 
Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Hopi Tribe, the Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Tohono O'odham Nation, and 
the Zuni Tribe, based on archeological evidence indicating cultural 
continuity since early precontact times, historical documents, and oral 
history.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the 
Southwestern Region, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, 
have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains 
listed above represent the physical remains of one individual of Native 
American ancestry. Also, officials of the Southwestern Region, U.S. 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, 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 the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak 
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River Indian Community of 
the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 
the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River 
Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Ak Chin Indian 
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the 
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, 
Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian 
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham 
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself 
to be culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Dr. 
Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwestern Region, USDA Forest 
Service, 517 Gold Avenue SW., Albuquerque, NM 87102, telephone (505) 
842-3238, before January 26, 2001. Repatriation of the human remains to 
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico may begin after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: December 11, 2000.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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