[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 10, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2001-2002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-649]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Correction; Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American 
Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of 
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, National Park Service, Harrison, 
NE and Scotts Bluff National Monument, National Park Service, Gerring, 
NE

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Correction.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service published a notice of inventory 
completion in the Federal Register on May 23, 2000 for Native American 
human remains and associated funerary objects from Agate Fossil Beds 
National Monument and Scotts Bluff National Monument. The notice 
incorrectly listed one human skull as likely representing the remains 
of a Native American individual and one deer bone associated with these 
remains as an associated funerary object. Based on additional 
information provided by an August 2000 bioanthropological analysis of 
this skull, the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument superintendent 
determined that the human remains are not Native American and, 
therefore, the deer bone associated with these remains is not an 
associated funerary object.

Correction

    In the Federal Register of May 23, 2000, FR Doc. 00-12852, page 
33350, in the second column, the paragraph beginning ``In 1968, human 
remains representing eight individuals'' is corrected as follows to 
reflect changes in the number of human remains and associated funerary 
objects:

    In 1968, human remains representing seven individuals were donated 
to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument by Margaret Cook. No known 
individuals were identified. The 10 associated funerary objects consist 
of 1 soil burial matrix containing numerous glass beads, 6 shell 
buttons and button fragments, 1 brass bell, 1 collection of cloth and 
leather fragments and 1 collection of plant seeds.


[[Page 2002]]


    In the Federal Register of May 23, 2000, FR Doc. 00-12852, page 
33350, in the third column, the paragraph beginning ``Through the 
physical anthropological examinations'' is corrected by deleting the 
following sentence:

    The physical anthropological examinations also determined that one 
of the individuals described above is likely Native American.

    In the Federal Register of May 23, 2000, FR Doc. 00-12852, 
beginning on page 33350 in the third column and ending on page 33351 in 
the first column, the following sentences are corrected to reflect 
changes in the number of human remains and associated funerary objects:

    Based on the above-mentioned information, the Agate Fossil Beds 
National Monument and Scotts Bluff National Monument superintendents 
determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains 
listed above represent 18 individuals of Native American ancestry. The 
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and Scotts Bluff National Monument 
superintendents also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2(d)(2), 
the 15 associated funerary 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.

    This correction has been sent to officials of the Apache Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of 
Montana; Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma; Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Comanche Indian 
Tribe, Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, 
South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of 
South Dakota; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache 
Tribe of the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, New Mexico; Kiowa 
Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Brule Sioux Trbe of the Lower Brule 
Reservation, South Dakota; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 
Reservation, New Mexico; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern 
Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Northwestern Band of Shoshoni 
Nation of Utah (Washakie); Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge 
Reservation, South Dakota; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Pawnee Indian Tribe 
of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of 
Nebraska; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 
Dakota; Santee Sioux Tribe of the Santee Reservation of Nebraska; 
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Shoshone-Bannock 
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of 
the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; 
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated 
Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

    Dated: January 1, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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