[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 63 (Monday, April 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17571-17572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7982]


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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 U.S. Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 
Santa Fe, NM

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

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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 U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 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 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 Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 
the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas.
    Between 1970 and 1981, human remains representing 24 individuals 
were recovered from sites ENM 673, ENM 838, ENM 844, and ENM 880 in New 
Mexico during legally-authorized excavations and collections conducted 
by Cynthia Irwin-Williams with Eastern New Mexico University's Rio 
Puerco Valley Project. These human remains are presently curated at 
Eastern New Mexico University. No known individuals were identified. 
The two associated funerary objects are a pottery bowl and a sherd.
    Based on material culture, architecture, and site organization, 
sites ENM 673, ENM 838, ENM 844, and ENM 880 have been identified as a 
Chaocan outlier and three associated Anasazi pueblos occupied between 
C.E. 900-1300.
    In 1984, human remains representing one individual were recovered 
from site LA 45884 in New Mexico during legally-authorized excavations 
and collections by the Museum of New Mexico. No known individual was 
identified. No associated funerary objects were present.
    Based on material culture, architecture, and site organization, 
site LA 45884 has been identified as an Anasazi pithouse village 
occupied between C.E. 900-1100.
    Continuities of ethnographic materials, technology, oral 
traditions, and architecture indicate affiliation of sites with the 
Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and 
Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas.
    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 25 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 two 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 the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas. This 
notice has been sent to officials of the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 
the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; the 
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas. 
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 May 2, 2001. Repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; the Pueblo of 
Isleta, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; the Pueblo of 
Sandia, New Mexico; the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; the Pueblo of 
Zia, New Mexico; and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas may begin after 
that date if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: March 16, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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