[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30225-30226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14075]


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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.

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, Maxwell 
Museum of Anthropology (University of New Mexico), New Mexico State 
University Museum, Museum of New Mexico, San Juan County Museum, and 
Bureau of Land Management professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, 
New Mexico, and Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New 
Mexico; the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation.
    In 1915, human remains representing five individuals were recovered 
from an undesignated archeological site in Gobernado Canyon, Rio Arriba 
County, NM, during legally authorized excavations and collections 
conducted by Earl Morris, University of Colorado-Boulder, and the 
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY. These human remains 
are presently curated at the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, 
CO. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    Based on material culture, this Gobernador Canyon site has been 
identified as an Anasazi site occupied between C.E. 700 and 1100.
    In 1975, human remains representing one individual were recovered 
from site LA 3686, San Juan County, NM, during legally authorized 
excavations and collections by the School of American Research, Santa 
Fe, NM. These human remains are presently curated at the Maxwell Museum 
of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. No known individual 
was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
    Based on material culture and site organization, site LA 3686 has 
been identified as a small Anasazi pueblo occupied between C.E. 1100 
and 1300.
    In 1989, human remains representing one individual were recovered 
form site LA 16660, San Juan County, NM, during legally authorized 
excavations and collections by the Office of Contract Archeology, 
University of New Mexico. These human remains are presently curated at 
the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. No known 
individuals was identified. No associated funerary objects were 
present.
    Based on material culture, architecture, and site organization, 
site LA 16660 has been identified as a small

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Anasazi pueblo occupied between C.E. 900 and 1300.
    In 1979, human remains representing one individual were recovered 
from site LA 18800, San Juan County, NM, during legally authorized 
excavations conducted by the Division of Conservation Archeology, San 
Juan County Museum. No known individual was identified. The one 
associated funerary object is a pottery sherd.
    Based on consultation evidence and material culture, architecture, 
and site organization, site LA 18800 has been identified as a small 
Anasazi pueblo occupied between C.E. 900 and 1100.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Bureau 
of Land Management, New Mexico State Office 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 Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State 
Office also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 
one object listed above is 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 Bureau of Land 
Management, New Mexico State Office 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 object and the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 
New Mexico; and Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico. This notice has been sent to 
officials of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 
Mexico, and Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New 
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Texas; and 
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 object 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 July 5, 2001. Repatriation of 
the human remains and associated funerary object to the Pueblo of 
Acoma, New Mexico; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Juan, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; and Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico may begin 
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: May 17, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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