[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51463-51464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25144]


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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 Possession of the Peabody Museum 
of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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 possession of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology 
and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
    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

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for the determinations within this notice.
    A detailed assessment of human remains and associated funerary 
objects was made by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 
professional staff in consultation with officials from the Tunica-
Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana.
    In 1972, human remains representing four individuals were collected 
from the Trudeau site in West Feliciana Parish, LA, by Jeffrey P. Brain 
as part of the Lower Mississippi Survey expedition. The Lower 
Mississippi Survey was a project of Harvard University faculty in 1972. 
No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects 
are present.
    The Trudeau site is known to have been the primary village and 
cemetery area of Tunica people from 1731 through 1764, based on Native 
American ceramics, glass beads, and European objects recovered from the 
site. Historical, ethnohistorical, and oral historical evidence 
summarized by Mr. Brain in his publication, Tunica Archaeology, support 
that the present-day descendants of the 18th-century Tunica are the 
Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have determined that, pursuant to 
43 CFR 10.2(d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the 
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry. 
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology also 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 Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of 
Louisiana.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Tunica-Biloxi Indian 
Tribe of Louisiana. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that 
believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these human remains 
should contact Patricia Capone, Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity 
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 496-3702, before November 
8, 2001. Repatriation of the human remains to the Tunica-Biloxi Indian 
Tribe of Louisiana may begin after that date if no other additional 
claimants come forward.

    Dated: July 18, 2001.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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