[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47828-47829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13686]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Pacific Lutheran University, 
Tacoma, WA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects in the possession of Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
Walworth County, SD.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Pacific 
Lutheran University professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
Reservation and Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 
Reservation, North Dakota.
    In 1932, human remains representing a minimum of two individuals 
were removed from a site near the mouth of Swan Creek, north of the 
town of LeBeau, Walworth County, SD, by Dr. W.H. Over, curator of the 
museum of South Dakota State University at Vermillion, SD. 
Subsequently, South Dakota State University transferred the human 
remains and associated funerary objects to a private collector, Jens 
Knudsen, a biology professor at the Pacific Lutheran University. Mrs. 
Knudsen, the widow of Mr. Knudsen, transferred the human remains and 
associated funerary objects to Pacific Lutheran University. No known 
individuals were identified. The 56 associated funerary objects are 1 
string of small beads, 3 sets of glass beads on sinew from a garment, 2 
glass beads attached to leather, 7 loose glass beads, 1 mirror 
fragment, 16 stone ``bird'' points, 10 stone ``thumb nail'' scrapers, 1 
stone knife, 1 stone graver, 1 lot of cloth and leather fragments, 4 
thong shapers, 1 lot of ``needle bones,'' 6 pottery sherds, 1 piece of 
carbonized corn, and 1 lot of red pigment.
    Documentation that accompanied the collection from South Dakota 
State University indicates that the human remains and associated 
funerary objects were recovered from a site occupied by the ``Ree'' or 
Arikara Indians. The descendants of the Arikara are members of the 
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
    Officials of Pacific Lutheran University have determined that, 
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above 
represent the physical remains of two individuals of Native American 
ancestry. Officials of Pacific Lutheran University also have determined 
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 56 objects described 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 Pacific Lutheran University have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced 
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 
Reservation, North Dakota.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact David R. 
Huelsbeck, Anthropology Department, Pacific Lutheran University, 
Tacoma, WA 98447, telephone (253) 535-7196, before September 18, 2006. 
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to 
the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 
Dakota may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.
    Pacific Lutheran University is responsible for notifying the 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, 
South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, 
South Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, 
South Dakota; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South 
Dakota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 
Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of 
North & South Dakota; and Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 
Reservation, North Dakota that this notice has been published.


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    Dated: July 7, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-13686 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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