[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 141 (Monday, July 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 43116]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17642]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-10740; 2200-1100-665]


Notice of Inventory Completion: The University of Montana, 
Missoula, MT; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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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 
correction of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects in the possession of The University of Montana, Missoula, MT. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
various locations in western Montana.
    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.
    This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects 
previously published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003). In 2009 and 2011, 
associated funerary objects for human remains (UMFC01, UMFC24, and 
24MO1071) were discovered in the University of Montana's collection. 
This notice also corrects the minimum number of individuals by removing 
four sets of human remains (UMFC21, UMFC25, and UMFC72) originally 
published as separate individuals. Upon further review of the 
collection, these remains were not those of distinct individuals but 
could be connected to other sets of remains listed elsewhere in the 
notice. Transfer of control of the human remains to the tribe listed 
below has been completed.
    In the Federal Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003), 
paragraph four, is corrected by substituting the following:
    In 1952, human remains (UMFC01) representing a minimum of two 
individuals were removed from the University of Montana campus, 
Missoula County, MT. The remains were excavated by Carling Malouf. One 
bone was stained with a red substance likely to be ocher, which is 
consistent with a prehistoric Native American secondary burial 
practice. No known individuals were identified. The seven associated 
funerary objects are 1 copper bell, 1 set of copper beads, 1 copper 
coil, 1 shell pendant fragment, 1 set of arrow points, 1 set of lithic 
flakes, and 1 lot of beads of various sizes. The presence of glass seed 
beads, of types commonly traded to local tribes in the mid-19th 
century, dates the burials to that period.
    In the Federal Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003), 
paragraphs 10, 12, and 18 are deleted. These remains (UMFC21, UMFC25, 
and UMFC 72) are duplicative of the remains in paragraph four (UMFC01) 
as revised above, and remains published in a Notice of Inventory 
Completion in the Federal Register (75 FR 58430-58431, September 24, 
2010), paragraphs six and seven.
    In the Federal Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003), 
paragraph 11, sentence four, is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:
    The two associated funerary objects are one lot of animal teeth and 
one lot of small fossil shell beads, all covered with red ochre.
    In the Federal Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003), 
paragraph 19 is corrected by substituting the following:
    Prior to 1991, human remains (24MO1071) representing a minimum of 
one individual were removed from prehistoric archeological site 
24MO1071 in Missoula County, MT. Metric analysis and geographic 
location indicated that the individual was probably Native American. No 
known individual was identified. The 17 associated funerary objects are 
13 animal rib bones, 1 bird bone whistle, 1 chert flake, 1 chert tool, 
and 1 drill with a broken tip.
    In the Federal Register (68 FR 50187-50189, August 20, 2003), 
paragraph 24 is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

Determinations Made by The University of Montana

    Officials of The University of Montana have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9-10), the human remains 
described above represent the physical remains of 17 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 194 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.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the human 
remains and the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead 
Reservation, Montana.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the associated funerary objects should 
contact Sally Thompson, University of Montana, Anthropological Curation 
Facility, Department of Anthropology, Missoula, MT 59812, telephone 
(406) 243-5525, before August 22, 2012. Repatriation of the associated 
funerary objects to the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the 
Flathead Reservation, Montana, may proceed after that date if no 
additional claimants come forward.
    The University of Montana is responsible for notifying the 
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, 
Montana that this notice has been published.

    Dated: June 28, 2012.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012-17642 Filed 7-20-12; 8:45 am]
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