[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35780-35782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14728]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-15767; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Glenn A. Black Laboratory of 
Archaeology at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana 
University has completed an inventory of human remains, in consultation 
with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, 
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian 
tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice 
that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should 
submit a written request to the Indiana University NAGPRA Office. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian 
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to the 
Indiana University NAGPRA Office at the address in this notice by July 
24, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Jayne-Leigh Thomas, Indiana University, NAGPRA Office, 
Student Building 318, 701 E. Kirkwood

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Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, telephone (812) 856-5315, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under 
the control of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana 
University, Bloomington, IN. The human remains were removed from 
Maricopa County, AZ.
    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. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Indiana 
University professional staff in consultation with representatives of 
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Gila River Indian 
Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California 
and Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt 
River Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos 
Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto Apache 
Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache 
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe (previously listed 
as the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona); and 
the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

History and Description of the Remains

    During the 1940s-1960s, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from an unknown site along the Verde River near 
Horseshoe Dam in Maricopa County, AZ, by an unknown collector. The 
remains were sold by the collector's widow to a private purchaser in 
2013. The Indiana University NAGPRA Office was contacted regarding 
these remains, which were donated to the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of 
Archaeology in November 2013. The collection has been identified as the 
partial remains of a single child, aged 4-5 years. The human remains 
consist of a skull and mandible. No known individuals were identified. 
No associated funerary objects are present.
    Notes included with the collection indicated that the remains were 
discovered along the Verde River just below Horseshoe Dam, dating to 
1200-1400 A.D. and possibly being from the Salado culture. This time 
period also falls within the Hohokam culture in the Southwest, which 
dates from 300 to 1450 A.D. Archeological evidence and oral traditions 
have demonstrated a strong relationship of shared group identity that 
can be reasonably traced between the Salado and Hohokam cultures and 
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community 
of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and the Tohono O'odham Nation 
of Arizona. These four Indian tribes are one cultural group known as 
the O'odham. In 1990, the four O'odham Indian tribes issued a joint 
statement claiming cultural affiliation to the Salado and Hohokam 
archeological cultures, as well as to all others present in their 
aboriginal claims area in what is known today as Arizona and Mexico.
    A relationship of shared group identity can also reasonably be 
traced between Hohokam culture and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and the 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. Based on O'odham oral 
tradition, some of the people occupying the Hohokam area migrated north 
and joined the Zuni and Hopi. Pursuant to the Hopi Tribal Council 
Resolution H-70-94, the Hopi claim cultural affiliation with earlier 
cultural groups in Arizona including the Hohokam. In 2006, official 
representatives of the Hopi Tribe restated Hopi's shared group identity 
with Hohokam culture based on oral tradition, traditional geography, 
archaeological evidence, and on-going cultural traditions. In 1995, the 
Zuni Tribe issued a ``Statement of Cultural Affiliation with 
Prehistoric and Historic Cultures,'' in which a relationship of shared 
group identity with Hohokam culture based on oral traditions and 
archaeological evidence. Cultural affiliation to collections associated 
with the Hohokam and Salado archaeological cultures was also formalized 
in the official Zuni ``Policy Statement Regarding the Protection and 
Treatment of Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects.''

Determinations Made By Indiana University

    Officials of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at 
Indiana University have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     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 the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa 
(Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of 
the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt 
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, 
Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona, and the Zuni Tribe of the 
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Jayne-
Leigh Thomas, Indiana University, NAGPRA Office, Student Building 318, 
701 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405, telephone (812) 856-5315, 
email [email protected], by July 24, 2014. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila 
River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona, and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 
Reservation, New Mexico may proceed.
    Indiana University is responsible for notifying the Ak Chin Indian 
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; 
Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Quechan Tribe of 
the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California and Arizona; Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tohono 
O'odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona; White 
Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation,

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Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, 
Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe (previously listed as the 
Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai Reservation, Arizona); and the 
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: May 7, 2014.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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