[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 188 (Monday, September 29, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58380-58381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23082]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16518; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate a Cultural Item: U.S. Department 
of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations, has determined that the cultural item listed in this 
notice meets the definition of unassociated funerary object. Lineal 
descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim this 
cultural item should submit a written request to the U.S. Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. If no additional claimants come 
forward, transfer of control of the cultural item 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 
claim this cultural item should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to the U.S. Department of the 
Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs at the address in this notice by 
October 29, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, Museum Program Manager/NAGPRA Coordinator, U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 12220 Sunrise 
Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390-6343, 
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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate a cultural item under the 
control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Washington, DC that meets the definition of unassociated 
funerary object under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural item. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Item

    At an unknown date in the 1930s or 1940s, one cultural item was 
taken from a cemetery in the village of Sikort Chuapo in the Pozo 
Redondo Valley, Hickiwan District of the Tohono O'odham Nation in Pima 
County, AZ. The item was donated to the Organ Pipe Cactus National 
Monument at an unknown date in the 1950s. During a review of the 
inventory, National Park Service staff became aware that the item was 
removed from the exterior of park boundaries and control of the item 
rests with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The one unassociated funerary 
object is a stone doll that was removed from a child's grave.
    Sikort Chuapo has been an established Tohono O'odham village dating 
back to the 1870s and likely earlier. It was common practice to place 
such objects on the graves of both adults and children. Based on 
catalog record of the object, its geographic origin, and the 
description of traditional territory of the tribe, these objects are 
believed to be culturally affiliated with the Tohono O'odham Nation of 
Arizona.

Determinations Made by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs

    Officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the one cultural item 
described 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 and is believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary object and Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
this cultural item should submit a written request with information in 
support of the claim to Anna Pardo, Museum Program Manager/NAGPRA 
Coordinator, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, Reston, VA 20191, telephone 
(703) 390-6343, email [email protected], by October 29, 2014. After 
that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of 
control of the unassociated funerary object to Tohono O'odham Nation of 
Arizona may proceed.
    The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs is 
responsible for notifying the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona that 
this notice has been published.


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    Dated: September 12, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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