[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 4 (Thursday, January 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 810-811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00074]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-19847; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: State Historical Society of North 
Dakota, Bismarck, ND

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The State Historical Society of North Dakota has completed an 
inventory of human remains, and in consultation with the appropriate 
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that 
there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any 
present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 
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 State 
Historical Society of North Dakota. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Indian tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: 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 State 
Historical Society of North Dakota at the address in this notice by 
February 8, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Wendi Murray, State Historical Society of North Dakota, 612 
East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505, telephone (701) 328-3506, 
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 State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, 
ND. The human remains were removed from Camp Grafton, Ramsey County, 
ND.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25

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U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). 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 the State 
Historical Society of North Dakota professional staff in consultation 
with representatives of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort 
Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Crow Tribe of Montana; Lower Sioux 
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of 
the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Sisseton-Wahpeton 
Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake 
Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; 
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; 
and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 2003, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual, 
were removed from site 32RY147 on state land at Camp Grafton in Ramsey 
County, ND. The human remains (a toe bone) were recovered during a 
testing project undertaken by the Department of Anthropology, 
University of North Dakota for the North Dakota Army National Guard. 
The site, described in the final report as an artifact scatter, is 
located in the north-central portion of Camp Grafton North, Ramsey 
County, ND, on top of a densely forested hill. No known individuals 
were identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
    No artifacts, burial mounds, or funerary structures suggesting the 
presence of a burial at or near the location were reported to exist at 
the site. The presence of ceramics and the recovery of a Besant-like 
projectile point fragment at the site suggest that it was probably 
occupied during the Woodland or Early Plains Village period (500 B.C.-
A.D. 1300).

Determinations Made by the State Historical Society of North Dakota

    Officials of the State Historical Society of North Dakota have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remain described 
in this notice is Native American based on the context of its recovery. 
They were recovered from a prehistoric Native American site, which also 
generated ceramic, lithic, and other artifacts consistent with 
prehistoric Native American occupation.
     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), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian tribe.
     According to final judgments of the Indian Claims 
Commission or the Court of Federal Claims, the land from which the 
Native American human remains were removed is the aboriginal land of 
the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South 
Dakota, and the Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders, indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains were removed 
is the aboriginal land of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake 
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota and the Spirit Lake Tribe, North 
Dakota.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake 
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota, and the Spirit Lake Tribe, North 
Dakota.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    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 Wendi Murray, State Historical Society of 
North Dakota, 612 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58505, telephone 
(701) 328-3506, email [email protected], by February 8, 2016. After that 
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake 
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota, and the Spirit Lake Tribe, North 
Dakota, may proceed.
    The State Historical Society of North Dakota is responsible for 
notifying the the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse 
Reservation, South Dakota, and the Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota that 
this notice has been published.

    Dated: November 23, 2015.
Amberleigh Malone,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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