[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56872-56873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24766]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0026864; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office, Boise, ID

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office (BLM) has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, 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 associated funerary objects 
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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the Bureau of Land 
Management, Idaho State 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 and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State 
Office at the address in this notice by December 14, 2018.

ADDRESSES: F. Kirk Halford, BLM Idaho State NAGPRA Coordinator, Idaho 
Bureau of Land Management, 1387 South Vinnell Way, Boise, ID 83709, 
telephone (208) 373-4043, 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 and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office, Boise, ID 
and housed at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, Earl H. Swanson 
Archaeological Repository, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 
(IMNH). The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed 
from Hanging Valley Cave (10JE5), Jerome County, ID, on land 
administered by the BLM.
    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 the BLM and 
IMNH professional staff in consultation with representatives of the 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation and the Shoshone-
Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada.

History and Description of the Remains

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from a crevice in Hanging Valley Cave (10JE5) 
in Jerome County, ID, by Gene Titmus of Twin Falls, ID. In 1962, Mr. 
Titmus turned over the human remains to IMNH. Forensics analysis of the 
two parietal cranial bones conducted by IMNH concluded the human 
remains were from one middle aged individual based on ``obliteration of 
the sagittal sutures.'' Burning on the human remains suggests they were 
cremated. No known individuals were identified. The seven associated 
funerary objects are six Rose Spring/Eastgate corner notched projectile 
points and one basal fragment.
    Based on projectile point typology and chronologies for southern 
Idaho, the site can be dated to the Late Period, with a date range from 
A.D. 300 to 1850. As evidenced by the geographic location (Jerome 
County, ID), chronology of the site, archeological, ethnographic, oral 
history and historic evidence, the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are determined to be culturally affiliated to the Uto 
Aztecan speaking Bannock, Northern Shoshone and Northern Paiute tribes 
who inhabited the region during the period of use and today. The burial 
site is within the territory of the Northwestern Band of Shoshone 
Nation, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation, 
Idaho, and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, 
Nevada. In consultation with the tribes, and as supported in

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ethnographies, the seven projectile points determined to be associated 
funerary objects are the types of objects interred with burials.

Determinations Made by the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State 
Office

    Officials of the Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office 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(3)(A), the seven objects 
described in this notice 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 Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects and the 
Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation (previously listed as Northwestern 
Band of Shoshoni Nation and the Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation 
(Washakie)); Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation; and 
the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada.

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 and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to F. Kirk Halford, BLM Idaho State NAGPRA 
Coordinator, Idaho Bureau of Land Management, 1387 South Vinnell Way, 
Boise, ID 83709, telephone (208) 373-4043, email [email protected], by 
December 14, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation 
(previously listed as Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation and the 
Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation (Washakie)); Shoshone-Bannock 
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation; and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of 
the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada may proceed.
    The Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office is responsible 
for notifying the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation (previously 
listed as Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation and the Northwestern 
Band of Shoshoni Nation (Washakie)); Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the 
Fort Hall Reservation; and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck 
Valley Reservation, Nevada that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 22, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-24766 Filed 11-13-18; 8:45 am]
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