[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2918-2919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-01624]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0027190; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Oregon Parks and Recreation 
Department, Salem, OR, and Oregon State University, Department of 
Anthropology, Corvallis, OR

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Oregon State University, Department of Anthropology and 
the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) 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 Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects 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 Oregon Parks and Recreation Department at 
the address in this notice by March 11, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Nancy Nelson, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department 
Archaeologist, 725 Summer Street NE, Suite C, Salem, OR 97301, 
telephone (503) 986-0578.

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 Oregon Parks and 
Recreation Department, Salem, OR, and in the custody of the Oregon 
State University, Department of Anthropology, Corvallis, OR. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Oceanside 
Beach State Recreation Site (35TI47) in Tillamook County, OR.
    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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Oregon Parks 
and Recreation Department and Oregon State University, Department of 
Anthropology professional staff in consultation with representatives of 
the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon (previously listed 
as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation) and the 
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, hereafter 
referred to as ``The Consulted Tribes.''
    The Burns Paiute Tribe (previously listed as the Burns Paiute Tribe 
of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon); Confederated Tribes of 
the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians; Confederated Tribes of the 
Umatilla Indian Reservation (previously listed as the Confederated 
Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, Oregon); Confederated Tribes of the 
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Coquille Indian Tribe (previously 
listed as the Coquille Tribe of Oregon); Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe 
of Indians (previously listed as the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians 
of Oregon); and the Klamath Tribes were notified, but did not 
participate in consultation. Hereafter, these tribes are referred to as 
``The Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1977, human remains representing, at minimum, three individuals 
were removed from 35TI47, Oceanside Beach State Recreation Site in 
Tillamook County, OR, by Oregon State University. The excavation took 
place at the request of the OPRD to assess the impacts of proposed park 
improvements. The 20 associated funerary objects are ten olivella shell 
beads; one antler or bone

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wedge; one blade; one modified bone; one non-human bone fragment; one 
unidentified lithic; three projectile points; one camas bulb; and one 
lot of bagged flakes, glass, shell, ecofacts, lithics, and unidentified 
botanical remains.
    Ethnographic records indicate that Oceanside, located on the sand 
spit that defines the southern edge of Tillamook Bay, was occupied by 
the Tillamook. Based on geographical, ethnographic, linguistic, 
kinship, oral historical and historical evidence, a relationship of 
shared group identity between the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians 
of Oregon (previously listed as the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 
Reservation) and the Tillamook at Oceanside can be reasonably traced 
historically. Based on geographical, ethnographic, linguistic and 
historical evidence, a relationship of shared group identity between 
the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the 
Tillamook at Oceanside also can be reasonably traced historically.

Determinations Made by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department

    Officials of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of three individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 20 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 
Consulted Tribes.

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 Nancy Nelson, Oregon Parks and Recreation 
Department Archaeologist, 725 Summer Street NE, Suite C, Salem, OR 
97301, telephone (503) 986-0578, by March 11, 2019. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to The Consulted Tribes 
may proceed.
    The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department is responsible for 
notifying The Consulted Tribes and the Invited Tribes that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: December 17, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-01624 Filed 2-7-19; 8:45 am]
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