[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 170 (Tuesday, September 3, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46035-46036]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-18858]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0028647; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, 
Shoshone National Forest has completed an inventory of human remains in 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations and 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 USDA, Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest. 
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 USDA, Forest 
Service, Shoshone National Forest at the address in this notice by 
October 3, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Lisa Timchak, Forest Supervisor, Shoshone National Forest, 
808 Meadow Lane Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, telephone (307) 578-5187, 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 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 
Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY. The human remains were removed from 
Park County, WY.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 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 USDA, 
Shoshone National Forest professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Eastern Shoshone 
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (previously listed as the 
Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming); Nez Perce Tribe 
(previously listed as the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho); Northern Cheyenne 
Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; and the 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation.
    The Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously listed as the Oglala Sioux 
Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); and the Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota were 
invited to consult but did not participate.
    Hereafter, all Tribes listed in this section are referred to as 
``The Consulted and Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    On August 10, 1969, human remains representing, at minimum, two 
individuals were removed by Dr. George C. Frison from 48PA551, the Dead 
Indian site, which is located near the Dead Indian Campground in the 
Shoshone National Forest, Park County, WY. At the time, Frison was the 
Wyoming State Archeologist and Head of the Department of Anthropology 
at the University of Wyoming. The fragmentary human remains are those 
of a child eight--nine years old and an adult (represented by a chipped 
and worn tooth). The burial was reported as probably a secondary 
internment with no associated funerary objects. No known individuals 
were identified.
    The Dead Indian site was first visited by avocational archeologists 
in 1967. Subsequently the Wyoming Archaeological Society (WAS) 
conducted excavations there in 1969, 1971, and 1972. The major 
excavation of the site, in 1972, was supervised by George C. Frison of 
the University of Wyoming. Based on three radiocarbon tests and 
obsidian hydration tests, the site is McKean complex, Middle Archaic 
(3800+/-110 to 4430+/-250 B.P.).

Determinations Made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 
Service, Shoshone National Forest

    Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 
Shoshone National Forest have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on the archeological context, 
dental morphology, and features of the skeletal elements.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals 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 Crow Tribe of Montana.
     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 Crow Tribe of Montana.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to the Crow Tribe of Montana.

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 Lisa Timchak, Forest Supervisor, Shoshone 
National Forest, 808 Meadow Lane Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, telephone 
(307) 578-5187, email [email protected], by October 3, 2019. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains to the Crow Tribe of Montana may proceed.
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone 
National Forest is responsible for notifying The Consulted and Invited 
Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: August 6, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2019-18858 Filed 8-30-19; 8:45 am]
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