[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50067-50068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20616]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0028836; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Omaha District, Omaha, NE, and South Dakota State Archaeological 
Research Center, Rapid City, SD

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (USACE, Omaha 
District) 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 no 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the USACE Omaha District. If 
no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request with information in support of 
the request to the USACE Omaha District at the address in this notice 
by October 24, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha 
District, ATTN: CENWO-PMA-C, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, 
telephone (402) 995-2674, 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. Army Corps of 
Engineers, Omaha District, Omaha, NE, and in the physical custody of 
the South Dakota State Archaeological Research Center, Rapid City, SD. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
site 39BO0206 in Bon Homme County, SD.
    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 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 South Dakota 
State Archaeological Research Center (SARC) and USACE Omaha District 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1964, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from the Harmon Site, 39BO0206, in Bon Homme County, SD. 
The human remains were collected by James Howard and Robert Gant, 
archeologists from the University of South Dakota-Vermillion Museum, 
during a salvage excavation of a burial eroding out of the cutbank on 
the Gavins Point Reservoir. The human remains and funerary objects were 
stored at the South Dakota-Vermilion Museum, which housed SARC at the 
time, and then were transferred to the new SARC facility at Fort Meade, 
SD, in 1976. The majority of the human remains were reburied at site 
39ST0015 in 1986. The following year, the SARC facility moved from Fort 
Meade, SD, to Rapid City, SD. During an inventory at SARC in 1992, a 
small bag containing post-cranial remains from the re-buried individual 
was found, along with the funerary objects that had not been reburied. 
No known individuals were identified. The five associated funerary 
objects are one faunal bone, one lithic biface, one lithic core 
fragment, one unmodified stone, and one lithic shatter piece.

Determinations Made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

    Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on archeological context and 
morphological features of the human remains.
     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 five 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), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and associated funerary objects and any present-day 
Indian Tribe.
     According to final judgments of the Indian Claims 
Commission, the land from which the Native American human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the 
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
     Treaties indicate that the land from which the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects were removed is 
the aboriginal land of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects may be to the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Ms. 
Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, ATTN: 
CENWO-PMA-C, 1616 Capitol Avenue, Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 
995-2674, email [email protected], by October 24, 2019. 
After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota may proceed.
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District is responsible for

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notifying the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: September 3, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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