[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 5026]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01356]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0029472; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects From the Little Bighorn Battlefield 
National Monument, MT in the Possession of the Little Bighorn 
Battlefield National Monument, National Park Service, Crow Agency, MT; 
Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument has corrected an inventory 
of human remains and associated funerary objects, published in a Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on March 16, 1999. This 
notice corrects the cultural affiliation. 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 Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. 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 Little Bighorn Battlefield National 
Monument at the address in this notice by February 27, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Wayne Challoner, Superintendent, Little Bighorn Battlefield 
National Monument, P.O. Box 39, Crow Agency, MT 59022, telephone (406) 
638-3201, 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 correction of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the U.S. Department of 
the Interior, National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield 
National Monument, Crow Agency, MT. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Little Bighorn Battlefield National 
Monument, Big Horn County, MT.
    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 
Superintendent, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
    This notice corrects the cultural affiliation published in a Notice 
of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (64 FR 13034-13035, 
March 16, 1999). Information provided by the Cheyenne and Arapaho 
Tribes, Oklahoma indicated that the human remains may not represent a 
Cheyenne individual as originally determined. A cultural affiliation 
study was completed which has reasonably traced a shared group identity 
between the Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Crow Tribe of Montana. Transfer of control of the items 
in this correction notice has not occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (64 FR 13034, March 16, 1999), column 
three, paragraph one, sentence three, is corrected by substituting the 
following sentence:

    Lastly, officials of the National Park Service have determined 
that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared 
group identity which can be traced between the Native American human 
remains and associated funerary objects and the Crow Tribe of 
Montana.

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 Wayne Challoner, Superintendent, Little 
Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, P.O. Box 39, Crow Agency, MT 
59022, telephone (406) 638-3201, email [email protected], by 
February 27, 2020. After that date, if no additional requestors have 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Crow Tribe of Montana may proceed.
    The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is responsible for 
notifying the Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as 
the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of 
the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of 
the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; 
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe 
of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Northern Cheyenne Tribe 
of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux 
Tribe (previously listed as the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge 
Reservation), South Dakota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian 
Reservation, South Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sisseton-
Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit 
Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota; 
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; 
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; and the Upper Sioux Community, 
Minnesota that this notice has been published.

    Dated: December 6, 2019.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-01356 Filed 1-27-20; 8:45 am]
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