[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 112 (Wednesday, June 10, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35436-35437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-12554]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030352; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: History Colorado, Formerly 
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: History Colorado 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 History Colorado. 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 History Colorado 
at the address in this notice by July 10, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Isabel Tovar, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 
80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, 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 History Colorado, Denver, CO. The human remains were 
removed from Lincoln County, CO.
    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 History 
Colorado professional staff in consultation with representatives of the 
following Indian Tribes: The Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River 
Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously 
listed as Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, 
Oklahoma; Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, 
Wyoming; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, 
New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New 
Mexico; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian 
Reservation, Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously listed as Oglala 
Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); Pawnee Nation 
of Oklahoma; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of 
the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Southern Ute Indian Tribe 
of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of 
North & South Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 
Reservation, North Dakota; Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as 
Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 
Mexico & Utah); and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. 
The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek 
Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Tribe of Montana; Kiowa Indian Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (previously listed as Pueblo of San 
Juan); and the Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico were invited to consult 
but did not participate. Hereafter, all the Tribes listed above are 
referred to as ``The Consulted and Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    Around 1935, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from a site one and a half miles west of Karval, Lincoln 
County, CO. In August 2018, a private citizen rediscovered the human 
remains--a cranium--while helping a family friend whose father had 
removed the cranium. The Lincoln County Coroner ruled out a forensic 
interest and released jurisdiction over the human remains to the Office 
of the State Archaeologist. Osteological analysis of the human remains 
(OAHP 337) conducted at the Metropolitan State University of Denver 
Human Identification Laboratory determined that the human remains 
belong to a Native American adult female. No known individual was 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present.

Determinations Made by History Colorado

    Officials of History Colorado have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on osteological analysis and 
burial context.
     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(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 Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne and 
Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes 
of Oklahoma); and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne 
Indian Reservation, Montana (hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
     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 Tribes.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to The Tribes.

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 Isabel Tovar, History Colorado, 1200 
Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone (303) 866-4531, email 
[email protected], by July 10, 2020. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to The Tribes may proceed.

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    History Colorado is responsible for notifying The Consulted and 
Invited Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: May 15, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-12554 Filed 6-9-20; 8:45 am]
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