[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 120 (Friday, June 25, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33736-33737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13509]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0032104; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of 
the Interior, National Park Service, Tuzigoot National Monument, 
Clarkdale, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
Tuzigoot National Monument, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the 
cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of 
any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this 
notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written 
request to Tuzigoot National Monument. If no additional claimants come 
forward, transfer of control of the cultural items 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 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to Tuzigoot National Monument at 
the address in this notice by July 26, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lloyd Masayumptewa, Acting 
Superintendent, Tuzigoot National Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, 
AZ 86322, telephone (928) 567-5276, 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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
Tuzigoot National Monument, Clarkdale, AZ, that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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, Tuzigoot National Monument.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    Tuzigoot Pueblo, Hatalacva Pueblo, and Tuzigoot Extension Pueblo in 
the Verde Valley of Arizona, were excavated in 1933 and 1934 by 
University of Arizona graduate students, Louis Caywood and Edward 
Spicer, when the three sites were on private land owned by the United 
Verde Copper Company. The three sites were excavated as part of a 
single project funded through the Civil Works Administration. 
Excavation notes indicate that several of the human remains excavated 
during this project were left in-situ or were reburied at the close of 
the excavation in 1934 without the associated grave goods, which were 
taken to a private museum in Clarkdale, AZ, or held in private hands. 
When Tuzigoot National Monument was established in 1939, the artifacts 
were transferred to Tuzigoot National Monument.
    Between 1933-1934, 17 cultural items were removed from Hatalacva 
Pueblo in

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Yavapai County, AZ. The 17 unassociated funerary objects are 13 bowls, 
one pendent, one cup, one necklace, and one awl.
    Between 1933-1934, 7,171 cultural items were removed from Tuzigoot 
Pueblo in Yavapai County, AZ. The 7,171 unassociated funerary objects 
are one bow, two basketry fragments, one spindle whorl, two axes, one 
crystal, one prayer stick, 19 dendrochronology samples, 13 jars, 84 
bowls, four miniature bowls, four pitchers, four ladles, one miniature 
jar, 6,969 beads, 12 pendants, 19 bracelets, three unworked shells, 
eight projectile points, six necklaces, five rings, four worked shells, 
one worked sherd, two worked bones, two drills, two unworked bones, and 
one pigment.
    Between 1933-1934, 896 cultural items were removed from Tuzigoot 
Extension Pueblo in Yavapai County, AZ. The 896 unassociated funerary 
objects are 19 bowls, one jar, one miniature jar, one ladle, one 
whistle, one bracelet, one ring, 844 beads, six pendants, 14 projectile 
points, one crystal, two ground stone artifacts, two knives, and two 
drills.
    Tuzigoot Pueblo is a large pueblo with more than 100 rooms, which 
is classified by archeologists as Southern Sinagua, Honanki and 
Tuzigoot phases. Occupation dates range from A.D. 1125-1425. Tuzigoot 
Extension Pueblo and Hatalacva Pueblo are multi-room pueblos near 
Tuzigoot National Monument, also classified as Southern Sinagua, 
Honanki, and Tuzigoot phases.
    The Hopi Tribe of Arizona considers all of Arizona to be within 
traditional Hopi lands or within areas where Hopi clans migrated in the 
past. Evidence demonstrating continuity between the people that lived 
at Tuzigoot, Tuzigoot Extension, and Hatalacva and the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona includes archeological, anthropological, linguistic, folkloric, 
and oral traditions. Ceramic vessels made only on the Hopi mesas as 
well as coiled basketry demonstrate continuity between Tuzigoot Pueblo, 
Tuzigoot Extension Pueblo, and Hatalacva Pueblo, and the Hopi people. 
During consultation, Hopi clan members also identified ancestral names 
and traditional stories about specific events and ancestral people in 
the Verde Valley.

Determinations Made by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National 
Park Service, Tuzigoot National Monument

    Officials of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park 
Service, Tuzigoot National Monument have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 8,084 cultural items 
described above 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 8,084 
unassociated funerary objects and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Lloyd Masayumptewa, Acting Superintendent, 
Tuzigoot National Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, AZ 86322, 
telephone (928) 567-5276, email [email protected], by July 26, 
2021. After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, 
transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Hopi 
Tribe of Arizona may proceed.
    The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 
Tuzigoot National Monument is responsible for notifying the Ak-Chin 
Indian Community [previously listed as the Ak Chin Indian Community of 
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona]; Fort McDowell 
Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River 
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-
Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; 
Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp 
Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe 
[previously listed as Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai 
Reservation, Arizona]; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico that this notice has been published.

    Dated: June 9, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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