[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 9905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03236]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035338; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Northern Colorado, 
Greeley, CO

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) 
has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that 
there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human 
remains were removed from Weld County, CO.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after March 17, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Andrew T. Creekmore III, University of Northern 
Colorado, 501 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80638, telephone (970) 351-2761, 
email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
UNC. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the UNC.

Description

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Weld County, CO. The human remains belong 
to one adult female. No known individual was identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    In the 1970s, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Weld County, CO. The human remains belong 
to one adult of indeterminate sex. No known individual was identified. 
No associated funerary objects are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains in this notice are connected to one or more 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier 
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: archeological, biological, 
geographical, and oral traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the UNC has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice 
and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; Fort Belknap Indian 
Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana; Northern Arapaho 
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne Tribe 
of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Southern Ute 
Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; and the Ute 
Mountain Ute Tribe.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after March 17, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the UNC must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the 
human remains are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The UNC is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: February 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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