[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 43394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14379]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036123; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR

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 High Desert Museum has completed an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat 
County, WA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 7, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Michelle Seiler, High Desert Museum, 59800 South Hwy. 97, 
Bend, OR 97702, telephone (541) 382-4754 Ext. 376, 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 High 
Desert Museum. 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 High Desert 
Museum.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from Wasco County, OR. The human remains were removed from Memaloose 
Island by Sue Frewing, who accompanied her father there as a child. 
According to Frewing, at that time, the entire island was fully 
accessible by boat, as The Dalles Dam had not yet been constructed. On 
March 31, 1986, the human remains were donated to the High Desert 
Museum by Sue Frewing. The one associated funerary object is one lot 
consisting of loose beads, buttons, shells, and sand.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from Wasco County, OR/Klickitat County, WA. The human remains were 
removed from Memaloose Island and donated to the High Desert Museum at 
an unknown date. No associated funerary objects are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects 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, geographical, historical, and oral 
traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, High Desert Museum has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one lot of multiple objects described in this notice 
is 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and the associated 
funerary object described in this notice and the Confederated Tribes 
and Bands of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 
Indian Reservation; Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 
of Oregon; and the Nez Perce Tribe.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 7, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, High Desert Museum 
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. High Desert Museum 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: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14379 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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