[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43396-43397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14380]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036124; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 intends to repatriate 
certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated 
funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural 
items were removed from Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat County, WA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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 summary or related records held by High Desert 
Museum.

Description

    Forty-nine cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR. These 
cultural items 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, these cultural items 
were donated to the High Desert Museum by Sue Frewing. The 49 
unassociated funerary objects are five cylindrical beads, one disk 
shaped bead, one brass bead, two strings of beads, five animal teeth or 
claws, one awl, one piece of leather with brass tacks, one piece of 
wood with brass tack, two rusted nails, one piece of a buckle, two 
brass buttons, 16 brass tacks, one piece of wood, one piece of green 
fabric, one Dentalium shell, and eight shells with sand.
    Three lots of cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR, 
and Klickitat County, WA. Around 1960, Erna Mader Rose removed these 
cultural items from Memaloose Island in either Wasco County, OR, or 
Klickitat County, WA. On July 6, 1994, Marian M. Campbell, acting as 
Erna Rose's executrice, donated them to the High Desert Museum. The 
three lots of unassociated funerary objects are one lot consisting of a 
Riker mount with seed and shell beads, rolled copper fragments, 
dentalium, carved wood or bone fragment; one lot consisting of glass 
beads; and one lot consisting of shell and bone beads.
    Ten cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR. In 1961, 
Erna Mader Rose removed these cultural items from the Bead Patch Site 
next to The Dalles Bridge. On July 6, 1994, Marian M. Campbell, acting 
as Erna Rose's executrice, donated them to the High Desert Museum. The 
10 unassociated funerary objects are six stone point fragments; two 
stone projectile points; one stone drill; and one stone bead.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items 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, the High Desert Museum has determined that:
     The 62 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items 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.

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Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items 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 cultural items 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 10.8, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14380 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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