[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 144 (Friday, July 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48910-48911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16063]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036251; 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 the area of the Columbia and upper 
Snake Rivers.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 28, 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, two individuals were 
removed from the area of the Columbia and upper Snake Rivers. In July 
of 1966, Charles and Edith McGill purchased these human remains and 
cultural items from Bill Reierson, owner of Kurio Kabin in Cashmere, 
WA. At the time of purchase, the store identified these items as being 
from the Columbia and Snake River areas. Kurio Kabin, a rock shop, was 
located in an area of Washington with an active group that regularly 
looted sites and graves in the area of the Columbia and upper Snake 
Rivers. Charles and Edith McGill donated the human remains and 
associated funerary objects listed in this

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notice to the High Desert Museum on August 13, 1992. The 58 associated 
funerary objects are 38 pieces of rolled copper trade stock; five 
pieces of copper trade stock; one stone bead; one twisted wire (with 
one clear glass bead and one green glass bead); four pieces of rolled 
copper on braided hemp; one rolled copper strung on hemp; four pieces 
of rolled copper with hemp fragments; three pieces of rolled copper; 
and one necklace (made of rolled copper with square piece of copper on 
monofilament with dentalium and rolled copper).

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: geographical and historical.

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 human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 58 objects described in this notice 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Confederated Tribes and Bands 
of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation; 
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 identified in this 
notice and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian 
Tribes, the Wanapum Band, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
    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 
28, 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: July 19, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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