[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64461-64462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20196]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036579; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 
Las Vegas, NV

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 Nevada, Las Vegas has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Nye 
County, NV.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after October 19, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Daniel Benyshek, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S 
Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, telephone (702) 895-2070, 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 
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 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 University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, 12 individuals were removed 
from Nye County, NV (Accession #s A200 (Bowman Site), AHUR 24 (Bowman 
Site), AHUR 25 (Bowman Site), AHUR 26 (Bowman Site), AHUR 27 (Bowman 
Site), AHUR 63 (Bowman Site), AHUR 64 (Bowman Site), AHUR 65 (Bowman 
Site), AHUR 72 (Bowman Site), AHUR 129 (Pahrump Valley Site), and FHUR 
63 (Unknown Site)). The 52 associated funerary objects include pottery 
sherds, stone tools, stone flakes, turquoise, faunal bone, shell, 
mineral, bone awls, sandstone, ochre, charcoal, shell disc beads, a 
bone tube, organic material, worked bones, lithics, lithic knives, 
projectile points, burned bone, obsidian flakes, a lithic drill, square 
shell beads, round shell beads, a flaked obsidian tool, flaked 
quartzite fragment, chert flakes, CCD flakes, flaked limestone, and 
mother of pearl.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
were removed from known geographic locations in Nye County, NV. These 
locations are the aboriginal lands of one or more Indian Tribes. The 
following information was used to identify the aboriginal land: a final 
judgment of the Indian Claims Commission.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the University of 
Nevada, Las Vegas has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 12 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 52 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.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and 
any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice were removed from the aboriginal land of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; 
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation, Nevada; Fort 
Independence Indian Community of Paiute Indians of the Fort 
Independence Reservation, California; Fort McDermitt Paiute and 
Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and 
Oregon; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, 
Arizona; Las Vegas Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian 
Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian 
Reservation, Nevada; Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar Band of 
Paiutes, Kanosh Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, Indian 
Peaks Band of Paiutes, and Shivwits Band of Paiutes); Paiute-Shoshone 
Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pyramid Lake Paiute 
Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada; Reno-Sparks Indian 
Colony, Nevada; Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada 
(Four constituent bands: Battle Mountain Band; Elko Band; South Fork 
Band; and Wells Band); Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony & 
Campbell Ranch, Nevada; and the Yomba Shoshone Tribe of the Yomba 
Reservation, Nevada.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 
19, 2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, the 
University of Nevada, Las Vegas must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single 
request and not competing requests. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas 
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 and 
10.11.


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    Dated: September 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-20196 Filed 9-18-23; 8:45 am]
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