[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 86373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27364]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037050; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: Arizona 
State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Arizona State Museum, University of 
Arizona, has amended a Notice of Intent to Repatriate published in the 
Federal Register on October 17, 2018. This notice amends the number of 
cultural items in a collection removed from Pinal County, AZ.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after January 12, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 
telephone (520) 626-0320, 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 
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. Additional 
information on the amendments and determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or 
related records held by the Arizona State Museum, University of 
Arizona.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Intent to Repatriate in the Federal Register (83 FR 52532-52535, 
October 17, 2018). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of 
Intent to Repatriate has not occurred. This notice amends the number of 
unassociated funerary objects as listed in the original notice. An 
additional three unassociated funerary objects removed from AZ 
AA:3:17(ASM) in Pinal County, AZ, were identified.
    From AZ AA:3:17(ASM) in Pinal County, AZ, the 10 unassociated 
funerary objects (previously identified as seven unassociated funerary 
objects) are one ceramic bowl, one ceramic jar, one mano, one polishing 
stone, one stone cylinder, two stone knives, one shell fragment, and 
two shell bracelets.

Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, has 
determined that:
     The 326 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 human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and the Ak-Chin Indian Community; Gila 
River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; 
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the 
Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and 
the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 January 12, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Arizona State Museum, University of 
Arizona, 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. The Arizona 
State Museum, University of Arizona, 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, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: December 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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