[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1939-1940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00431]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037216; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: University of Minnesota 
Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, St. 
Paul/Bemidji, MN; Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN; 
University of Colorado Museum (Boulder), Boulder, CO; Milwaukee Public 
Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Yale Peabody 
Museum, New Haven, CT; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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 University of Minnesota Twin Cities 
(UMN); Minnesota Indian Affairs Council; Science Museum of Minnesota; 
University of Colorado Museum (Boulder); Milwaukee Public Museum; 
Denver Art Museum; Yale Peabody Museum; and Cleveland Museum of Art, 
hereafter the Collaborating Museums, have amended a Notice of Inventory 
Completion published in the Federal Register on February 24, 2023. This 
notice amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection 
removed from Grant and Catron Counties, NM.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 12, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Alejandra Pe[ntilde]a Guti[eacute]rrez, Weisman Art Museum, 
University of Minnesota, 333 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, 
telephone (612) 624-5934, 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 
Collaborating Museums. 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 inventory or related records held by 
the Collaborating Museums.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (88 FR 11932-11934, 
February 24, 2023). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. This amendment is being made 
because physical inventory has identified additional items which were 
previously unreported, and because additional known items were 
subsequently identified to be associated funerary objects.

                                           Associated Funerary Objects
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                                           Original
                 Site                       number      Amended number             Amended description
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Cameron Creek and Warm Springs sites               571             575  One carved jade pendant, 92 stone tools
 in Grant County, NM.                                                    or other items, two carved shell or
                                                                         stone items, 43 shell items, one shell
                                                                         pendant, 16 bead lots, seven turquoise
                                                                         item lots, 45 bone tools or other
                                                                         items, 191 ceramic vessels, one non-
                                                                         vessel ceramic item, 167 ceramic sherds
                                                                         or sherd lots, four organic items
                                                                         including charcoal, and one adobe lot.
                                                                         In addition, the Collaborating Museums
                                                                         continue to look for two ceramic
                                                                         vessels and two turquoise pendants
                                                                         which are documented but not physically
                                                                         located.
Galaz Ruin site in Grant County, NM...           3,236           3,256  1,009 ceramic vessels, 23 ceramic non-
                                                                         vessel items, 798 ceramic sherds or
                                                                         sherd lots, three copper bell
                                                                         fragments, 51 bead lots, 738 stone
                                                                         tools or other items, 16 stone vessels,
                                                                         four lots of faunal material, 205 shell
                                                                         items, 51 turquoise items or lots, 260
                                                                         bone tools or other items, 17 horn
                                                                         items, 13 mineral samples or objects,
                                                                         20 unidentified organic items, and two
                                                                         unidentified residue samples. In
                                                                         addition, the Collaborating Museums
                                                                         continue to look for the missing 46
                                                                         associated funerary objects, which are
                                                                         34 pottery vessels, four bead lots,
                                                                         four shell adornments, one stone
                                                                         pendant, one stone axe, one stone
                                                                         palette, and one projectile point.
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Determinations (as Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the Collaborating Museums have determined that:
     The human remains described in this amended notice 
represent the physical remains of 198 individuals of Native American 
ancestry.
     The 4,234 objects described in this amended notice are 
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near

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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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Okhay 
Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, 
New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; 
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of 
Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New 
Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe 
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.

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 February 12, 2024. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Collaborating 
Museums 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. The Collaborating Museums is responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations 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, 
10.13, and 10.14.

    Dated: January 4, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00431 Filed 1-10-24; 8:45 am]
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