[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13738-13739]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03654]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037435; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: 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.

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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 completed an inventory of 
associated funerary objects and have determined that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice 
may occur on or after March 25, 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].

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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, and additional information on the determinations 
in this notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in 
the inventory or related records. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, 19 funerary objects have been 
reasonably identified as associated with human remains described on a 
previous notice submitted by the Collaborating Museums. The 19 
associated funerary objects are bowls with painted decoration over 
white slip. These items were excavated from the Cameron Creek site in 
Grant County NM in 1923, 1927, and 1928 by multiple institutions in 
partnership including the University of Minnesota. While human remains 
were transported to the University of Minnesota, funerary items were 
divided among participating institutions, including the Santa Fe Museum 
(now the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology). 
The latter museum sold 20 bowls, including those listed here, to the 
Cleveland Museum of Art in 1930. The Cameron Creek site is identified 
by archaeologists as a Mimbres culture site.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available 
about the associated funerary objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The Collaborating Museums have determined that:
     The 19 objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the 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 associated funerary 
objects in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative 
identified in this notice under 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after March 25, 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 associated funerary objects are considered a 
single request and not competing requests. The Collaborating Museums 
are 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 10.10.

    Dated: February 14, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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