Notice2023-01840
Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
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Published
January 30, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Field Museum of Natural History has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were removed from unknown location(s).
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5914-5915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01840]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035188; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, IL
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 Field Museum of Natural History has
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there
is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any Indian
Tribe. The human remains were removed from unknown location(s).
DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after March 1, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Helen Robbins, Repatriation Director, Field Museum of
Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496,
telephone (312) 665-7317, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d3bba1bcb1b1babda093b5bab6bfb7bea6a0b6a6befdbca1b4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e189938e8383888f92a18788848d858c949284948ccf8e9386">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
Field 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 the Field
Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, four individuals were
removed from unknown location(s). According to Museum records, these
human remains consisting of four crania were part of a group of
eighteen unaccessioned individuals that had been stored in a box
labeled ``Sun Dance, Arapaho.'' The Museum contends, based on
institutional history
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and collections practices, that the box was likely used previously for
a collection of Sun Dance materials, which did not include human
remains, without being re-labeled. Some time prior to 1985, catalog
cards were prepared for the eighteen individuals, identifying them as
``Arapaho?''. During a 1985-87 inventory, 12 of the 18 individuals were
identified as Basketmaker from San Juan County, Utah, and as coming to
the Museum as part of the Lang Collection from the University of
Chicago's Walker Museum. The other six individuals could not be
identified. The Museum determined these human remains to be culturally
unidentifiable due to a lack of information. The Northern Arapaho
Tribe's position is that the Museum's records were, at some point,
sufficient for the Museum to conclude that the requested human remains
were possibly Arapaho, and that there is no extant contrary evidence
sufficient to overturn this initial conclusion. The fact that there is
no present evidence could simply be the result, in the Tribe's view,
that the evidence establishing these remains as Arapaho previously
simply didn't survive. Accordingly, the Northern Arapaho Tribe has
requested repatriation of four of these individuals. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains in this notice were removed from unknown
geographic location(s). The evidence from the Field Museum's records
indicates that the human remains may have come from either accession
694 (Arapaho materials from Wind River Reservation, Wyoming), accession
777 (Sun Dance, Arapaho materials from the Cheyenne-Arapaho
Reservation, Oklahoma), or accession 1468 (Basketmaker material from
San Juan County, Utah).
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Field Museum has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice may have been
removed from the aboriginal land of Big Pine Band Paiute Tribe of the
Owens Valley; Burns Paiute Tribe; Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the
Chemehuevi Reservation, California; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes,
Oklahoma; Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian
Reservation, Arizona and California; Confederated Tribes of the Goshute
Reservation, Nevada and Utah; 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; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Kaibab Band of
Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, Arizona; Las Vegas
Tribe of Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian Colony, Nevada;
Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band
of Paiute Indians of the Moapa River Indian Reservation, Nevada;
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Ohkay
Owingeh, New Mexico; 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); 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 Sandia, 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;
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada; San
Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Shoshone-
Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation; Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of
the Duck Valley Reservation, Nevada; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada;
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain
Ute Tribe; Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute
Reservation, California; Walker River Paiute Tribe of the Walker River
Reservation, Nevada; Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony &
Campbell Ranch, Nevada; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after March 1, 2023. If competing requests
for disposition are received, the Field Museum must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The Field 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 and Sec.
10.11.
Dated: January 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-01840 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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