Notice2023-02065
Notice of Inventory Completion: Oregon State University NAGPRA Office, Corvallis, OR
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Published
February 1, 2023
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Oregon State University NAGPRA Office (acting in place of the Oregon State University Anthropology Department) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Benton, Clatsop, and Linn Counties in Oregon.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02065]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035229; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Oregon State University NAGPRA
Office, Corvallis, OR
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 Oregon State University NAGPRA Office
(acting in place of the Oregon State University Anthropology
Department) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Benton,
Clatsop, and Linn Counties in Oregon.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 3, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Marie Alapisco, Oregon State University NAGPRA Office,
106 Gilkey Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, telephone (541) 737-4075, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#016560766f6c607368642f606d60716872626e416e7364666e6f72756075642f646574"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="caaeabbda4a7abb8a3afe4aba6abbaa3b9a9a58aa5b8afada5a4b9beabbeafe4afaebf">[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
Oregon State University NAGPRA Office. 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 Oregon State University NAGPRA Office.
Description
In 1970, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from Benton County, OR, by Oregon State University (OSU)
field crews under the supervision of Dr. Wilbur A. Davis, prior to
destruction due to a creek channel clearing project. No known
individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
In 1973 and 1974, human remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from Benton County, OR. The Flat Creek site
was excavated for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in
1973, and for Linn-Benton Community College (as a field school led by
Ina Fargher) in 1974. No known individuals were identified. The 12
associated funerary objects are two lots of lithics, eight beads, one
digging stick handle, and one ball.
In the early 1990s, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from Benton County, OR. A farmer in the Kings
Valley area was digging a watering pond when he encountered what
appeared to be ancient animal bones. An OSU archeologist was contacted
to examine the bones. A mastodon vertebra yielded a radiocarbon date of
approximately 11,000 BP. Subsequent work at the site encountered a
partial human humerus. No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
In the late 1970s, human remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from the Palmrose site near Seaside, in
Clatsop County, OR, by an unnamed instructor at Clatsop Community
College (CCC). The instructor has long since left the employ of CCC,
and CCC no longer has any record of the excavation. The project
encountered a burial. Initially, the OSU Anthropology Department took
custody of the human skeletal remains. Subsequently, it took control of
the human remains. No known individuals were identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
In 1979, human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals
were removed from Linn County, OR. Marty Rosenson, an archeology
instructor at Linn Benton Community College (LBCC), performed an
archeological survey at a Kalapuya mound on private property near
Tangent at the request of the landowner. When Rosenson left the college
in 1988, he took all his field notes and documentation with him. In
April of 1990, LBCC transferred control of the items removed by
Rosenson to OSU Anthropology. No known individuals were identified. The
327 associated funerary objects are 177 lots of lithic material, 126
lots of faunal bone, 14 projectile points, four bird points, one lot of
charcoal, one stone, one pestle, one ceramic fragment, one worked bone,
and one shell fragment.
In 1973, human remains representing, at minimum, four individuals
were
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removed from Davidson, Little Muddy Creek, in Linn County, OR, by Dr.
Wilbur A. Davis of Oregon State University, and C. Melvin Aikens and
Otto E. Henrickson of the University of Oregon under a contract with
the U.S. Department of the Interior. No known individuals were
identified. The eight associated funerary objects are one dentalia
purse, one bone whistle, one awl, one awl fragment, one spoon and
handle, one bone tool, one animal claw, and one clay marble lot.
In 1972, human remains representing, at minimum, four individuals
were removed from a site near Scio in Linn County, OR, by the OSU
Anthropology Department. The burials were excavated at the request of
the private landowner. One of the burials had been vandalized by the
backhoe crew, but the other burials were intact and were excavated
under controlled conditions. An estimated burial date sometime between
A.D. 1845 and 1853 is based on associated burial objects and documented
Euro-American settlement in the Scio area. Some of the items taken by
the backhoe crew were transferred to the OSU Anthropology Department.
No known individuals were identified. The 27 associated funerary
objects are three lots of dentalia beads, two lots of shell fragments,
two lots of metal fragments, two lots of copper tubes, one lot of
decorated hide strips, one screw, one lot of metal bucket scraps, one
gunflint, one metal hoop, one lot of glass beads, one lot of lithic
flakes, one lithic core, one lot of nail fragments, one worked wood
wedge, one lot of flat triangular copper pendants, one ran pendant, one
ran, one lot of musket balls, one lot of wood firearm fragments, one
lot of cloth and hide fragments, one lot of wax casts from burials, and
one lot of buttons.
In June of 1955, human remains representing, at minimum, two
individuals were removed from a site near Tangent in Linn County, OR,
by amateur excavators. At an unknown date the human remains were
transferred to the Oregon State Police (OSP), along with information
concerning the approximate date and location of the excavations. In
September of 1989, the OSU Anthropology Department received the
ancestral human remains from the Oregon State Police. No known
individuals were identified. The one associated funerary object is an
obsidian flake.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: anthropological, archeological, biological, geographical,
historical, kinship, and linguistic.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Oregon State University NAGPRA Office has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 21 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 375 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.
<bullet> 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 Confederated Tribes of Siletz
Indians of Oregon (previously listed as Confederated Tribes of the
Siletz Reservation) and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Community of Oregon.
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 March 3, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Oregon State
University NAGPRA Office 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 Oregon State University NAGPRA Office
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, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: January 25, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-02065 Filed 1-31-23; 8:45 am]
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