Notice2023-06912
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC
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Published
April 4, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 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 Coconino County, AZ.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 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: 2023-06912]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035571; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC
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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Indian Affairs (BIA) 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
Coconino County, AZ.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 4, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Tamara Billie, U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, 1001 Indian School Road NW, Mailbox 44, Albuquerque, NM
87104, telephone (505) 879-9711, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a2d6c3cfc3d0c38cc0cbcececbc7e2c0cbc38cc5cdd4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4f3b2e222e3d2e612d262323262a0f2d262e61282039">[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
BIA. 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 BIA.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual, were
removed from site NA5998 in Coconino County, AZ. Site NA5998 is located
on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, 9.2 miles north of Frazier Wells.
In 1957, a burial was excavated by the Museum of Northern Arizona
during an authorized project to recover human remains exposed by road
grading activity. The incomplete skeleton, which was found flexed on
the left side and with the head oriented to the east, belongs to an
adult female 35-45 years old. The 43 associated funerary objects are
two chert scrapers, one jasper hammerstone/polishing stone, one
obsidian scraper, and 39 ceramic sherds. The burial is associated with
the Cohonina archeological complex and is dated between A.D. 900 and
1175.
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: geographical, oral traditional, anthropological, and
archeological.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the BIA has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 43 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 Hualapai Indian Tribe of the
Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona.
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 May 4, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the BIA 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 BIA is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribe 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,
and 10.14.
Dated: March 22, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-06912 Filed 4-3-23; 8:45 am]
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