Notice2023-10555
Notice of Inventory Completion: Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum, The Dalles, OR
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Published
May 18, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed from an unknown burial site on the banks of the Columbia River (between Washington and Oregon) of the Columbia River Plateau and Klickitat County, WA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31816-31817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10555]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035860; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Columbia Gorge Discovery Center
and Museum, The Dalles, 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 Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and
Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined
that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The
human remains were removed from an unknown burial site on the banks of
the Columbia River (between Washington and Oregon) of the Columbia
River Plateau and Klickitat County, WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after June 20, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Susan Buce, Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum, 5000
Discovery Drive, The Dalles, OR 97058, telephone (541) 296-8600 Ext.
242, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b1d2deddddd4d2c5d8dedfc2f1d6dec3d6d4d5d8c2d2dec7d4c3c89fdec3d6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="583b3734343d3b2c3137362b183f372a3f3d3c312b3b372e3d2a2176372a3f">[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
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and 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 Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
at an unknown time from a burial site located along the banks or
islands of the Columbia River near The Dalles, in Wasco County, OR, and
Wishram, in Klickitat County, WA, by James Gosson. In 2003, Gosson
donated these human remains to the Museum. The human remains belong to
an adult of unknown sex. No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from private property in White Salmon, Klickitat County, WA by Allen B.
Clarke. Clarke found these human remains while digging out his
basement. Following his death, the human remains were donated to the
Museum in 2013 by his wife, Rosalie Clarke. The human remains belong to
an adult male. No known individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
Native American People from both sides of the Columbia River
utilized the islands on the Columbia River that border the present-day
states of Oregon and Washington, in the north central Columbia River
Plateau region, for burial. Early and late published ethnographic
documentation indicates that this area was the aboriginal territory of
the Western Columbia River Sahaptins, Wasco, Wishram, Yakima, Walla
Walla, Umatilla, Tenino, and Skin (Daugherty 1973, Hale 1841, Hunn and
French 1998, Stern 1998, French and French 1998, Mooney 1896, Murdock
1938, Ray 1936 and 1974, Spier 1936).
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 and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
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consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<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 and Bands
of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation; and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after June 20, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum 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 Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: May 10, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-10555 Filed 5-17-23; 8:45 am]
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