Notice2023-13295
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District, Portland, OR, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA
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Published
June 22, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District (USACE) and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (Burke Museum) have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have 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 Skamania County, WA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 119 (Thursday, June 22, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40861-40862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13295]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036057; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District, Portland, OR, and Burke Museum of Natural History
and Culture, Seattle, WA
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. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District (USACE) and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
(Burke Museum) have completed an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects and have 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 Skamania County, WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Daniel M. Mulligan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Portland District, ATTN: CENWP-PME-CR, 333 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, OR
97204-3495, telephone (503) 808-4768, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c787d7275797032713271697070757b7d725c696f7d7f79327d6e716532717570"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="debabfb0b7bbb2f0b3f0b3abb2b2b7b9bfb09eabadbfbdbbf0bfacb3a7f0b3b7b2">[email protected]</span></a> and Dr. Peter Lape, Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture, 4303 Memorial Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195,
telephone (206) 685-3849 Ext. 2, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3444585544517441431a515041"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9dedf1fcedf8dde8eab3f8f9e8">[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
USACE. 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 USACE and
the Burke Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Skamania County, WA. Between 1974 and 1976, the University of
Washington, under contract with the National Park Service, conducted
surface surveys and excavations at Site 45SA16, also known as the Fort
Rains (or Fort Raines) Site, on USACE project land, prior to
construction of the Second Powerhouse at Bonneville Dam. Following the
completion of initial surveys and excavations at the site in 1974,
subsequent surface inspections took place in July of 1976, which
resulted in Native American human remains and cultural items being
collected and retained (under the provisions of Antiquities Act
permits), and subsequently transferred to the Burke Museum for
curation. It was believed by USACE and Burke Museum officials that all
NAGPRA items, including Native American human remains, associated
funerary objects, unassociated funerary objects, and items of cultural
patrimony that had been collected in Skamania County on USACE project
land and transferred to the Burke Museum had been thoroughly
inventoried and returned to culturally affiliated Indian Tribes prior
to 2012. In May of 2022, a rehousing and cataloging project of USACE
archeological collections at the Burke Museum revealed that a bag
containing three interior bags had been misidentified as containing
archeological material recovered from nearby Site 45SA14. Upon
inspection, one bag contained fragmented human remains and the other
two bags contained surface-collected materials that are presumed to be
associated funerary objects recovered from Site 45SA16 in July 1976. No
known individual was identified. The 15 associated funerary objects are
seven
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stone flakes; four stone shatter fragments; two glass beads; one stone
core; and one non-human, unidentified mammal long bone shaft fragment.
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, geographical, historical,
oral traditional, other relevant information, and tribal expert
opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the USACE has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of, at minimum, one individual of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 15 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 and Bands
of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon;
Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon;
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Cowlitz Indian Tribe;
and the Nez Perce Tribe.
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 July 24, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the USACE 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 USACE 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: June 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-13295 Filed 6-21-23; 8:45 am]
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