Notice2023-14379
Notice of Inventory Completion: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
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Published
July 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the High Desert Museum 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 Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat County, WA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 43394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14379]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036123; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: High Desert Museum, Bend, 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 High Desert Museum 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 Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat
County, WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Michelle Seiler, High Desert Museum, 59800 South Hwy. 97,
Bend, OR 97702, telephone (541) 382-4754 Ext. 376, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#600d090308050c0c0520080907080405130512140d151305150d4e0f1207"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d70747e75787171785d75747a7579786e786f6970686e78687033726f7a">[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 High
Desert 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 High Desert
Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Wasco County, OR. The human remains were removed from Memaloose
Island by Sue Frewing, who accompanied her father there as a child.
According to Frewing, at that time, the entire island was fully
accessible by boat, as The Dalles Dam had not yet been constructed. On
March 31, 1986, the human remains were donated to the High Desert
Museum by Sue Frewing. The one associated funerary object is one lot
consisting of loose beads, buttons, shells, and sand.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Wasco County, OR/Klickitat County, WA. The human remains were
removed from Memaloose Island and donated to the High Desert Museum at
an unknown date. No associated funerary objects are present.
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: archeological, geographical, historical, and oral
traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, High Desert Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one lot of multiple objects described in this notice
is 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 the associated
funerary object described in this notice and the Confederated Tribes
and Bands of the Yakama Nation; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation; Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon; 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 August 7, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, High Desert 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. High Desert 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: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14379 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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