Notice2023-14380
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items 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]
[Pages 43396-43397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14380]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036124; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 intends to repatriate
certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated
funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural
items were removed from Wasco County, OR, and Klickitat County, WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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#93fefaf0fbf6fffff6d3fbfaf4fbf7f6e0f6e1e7fee6e0f6e6febdfce1f4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="117c787279747d7d7451797876797574627463657c646274647c3f7e6376">[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 summary or related records held by High Desert
Museum.
Description
Forty-nine cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR. These
cultural items 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, these cultural items
were donated to the High Desert Museum by Sue Frewing. The 49
unassociated funerary objects are five cylindrical beads, one disk
shaped bead, one brass bead, two strings of beads, five animal teeth or
claws, one awl, one piece of leather with brass tacks, one piece of
wood with brass tack, two rusted nails, one piece of a buckle, two
brass buttons, 16 brass tacks, one piece of wood, one piece of green
fabric, one Dentalium shell, and eight shells with sand.
Three lots of cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR,
and Klickitat County, WA. Around 1960, Erna Mader Rose removed these
cultural items from Memaloose Island in either Wasco County, OR, or
Klickitat County, WA. On July 6, 1994, Marian M. Campbell, acting as
Erna Rose's executrice, donated them to the High Desert Museum. The
three lots of unassociated funerary objects are one lot consisting of a
Riker mount with seed and shell beads, rolled copper fragments,
dentalium, carved wood or bone fragment; one lot consisting of glass
beads; and one lot consisting of shell and bone beads.
Ten cultural items were removed from Wasco County, OR. In 1961,
Erna Mader Rose removed these cultural items from the Bead Patch Site
next to The Dalles Bridge. On July 6, 1994, Marian M. Campbell, acting
as Erna Rose's executrice, donated them to the High Desert Museum. The
10 unassociated funerary objects are six stone point fragments; two
stone projectile points; one stone drill; and one stone bead.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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, the High Desert Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The 62 cultural items described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items 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.
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Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items 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 cultural items 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14380 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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