Notice2023-15103
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, Sequim, WA
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Published
July 18, 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, Fish and Wildlife Service, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge (Dungeness NWR) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Clallam County, WA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45916-45917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15103]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036186; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: U.S. Department of
the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Dungeness National Wildlife
Refuge, Sequim, 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. Department of the Interior, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge (Dungeness
NWR) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the
definition of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The cultural item was removed from Clallam County, WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after August 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer Brown-Scott, Project Leader, Washington Maritime
National Wildlife Refuge Complex, 715 Holgerson Road, Sequim, WA 98382,
telephone (360) 457-8451, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1a707f7474737c7f68457868756d746979756e6e5a7c6d69347d756c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="81ebe4efefe8e7e4f3dee3f3eef6eff2e2eef5f5c1e7f6f2afe6eef7">[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
Dungeness NWR. 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 Dungeness NWR.
Description
The one cultural item was removed from Clallam County, WA. The
cultural item, a dugout canoe, is under control of the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service and is currently in the custody of the Jamestown
S'Klallam Tribe. This unassociated funerary object was removed from
Dungeness Spit on Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge in June of 1980.
In 1984, the canoe was loaned to the Museum and Arts Center in Sequim
to be displayed outdoors, under a protective shelter. In 1993, the
Museum and Arts Center notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that
it was terminating the loan agreement. On September 3, 1993, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service contacted the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and
offered to loan the canoe and the protective shelter to the Tribe, and
on September 10, 1993, the Tribe accepted the offer and took custody of
the canoe. The one unassociated funerary item is a dugout canoe.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural item in this notice is 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, and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Dungeness NWR has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above 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 and
are believed, by a
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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 item and the Jamestown
S'Klallam Tribe.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
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 item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after August 17, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Dungeness NWR 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. Dungeness NWR 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: July 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-15103 Filed 7-17-23; 8:45 am]
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