Notice2023-16063
Notice of Inventory Completion: High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
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Published
July 28, 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 the area of the Columbia and upper Snake Rivers.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 144 (Friday, July 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48910-48911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16063]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036251; 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 the area of the Columbia and upper
Snake Rivers.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 28, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Michelle Seiler, High Desert Museum, 59800 South Hwy 97,
Bend, OR 97702, telephone (541) 382-4754 Ext. 376, email
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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, two individuals were
removed from the area of the Columbia and upper Snake Rivers. In July
of 1966, Charles and Edith McGill purchased these human remains and
cultural items from Bill Reierson, owner of Kurio Kabin in Cashmere,
WA. At the time of purchase, the store identified these items as being
from the Columbia and Snake River areas. Kurio Kabin, a rock shop, was
located in an area of Washington with an active group that regularly
looted sites and graves in the area of the Columbia and upper Snake
Rivers. Charles and Edith McGill donated the human remains and
associated funerary objects listed in this
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notice to the High Desert Museum on August 13, 1992. The 58 associated
funerary objects are 38 pieces of rolled copper trade stock; five
pieces of copper trade stock; one stone bead; one twisted wire (with
one clear glass bead and one green glass bead); four pieces of rolled
copper on braided hemp; one rolled copper strung on hemp; four pieces
of rolled copper with hemp fragments; three pieces of rolled copper;
and one necklace (made of rolled copper with square piece of copper on
monofilament with dentalium and rolled copper).
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
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the 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 58 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 the Colville Reservation;
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 identified in this
notice and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian
Tribes, the Wanapum Band, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
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
28, 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: July 19, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-16063 Filed 7-27-23; 8:45 am]
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