Notice2023-16064
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 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 the area of the Columbia and upper Snake Rivers.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 144 (Friday, July 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 48908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16064]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036252; 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 the area of the Columbia and upper Snake
Rivers.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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 summary or related records held by High Desert
Museum.
Description
Fifty cultural items were removed from the area of the Columbia and
upper Snake Rivers. In July of 1966, Charles and Edith McGill purchased
these 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 in 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 these items to the High
Desert Museum on August 13, 1992. The 50 unassociated funerary objects
are 34 shell beads; seven Olivella shells; eight pieces of Dentalium;
and one string of hemp on which are one piece of copper, 14 small white
beads, and one black 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: 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 50 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
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
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 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 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: July 19, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-16064 Filed 7-27-23; 8:45 am]
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