Notice2024-00130
Notice of Inventory Completion: Portland State University, Portland, OR
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Published
January 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Portland State University (PSU) 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 Tillamook County, OR.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 958-959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00130]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037201; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Portland State University,
Portland, 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), Portland State University (PSU) 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 Tillamook County, OR.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 7, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Reno Nims, Portland State University, Research & Graduate
Studies, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207, telephone (503) 725-6611,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8fe1eee8fffdeecfffebf7a1eaebfa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a343b3d2a283b1a2a3e22743f3e2f">[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 PSU.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on the
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determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by PSU.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, five individuals were
removed from an unknown location in Tillamook County, OR, at an unknown
date. PSU faculty members encountered these human remains in the
Anthropology Department's archeology holdings at an unknown date
between 2003 and 2011. The 21 associated funerary objects are 15 pieces
of worked stone, three burnt faunal remains, one bivalve shell, and two
ceramic plate fragments.
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from the site of Chishucks Village in Tillamook County, OR, in 1971 by
Ron Kent, a PSU master's student in the Anthropology Department. These
human remains were inadvertently excavated from deposits of faunal
remains, and subsequently identified as human in 2021 and 2022 by PSU
staff members during a thorough search for Native American human
remains and cultural items in the Anthropology Department's archeology
holdings. The one associated funerary object is a clay pipe fragment.
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: anthropological information, archeological information,
geographical information, and historical information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, PSU has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of six individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 22 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 of Siletz
Indians of Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of
Oregon; and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon.
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, and, if joined to a request
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, Chinook Indian Nation, 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 February 7, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, PSU 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. PSU is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations 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: December 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00130 Filed 1-5-24; 8:45 am]
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