Notice2024-00431
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, St. Paul/Bemidji, MN; Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN; University of Colorado Museum (Boulder), Boulder, CO; Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Published
January 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN); Minnesota Indian Affairs Council; Science Museum of Minnesota; University of Colorado Museum (Boulder); Milwaukee Public Museum; Denver Art Museum; Yale Peabody Museum; and Cleveland Museum of Art, hereafter the Collaborating Museums, have amended a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on February 24, 2023. This notice amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection removed from Grant and Catron Counties, NM.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00431]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037216; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: University of Minnesota
Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, St.
Paul/Bemidji, MN; Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN;
University of Colorado Museum (Boulder), Boulder, CO; Milwaukee Public
Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Yale Peabody
Museum, New Haven, CT; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; amendment.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Minnesota Twin Cities
(UMN); Minnesota Indian Affairs Council; Science Museum of Minnesota;
University of Colorado Museum (Boulder); Milwaukee Public Museum;
Denver Art Museum; Yale Peabody Museum; and Cleveland Museum of Art,
hereafter the Collaborating Museums, have amended a Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register on February 24, 2023. This
notice amends the number of associated funerary objects in a collection
removed from Grant and Catron Counties, NM.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Alejandra Pe[ntilde]a Guti[eacute]rrez, Weisman Art Museum,
University of Minnesota, 333 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455,
telephone (612) 624-5934, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7b1a0b1e151a1c0e0f3b0e1615551e1f0e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="335243565d5254464773465e5d1d565746">[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 the
Collaborating Museums. The National Park Service is not responsible for
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
amendments and determinations in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the inventory or related records held by
the Collaborating Museums.
Amendment
This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (88 FR 11932-11934,
February 24, 2023). Repatriation of the items in the original Notice of
Inventory Completion has not occurred. This amendment is being made
because physical inventory has identified additional items which were
previously unreported, and because additional known items were
subsequently identified to be associated funerary objects.
Associated Funerary Objects
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Original
Site number Amended number Amended description
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Cameron Creek and Warm Springs sites 571 575 One carved jade pendant, 92 stone tools
in Grant County, NM. or other items, two carved shell or
stone items, 43 shell items, one shell
pendant, 16 bead lots, seven turquoise
item lots, 45 bone tools or other
items, 191 ceramic vessels, one non-
vessel ceramic item, 167 ceramic sherds
or sherd lots, four organic items
including charcoal, and one adobe lot.
In addition, the Collaborating Museums
continue to look for two ceramic
vessels and two turquoise pendants
which are documented but not physically
located.
Galaz Ruin site in Grant County, NM... 3,236 3,256 1,009 ceramic vessels, 23 ceramic non-
vessel items, 798 ceramic sherds or
sherd lots, three copper bell
fragments, 51 bead lots, 738 stone
tools or other items, 16 stone vessels,
four lots of faunal material, 205 shell
items, 51 turquoise items or lots, 260
bone tools or other items, 17 horn
items, 13 mineral samples or objects,
20 unidentified organic items, and two
unidentified residue samples. In
addition, the Collaborating Museums
continue to look for the missing 46
associated funerary objects, which are
34 pottery vessels, four bead lots,
four shell adornments, one stone
pendant, one stone axe, one stone
palette, and one projectile point.
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Determinations (as Amended)
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Collaborating Museums have determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this amended notice
represent the physical remains of 198 individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 4,234 objects described in this amended notice are
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near
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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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; Okhay
Owingeh, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New
Mexico; Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe
of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
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.
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 12, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Collaborating
Museums 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. The Collaborating Museums 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,
10.13, and 10.14.
Dated: January 4, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00431 Filed 1-10-24; 8:45 am]
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