Notice2024-02549
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
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Published
February 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Central Washington University 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 Grant, Kittitas, and Yakima County, WA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8718-8719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02549]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037341; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, 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), Central Washington University 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 Grant, Kittitas, and Yakima County,
WA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon, Department of Anthropology and
Museum Studies, Central Washington University, 400 University Way,
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7544, telephone (509) 963-2671, 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
Central Washington University. 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
Central Washington University.
Description
Between 1913 and 1943, 51 lots of unassociated funerary objects
were removed from burial sites along the Columbia River in Grant,
Kittitas, and Yakima Counties in Washington. They were excavated by Dr.
Linus Walker, a private collector from Ellensburg, Kittitas County, WA,
who donated most of his collection to Central Washington University in
1953. The 51 lots of unassociated funerary objects are 1 lot of adzes,
1 lot of anchor stones, 1 lot of war clubs, 1 lot of knives, 1 lot
mortars, 3 lots of paint cups, 2 lots of ochre, 7 lots of pestles, 2
lots of pipes, 16 lots of modified shell, 10 lots of trade beads, 1 lot
of manos, 1 lot of net sinkers, 1 lot of whetstones, 1 lot of hammers,
1 lot of faunal material, and 1 lot modified sandstone.
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: archaeological,
geographical, historical, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, Central Washington University has determined that:
<bullet> The 51 lots of 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 Band of the Yakama Nation and the Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation.
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 and, if joined
to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the Wanapum Band of
Priest Rapids, a non-federally recognized Indian group.
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after March 11, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Central Washington University 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. Central Washington
University is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice.
This notice was submitted on or after the effective date of the
revised regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January
12, 2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the
Federal Register and includes the required information, the National
Park Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
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Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 1, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-02549 Filed 2-7-24; 8:45 am]
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