Notice2024-10328
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Craig, CO
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Published
May 13, 2024
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management intends to carry out the disposition of human remains, associated funerary objects, unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony removed from Federal or Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 93 (Monday, May 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41463-41464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10328]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037908; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Disposition: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Craig, CO
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 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management intends to carry out the disposition of human
remains, associated funerary objects, unassociated funerary objects,
sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony removed from Federal
or Tribal lands to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribe, or Native
Hawaiian organization with priority for disposition in this notice.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains or cultural items in this
notice may occur on or after June 12, 2024. If no claim for disposition
is received by May 13, 2025, the human remains or cultural items in
this notice will become unclaimed human remains or cultural items.
ADDRESSES: Kymm Gresset, Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management,
Little Snake Field Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig, CO 81625,
telephone (970) 826-5089, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bed5d9ccdbcdcddbcafedcd2d390d9d1c8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="214a4653445252445561434d4c0f464e57">[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
Bureau of Land Management, and additional information on the human
remains or cultural items in this notice, including the results of
consultation, can be found in the related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the identifications in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing at
least one individual have been reasonably identified. The 313
associated funerary objects are ground stone and lithic artifacts and
faunal bone tools and faunal bone fragments and associated feature
sediment.
In Moffat County, Colorado, during planned excavations at
5MF.11113, human remains were discovered on December 22, 2023. The
individual was found at the base of a pit-type feature of the site.
Excavation of one mostly intact and complete adult female was completed
on February 13, 2024. Within the fill, just above and surrounding the
human remains, approximately 163 fragments of faunal bone and four
pieces of stone-tool-making debris were noted. The fill also contained
a large amount of well-preserved sagebrush and juniper charcoal
fragments. The Ancestral remains were surrounded by several funerary
objects including a large concave, pecked stone located near the right
scapula. The stone was located above the thoracic and cervical
vertebrae, scapulae, and rib area. A complete stone tool was located
anterior to the coxae. Two ground stone manos were located just north
of the cranium. Two burned and shattered stone tools, as well as 15
tested pebbles were located atop and adjacent to the cranium. Three
complete bone awls (split ungulate long bones) and a lithic artifact
were located just west of the left hand. A left-side, possible adult
pronghorn scapula was located just beyond and west of the right hand.
The remains of a possible deer scapula were located on the east side of
the body beyond the coxae, and north of the possible canine cranium. A
pile of broken, crushed, and unburned faunal bones with a lithic
artifact on top was uncovered a few centimeters north of the left foot.
An articulated distal tibia, calcaneus, and astragalus of a young adult
deer-sized ungulate was present. An articulated, unfused, broken
calcaneus and astragalus of a sub-adult deer or pronghorn-sized
ungulate was also present. A possible canine cranium, in a fragmented
pile, was located posterior to the coxae. These remains appear to
represent a single individual. The remains are likely fox or coyote-
sized canid. A lithic artifact was also recovered adjacent to the
canine cranium. After recovery of the human remains and associated
artifacts, additional fragments of ground stone artifacts were
determined to be likely associated with the human remains, so those
artifacts were recovered and placed with the remains and items above,
secured at the BLM Field Office in Meeker, CO. Based on the analysis of
charcoal from a different feature, it was determined that the site
dates to around 5,500 years before present, which places the individual
in the Archaic cultural context, as described by archaeologists.
Determinations
The Bureau of Land Management has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 313 objects (including 31 boxes of soil recovered from
the burial feature) described in this notice are reasonably believed to
have been placed intentionally with or near individual human remains at
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> The Crow Tribe of Montana; Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the
Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Northern
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; Northern Cheyenne
Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; Pueblo of
Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of
the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
of the Fort Hall Reservation; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern
Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah; and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe have priority for
disposition of the human remains or cultural item described in this
notice.
Claims for Disposition
Written claims for disposition of the human remains or cultural
items in this notice must be sent to the appropriate official
identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. If no claim for disposition
is received by May 13, 2025, the human remains or cultural items in
this notice will become unclaimed human remains or cultural items.
Claims for disposition 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 they have priority for disposition.
Disposition of the human remains or cultural items in this notice may
occur on or after June 12, 2024. If competing claims for disposition
are received, the Bureau of Land Management must determine the most
appropriate claimant prior to disposition. Requests for joint
disposition of the human remains or cultural items are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Bureau of Land
Management is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native
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Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and to any other
consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.7.
Dated: May 3, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-10328 Filed 5-10-24; 8:45 am]
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