Notice2024-12711
Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum, Dolores, CO
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Published
June 11, 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, Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum 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 object were removed from San Miguel County, Colorado.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 49187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12711]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038055; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and
Museum, Dolores, 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, Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum
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 object were removed from San Miguel County,
Colorado.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 11, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Ray O'Neil, Monument Manager, Bureau of Land Management,
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, 27501 Highway 184, Dolores,
CO 81323, telephone (303) 882-5600, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a1d3cecfc4c8cde1c3cdcc8fc6ced7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ef9d80818a8683af8d8382c1888099">[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
Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum, Bureau of Land
Management, Dolores, CO, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is a bone awl. The human
remains were removed from the burial site in San Miguel County, CO, in
1983 after the site (5SM790) had been vandalized sometime during the
winter of 1982-1983. The burial appeared to be a cairn burial,
comprised of about 20 sandstone cobbles and two groundstone slabs,
within a rockshelter. A detailed assessment of the human remains was
made by archaeologists in 1983 and in 1994, who determined the
individual was of Native American descent. The human remains belong to
an adult female. With the exception of the right arm and hand, one
lumbar vertebra, and rib fragments, the upper portion of the body was
completely missing. Based upon the burial context, as well as a
radiocarbon date from charcoal included in the burial pit (A.D. 460
<plus-minus> 140), the site is reasonably believed to be from, in
archaeological terms, the late Archaic or Formative period.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the human remains and associated funerary object described
in this notice.
Determinations
The BLM Canyons of the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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> There is a connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Hopi Tribe
of Arizona; Ohkay 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 Sandia, 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;
Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado;
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain
Ute Tribe; 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
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 11, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM Canyons of
the Ancients Visitors Center and Museum 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 BLM Canyons
of the Ancients Visitors Center and 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 10.10.
Dated: May 31, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-12711 Filed 6-10-24; 8:45 am]
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