Notice2024-17266
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY
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Published
August 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 63980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17266]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038406; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Shoshone National Forest, Cody, WY
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 Agriculture, Forest
Service, Shoshone National Forest has completed an inventory of
associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after September 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Ken Coffin, Forest Supervisor, Shoshone National Forest, 808
Meadow Lane Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, telephone (307) 578-5187, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1279777c7c77667a3c717d74747b7c52676176733c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c1aaa4afafa4b5a9efa2aea7a7a8af81b4b2a5a0efa6aeb7">[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
Shoshone National Forest, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
This notice supplements the original 2006 Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register (71 FR 9148-9149, February
22, 2006), which identifies human remains representing one individual
and one associated funerary object (a mountain sheep hide). Following
re-examination of materials collected from level 3/cultural level 36 by
members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation,
Wyoming, the associated funerary objects have been determined to
include an additional 226 cultural items. The 226 associated funerary
objects are animal parts including bone, hair, horn, antler, teeth and
hide; arrow shafts with wrapped sinew; grass bundles and grass moccasin
liners; burial matrix and stones; calcite crystals; charred wood
fragments; coiled basketry fragments; knotted cordage netting;
feathers, unworked and modified; unidentified fibers; lithic materials;
moccasin fragments; pigment; wood fragments; reed fragments; and seeds.
These were removed from the Mummy Cave site in Park County, Wyoming
between 1963 and 1966 by Harold McCracken and have been curated at the
Buffalo Bill Center of the West (previously known as the Buffalo Bill
Historical Center) since their removal.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The Shoshone National Forest has determined that:
<bullet> The 226 objects 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> There is a reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Eastern Shoshone
Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming and the Shoshone-Bannock
Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after September 5, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the Shoshone National Forest
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Shoshone
National Forest 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 10.10.
Dated: July 26, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-17266 Filed 8-5-24; 8:45 am]
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