Notice2025-01167
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Office, Phoenix, AZ
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Published
January 17, 2025
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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, Arizona State Office (BLM), 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5989-5990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01167]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039367; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Office, Phoenix, AZ
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, Arizona State Office (BLM), 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary object
in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Raymond Suazo, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State
Office, One North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, telephone (602)
417-9500, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fd8f908e889c8792bd9f9190d39a928b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0b7966787e6a71644b696766256c647d">[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
BLM 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 two individuals have been identified.
The one associated funerary object is one lot of vegetable material
(including a fragment of narrowleaf yucca and multiple loose
unidentified fibers). The individuals and associated funerary object
were found in a box on the shelf of a storage closet at the Safford
Field Office, Safford, Graham County, Arizona. No documentation could
be found to identify where the box's
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contents had come from or when they were removed.
In consultation with BLM, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona and the Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona asserted
a lengthy historic tradition of basketry among tribes of southern
Arizona which used similar fibers to those represented in the
associated funerary object.
A fiber specialist's analysis of the associated funerary object
indicated the manufacture of plaited basketry was a late (post 1100 CE)
precontact perishable tradition south of the Mogollon Rim, primarily
associated with the Late Mogollon and Salado archaeological cultures.
The specialist suggested an association with the modern Hopi and Zuni
pueblos.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographic
location and acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one associated funerary 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 Ak-Chin
Indian Community; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham
Nation of Arizona; 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 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February
18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM
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 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: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01167 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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