[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 181 (Monday, September 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58034-58035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-23900]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington
State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum (Burke
Museum) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes,
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian
Tribes. Representatives of any Indian Tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects may contact the Burke Museum. Repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects to the Indian Tribes stated below may
occur if no additional claimants come forward.
DATES: Representatives of any Indian Tribe that believes it has a
cultural affiliation with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact the Burke Museum at the address below by October
19, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Box
353010, Seattle, WA 98195-3010, telephone (206) 685-3849.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects in the possession of the Burke Museum,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Grant County, WA.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Burke
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Museum professional staff in consultation with representatives of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Washington;
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon;
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon;
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Washington; and the
Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho (hereinafter ``The Tribes''). The Burke Museum
also consulted with the Wanapum Band, a non-Federally recognized Indian
group (hereinafter ``The Indian Group'').
History and Description of the Remains
In 1920, human remains were removed by Dr. F.S. Hall of the
Washington State Museum from the Pot Holes site or Hall Site 7
(later assigned 45-GR-131) located on the east bank of the Columbia
River, south of Trinidad, Grant County, WA. The human remains were
accessioned by the museum in November 1920 (Burke Accn. 1860).
In 1974, the Burke Museum legally transferred portions of the human
remains to Central Washington University. In 2007, a Notice of
Inventory Completion (NIC) describing 35 individuals and 685 associated
funerary objects removed from the Pot Hole site was published in the
Federal Register [72 FR 52391-52392, September 13, 2007]. The Burke
Museum and Central Washington University have jointly repatriated these
human remains and funerary objects to the culturally affiliated Tribes
listed in the NIC. In 2010, the Burke Museum found an additional two
individuals and two associated funerary objects from the Pot Hole site
during an inventory of the University of Washington, Department of
Anthropology Collections. No known individuals were identified. The two
associated funerary objects are one lot of bones (non-human) and one
unmodified rock.
Early and late published ethnographic documentation indicates that
the Pot Hole site is located in the aboriginal territory of the Moses-
Columbia or Sinkiuse, and the Yakima (Daugherty 1973, Miller 1998,
Mooney 1896, Ray 1936, Spier 1936) whose descendents are represented
today by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation,
Washington, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington. Furthermore, information provided during consultation
indicates that the aboriginal ancestors occupying this area were highly
mobile and traveled the landscape for gathering resources as well as
trade. Descendents of these Plateau communities are now widely
dispersed and enrolled in the two Tribes mentioned above, as well as
the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon; and the Wanapum Band, a non-Federally recognized
Indian group. Museum documentation indicates that the cultural items
were found in connection with the human remains. The cultural items are
consistent with cultural items typically found in context with burials
in eastern Washington.
Determinations Made by the Burke Museum
Officials of the Burke Museum have determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the two objects
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.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects and The Tribes
and The Indian Group.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Representatives of any Indian Tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Peter Lape, Burke Museum, University of
Washington, Box 35101, Seattle, WA 98195, telephone (206) 685-3849,
before October 19, 2011. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to The Tribes and The Indian Group may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Burke Museum is responsible for notifying The Tribes and The
Indian Group that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 13, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2011-23900 Filed 9-16-11; 8:45 am]
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