[Federal Register: December 23, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 246)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Central Arizona
Project Repository, Tucson, AZ, and in the Control of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office,
Phoenix, AZ; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
3003, Sec. 5, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects in the possession of the U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Central Arizona Project
Repository, Tucson, AZ, and in the control of the U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Phoenix, AZ.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003, Sec. 5
(d)(3). The determinations within this notice are the sole
responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has
control of these Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations within this notice.
This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals and the
number of associated funerary objects reported in a previous Notice of
Inventory Completion, published February 27, 2002, and a correction to
that notice, published July 9, 2002. A review of Bureau of Reclamation,
Central Arizona Project Repository collections revealed the presence of
additional Native American human remains representing 2 individuals and
30 additional associated funerary objects, all culturally affiliated
with the same tribes listed in the original notice.
In the Federal Register of February 27, 2002 (FR doc. 2-4580, pages
8996-9002) paragraph numbers 74 and 76 are corrected by substituting
the following paragraphs:(Paragraph 74) Between 1985 and 1986, during
legally authorized data recovery efforts undertaken by Northland
Research for the Bureau of Reclamation, human remains representing nine
individuals were recovered from the Hind site, AZ AA:1:62(ASM), in the
lower Santa Cruz Valley in Pinal County, AZ. No known individuals were
identified. The 121 associated funerary objects are 1 reconstructed
Snaketown Red/Buff bowl; 1 reconstructable Estrella Red/Grey bowl; 1
Sweetwater Red/Grey scoop; 5 partially reconstructed plainware bowls; 2
partially reconstructed plainware jars; 1 partially reconstructed
indeterminate vessel; 25 bags of sherds; 35 ground stone shell-working
tools; 1 polishing stone; 2 projectile points; 9 bags of chipped stone;
4 bags of worked shell (including 1 shell bracelet fragment, 1 partial
shell pendant, and worked fragments); 1 bag of unworked shell
fragments; 3 bags of unworked faunal bone fragments; and 30 flotation,
pollen, and C-14 samples.
(Paragraph 76) Between 1985 and 1986, during legally authorized
data recovery efforts undertaken by Northland Research for the Bureau
of Reclamation, human remains representing 97 individuals were
recovered from the Shelltown site, AZ AA:1:66(ASM), in the lower Santa
Cruz Valley in Pinal County, AZ. No known individuals were identified.
The 503 associated funerary objects are 23 ceramic vessels (2 miniature
bowls, 3 miniature jars, 2 complete or partially reconstructed bowls,
and 16 partial or complete jars); 4 worked sherds; 1 nose/ear spool; 1
possible figurine fragment; 108 bags of sherds; 1 stone bowl; 3 ground
stone axes; 2 plummets; 4 manos; 1 ground stone bead; 10 ground stone
shell-working tools; 1 stone jar cover; 15 ground stone fragments; 3
projectile points; 62 bags of chipped stone; 25 bags of worked shell
(including 5 bracelet fragments, 2 caches of damaged shell bracelets,
11 pendants, 2 rings, and 5 bags of worked shell fragments); 17 bags of
unworked shell fragments; 15 bags of worked faunal bone (including 2
bone hair pins, 5 bone awl fragments, 5 bone tubes, and 3 bags of
worked bone fragments); 65 bags of unworked faunal fragments; and 145
flotation, pollen, mineral, and C-14 samples.
In the Federal Register of July 9, 2002 (FR doc. 02-17086, pages
45539-45540) paragraph number 12, which was a correction to paragraph
86 of the February 27, 2002, Notice of Inventory Completion, is
corrected by substituting the following paragraph:(Paragraph 12)
(Paragraph 86) Based on previously reviewed affiliation information,
officials of the Bureau of Reclamation have determined that, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001, Sec. 2 (9-10), the human remains listed above,
represent the physical remains of a minimum of 485 individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Bureau of Reclamation also
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001, Sec. 2 (3)(A) the
3299 items 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. Lastly, officials of the Bureau of Reclamation
have determined that, pursuant to U.S.C. 3001, Sec. 2 (2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between these Native American human remains and associated funerary
objects and the Ak-Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak-Chin)
Indian Reservation, Arizona; 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.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated
funerary objects should contact in writing Jon Czaplicki or Bruce
Ellis, Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, PO Box 81169,
Phoenix, AZ 85069-1169, telephone (602) 216-3862, before January 22,
2003.
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Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Ak-Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak-Chin) Indian
Reservation, Arizona; 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 may begin after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Bureau of Reclamation is responsible for notifying the Ak-Chin
Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak-Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona;
Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation,
California; Cocopah Tribe of Arizona; Colorado River Indian Tribes of
the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona and California; Ft.
McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona; Ft. Mohave Indian Tribe of Arizona,
California & Nevada; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pascua Yaqui Tribe
of Arizona; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation,
California & Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the
Salt River Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San
Carlos Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'Odham Nation of Arizona; Tonto
Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian
Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of the Yavapai
Reservation, Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico, that this notice has been published.
Dated: October 10, 2002
Robert Stearns,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 02-32177 Filed 12-20-02; 8:45 am]
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