[Federal Register: October 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 210)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert S. Peabody Museum of
Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 in the possession of the
Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA.
The human remains were removed from Morton County, ND.
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. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Robert
S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort
Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the
Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the
Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation,
South Dakota; Lower Sioux Community of Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe of
the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Prairie Island Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud
Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska;
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton
Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake
Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota;
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota;
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Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; and Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota.
At an unknown time between 1904 and 1908, human remains
representing a minimum of one individual were removed from the Fort
Lincoln site, Morton County, ND, by Ernst R. Steinbrueck. The Robert S.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology purchased Mr. Steinbrueck's Fort Lincoln
site collections in 1910. No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The Fort Lincoln site is the historically documented On-A-Slant
Village. Based on stylistic characteristics of lithic, ceramic, bone,
and shell artifacts (but which are not in the museum's possession), the
village was occupied between A.D. 1550 - 1675. Archeological research,
historical documentation, and oral history all confirm that the Mandan
Tribe lived in the Knife-Heart River region of the Great Plains, where
the Fort Lincoln site is located, during the 17th, 18th, and 19th
centuries. Oral history indicates that On-A-Slant Village was a Mandan
community. Descendents of the Mandan Tribe are members of the Three
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of
Archaeology also have determined that, 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 the Three
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Malinda
S. Blustain, Director, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 01810, telephone (978) 749-4490, before
November 30, 2007. Repatriation of the human remains to the Three
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology is responsible for
notifying the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian
Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River
Reservation, South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek
Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South
Dakota; Lower Sioux Community of Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Prairie Island Indian Community
in the State of Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian
Reservation, South Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of
the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North
Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Three
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Upper
Sioux Community, Minnesota; and Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
that this notice has been published.
Dated: September 26, 2007.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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