[Federal Register: August 21, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 163)]
[Notices]
[Page 49485-49486]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO, and University of Denver
Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO;
Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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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 control of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO, and
in the possession of the University of Denver Department of
Anthropology and Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO. The human remains
were removed from Dolores County, CO.
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.
This notice corrects the Notice of Inventory Completion published
by the University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of
Anthropology in the Federal Register of October 9, 2001, (FR Doc. 01-
25140; pages 51472-51474). This notice corrects the controller of the
human remains, per 43 CFR 10.2 (a)(3)(ii), and the cultural affiliation
of the human remains, per 43 CFR 10.14 (c), of one individual (catalog
numbers DU6015 and DU 6066). After publication, a review of the records
associated with the human remains indicated that the human remains had
been removed from lands administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, San Juan National Forest, Durango, CO. Therefore, the San
Juan National Forest has the control of the human remains for the
purposes of NAGPRA. An overall evaluation of the totality of the
circumstances and evidence pertaining to the human remains by the
officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, San Juan National
Forest indicate that no cultural affiliation can be determined by the
preponderance of the evidence. Therefore, the human remains have been
determined to be culturally unidentifiable.
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A companion notice published in the Federal Register by the
University of Denver Department of Anthropology and Museum of
Anthropology also corrects the October 9, 2001 notice by deleting the
references in paragraph 11, page 51473, to the one individual (catalog
numbers DU6015 and DU 6066) that were collected at Dove Creek, Dolores
County, CO, from lands administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, San Juan National Forest. In 1943, the human remains were
found in the office of Lee A. Brown, an employee of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Forest Service, who had been transferred from the
Dolores Ranger District to Washington, D.C, by Fred R. Johnsono. At the
time, Dr. E.B. Renaud of the University of Denver, Department of
Anthropology was asked to examine the human remains, which were
physically transferred to the University of Denver by Mr. Johnson. No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects were
present.
While the examination of the human remains (DU 6015 and DU 6066) by
Dr. E.B. Renaud established that the human remains were of Native
American ancestry, Dr. Renaud's examination did not provide any
information regarding the cultural ancestry. The officials of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service have determined that the
human remains are culturally unidentifiable human remains based on the
lack of evidence regarding the specific provenience from which the
human remains were removed, the absence of associated funerary objects,
the lack of evidence that provides a date for the original burial of
the human remains, and the lack of evidence regarding the cultural
ancestry of the human remains.
Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
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 U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service also have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), a relationship of shared group identity
cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American human remains
and any present-day Indian Tribe.
Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be
culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Julie
Coleman, Heritage Program Manager, San Juan National Forest, San Juan
Public Lands Center, 15 Burnett Court, Durango, CO 81301, telephone
(970) 385-1250, before September 22, 2008.
The San Juan National Forest is responsible for notifying the
Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Colorado River Indian Reservation,
Arizona and California; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation,
New Mexico; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh,
New Mexico (formerly Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico;
Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo
Of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New
Mexico; Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah; Southern Ute
Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute Mountain
Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah;
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation,
New Mexico that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 14, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-19319 Filed 8-20-08; 8:45 am]
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