[Federal Register: August 3, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 148)]
[Notices]
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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,
Forest Service, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice, correction.
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Notice is here given in accordance with provisions of 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 control of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM; and in the
possession of Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, NM;
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; Logan Museum of
Anthropology, Beloit College, Beloit, WI; Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Museum of New
Mexico, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM; Ohio
Historical Society, Columbus, OH; Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; University of Texas at
Austin, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, TX; and Western New Mexico
University Museum, Silver City, NM. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Gila National Forest, Catron County,
NM.
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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Arizona
State Museum, University of Arizona; Field Museum of Natural History;
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College; Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology, University of New Mexico; Museum of New Mexico, Museum of
Indian Arts and Culture; Ohio Historical Society; Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; University of Texas at
Austin, Texas Memorial Museum; and Western New Mexico University Museum
professional staffs and U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the
Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
This notice corrects the number of human remains and associated
funerary objects, and sites reported in a Notice of Inventory
Completion published in the Federal Register on July 22, 1998, FR Doc
98-19536, pages 39293-39294. In 2005, the Field Museum of Natural
History, Chicago, IL, re-examined the human remains and associated
funerary objects taken from nine sites in the Gila National Forest,
Catron County, NM. In light of the findings from the re-examination,
the original notice of inventory is amended to include additions to the
minimum number of individuals, a decrease in the amount of associated
funerary objects, and a deletion of one of the sites (Brown site), as
no excavations took place by the Field Museum of Natural History,
Chicago, IL, nor were human remains and associated funerary objects
removed from the Brown site. The human remains and associated funerary
objects are culturally affiliated with the same tribes as described in
the original notice, which are the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of
Acoma, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
This notice corrects the previously published Notice of Inventory
Completion, by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph five:
Between 1935-1955, human remains representing 74 individuals were
recovered from SU site, Oak Springs Pueblo, Tularosa Cave, Apache Creek
Pueblo, Turkey Foot Ridge Site, Wet Leggett Pueblo, Three Pines Pueblo,
and South Leggett Pueblo by Dr. Paul Martin of the Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago, IL. These human remains are currently in the
possession of the Field Museum of Natural History. No known individuals
were identified. The 56 associated funerary objects include ceramic
vessels and sherds, stone and shell jewelry, stone and bone tools, and
projectile points.
The following paragraphs are substituted for paragraphs 27 and 28:
Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Gila National Forest have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(9-10), the human remains described above represent the physical
remains of 185 individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National
Forest also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A),
the 256 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. Lastly, officials of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National Forest
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 associated funerary
objects and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
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Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Dr. Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Southwestern Region, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
333 Broadway Boulevard, SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102, telephone (505) 842-
3238, before September 2, 2005. Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo of
Acoma, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico
may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila National
Forest is responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Pueblo
of Acoma, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 13, 2005
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 05-15316 Filed 8-2-05; 8:45 am]
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