[Federal Register: April 14, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 72)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion: The Colorado College, Colorado 
Springs, CO

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 and associated funerary 
objects in the possession of The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 
CO. The human remains and associated funerary object were removed from 
Canyon de Chelly, Apache County, AZ.
    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 within 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 within this 
notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by The Colorado 
College professional staff in consultation with representatives the 
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 
Pueblo of Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo of Jemez; 
Pueblo of Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of Picuris; Pueblo of 
Pojoaque; Pueblo of San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; Pueblo of San 
Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Clara; 
Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of 
Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico.
    On an unknown date in the 19th century, human remains representing 
11 individuals were removed from Canyon de Chelly, Apache County, AZ. 
The specific provenience is unknown, but records from the former 
Colorado College museum indicate that the human remains are likely from 
a ``cliff ruin'' in ``Chinlee Canon.'' The records include a ground 
plan of a ruin with numbered burials in the front of the ruin. Some of 
the numbers correspond to numbers painted on the human remains. 
Evidence indicates that the human remains were donated to The Colorado 
College in the late 1800s and became a part of the former Colorado 
College museum collections, which were transferred to the Anthropology 
Department in the 1960s and 1970s. The human remains were curated in 
the Anthropology Department Archaeology Laboratory, which until 1989 
was in Palmer Hall. From 1989 until the present, the laboratory has 
been in the Biological Anthropology Classroom/Laboratory of Barnes 
Science Center. No known individuals were identified. The one 
associated funerary object is a string and feather blanket that encases 
the human remains of one of the individuals. That individual is an 
infant.
    The Colorado College has determined that the lands from which the 
human remains and associated funerary object were collected were not 
Federal lands at the time of collection.
    A physical anthropological assessment of the human remains resulted 
in a determination that the remains are ancestral Puebloan based on the 
type of cranial deformation. This determination is supported by the 
funerary object associated with one of the individuals, as well as the 
provenience. Canyon de Chelly, which is also known as Chinlee Canon, 
was a site of ancestral Puebloan occupation. Currently, the site is 
within the Navajo Indian Reservation. A relationship of shared group 
identity can reasonably be traced between ancestral Puebloan and modern 
Puebloan peoples based on oral tradition, folklore, and scientific 
studies.
    Officials of The Colorado College have determined that, pursuant to 
25 U.S.C. 3001(9-10), the human remains described above represent the 
physical remains of 11 individuals of Native American ancestry. 
Officials of The Colorado College also have determined that, pursuant 
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the one object described above is 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 Colorado College 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 object and the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo 
of Jemez; Pueblo of Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of Picuris; Pueblo 
of Pojoaque; Pueblo of San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; Pueblo of 
San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Clara; 
Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of 
Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary 
object should contact Joyce Eastburg, Legal Assistant, The Colorado 
College, 14 East Cache La Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, 
telephone (719) 389-6703, before May 14, 2004. Repatriation of the 
human remains and associated funerary object to the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Pueblo of Acoma; Pueblo of Cochiti; Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo 
of Jemez; Pueblo of Laguna; Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of Picuris; Pueblo 
of Pojoaque; Pueblo of San Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; Pueblo of 
San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Clara; 
Pueblo of Santo Domingo; Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of 
Zia; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.
    The Colorado College is responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe of 
Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma; 
Pueblo of Cochiti; Pueblo of Isleta; Pueblo of Jemez; Pueblo of Laguna; 
Pueblo of Nambe; Pueblo of Picuris; Pueblo of Pojoaque; Pueblo of San 
Felipe; Pueblo of San Ildefonso; Pueblo of San Juan; Pueblo of Sandia; 
Pueblo of Santa Ana; Pueblo of Santa Clara; Pueblo of Santo Domingo; 
Pueblo of Taos; Pueblo of Tesuque; Pueblo of Zia; Ysleta del Sur 
Pueblo; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that this 
notice has been published.

    Dated: February 25, 2004.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
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