FR Doc E6-1380
[Federal Register: February 2, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 22)]
[Notices]
[Page 5683-5684]
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: Horner Collection, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR
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
Horner Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. The human
remains were removed from an island in the Columbia River, near the
border between Oregon and Washington.
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 Horner
Collection, Oregon State University professional staff in consultation
with representatives of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon. The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama
Indian Nation, Washington, were advised of the human remains, but did
not participate in consultation.
Some time between 1925 and 1927, human remains representing a
minimum of one individual was removed from ``Memaloose Island, Columbia
River.'' It is unclear from museum records whether the human remains
came from Upper Memaloose Island, Klickatat County, WA, or Lower
Memaloose Island, Wasco County, OR. On June 16, 1936, Keith Chamberlain
loaned one cranium (skull without the lower jaw), to the John B. Horner
Museum of the Oregon Country, Oregon Agricultural College. The Oregon
Agricultural College was renamed the Oregon State College in 1937, and
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became Oregon State University in 1962. In 1975, Keith Chamberlain
gifted the cranium to the John B. Horner Museum of the Oregon Country.
The Horner Museum closed in 1995. Currently, cultural items from the
Horner Museum are referred to as the Horner Collection, which is owned
by, and in the possession of, Oregon State University. It is unknown
whether the human remains were removed by Mr. Chamberlain. No known
individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
The human remains have been identified as Native American based on
the presence of cranial deformation and museum records that identify
the human remains as a ``flathead skull'', cranial deformation is
consistent with practices of the Chinook-speaking groups and, to a
lesser degree, by the Sahaptin-speaking groups. The Memaloose Islands
were used during the post-contact period by local Native American
peoples for the burial of their dead. The Memaloose Islands are within
the traditional territory of Chinook- and Sahaptin-speaking Indian
groups represented today by the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the
Yakama Indian Nation, Washington, and the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon has submitted a claim for the human
remains.
Officials of the Horner Collection, Oregon State University 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 Horner Collection, Oregon
State University have also 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
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation, Washington,
and Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Sabah
Randhawa, Executive Vice President and Provost, President's Office,
Oregon State University, 600 Kerr Administration Building, Corvallis,
OR 97331, telephone (541) 737-8260, before March 6, 2006. Repatriation
of the human remains to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon may proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Horner Collection, Oregon State University is responsible for
notifying the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation,
Washington, and Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of
Oregon that this notice has been published.
Dated: January 20, 2006.
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-1380 Filed 2-1-06; 8:45 am]
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