FR Doc E6-13686
[Federal Register: August 18, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 160)]
[Notices]
[Page 47828-47829]
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: Pacific Lutheran University,
Tacoma, WA
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 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA.
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from
Walworth County, SD.
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 Pacific
Lutheran University professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River
Reservation and Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold
Reservation, North Dakota.
In 1932, human remains representing a minimum of two individuals
were removed from a site near the mouth of Swan Creek, north of the
town of LeBeau, Walworth County, SD, by Dr. W.H. Over, curator of the
museum of South Dakota State University at Vermillion, SD.
Subsequently, South Dakota State University transferred the human
remains and associated funerary objects to a private collector, Jens
Knudsen, a biology professor at the Pacific Lutheran University. Mrs.
Knudsen, the widow of Mr. Knudsen, transferred the human remains and
associated funerary objects to Pacific Lutheran University. No known
individuals were identified. The 56 associated funerary objects are 1
string of small beads, 3 sets of glass beads on sinew from a garment, 2
glass beads attached to leather, 7 loose glass beads, 1 mirror
fragment, 16 stone ``bird'' points, 10 stone ``thumb nail'' scrapers, 1
stone knife, 1 stone graver, 1 lot of cloth and leather fragments, 4
thong shapers, 1 lot of ``needle bones,'' 6 pottery sherds, 1 piece of
carbonized corn, and 1 lot of red pigment.
Documentation that accompanied the collection from South Dakota
State University indicates that the human remains and associated
funerary objects were recovered from a site occupied by the ``Ree'' or
Arikara Indians. The descendants of the Arikara are members of the
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota.
Officials of Pacific Lutheran University have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of two individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of Pacific Lutheran University also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 56 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 Pacific Lutheran University 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 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 David R.
Huelsbeck, Anthropology Department, Pacific Lutheran University,
Tacoma, WA 98447, telephone (253) 535-7196, before September 18, 2006.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North
Dakota may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
Pacific Lutheran University 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; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation,
South Dakota; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South
Dakota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South
Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of
North & South Dakota; and Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold
Reservation, North Dakota that this notice has been published.
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Dated: July 7, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-13686 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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