FR Doc E7-16783
[Federal Register: August 24, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 164)]
[Notices]
[Page 48667-48668]
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: Alaska State Office of History
and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK and Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological
Repository, Kodiak, AK
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 control of the
Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, AK and in
the possession of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository,
Kodiak, AK. The human remains were removed from Midway Point (49-KOD-
00303), Kodiak Island, AK.
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 on behalf of
the Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology by Alutiiq Museum
and Archaeological Repository professional staff in consultation with
representatives of Koniag, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island);
Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak (formerly the
Shoonaq' Tribe of Kodiak).
In 1990, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from an unknown site (probably 49-KOD-00303) near Chiniak,
AK, by a collector and turned over to the Alaska State Troopers. The
Alaska State Troopers sent the human remains to Anchorage for
examination by a professional archeologist at the State Office of
History and Archaeology and determined to be prehistoric. The human
remains were returned to the Alaska State Troopers, who deposited them
in the care of the Kodiak Area Native Association's Alutiiq Culture
Center in 1991. In 1995, the human remains were transferred to the
Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository where they are currently
stored (accession number AM92). No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The likely origin of the human remains is 49-KOD-00303, a
prehistoric archeological site on the south shore of Chiniak Bay in
Alaska's Kodiak archipelago. Site 49-KOD-00303 contains extensive,
well-preserved midden deposits, covering more than an acre. Physical
anthropological findings and the likely origins of the human remains
suggest that they represent a prehistoric Kodiak Alutiiq person. Many
Kodiak archeologists believe that the region's cultural sequence
represents a 7,500 year period of evolutionary growth with the earliest
colonizers evolving into the Alutiiq societies recorded at historic
contact. As such, the human remains are reasonably believed to be
Native American and most closely affiliated with the contemporary
Native residents of the Kodiak archipelago, the Kodiak Alutiiq.
Specifically, the human remains were recovered from an area
traditionally used by members of the Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.;
Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq
Tribe of Kodiak.
Officials of the Alaska State Office of History and Archaeology and
Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository 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 Alaska State Office of History and
Archaeology and Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository also 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 the Koniag, Inc.;
Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody Island); Natives of
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Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Dr. Sven
Haakanson, Jr., Executive Director, Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological
Repository, 215 Mission Rd., Suite 101, Kodiak, AK 99615, telephone
(907) 486-7004, before September 24, 2007. Repatriation of the human
remains to the Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak may
proceed after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository is responsible for
notifying Koniag, Inc.; Leisnoi, Inc.; Lesnoi Village (aka Woody
Island); Natives of Kodiak, Inc.; and Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak that this
notice has been published.
Dated: August 7, 2007.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-16783 Filed 8-23-07; 8:45 am]
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