FR Doc E8-30893[Federal Register: December 30, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 250)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Klamath County Museums, Klamath
Falls, 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
Klamath County Museums, Klamath Falls, OR. The human remains were
removed from Siskiyou County, CA.
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
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Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Klamath
County Museums' professional staff with the assistance of Paleo-
osteologist Dr. Eric P. Gustafson, in consultation with representatives
of the Alturas Indian Rancheria, California; Burns Paiute Tribe;
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of
Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon;
Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes
of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; Coquille Tribe of Oregon;
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon; Fort Bidwell Indian
Community of the Fort Bidwell Reservation of California; Fort McDermitt
Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation,
Nevada and Oregon; Hoopa Valley Tribe, California; Karuk Tribe of
California; Klamath Tribes, Oregon; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the
Lovelock Indian Colony, Nevada; Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma; Paiute-
Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pit River
Tribe, California; Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake
Reservation, Nevada; Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Nevada; Resighini
Rancheria, California; Summit Lake Paiute Tribe of Nevada; Winnemucca
Indian Colony of Nevada; and Yurok Tribe of the Yurok Reservation,
California.
In the summer of 1957, human remains representing a minimum of one
individual were removed from an archeological site near Mount Dome,
Siskiyou County, CA, during excavations by Klamath County Museums
staff. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Klamath County Museums' professional staff estimated the human
remains to be approximately 500 years old based on the other materials
collected from the site. Archeological material collected, but
determined not to be associated funerary objects, such as obsidian
points, mortar and pestle fragments, obsidian and chert chips,
projectile points, bone awls, beads, and stone knives, show a
continuity in culture to the Klamath or Modoc people. Furthermore, the
site near the Mount Dome area is located within the ancestral lands of
the Klamath/Modoc people.
The Klamath Tribes, Oregon and Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma have a
shared ancestry. Following the conclusion of the Modoc wars, the Modoc
people were relocated to Oklahoma. In 1888, the Modoc reservation was
established in Oklahoma. In 1909, permission was granted to the Modoc
to return to Oregon. Those who returned became part of the Klamath
Tribes, Oregon. The present-day descendants of the Klamath or Modoc
people are members of the present-day Klamath Tribes, Oregon and Modoc
Tribe of Oklahoma.
Officials of the Klamath County Museums 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 Klamath County Museums 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 Klamath Tribes, Oregon and Modoc Tribe
of Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Todd
Kepple, Manager, Klamath County Museums, 1451 Main Street, Klamath
Falls, OR 97601, telephone (541) 883-4208, before January 29, 2009.
Repatriation of the human remains to the Klamath Tribes, Oregon and/or
Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
Klamath County Museums is responsible for notifying the Alturas
Indian Rancheria, California; Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated Tribes
of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon; Confederated
Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; Confederated Tribes of
the Siletz Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation, Oregon; Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon; Coquille Tribe of Oregon; Cow Creek Band of
Umpqua Indians of Oregon; Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort
Bidwell Reservation of California; Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone
Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, Nevada and Oregon;
Hoopa Valley Tribe, California; Karuk Tribe of California; Klamath
Tribes, Oregon; Lovelock Paiute Tribe of the Lovelock Indian Colony,
Nevada; Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma; Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon
Reservation and Colony, Nevada; Pit River Tribe, California; Pyramid
Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada; Reno-Sparks
Indian Colony, Nevada; Resighini Rancheria, California; Summit Lake
Paiute Tribe of Nevada; Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada; and Yurok
Tribe of the Yurok Reservation, California that this notice has been
published.
Dated: November 14, 2008
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E8-30893 Filed 12-29-08; 8:45 am]
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