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Based on the geographic, linguistic, 

archeological, and ethnographic 

evidence, as well as oral and 

documentary evidence presented during 

consultations, Caltrans and California 

State University, Sacramento, including 

the University’s College of Social 

Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies 

Committee on Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

Compliance (SSIS NAGPRA 

Committee), reasonably believe that the 

cultural affiliation of CA–SJO–91 is to 

the Plains Miwok and Northern Valley 

Yokuts. 

Officials of California State 

University, Sacramento, and Caltrans 

have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(9), that the human remains 

described above represent a minimum 

of 498 individuals of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of California State 

University, Sacramento, and Caltrans 

also have determined, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that the 4,667 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 

California State University, Sacramento, 

and Caltrans have determined, pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that 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 

Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk 

Indians of California; California Valley 

Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians 

of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as 

to the non-Federally recognized Indian 

groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of 

California and Northern Valley Yokuts. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Tina Biorn, Caltrans, P.O. Box 

942874 (M.S. 27), Sacramento, CA 

94274–0001, telephone (916) 653–0013, 

or Charles Gossett, Dean of the College 

of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary 

Studies, California State University 

Sacramento, CA, 95819–6109, telephone 

(916) 278–6504, before April 14, 2011. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the Buena 

Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; California Valley Miwok 

Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians 

of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; 

and/or Wilton Rancheria, California, 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

California State University, 

Sacramento is responsible for notifying 

the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk 

Indians of California; California Valley 

Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians 

of California; Jackson Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as 

the non-Federally recognized Indian 

groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of 

California, Northern Valley Yokuts, and 

Tubatulabals of Kern Valley, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5871 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA, that meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

This notice corrects the total number 

of unassociated funerary objects from 

four to five described in a Notice of 

Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items (72 

FR 48677–48678, August 24, 2007). 

Since publication, an additional 

funerary object was found for one of the 

two sites in the notice. 

In the Federal Register (72 FR 48677– 

48678, August 24, 2007), paragraph 

three is corrected by substituting the 

following paragraph: 

The five cultural items are three brass 

sheet fragments, one lot of elk teeth 

pendants and white discoidal beads, 

and one vial of shell and glass bead 

fragments. 

Paragraph four is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

In 1903, four cultural items were 

recovered from the Silverheels site in 

Brant, Erie County, NY, during a 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology expedition led by M. R. 

Harrington and A. C. Parker. Museum 

documentation indicates that the 

cultural items were interred with 

human remains. The human remains 

that were originally associated with 

these items were published in the 

Federal Register in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion (66 FR 51060– 

51062, October 5, 2001), and have since 

been transferred to the culturally 

affiliated groups. Therefore, the cultural 

items are now unassociated funerary 


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objects. The four unassociated funerary 

objects are three brass sheet fragments 

and one lot of elk teeth pendants and 

white discoidal beads. 

Paragraph nine is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology have 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(3)(B), that the five cultural items 

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 and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of Native American individuals. 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology also have 

determined, pursuant to 24 U.S.C. 

3001(2), that there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the 

unassociated funerary objects and the 

Cayuga Nation of New York; Oneida 

Nation of New York; Oneida Tribe of 

Indians of Wisconsin; Onondaga Nation 

of New York; Seneca Nation of New 

York; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, 

New York; Tonawanda Band of Seneca 

Indians of New York; and Tuscarora 

Nation of New York (hereinafter referred 

to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Patricia Capone, 

Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, before April 14, 2011. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to The Tribes may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology is responsible for 

notifying The Tribes that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5867 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of Wyoming, Anthropology 

Department, Human Remains 

Repository, Laramie, WY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 and control of the 

University of Wyoming Anthropology 

Department, Human Remains 

Repository, Laramie, WY. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from the Upper Sunshine 

Reservoir area of northwest Wyoming. 

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 University of 

Wyoming, Anthropology Department, 

Human Remains Repository, 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Crow Tribe of 

Montana. 

In 1973, human remains representing 

a minimum of two individuals were 

removed from a cliff ledge on private 

ground near the Upper Sunshine 

Reservoir area of northwest Wyoming by 

University of Wyoming personnel. The 

burial location had been discovered by 

recreational rock climbers. The remains 

have been at the University of Wyoming 

since that time (HR019 and HR020). No 

known individuals were identified. The 

985 associated funerary objects are 944 

small glass trade beads, 6 large white 

glass trade beads, 11 large blue glass 

trade beads, 4 medium blue glass trade 

beads, 6 dentalim shell beads, 3 brass 

buttons, 2 metal loops (earrings?), 1 

metal bracelet, 3 shell hair pipe beads, 

1carved wooden bowl, 1 lot of 

numerous cloth fragments representing 

a trade blanket, 1 lot of a trade coat in 

fragments with brass braid and brass 

buttons, 1 lot of a bison robe in 

fragments, and 1 lot of miscellaneous 

leather. 

The historic associated funerary 

objects suggest a burial date in the early 

1800s. The University of Wyoming, 

Anthropology Department, Human 

Remains Repository, determined that 

the human remains are Native American 

based on the presence of platymeric 

femoral morphology, toothwear 

patterns, the presence of shovel shaped 

incisors, interorbital observations, and 

distinctive cranial morphology. Based 

on craniometrics, burial location, 

artifacts, and hair styles, officials of the 

Human Remains Repository reasonably 

believe that these remains represent 

individuals related to the Crow Tribe of 

Montana. In addition, the Crow Tribe, 

based upon the burial location within 

the aboriginal homelands of the tribe 

and review of the information from the 

Human Remains Repository, claims a 

shared group identity. 

Officials of the University of 

Wyoming, Anthropology Department, 

Human Remains Repository, have 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(9), that the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

University of Wyoming, Anthropology 

Department, Human Remains 

Repository, have also determined, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that 

the 985 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 

a death rite or ceremony. Lastly, 

officials of the University of Wyoming, 

Anthropology Department, Human 

Remains Repository, have determined, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that 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 Crow Tribe of Montana. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Rick L. Weathermon, NAGPRA 

Contact at the University of Wyoming, 

Department 3431, Anthropology, 1000 

E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071, 

telephone (307) 766–5136, before April 

14, 2011. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Crow Tribe of Montana may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The University of Wyoming 

Anthropology Department, Human 

Remains Repository, is responsible for 

notifying the Crow Tribe of Montana 

that this notice has been published. 


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