5854 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 20 / Monday, February 2, 2009 / Notices 

Kawaiisu. In 1863, soldiers of the U.S. 

Army killed 35–40 Tubatulabal and 

Palagewan men near Kernville. Starting 

in 1865, the Tubatulabal began to 

practice agriculture and in 1893, the 

majority of them and a few Palagewan 

survivors were allotted land in the 

South Fork and Kern Valleys. From 

1900 to 1972, many Tubatulabals moved 

to the Tule River Indian Reservation, 

north of the Kern valley region. It is 

reasonably believed that those that 

survived intermarried with the Yokuts 

in the Kern County area. Descendants of 

these Yokuts are members of the 

Federally-recognized Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California and Tule River 

Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California. 

Officials of the Raymond M. Alf 

Museum of Paleontology have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of six individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Raymond M. Alf Museum of 

Paleontology 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 Santa Rosa Indian Community 

of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California 

and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Don Lofgren, Director, 

Raymond M. Alf Museum of 

Paleontology, 1175 West Baseline Road, 

Claremont, CA 91711, telephone (909) 

624–2798, before March 4, 2009. 

Repatriation of the human remains to 

the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the 

Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Raymond M. Alf Museum of 

Paleontology is responsible for notifying 

the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the 

Santa Rosa Rancheria, California and 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: January 9, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Thomas Burke Memorial Washington 

State Museum, University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA and 

Northwest Museum of Arts and 

Culture, Spokane, WA 

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 in the control of the Thomas 

Burke Memorial Washington State 

Museum (Burke Museum), University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA, and in the 

physical custody of the Northwest 

Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, 

WA. The human remains were most 

likely removed from Grant County, WA. 

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 Burke Museum 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation, 

Washington; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; and Wanapum Band, a 

non-Federally recognized Indian group. 

Between 1939–1940, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown area most likely within Grant 

County, WA, by Warren T. Lee 

(Accn#2008–184). Mr. Lee was an 

amateur archeologist working along the 

Columbia River, near Vantage, Grant 

County, WA, between 1938 and 1954. In 

1950, the human remains were received 

by the Burke Museum. They were later 

mistakenly transferred to the Cheney 

Cowles Museum (now the Northwest 

Museum of Arts and Culture), as part of 

a return of a loan of human remains 

from the Collier, Hudson, and Ford 

collection. The Northwest Museum of 

Arts and Culture identified the human 

remains of this individual during their 

NAGPRA inventory. No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Early and late published ethnographic 

documentation indicates that the 

Vantage area was the aboriginal territory 

of the Moses-Columbia or Sinkiuse, 

Yakima, and Wanapum (Daugherty 

1973, Miller 1998, Mooney 1896, Ray 

1936, Spier 1936), whose descendents 

are represented today by the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; and Wanapum Band, a 

non-Federally recognized Indian group. 

Officials of the Burke Museum 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 

Burke Museum 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 of 

the Colville Reservation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; and 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group. Furthermore, 

officials of the Burke Museum have 

determined there is a cultural 

relationship between the human 

remains and the Wanapum Band, a nonFederally recognized Indian group. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Megon Noble, Burke 

Museum, University of Washington, Box 

353010, Seattle, WA 98195–3010, 

telephone (206) 685–3849, before March 

4, 2009. Repatriation of the human 

remains to the Confederated Tribes of 

the Colville Reservation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; and 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Burke Museum is responsible for 

notifying the Confederated Tribes of the 

Colville Reservation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; and 

Wanapum Band, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group, that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: January 9, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–2116 Filed 1–30–09; 8:45 am] 

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