5850 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 20 / Monday, February 2, 2009 / Notices 

Management of the Districts for the next 

15 years will focus on: (1) Continuing 

current habitat management activities, 

but on a greater acreage; (2) increased 

monitoring of habitat and wildlife; and 

(3) expanding and improving the quality 

of visitor services. 

Dated: December 14, 2008. 

Charles M. Wooley, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Fort Snelling, Minnesota. 

[FR Doc. E9–2173 Filed 1–30–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLORB06000.L10200000.

PI0000.L.X.SS.021H0000; HAG–09–0069] 

Notice of Public Meetings for the 

Steens Mountain Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Steens 

Mountain Cooperative Management and 

Protection Act of 2000, the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act, and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 

1972, the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 

Steens Mountain Advisory Council will 

meet as indicated below. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: The Steens 

Mountain Advisory Council will meet at 

the Bureau of Land Management, Burns 

District Office, 28910 Highway 20 West, 

Hines, Oregon, 97738, on February 12 

and 13, 2009; April 9 and 10, 2009; and 

December 3 and 4, 2009. A meeting in 

Bend, Oregon, at the Comfort Inn and 

Suites, 62065 SE 27th Street, will be 

held June 4 and 5, 2009, and a meeting 

September 3 and 4, 2009, will be held 

at the Frenchglen School, Frenchglen, 

Oregon. All meeting sessions will begin 

at 8 a.m. local time, and will end at 

approximately 4:30 p.m., local time. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Steens Mountain Advisory Council was 

appointed by the Secretary of the 

Interior on August 14, 2001, pursuant to 

the Steens Mountain Cooperative 

Management and Protection Act of 2000 

(Pub. L. 106–399) and re-chartered in 

August 2005 and again in August 2007. 

The Steens Mountain Advisory 

Council’s purpose is to provide 

representative counsel and advice to the 

Bureau of Land Management regarding 

new and unique approaches to 

management of the land within the 

bounds of the Steens Mountain 

Cooperative Management and Protection 

Area; cooperative programs and 

incentives for landscape management 

that meet human needs, maintain and 

improve the ecological and economic 

integrity of the area; and preparation 

and implementation of a management 

plan for the Steens Mountain 

Cooperative Management and Protection 

Area. 

Topics to be discussed by the Steens 

Mountain Advisory Council at these 

meetings include the Steens Mountain 

Comprehensive Recreation Plan; North 

Steens Ecosystem Restoration Project 

implementation; Science Strategy; 

South Steens Water Development 

Project Environmental Assessment; 

easements and acquisitions; In-holder 

Access Environmental Assessment; and 

categories of interest such as wildlife, 

special designated areas, partnerships/ 

programs, cultural resources, education/ 

interpretation, volunteer-based 

information, adaptive management and 

socioeconomics; and other matters that 

may reasonably come before the Steens 

Mountain Advisory Council. 

All meetings are open to the public in 

their entirety. Information to be 

distributed to the Steens Mountain 

Advisory Council is requested prior to 

the start of each Steens Mountain 

Advisory Council meeting. Public 

comment is generally scheduled for 11 

a.m. to 11:30 a.m., local time, both days 

of each meeting session. The amount of 

time scheduled for public presentations 

and meeting times may be extended 

when the authorized representative 

considers it necessary to accommodate 

all who seek to be heard regarding 

matters on the agenda. 

Under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act management regulations 

(41 CFR 102–3.15(b)), in exceptional 

circumstances an agency may give less 

than 15 days notice of committee 

meeting notices published in the 

Federal Register. In this case, this 

notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to the meeting due to the 

urgent need to meet legal requirements 

for completion of the Steens Mountain 

Travel Management Plan/Environmental 

Assessment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christi Courtemanche, Bureau of Land 

Management, Burns District Office, 

28910 Highway 20 West, Hines, Oregon, 

97738 (541) 573–4541 or 

Christi_Courtemanche@blm.gov. 

Dated: January 26, 2009. 

Brendan Cain, 

District Manager. 

[FR Doc. E9–2171 Filed 1–30–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ 

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. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Heard Museum, 

Phoenix, AZ that meet the definition of 

‘‘sacred 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. 

In the early 1900s, cultural items were 

collected by the Fred Harvey Company 

and donated to the Heard Museum by 

the Fred Harvey Corporation in 1978. 

The five cultural items are one lot of 

three ceramic jars with mesh sleeves 

and two canvas pouches which are part 

of an altar setting (635P); one lot of a 

white stone mountain lion fetish and 

hide medicine pouch (1458CI); one lot 

of three stone fetishes and a hide pouch 

(1692CI); one stone fetish used by Zuni 

medicine societies, circa 1934 (1704CI); 

and one lot that consists of a Pueblo II 

period ceramic paint jar, hide pouch, 

ceramic bowl, and 16 peyote fetishes, 

circa 1900 (1746CI). 

In 1975, two cultural items were 

donated to the Heard Museum by Mr. 

C.G. Wallace. The two cultural items 

consist of a stone fetish (NA-SW-ZU-F– 

92) and a carved horn fetish or container 

(NA-SW-ZU-F–93). 

In 1974, two cultural items were 

donated to the Heard Museum by 

Woodar’s Indian Arts. The two cultural 

items are a pair of wrapped feathers 

(NA-SW-ZU-I–3a,b) and a feather fetish 

(NA-SW-ZU-I–4). The cultural items are 

associated with the Zuni medicine 

society. 

On March 15, 1996, and October 17, 

2008, representatives of the Zuni Tribe 

of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico 

consulted with museum staff, examined 

the collections and determined that the 

above-described objects were sacred 

objects needed by Zuni religious leaders 

for the practice of traditional Native 

American religion, and eligible for 

repatriation under NAGPRA. 


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Officials of the Heard Museum have 

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

3001 (3)(C), the nine cultural items 

described above are specific ceremonial 

objects needed by traditional Native 

American religious leaders for the 

practice of traditional Native American 

religions by their present-day adherents. 

Officials of the Heard Museum 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 sacred 

objects and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the sacred objects should 

contact Frank Goodyear, Jr., Director, 

Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central 

Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, telephone 

(602) 252–8840, before March 4, 2009. 

Repatriation of the sacred objects to the 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The Heard Museum is responsible for 

notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 

Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly 

the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of 

Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo 

Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; 

Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: December 31, 2008 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–2126 Filed 1–30–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Western Reserve Historical 

Society, Cleveland, OH 

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. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Western Reserve 

Historical Society, Cleveland, OH, that 

meets the definitions of ‘‘unassociated 

funerary objects,’’ and ‘‘sacred 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. 

The eight objects are one shaman 

crown or headdress (No number); one 

shaman bone necklace (No number); one 

bear bone amulet (Accession 42.417); 

one spirit chaser bone amulet (No 

number, possibly Accession 427); one 

kushdakka bone amulet (Accession 

427); one raven bone amulet (Accession 

427); one eel bone amulet (Accession 

427); and one ivory burial figure 

(Accession 42.1255). 

The Western Reserve Historical 

Society was founded in 1867, and until 

1940 records for accessions were scant 

or non-existent. Starting in 1894, book 

numbers were assigned consecutively to 

objects. This practice was terminated in 

1940. From 1940–1943, a large-scale 

inventory of the Society’s holdings was 

conducted and accession numbers were 

assigned to those objects with no prior 

book number or provenience. No 

cultural affiliation is listed in the 

original accession and catalog records 

for the eight cultural items. Photographs 

of the items and copies of catalog 

records were sent to various Alaskan 

Native Villages and Corporations. 

Collaboration with the Cleveland 

Museum of Natural History aided in the 

cultural identification of the cultural 

items to the Tlingit and Haida. 

The burial figure (42.1255) does not 

have specific provenience information 

other than a catalog card that states 

‘‘burial figure taken from elevated grave 

in Alaska.’’ Based on museum records 

and consultation with representatives of 

the Central Council of the Tlingit & 

Haida Indian Tribes, officials of the 

Western Reserve Historical Society have 

determined that the cultural item is an 

unassociated funerary object, and 

culturally affiliated with the Tlingit. 

The shaman headdress and necklace 

were unfortunately overlooked in the 

1940 inventory process and remain 

without an accession number. No 

provenience information has been found 

in the records. However, based on 

consultation with the Central Council of 

the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, the 

two cultural items have been 

determined to be sacred objects, and 

culturally affiliated with the Tlingit. 

In 1915, the bear amulet (42.417) was 

given to the Western Reserve Historical 

Society. The cultural item is from the 

Ben G. Goodman collection. Mr. 

Goodman, a former resident of 

Cleveland, spent 16 years as a fur 

trapper and resident of Nome, AK. 

In April 1916, the estate of Colonel 

Orlando John Hodge of Cleveland was 

donated to the Western Reserve 

Historical Society. The accession 

register lists ‘‘four carved ivory 

amulets,’’ which are reasonably believed 

to be these four ivory amulets 

(Accession 427). Col. Hodge’s 

connection to Alaska and how he 

acquired the amulets is unknown. 

However, based on consultation with 

the Central Council of the Tlingit & 

Haida Indian Tribes, the two cultural 

items have been determined to be sacred 

objects, and culturally affiliated with 

the Tlingit. 

The Central Council of the Tlingit & 

Haida Indian Tribes further identified 

the headdress, necklace, and amulets as 

shaman (or ixt’) objects, and as such 

sacred objects. Evidence given during 

consultation with the Central Council of 

the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes have 

indicated that shaman objects would 

have been buried with the shaman, and 

are therefore, funerary objects. Finally, 

consultation evidence of Tlingit 

property rights state that shaman sacred 

objects are also considered property of 

the clan. However, the specific 

shaman(s) and the clan(s) are unknown 

for the cultural items described in this 

notice. 

Officials of the Western Reserve 

Historical Society have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 

eight 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 an Native 

American individual. Officials of the 

Western Reserve Historical Society also 

have determined that, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001 (3)(C), the seven cultural 

items described above are specific 

ceremonial objects needed by traditional 

Native American religious leaders for 

the practice of traditional Native 

American religions by their present-day 

adherents. Lastly, officials of the 

Western Reserve Historical Society have 

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

3001 (2), there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 


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