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deleting paragraphs 6 to 8, and 

replacing paragraphs 4, 5, 9 and 10 with 

the following paragraphs: 

In 1953, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual (catalog 

number DU 6000) were removed from 

Marsh Pass, Navajo County, AZ, by 

Arnold Withers, a University of Denver 

Department of Anthropology faculty 

member, who donated the remains to 

the University of Denver Museum of 

Anthropology that same year. No field 

notes exist for these remains. No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Marsh Pass is on the Navajo 

Reservation. The human remains were 

found in a deserted hogan. According to 

the scientific literature, hogans are a 

Navajo form of habitation, and under 

certain circumstances are also 

traditional Navajo burial places. Tribal 

information also largely supports a 

Navajo affiliation. The preponderance of 

the evidence, including archeology, 

architecture, oral traditions, and expert 

opinion, indicates that a relationship of 

shared group identity can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

the Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 

Mexico & Utah. 

Officials of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs and University of Denver 

Department of Anthropology and 

Museum of Anthropology have 

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

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of a minimum of one individual 

of Native American ancestry. Officials of 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs and 

University of Denver Department of 

Anthropology and Museum of 

Anthropology have also determined 

that, based on the preponderance of the 

evidence, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 

(2), a relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Navajo Nation, 

Arizona, New Mexico & Utah. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. Christina Kreps, 

University of Denver Museum of 

Anthropology, Sturm 146, Denver, CO 

80208, telephone (303) 871–2688, before 

March 4, 2009. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Navajo Nation, 

Arizona, New Mexico & Utah may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The University of Denver Museum of 

Anthropology is responsible for 

notifying the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 

Colorado River Indian Tribes of the 

Colorado River Indian Reservation, 

Arizona and California; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New 

Mexico & Utah; Okhay Owingeh, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, 

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: January 5, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Raymond M. Alf Museum of 

Paleontology, Claremont, CA 

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 Raymond 

M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, 

Claremont, CA. The human remains 

were removed from Kern 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 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Raymond M. 

Alf Museum of Paleontology 

professional staff and University of 

California, Los Angeles professional 

staff member Archeologist Gail 

Kennedy, in consultation with 

representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut 

Tribe). 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of six 

individuals were removed from the 

Kern Valley area near Kernville, Kern 

County, CA. No known individuals 

were identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

The Kern Valley area is near 

Kernville, Kern County, in the Central 

California area. Museum officials 

reasonably believe, based on locations 

where the museum has previously 

collected non-paleontological 

specimens, that these six individuals 

may have been collected from the same 

area associated with another individual 

described in a published Notice of 

Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register (73 FR 34318, June 17, 2008), 

although at the time of publication the 

museum was unable to relate the six 

individuals in this notice to that 

individual. However, officials of the 

Raymond M. Alf Museum have 

subsequently determined that the six 

individuals in this notice are probably 

from the same area, and possibly the 

same site as the individual in the June 

17, 2008 notice, based on two separate 

analyses, museum collection history, 

and tribal consultation. 

An investigation of the human 

remains conducted by Dr. Gail Kennedy, 

Physical Anthropologist, University of 

California, Los Angeles, determined that 

the individuals were California Native 

American based on dental wear. Tribal 

representatives of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria conducted a second analysis, 

and independently concluded that the 

human remains are Native American. 

The Kern Valley site is most likely 

either the habitation site of the 

Tubatulabal from which the individual 

in the June 17, 2008 notice had been 

removed, or a similar site. The 

Tubatulabal were loosely organized into 

three discrete bands called Pahkanapil, 

Palagewan, and Bankalachi 

(Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of 

North American Indians, Book 8, 1978). 

The Tubatulabal are considered Kern 

River Indians, speak an Uto-Aztecan 

language, and live in the Kern River/ 

Lake Isabella area, which includes the 

south fork (Palagewan) and the lower 

Kern River below the south fork 

(Tubatulabal). Their neighbors are the 

Kawaiisu and the Yokuts. The 

Bankalachi, who were located a few 

miles from the Palagewan, resided in 

Yokuts territory. 

In 1857, the Kern River gold rush 

began in Palagewan territory. During 

1862, a few Tubatulabal joined the 

Owens Valley Paiute in hostilities 

against the Whites, and about this time, 

a group of Koso Indians settled in the 

Tubatulabal area, intermarrying with the 


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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. 

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