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Sec. 6, Lots 5 and 6, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

and SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 7, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4 and N1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 8, W1⁄2NW1⁄4 and NW1⁄4SW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 851.72 acres. 

2. This withdrawal will expire 20 

years from the effective date of this 

order unless, as a result of a review 

conducted prior to the expiration date 

pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act, 43 

U.S.C. 1714(f), the Secretary determines 

that the withdrawal shall be further 

extended. 

(Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1714(f)) 

Shannon A. Estenoz, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23629 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036806; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Washington State University, Museum 

of Anthropology, Pullman, WA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Museum of Anthropology at 

Washington State University (WSU 

Museum of Anthropology) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Asotin County, WA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Andrew Duff, Acting 

Director, Museum of Anthropology at 

Washington State University, Pullman, 

WA 99164–4910, telephone (509) 335– 

3871, email duff@wsu.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by the Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University. 

Description 

In 1964, human remains representing, 

at minimum, three individuals were 

removed from Ten Mile Creek (45AS26), 

in Asotin County, WA. The site, which 

had cairn markers visible on its surface, 

had been heavily disturbed by looters. 

The occurrence of stone cairns, the 

flexed body position, and the types of 

associated funerary objects suggest that 

these burials date to the Late Prehistoric 

Period of about 2000–300 years ago. 

The burial site is part of the Ten Mile 

Creek site complex, which includes 

large and small open camp sites, a series 

of storage pits, a rock shelter, and a fish 

wall. Ethnographic, oral traditions, and 

historic evidence associates this 

location with ‘enetoyn, a Nez Perce 

village. Excavations were led by WSU 

archeologists Charles Nelson and David 

Rice during the 1964 Asotin Reservoir 

Dam Survey under contract with the US 

Army Corps of Engineers, who hired 

WSU to conduct the survey after 

Congress authorized construction of the 

Asotin Dam Reservoir (Nelson and Rice 

1969). While dam construction was later 

de-authorized and further work was 

discontinued, the WSU Museum of 

Anthropology has housed Asotin Dam 

Reservoir Survey collections, including 

those from 45AS26. 

Three separate burials, numbered 1, 2, 

and 3, marked with surface and 

subsurface stone cairns, were excavated. 

Each burial contained a single 

individual placed in a flexed position. 

Burial 1 contained the human remains 

of an individual about 15 years old 

whose sex could not be determined. Red 

ochre as well as dentalia shell beads, a 

mussel shell pendant fragment, and a 

piece of muscovite mica, were found 

near the individual’s head. A heavily 

fragmented cedar wood stake was also 

associated with Burial 1. Burial 2 

contained the human remains of a child 

aged 6–8 years old whose sex could not 

be determined. The grave was marked 

by surface and sub-surface stone cairns. 

The body was in a fully flexed position 

and there were no associated funerary 

items. Burial 3 contained the human 

remains of a child 6–8 years old whose 

sex could not be determined. The grave 

was marked by a surface cairn 

containing flecks of charcoal and 

dentalia shell beads, including one 

incised bead. The body was placed in a 

flexed position. No known individuals 

were identified. The eight associated 

funerary objects include three lots 

consisting of dentalia shell beads, one 

incised dentalia shell bead, one mussel 

shell pendant fragment, one lot 

consisting of muscovite mica fragments, 

one lot consisting of cedar stake 

fragments, and one lot consisting of 

charcoal fragments. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes, which includes the Nez 

Perce Tribe and the Nez Perce Band of 

the Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

and oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The eight objects described in this 

notice 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Reservation and the Nez 

Perce Tribe. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 


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a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after November 24, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Museum of Anthropology at 

Washington State University must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Museum of 

Anthropology at Washington State 

University is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 

identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23549 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036819; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa 

Barbara Museum of Natural History, 

Santa Barbara, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Santa 

Barbara Museum of Natural History has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

removed from the State of Nebraska. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Luke Swetland, President 

and CEO, Santa Barbara Museum of 

Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, 

Santa Barbara, CA 93105, telephone 

(805) 682–4711, email lswetland@

sbnature2.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Santa Barbara 

Museum of Natural History. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural 

History. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from the State of Nebraska. On an 

unknown date, a human cranium was 

given to, or collected by, Phil Cummings 

Orr. Phil Orr was an archeologist and 

Curator of Paleontology and 

Anthropology at the Santa Barbara 

Museum of Natural History in the 

1930s–1960s. Subsequently, Orr 

donated to the Santa Barbara Museum of 

Natural History. Orr described the 

cranium as ‘‘Mound builder cranium, 

Mound Builder, Nebraska.’’ No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: Geographical, 

kinship, biological, archeological, 

linguistic, folkloric, oral traditional, 

historical, and other information, or 

expert opinion, including Tribal 

traditional knowledge. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Santa Barbara 

Museum of Natural History has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Iowa 

Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Kaw 

Nation, Oklahoma; Omaha Tribe of 

Nebraska; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; 

Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 

Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; and 

the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after November 24, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the Santa Barbara Museum of 

Natural History must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Santa Barbara 

Museum of Natural History is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23552 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036818; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 

Milwaukee, WI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

(UWM) has completed an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects and has determined that there is 

a cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Kane County, IL. 


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