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(INDOT), as well as Indiana State 

Archaeologist Dr. Rick Jones. FHWA 

notified the Peoria Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma by letter dated July 26, 2010, 

and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and 

Shawnee Tribe by letter dated 

November 16, 2010. In co-operation 

between the FHWA, INDOT, and 

archeologists from IPFW, the human 

remains were temporarily housed at 

IPFW while initial consultation 

proceeded with the tribes listed in this 

notice and INDOT. On December 5, 

2013, the human remains were 

transferred from IPFW to the ISMHS. 

Upon consultation with the Peoria 

Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, the 

human remains were inventoried and an 

osteological analysis by staff at IPFW 

was conducted. Staff identified the 

human remains as belonging to a single 

individual, approximately 18–24 

months of age at death. Analyses also 

indicated no apparent pathologies 

apparent or evidence of pre- or perimortem skeletal trauma. Given the 

incomplete nature of the human 

remains (only a portion of the upper 

body is present) as well as the age of the 

individual, sex or stature could not be 

determined. No known individuals were 

identified. The one associated funerary 

object is a pipe made of green stone that 

appears to mimic the bowls found on 

18th century metal tomahawk pipes. 

The pipe bowl is shaped like the more 

common kaolin clay pipes and is similar 

to examples recovered from the Wea 

village near Ouiatenon. 

Determinations Made by the Indiana 

State Museum and Historic Sites 

Officials of the ISMHS have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on analysis 

of the physical remains and the 

archeological context. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the one object described in this notice 

is 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. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

associated funerary object and any 

present-day Indian tribe. 

• According to final judgments of the 

Indian Claims Commission or the Court 

of Federal Claims, the land from which 

the Native American human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed is the aboriginal land of the 

Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; 

Forest County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Match-e-benash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of 

the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously 

listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); 

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 

Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band 

Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as 

the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, 

Kansas). 

• Treaties, Acts of Congress, or 

Executive Orders, indicate that the land 

from which the Native American human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed is the aboriginal land of 

the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 

Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi 

Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville 

Indian Community, Michigan; Match-ebe-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 

Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of 

the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously 

listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); 

Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 

Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band 

Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as 

the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, 

Kansas). 

• Other authoritative governmental 

sources identify the removal location of 

the human remains as the aboriginal 

land of Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of 

Indians of Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, 

Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Ho-Chunk Nation of 

Wisconsin; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of 

the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; 

Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee 

Tribe; and the Winnebago Tribe of 

Nebraska. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the 

disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects may be the 

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 

Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; 

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Forest County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk 

Nation of Wisconsin; Kickapoo Tribe of 

Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in 

Kansas; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band 

of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; 

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the 

Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed 

as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa 

Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of 

Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation (previously listed as the Prairie 

Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); 

Shawnee Tribe Nation of Oklahoma; 

and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska 

(hereafter, ‘‘The Tribes’’). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to Michele Greenan, Indiana 

State Museum and Historic Sites 

Corporation, 650 West Washington 

Street, Indianapolis, IN 46214, 

telephone (317) 473–0836, email 

mgreenan@indianamuseum.org, by 

September 24, 2018. After that date, if 

no additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to The Tribes may proceed. 

The ISMHS is responsible for 

notifying The Tribes that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: July 17, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026061; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

History Colorado, Formerly Colorado 

Historical Society, Denver, CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: History Colorado, formerly 

Colorado Historical Society, has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

determined that there is no cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and any present-day Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations. 

Representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request to History Colorado. If no 

additional requestors come forward, 

transfer of control of the human remains 

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organizations stated in this notice may 

proceed. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to History Colorado at the 

address in this notice by September 24, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA 

Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 

Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone 

(303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@

state.co.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of 

History Colorado, Denver, CO. The 

human remains were removed from La 

Plata County and Montezuma County, 

CO. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). 

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. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by History Colorado 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Arapaho Tribe of 

the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, 

Oklahoma (previously listed as the 

Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of 

Oklahoma); Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 

Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Navajo 

Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 

Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the 

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 

Montana; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(previously listed as the Pueblo of San 

Juan); Pueblo of Jemez, 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 Santa 

Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New 

Mexico; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of 

the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; 

Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (previously 

listed as the Ute Mountain Tribe of the 

Ute Mountain Reservation, Colorado, 

New Mexico & Utah); Ysleta del Sur 

Pueblo (previously listed as the Ysleta 

Del Sur Pueblo of Texas); and Zuni 

Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico. 

The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Crow 

Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek 

Reservation, South Dakota; Fort Sill 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Jicarilla 

Apache Nation, New Mexico; Mescalero 

Apache Tribe of the Mescalero 

Reservation, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; and 

Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico were 

invited to consult, but did not 

participate. Hereafter, all tribes listed 

above are referred to as ‘‘The Consulted 

and Invited Tribes.’’ 

History and Description of the Remains 

In the 1930s, human remains 

representing, at minimum, two 

individuals were removed from private 

property in La Plata County, CO, by a 

private citizen. In the 1960s, the human 

remains were given to another family 

member, who mailed them to the Office 

of the State Archeologist in June 2017. 

The La Plata County Coroner ruled out 

a forensic interest in the human 

remains. The human remains are 

identified as Office of Archeology and 

Historic Preservation (OAHP) Case 

Number 324. Osteological analysis by 

Dr. Christine Pink of Metropolitan State 

University of Denver—Human 

Identification Laboratory indicates that 

the human remains are likely of Native 

American ancestry and archeological. 

No known individuals were identified. 

No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

About forty years ago, human remains 

representing, at minimum, two 

individuals were removed from private 

property in Montezuma County, CO, by 

a private citizen. In October 2017, she 

turned them over to the Mesa County 

Coroner, who, with the Montezuma 

County Coroner, ruled out a forensic 

interest. In December 2017, the human 

remains were transferred to the Office of 

the State Archeologist (OSAC), where 

they are identified as Office of 

Archeology and Historic Preservation 

(OAHP) Case Number 327. Osteological 

analysis by Dr. Christine Pink of 

Metropolitan State University of 

Denver—Human Identification 

Laboratory indicates that the human 

remains are likely of Native American 

ancestry and archeological. No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

History Colorado, in partnership with 

the Colorado Commission of Indian 

Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, 

and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe 

(previously listed as the Ute Mountain 

Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah), 

conducted tribal consultations among 

the tribes with ancestral ties to the State 

of Colorado to develop the process for 

disposition of culturally unidentifiable 

Native American human remains and 

associated funerary objects originating 

from inadvertent discoveries on 

Colorado State and private lands. That 

consultation led to the drafting of the 

‘‘Process for Consultation, Transfer, and 

Reburial of Culturally Unidentifiable 

Native American Human Remains and 

Associated Funerary Objects Originating 

From Inadvertent Discoveries on 

Colorado State and Private Lands’’ 

(2008, unpublished, on file with the 

Colorado Office of Archaeology and 

Historic Preservation). The tribes 

consulted on the human remains in this 

notice are those who have expressed 

their wishes to be notified of discoveries 

in the Southwest Consultation Region as 

established by the ‘‘Process.’’ 

The Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee (Review Committee) is 

responsible for recommending specific 

actions for disposition of culturally 

unidentifiable human remains. On 

November 3–4, 2006, the ‘‘Process’’ was 

presented to the Review Committee for 

consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter 

on behalf of the Review Committee from 

the Designated Federal Officer 

transmitted the provisional 

authorization to proceed with the 

‘‘Process’’ upon receipt of formal 

responses from the Jicarilla Apache 

Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa 

Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, subject to 

forthcoming conditions imposed by the 

Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, 

2008, the responses from the Jicarilla 

Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the 

Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were 

submitted to the Review Committee. On 

September 23, 2008, the Assistant 

Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks, as the designee for the Secretary 

of the Interior, authorized the 

disposition of culturally unidentifiable 

human remains according to the 

‘‘Process’’ and NAGPRA, contingent on 

the publication of a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register. 

This notice fulfills that requirement. 

43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on 

March 15, 2010, to provide a process for 

the disposition of culturally 

unidentifiable Native American human 

remains recovered from tribal or 

aboriginal lands as established by the 

final judgment of the Indian Claims 

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treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive 

Order, or other authoritative 

governmental sources. As there is no 

evidence indicating that the human 

remains reported in this notice 

originated from tribal or aboriginal 

lands, they are eligible for disposition 

under the ‘‘Process.’’ 

Determinations Made by History 

Colorado 

Officials of History Colorado have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on 

osteological evidence. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of four 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

any present-day Indian Tribe. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii), 

the disposition of the human remains 

may be to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe 

of the Southern Ute Reservation, 

Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Ute 

Tribe (previously listed as the Ute 

Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 

Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 

Utah). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Sheila Goff, NAGPRA 

Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 

Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone 

(303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@

state.co.us, by September 24, 2018. 

After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains to the 

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, 

and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe 

(previously listed as the Ute Mountain 

Tribe of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah) may 

proceed. 

History Colorado is responsible for 

notifying The Consulted and Invited 

Tribes that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 17, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2018–18202 Filed 8–22–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026073; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Florida Department of State, 

Tallahassee, FL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Florida Department of 

State has completed an inventory of 

human remains, in consultation with 

the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and present-day Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request to the Florida 

Department of State. If no additional 

requestors come forward, transfer of 

control of the human remains to the 

lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or 

Native Hawaiian organizations stated in 

this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to the Florida Department of 

State at the address in this notice by 

September 24, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Kathryn Miyar, Florida 

Department of State, Mission San Luis 

Collections, 2100 West Tennessee 

Street, Tallahassee, FL 32304, telephone 

(850) 245–6301, email kathryn.miyar@

dos.myflorida.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of 

the Florida Department of State, 

Tallahassee, FL. The human remains 

were removed from an unknown 

location. 

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. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the remains 

was made by the Florida Department of 

State professional staff in consultation 

with representatives of AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas (previously 

listed as Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of 

Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal 

Town; Kialegee Tribal Town; 

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Poarch 

Band of Creeks (previously listed as the 

Poarch Band of Creek Indians of 

Alabama); Seminole Tribe of Florida 

(previously listed as the Seminole Tribe 

of Florida (Dania, Big Cypress, Brighton, 

Hollywood & Tampa Reservations)); The 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole 

Nation of Oklahoma; and Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town. Two non-federally 

recognized Indian groups, the Florida 

Tribe of Eastern Creek Indians and the 

Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation 

of Aboriginal People were also 

consulted. 

History and Description of the Remains 

A braided lock of hair belonging to 

Osceola, an advisor to the principal 

chief of the Seminole and leader of 

Seminole resistance during the Second 

Seminole War (89M.041.004), in the 

collection of the Florida Department of 

State, was donated by one of the 

descendants of Dr. Frederick Weedon. 

Weedon, who was a medical doctor 

under contract to the Army, treated 

Osceola during his captivity at Ft. 

Marion and later at Ft. Moultrie (1837– 

1838). Before he died, Osceola had 

given a few personal effects to Dr. 

Weedon, but the braided lock of hair is 

presumed to have been taken after 

death. Osceola’s postcranial remains 

were buried at Ft. Moultrie in 1838; 

however, his head was retained by Dr. 

Weedon. It is believed that, later, the 

head was housed at the Surgical and 

Pathological Museum in New York City, 

and was lost in the fire that destroyed 

the museum in 1866. 

A lock of Osceola’s hair remained 

with the Weedon family from 1838 until 

its donation to the Florida Department 

of State in 1989. Taking a lock of a 

descendant’s hair for a keepsake was a 

popular western custom in the 1800s. 

The hair is in a braided plait that is 53⁄4′′ 

long, and consists of approximately 

seven strands of hair. Presumably, it had 

been plaited by a Weedon family 

member sometime after its acquisition. 

Determinations Made by the Florida 

Department of State 

Officials of the Florida Department of 

State have determined that: 


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