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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026100; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

Washington, DC 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) 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 FBI. 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 FBI at the address in 

this notice by October 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Federal Bureau of 

Investigation, FBI Headquarters, Attn: 

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) 

Timothy S. Carpenter, Art Theft 

Program, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20535, telephone (202) 

324–5525, email artifacts@ic.fbi.gov. 

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 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

Washington, DC. The human remains 

were removed from Potter County, SD. 

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 human 

remains was made by the FBI 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of Cheyenne River Sioux 

Tribe of the Cheyenne River 

Reservation, South Dakota; Standing 

Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South 

Dakota; and Three Affiliated Tribes of 

the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 

Dakota. 

History and Description of the Remains 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing one individual were 

removed from or near the Rosa Site 

(39PO3) in Potter County, SD. The Rosa 

Site is on the Missouri River midway 

between the mouth of the Moreau and 

Cheyenne Rivers. The closest modern 

town to the Rosa Site is Gettysburg, 

which serves as the county seat. 

Archeological records from the Rosa 

Site, along with oral history from local 

tribal nations, indicates that this area 

was historically inhabited by several 

populations. Archeologists believe that 

Siouan-speaking people ancestral to the 

Mandan lived in this locale from at least 

A.D. 800 until they were displaced by 

Caddoan-speaking ancestors of the 

Arikara. Ancestral Arikara remained in 

the area until the mid-to-late 1800s, 

when they moved upstream to join the 

Mandan and Hidatsa as part of the 

Three Affiliated tribes. 

Excavations were conducted by 

Wesley Hurt and colleagues at Rosa and 

other middle Missouri River valley sites 

in advance of the river’s damming and 

the creation of Lake Oahe by the Army 

Corps of Engineers in the 1960s. In 

1958, Wesley Hurt and Todd Willy 

produced a report on their salvage 

excavation at the site. (Report of the 

Investigation of the Rosa Site 39Po3, 

Potter County, SD. Archeological 

Studies Circular No. 9, South Dakota 

Archaeological Commission, Pierre, 

South Dakota.) 

In 1963, Hoffman speculated that the 

occupants of Rosa belonged to the 

Chouteau Aspect of Middle Missouri 

archaeological culture, which is 

characterized as a ‘‘late prehistoric 

coalescence of indigenous Middle 

Missouri and intrusive Central Plains 

cultures.’’ A later, protohistoric 

affiliation is supported by Weakly’s 

1971 study of tree rings from sites along 

the Missouri River in South Dakota. His 

analysis places Rosa’s occupation in the 

mid-to-late 18th century, with one 

juniper tree specimen providing a date 

of A.D. 1766. Based on this evidence 

and a larger regional analysis conducted 

by Donald Lehmer and published in 

1971, Rosa is now widely regarded as a 

Post-Contact Coalescent village for the 

ancestors of modern-day Arikara. More 

recently, Johnson has hypothesized that 

the Rosa village spawned from the 17th 

Extended Coalescent occupation at the 

Sully (39Sl4) site, located downstream 

in Sully County and below the mouth of 

the Cheyenne River. Meanwhile, 

Collison describes the LeBeau and 

Stanley Ware ceramics from Rosa as 

characteristic of the A.D. 1700 to 1750 

timeframe. In sum, Rosa was an 18th 

century ancestral Arikara village that 

existed shortly before the Arikara 

emigration northward along the 

Missouri River. 

Following their removal, the human 

remains (a single cranium) were 

transported to Indiana, where they 

remained as part of a private collection 

of Native American antiquities and 

cultural heritage. In April 2014, the 

human remains were seized by the FBI 

as part of a criminal investigation. 

The human remains (also known as 

Individual 144) represent one young-tomiddle adult female that, according to 

the osteology report, ‘‘likely died 

between 30 and 45 years of age.’’ No 

known individuals were identified. 

There were no associated funerary 

objects. A tag recovered by the FBI with 

Individual 144 states ‘‘Rosa Site- Cache 

Burial Female-Age 35.’’ Individual 144 

is represented by a well-preserved 

cranium, mandible and partial dentition 

with ante- and post-mortem tooth loss. 

According to the osteology report, bone 

preservation is very good, and there is 

no evidence for substantial weathering 

or taphonomic processes, suggesting 

that Individual 144 is derived from a 

late prehistoric, protohistoric or historic 

burial context. 

Based upon the historical record, site 

analysis, evidence obtained through 

criminal investigation, osteological 

analysis, and tribal consultation, the FBI 

believes that there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the Native 

American human remains and the Three 

Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 

Reservation, North Dakota. 

Determinations Made by the Federal 

Bureau of Investigation 

Officials of the FBI have determined 

that: 

• 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(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Three Affiliated Tribes 


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45672 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 175 / Monday, September 10, 2018 / Notices 

of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 

Dakota. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

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 Federal Bureau 

of Investigation, FBI Headquarters, Attn: 

Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) 

Timothy S. Carpenter, Art Theft 

Program, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20535, telephone (202) 

324–5525, email artifacts@ic.fbi.gov, by 

October 10, 2018. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the Three Affiliated 

Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 

North Dakota may proceed. 

The FBI is responsible for notifying 

the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the 

Cheyenne River Reservation, South 

Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of 

North & South Dakota; and Three 

Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 

Reservation, North Dakota that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 25, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19541 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026291; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Kootenai National Forest, 

Lincoln County, MT 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Kootenai 

National Forest, with assistance from 

the Army Corps of Engineer’s 

Mandatory Center of Expertise for the 

Curation and Management of 

Archeological Collections (ACOE), 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 Kootenai 

National Forest. 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 Kootenai National 

Forest at the address in this notice by 

October 10, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Chris Savage, Supervisor, 

Kootenai National Forest, 31374 US 

Hwy 2, Libby, MT 59923–3022, 

telephone (406) 293–6211 or email 

csavage@fs.fed.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 

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Forest Service, Kootenai National 

Forest. The human remains were 

removed from Lincoln County, MT. 

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 human 

remains was made by the Army Corps 

of Engineer’s Mandatory Center of 

Expertise for the Curation and 

Management of Archeological 

Collections professional staff for the 

Kootenai National Forest in 

consultations with representatives of the 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. 

History and Description of the Remains 

In 1982, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one sub-adult were 

removed from Dorr Skeels in Lincoln 

County, MT. Two teeth were located 

during an excavation of site 24LN00073. 

The right and left first mandibular molar 

crowns belonged to an approximately 2 

year +/¥ 8 month individual. 

Determinations Made by the Army 

Corps of Engineer’s Mandatory Center 

of Expertise for the Curation and 

Management of Archeological 

Collections and Kootenai National 

Forest 

Officials of the Army Corps of 

Engineer’s Mandatory Center of 

Expertise for the Curation and 

Management of Archeological 

Collections and Kootenai National 

Forest have determined that: 

• 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(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and the 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

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 Chris Savage, 

Supervisor, Kootenai National Forest, 

31374 US Hwy. 2, Libby, MT 59923– 

3022, telephone (406) 293–6211 or 

email csavage@fs.fed.us, by October 10, 

2018. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains to the 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes of the Flathead Reservation may 

proceed. 

The Kootenai National Forest is 

responsible for notifying the 

Confederated Salish and Kootenai 

Tribes of the Flathead Reservation that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: August 20, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19530 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0026178; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Office 

of the State Archeologist, University of 

Iowa, Iowa City, IA, and Coe College, 

Cedar Rapids, IA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The University of Iowa, Office 

of the State Archeologist Bioarcheology 


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