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southwestern materials collection. 

These unassociated funerary objects are 

currently in the control of the Fowler 

Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 

Expert testimony identified the jar 

and the figurine head as Late Preclassic 

Hohokam, dating to A.D. 900–1100. 

Nearly all of the Sacaton red-on-buff 

vessels were produced at a few villages 

on the Gila River, most of which are 

now on the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, AZ. 

The Gila River Indian Community of 

the Gila River Indian Reservation, 

Arizona, has submitted a repatriation 

claim for the cultural items described in 

this notice, on behalf of itself and the 

Ak Chin Indian Community of the 

Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 

Indian Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; and the Tohono 

O’odham Nation of Arizona (hereinafter 

referred to as ‘‘The Four Southern 

Tribes of Arizona’’). 

The Four Southern Tribes of Arizona 

assert a close relationship of shared 

group identity that can be traced both 

historically and prehistorically between 

The Four Southern Tribes of Arizona 

and the people that inhabited south 

central Arizona and the northern region 

of present day Mexico from time 

immemorial. Therefore, The Four 

Southern Tribes of Arizona claim 

cultural affiliation to the cultural items 

based on geographical, archeological, 

linguistic, oral tradition, and historical 

evidence. These affiliations include 

several archeological cultures including 

(but not limited to) the Archaic, PaleoIndian, Hohokam, Salado, Patayan, and 

Sinagua. 

The Hopi Tribe of Arizona claims 

cultural and ancestral affiliation to all 

human remains, associated and 

unassociated funerary objects, sacred 

objects, and objects of cultural 

patrimony that were collected from 

Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Basketmaker, 

Hisatsinom (Anasazi), Mogollon, 

Hohokam, Sinaguan, Fremont, Mimbres, 

and Salado, prehistoric and historic 

cultures of the Southwest. 

Based on Zuni oral teachings and 

tradition, ethnohistoric documentation, 

historic documentation, archeological 

documentation, and other evidence, the 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico, claims cultural affiliation with 

prehistoric cultures of the southwestern 

United States that include, and are 

known as, Paleo Indian, Archaic, 

Basketmaker, Puebloan, Freemont, 

Anasazi, Mogollon (including Mimbres 

and Jornada), Hohokam, Sinagua, 

Western Pueblo, and Salado. In 

addition, the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico, claims 

cultural affiliation with the historically 

identified Zuni, Cibola, Shiwi, and 

Ashiwi cultures. 

Determinations Made by the Fowler 

Museum at UCLA 

Officials of the Fowler Museum at 

UCLA have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(b), 

the two 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 a Native American 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the unassociated funerary 

objects and the Ak Chin Indian 

Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) 

Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River 

Indian Community of the Gila Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 

Indian Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham 

Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe 

of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Wendy G. Teeter, 

Ph.D., Curator of Archaeology, Fowler 

Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los 

Angeles, CA 90095–1549, telephone 

(310) 825–1864, before March 28, 2012. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Gila River Indian 

Community of the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona, on behalf of The 

Four Southern Tribes of Arizona, may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Fowler Museum at UCLA is 

responsible for notifying The Four 

Southern Tribes of Arizona, the Hopi 

Tribe of Arizona and the Zuni Tribe of 

the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4542 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bishop Museum has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribe, and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and a present-day Indian tribe. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe that 

believes itself to be culturally affiliated 

with the human remains may contact 

the Bishop Museum. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the tribe stated below 

may occur if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

tribe that believes it has a cultural 

affiliation with the human remains 

should contact the Bishop Museum at 

the address below by March 28, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Betty Lou Kam, Vice 

President, Cultural Collections, Bishop 

Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 

96817, telephone (808) 848–4144. 

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 in the possession of 

the Bishop Museum. The human 

remains were removed from western 

North America, most likely from northcentral California. 

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 Bishop Museum 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut 

Tribe). Correspondence in support of 

the assessment also was provided by the 

Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi 

Indians of California. In addition, the 

Bishop Museum contacted the Table 

Mountain Rancheria of California. 


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History and Description of the Remains 

In June of 1966, human remains 

representing, at minimum, two 

individuals were given to Dr. Alan 

Zeigler by Dr. Grover Krantz, while Dr. 

Zeigler was studying at the University of 

California, Berkeley. No information is 

provided as to the origins of the 

remains, other than a note in Zeigler’s 

1966 catalog listing the location as 

western North America. However, at the 

time, all of Dr. Zeigler’s work focused 

around the Alameda County and Fresno 

areas in California. Presumably, these 

human remains were given to Zeigler to 

complement his research collection. 

Remains representing a minimum of 

two individuals were accompanied by a 

tag that reads, ‘‘Sex? Imm. (2863 A.C. 

Zeigler) Coll? Rec’d from G. Krantz 

Western North America—No other data. 

(No meas’s or wt.) Rec’d Jun-, 1966. 

Composite part, skeleton only, homo 

sapiens.’’ No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

During his time at the University of 

California, Berkeley, much of Dr. 

Zeigler’s collecting was focused on the 

Alameda, Fresno and Northern/Central 

California areas. In 1968, Dr. Zeigler 

published ‘‘Quasi-agriculture in Northcentral California and its effect on 

aboriginal social structure’’ in Kroeber 

Anthropological Society Papers, No. 38, 

pp. 52–67. Thus, the specimens given to 

Dr. Zeigler by Dr. Krantz probably were 

from these regions and were given to Dr. 

Zeigler in support of his studies. The 

geographic locations described lie 

within Yokut territories, which run from 

the San Pablo Bay shores to Tahachapi, 

and encompass Dr. Zeigler’s work area, 

most notably in the East Bay area. 

Determinations Made by the Bishop 

Museum 

Officials of the Bishop Museum have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of two 

individuals 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 Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut 

Tribe). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any Indian tribe 

that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Betty Lou Kam, VicePresident, Cultural Resources, Bishop 

Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 

96817, telephone (808) 848–4144, before 

March 28, 2012. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut 

Tribe) may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The Bishop Museum is responsible 

for notifying the Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (Tachi Yokut 

Tribe) that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4524 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

History Colorado, Denver, CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: History Colorado (formerly 

the Colorado Historical Society) has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes, and has 

determined that there is insufficient 

evidence to reasonably establish 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and present-day Indian tribes. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe that 

believes itself to be culturally affiliated 

with the human remains may contact 

History Colorado. Disposition of the 

human remains to the Indian tribes 

stated below may occur if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

tribe that believes it has a cultural 

affiliation with the human remains 

should contact History Colorado at the 

address below by March 28, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Sheila Goff, NAGPRA 

Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 

Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone 

(303) 866–4531. 

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 control of 

History Colorado, Denver, CO. The exact 

locations from which the human 

remains were recovered are unknown; 

they were received through police 

seizures or private citizens in Arapaho, 

Boulder, Delta, Dolores, Jefferson, and 

Larimer Counties, 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 

In 2010 and 2011, a detailed 

assessment of the human remains was 

made by History Colorado professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Arapahoe Tribe of 

the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming; 

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, 

Oklahoma (formerly the CheyenneArapaho Tribes of Oklahoma); Fort Sill 

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, 

New Mexico; Mescalero Apache Tribe of 

the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & 

Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(formerly the Pueblo of San Juan); 

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 Pojoaque, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico; 

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Indian Reservation, 

Colorado; Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 

Mexico & Utah; Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo 

of Texas; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. The 

following tribes were invited to consult, 

but did not send representatives: Kewa 

Pueblo, New Mexico (formerly the 

Pueblo of Santo Domingo); Pueblo of 

Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New 

Mexico; and the Pueblo of Zia, New 

Mexico. 

For one case, identified as Office of 

Archaeology and Historic Preservation 

(OAHP) Case Number 103, additional 

tribes were contacted during previous 

consultation in 2001 and 2006: 

Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; Kiowa 

Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; Northern 

Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern 

Cheyenne Reservation, Montana; Oglala 

Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge 

Reservation, South Dakota; Pawnee 


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