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individuals may have originated from 

the southwestern Colorado, but without 

additional evidence, it is not possible to 

make a cultural affiliation. The tribes 

consulted were those who 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 Kiowa Indian 

Tribe of Oklahoma, and 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 

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, transmitted the 

authorization for the disposition of 

culturally unidentifiable human 

remains according to the Process and 

NAGPRA, pending publication of a 

Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register. This notice fulfills 

that requirement. 

43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated March 

15, 2010, providing 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 Commission or U.S. 

Court of Claims, a treaty, Act of 

Congress, or Executive Order, or other 

authoritative governmental sources. 

There is no evidence indicating that the 

human remains reported in this notice 

originated from tribal or aboriginal 

lands, making them eligible for 

disposition under the Process. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Sheila Goff, NAGPRA 

Liaison, History Colorado, 1200 

Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone 

(303) 866–4531, before March 28, 2012. 

Transfer of control of the human 

remains to the Southern Ute Indian 

Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, 

Colorado, and the Ute Mountain Tribe 

of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

History Colorado is responsible for 

notifying the Apache Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind 

River Reservation, Wyoming; Cheyenne 

and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma; 

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the 

Cheyenne River Reservation, South 

Dakota; Comanche Nation, Oklahoma; 

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow 

Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Crow 

Tribe of Montana; Fort Sill Apache 

Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New 

Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico 

(formerly Pueblo of Santo Domingo); 

Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Mescalero Apache Tribe of the 

Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & 

Utah; Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the 

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 

Montana; Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine 

Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Ohkay 

Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the 

Pueblo of San Juan); Paiute Indian Tribe 

of Utah (Cedar Band of Paiutes, Kanosh 

Band of Paiutes, Koosharem Band of 

Paiutes, Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, 

and Shivwits Band of Paiutes) (formerly 

Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (Cedar City 

Band of Paiutes, Kanosh Band of 

Paiutes, Koosharem Band of Paiutes, 

Indian Peaks Band of Paiutes, and 

Shivwits Band of Paiutes)); Pawnee 

Nation of Oklahoma; 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 Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, 

New Mexico; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of 

the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 

Dakota; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe 

of Arizona; Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of 

the Fort Hall Reservation of Idaho; 

Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River 

Reservation, Wyoming; Southern Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute Indian 

Reservation, Colorado; Standing Rock 

Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; 

Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 

Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 

Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe 

of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; Wichita 

and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, 

Waco & Tawakoni), Oklahoma; Ysleta 

Del Sur Pueblo of Texas; 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. 2012–4531 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand 

Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, 

MI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Grand Rapids Public 

Museum has completed an inventory of 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes, and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and 

present-day Indian tribes. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe that 

believes itself to be culturally affiliated 

with the human remains and associated 

funerary objects may contact the Grand 

Rapids Public Museum. Repatriation of 

the human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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 and 

associated funerary object should 

contact the Grand Rapids Public 

Museum at the address below by March 

28, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Marilyn Merdzinski, 

Director of Collections and Preservation, 

Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl 

St. NW., Grand Rapids, MI 49504, 

telephone (616) 929–1801. 

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 and an associated 

funerary object in the possession of the 

Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand 

Rapids, MI. The human remains and 

associated funerary object were removed 

from an unknown location. 


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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 and 

associated funerary object. 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 Grand Rapids 

Public Museum professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona on 

behalf of themselves and the Ak Chin 

Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak 

Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila 

River Indian Community of the Gila 

River Indian Reservation, Arizona; and 

the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian 

Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona. The Zuni Tribe of 

the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, and 

the Hopi Tribe of Arizona indicated 

they were affiliated with the Hohokam 

culture but did not take part in 

consultation. 

History and Description of the Remains 

At an unknown date, a Hohokam red 

on buff swirl designed vessel containing 

the cremated remains of one individual 

was removed from an unknown location 

by an unknown individual. At an 

unknown date, G.S. Knapp acquired the 

Hohokam crematory vessel. In 1914, 

G.S. Knapp sold the vessel to the Grand 

Rapids Public Museum. No known 

individuals were identified. The one 

associated funerary object is a pottery 

vessel. 

Although the Grand Rapids Public 

Museum’s records state that the vessel 

is from ‘‘Flats of Doe Run, MO’’ and is 

from a mound builder culture, Missouri 

is not an area traditionally occupied by 

the Hohokam, and the vessel type is 

indicative of an Arizona origin. On 

November 12, 2010, the vessel was 

identified by Peter Steere of the Tohono 

O’odham Nation of Arizona as being an 

Early-Middle Rincon Phase Red-onBrown design from the Tucson Basin, 

ca. A.D. 1100. In 1990, representatives 

of the Ak Chin Indian Community of the 

Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Gila River Indian Community 

of the Gila River Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 

Indian Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono 

O’odham Nation of Arizona issued a 

joint policy statement claiming ancestral 

ties to the Hohokam cultural traditions. 

Determinations Made by the Grand 

Rapids Public Museum 

Officials of the Grand Rapids Public 

Museum 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(3)(A), 

the one object described above 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), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and associated funerary object 

and the Tohono O’odham Nation of 

Arizona; Ak Chin Indian Community of 

the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Gila River Indian 

Community of the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; and the Salt River 

Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of 

the Salt River Reservation, Arizona. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any Indian tribe 

that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Marilyn Merdzinski, Director of 

Collections and Preservation, Grand 

Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. 

NW., Grand Rapids, MI 49504, 

telephone (616) 929–1801, March 28, 

2012. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Tohono O’odham Nation of 

Arizona may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Grand Rapids Public Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Ak Chin 

Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak 

Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila 

River Indian Community of the Gila 

River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi 

Tribe of Arizona; Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the Salt 

River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono 

O’odham Nation 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. 2012–4515 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–663] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Defense, Army Corps of 

Engineers, Walla Walla District, Walla 

Walla, WA, and the University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and 

Cultural History, Eugene, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Department 

of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Walla Walla District, and the University 

of Oregon Museum of Natural and 

Cultural History have completed an 

inventory of human remains in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes, and have determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and present-day Indian 

tribes. Repatriation 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 the U.S. Department of 

Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Walla Walla District at the address 

below by March 28, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: LTC David Caldwell, U.S. 

Department of Defense, Army Corps of 

Engineers, Walla Walla District, 201 

North Third Ave., Walla Walla, WA 

99362, telephone (509) 527–7700. 

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 Defense, Army 

Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla 

District, Walla Walla, WA, and in the 

physical custody of the University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History (UO–MNCH), Eugene, OR. The 

human remains were removed from 

45BN3, a village site located on 

Berrian’s Island, in Benton 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. 


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