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during the EIS process. The Final EIS 

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following described lands are scheduled 

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from the date of this publication. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, 

DC, and the Arizona State Museum, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 

the Arizona State Museum, University 

of Arizona, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes, have 

determined that the cultural items meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

objects and repatriation to the Indian 

tribes stated below may occur if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe that 

believes itself to be culturally affiliated 

with the cultural items may contact the 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

tribe that believes it has a cultural 

affiliation with the cultural items 

should contact the Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, at the 

address below by April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: John McClelland, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, P.O. Box 210026, Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626– 

2950. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and in 

the physical custody of the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ, that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

In 1979, cultural items were removed 

from the Pinnacle Site, site AZ 

P:14:71(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ, 

during a legally authorized survey 

conducted by the University of Arizona 

Archaeological Field School under the 

direction of Madeleine Hinkes. A report 

prepared by Hinkes describes the 

presence of five unauthorized 

excavation pits at this site. The items 

listed below were found with human 

burials, but the human remains are not 

present in the collection. There is no 

record in Arizona State Museum files 

regarding the accession of these cultural 

items. However, the collection likely 

entered the museum in the same year as 

other collections from the summer field 

school. The eight unassociated funerary 

objects are 2 animal bone fragments, 1 

ceramic sherd, 4 pieces of chipped stone 

and 1 chert scraper. 

The Pinnacle Site consists of a pueblo 

of about 10 rooms and dates from A.D. 

1275–1400, based on the ceramic 

assemblage. The ceramic and 

architectural forms are consistent with 

the archeologically described Upland 

Mogollon or prehistoric Western Pueblo 

traditions. 

In 1979, cultural items were removed 

from an unnamed site, site AZ 

P:14:281(ASM), in Navajo County, AZ, 

during a legally authorized survey 

conducted by the University of Arizona 

Archaeological Field School under the 

direction of Madeleine Hinkes. A report 

prepared by Hinkes describes the 

presence of at least 70 unauthorized 

excavation pits at this site. The items 

were found with human burials, but the 

human remains are not present in the 

collection. There is no record in Arizona 

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State Museum files regarding the 

accession of these cultural items. 

However, the collection likely entered 

the museum in the same year as other 

collections from the summer field 

school. The 1,116 unassociated funerary 

objects are 7 ceramic bowls, 2 ceramic 

jars and 1,107 ceramic sherds. 

Site AZ P:14:281 contains a pueblo of 

about 31 rooms with additional stone 

alignments and dates from A.D. 1275– 

1400, based on the ceramic assemblage. 

The ceramic and architectural forms are 

consistent with the archeologically 

described Upland Mogollon or 

prehistoric Western Pueblo traditions. 

A detailed discussion of the basis for 

cultural affiliation of archeological sites 

in the region where the above sites are 

located may be found in ‘‘Cultural 

Affiliation Assessment of White 

Mountain Apache Tribal Lands (Fort 

Apache Indian Reservation),’’ by John R. 

Welch and T.J. Ferguson (2005). To 

summarize, archeologists have used the 

terms Upland Mogollon or prehistoric 

Western Pueblo to define the 

archeological complexes represented by 

the sites listed above. Material culture 

characteristics of these traditions 

include a temporal progression from 

earlier pit houses to later masonry 

pueblos, villages organized in room 

blocks of contiguous dwellings 

associated with plazas, rectangular 

kivas, polished and paint-decorated 

ceramics, unpainted corrugated 

ceramics, inhumation burials, 

cradleboard cranial deformation, 

grooved stone axes, and bone artifacts. 

The combination of the material culture 

attributes and a subsistence pattern, 

which included hunting and gathering 

augmented by maize agriculture, helps 

to identify an earlier group. 

Archeologists have also remarked that 

there are strong similarities between this 

earlier group and present-day tribes 

included in the Western Pueblo 

ethnographic group, especially the Hopi 

Tribe of Arizona and the Zuni Tribe of 

the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. The 

similarities in ceramic traditions, burial 

practices, architectural forms, and 

settlement patterns have led 

archeologists to believe that the 

prehistoric inhabitants of the Mogollon 

Rim region migrated north and west to 

the Hopi mesas, and north and east to 

the Zuni River Valley. Certain objects 

found in Upland Mogollon 

archeological sites have been found to 

have strong resemblances to ritual 

paraphernalia that are used in 

continuing religious practices by the 

Hopi and Zuni. Some petroglyphs on 

the Fort Apache Indian Reservation 

have also persuaded archeologists of 

continuities between the earlier 

identified group and current-day 

Western Pueblo people. Biological 

information from the site of 

Grasshopper Pueblo, which is located in 

close proximity to the sites listed above, 

supports the view that the prehistoric 

occupants of the Upland Mogollon 

region had migrated from various 

locations to the north and west of the 

region. 

Hopi and Zuni oral traditions parallel 

the archeological evidence for 

migration. Migration figures 

prominently in Hopi oral tradition, 

which refers to the ancient sites, 

pottery, stone tools, petroglyphs and 

other artifacts left behind by the 

ancestors as ‘‘Hopi Footprints.’’ This 

migration history is complex and 

detailed, and includes traditions 

relating specific clans to the Mogollon 

region. Hopi cultural advisors have also 

identified medicinal and culinary plants 

at archeological sites in the region. 

Their knowledge about these plants was 

passed down to them from the ancestors 

who inhabited these ancient sites. 

Migration is also an important attribute 

of Zuni oral tradition, and includes 

accounts of Zuni ancestors passing 

through the Upland Mogollon region. 

The ancient villages mark the routes of 

these migrations. Zuni cultural advisors 

remark that the ancient sites were not 

abandoned. People returned to these 

places from time to time, either to 

reoccupy them or for the purpose of 

religious pilgrimages—a practice that 

has continued to the present-day. 

Archeologists have found ceramic 

evidence at shrines in the Upland 

Mogollon region that confirms these 

reports. Zuni cultural advisors have 

names for plants endemic to the 

Mogollon region that do not grow on the 

Zuni Reservation. They also have 

knowledge about traditional medicinal 

and ceremonial uses for these resources, 

which has been passed down to them 

from their ancestors. Furthermore, Hopi 

and Zuni cultural advisors have 

recognized that their ancestors may 

have been co-resident at some of the 

sites in this region during their ancestral 

migrations. 

There are differing points of view 

regarding the possible presence of 

Apache people in the Upland Mogollon 

region during the time that these ancient 

sites were occupied. Some Apache 

traditions describe interactions with 

Ancestral Puebloan people during this 

time, but according to these stories, 

Puebloan people and Apache people 

were regarded as having separate 

identities. The White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona, does not claim cultural 

affiliation with the human remains and 

funerary objects from this site. As 

reported by Welch and Ferguson (2005), 

consultations between the White 

Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 

Apache Reservation, Arizona and the 

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & 

Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; 

and Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico, 

have indicated that that none of these 

tribes wish to pursue claims of 

affiliation with sites on White Mountain 

Apache Tribal lands. Finally, the White 

Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort 

Apache Reservation, Arizona, supports 

the repatriation of human remains and 

funerary objects from this site and is 

ready to assist the Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, 

New Mexico, in their reburial. 

Determinations Made by the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

the Arizona State Museum, University 

of Arizona 

Officials of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs and the Arizona State Museum 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 1,124 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

and 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 John McClelland, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626– 

2950 before April 16, 2012. Repatriation 

of the unassociated funerary objects to 

the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and Zuni 

Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico, may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Arizona State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Indian 

Reservation; and the Zuni Tribe of the 

Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, that this 

notice has been published. 

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Dated: March 12, 2012. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: The Colorado College, Colorado 

Springs, CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Colorado College, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribe, has determined that the 

cultural items meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects and 

repatriation to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

may occur if no additional claimants 

come forward. Representatives of any 

Indian tribe that believes itself to be 

culturally affiliated with the cultural 

items may contact The Colorado 

College. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

tribe that believes it has a cultural 

affiliation with the cultural items 

should contact The Colorado College at 

the address below by April 16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Jermyn Davis, Chief of Staff, 

President’s Office, Colorado College, 

Armstrong Hall, Room 201, 14 E. Cache 

La Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, 

telephone (719) 389–6201. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of The Colorado 

College that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

The 36 unassociated funerary objects 

are ceramic vessels, at least two of 

which contain corn. The vessels are 

bowls, mugs, pitchers, vases (seed jars), 

jars and ladles. The vessel styles are 

black-on-gray, black-on-white, Tusayan 

black-on-red, corrugated and gray ware. 

Between 1897 and 1898, human 

remains, associated and unassociated 

funerary objects, as well as other 

cultural items were removed from a cliff 

ruin in a canyon tributary of Comb 

Wash, San Juan County, UT, under the 

auspices of the Lang Expedition of 

1897–1898. Prior to 1900, General 

William Jackson Palmer acquired what 

became known as the Lang-Bixby 

Collection, which he subsequently 

transferred to The Colorado College. 

Beginning in the late 1960s, the LangBixby Collection was transferred, along 

with other collections from The 

Colorado College Museum, through 

long-term loans to the Fine Arts Center 

(formerly known as the Taylor Museum 

and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts 

Center) and the Denver Museum of 

Nature & Science (formerly known as 

the Denver Museum of Natural History). 

In 1993, the Fine Arts Center included 

the unassociated funerary objects from 

the Lang-Bixby Collection in its 

NAGPRA summary. 

The unassociated funerary objects are 

ancestral Puebloan based on type and 

style. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects from this 

collection were described in two 

Notices of Inventory Completion (NICs) 

published in the Federal Register (74 

FR 42105–42106, August 20, 2009, and 

69 FR 19232–19233, April 12, 2004). 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects were determined to be 

Ancestral Puebloan. A relationship of 

shared group identity can reasonably be 

traced between ancestral Puebloan 

peoples and modern Puebloan peoples 

based on oral tradition and scientific 

studies. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects have been 

repatriated to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

A preponderance of the evidence 

supports cultural affiliation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

Determinations Made by The Colorado 

College 

Officials of The Colorado College have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 36 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 Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Jermyn Davis, 

Chief of Staff, President’s Office, 

Colorado College, Armstrong Hall, 

Room 201, 14 E. Cache La Poudre, 

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903, 

telephone (719) 389–6201, before April 

16, 2012. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Colorado College is responsible 

for notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: March 12, 2012. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: San Francisco State University, 

San Francisco, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The San Francisco State 

University, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes, has 

determined that the cultural items meet 

the definition of sacred objects and 

repatriation to the Indian tribes stated 

below may occur if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe that 

believes itself to be culturally affiliated 

with the cultural items may contact the 

San Francisco State University. 

DATES: Representatives of any Indian 

tribe that believes it has a cultural 

affiliation with the cultural items 

should contact the San Francisco State 

University at the address below by April 

16, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San 

Francisco State University, Academic 

Affairs-ADM 447, San Francisco, CA 

94132, telephone (415) 338–3075. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items in the possession of the San 

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