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college in 1940–1950s from the 

Alvarado area (present-day Union City). 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice were 

removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more 

Federally recognized Indian Tribes. 

These locations are also the aboriginal 

lands of the Ohlone/Costanoan Tribes 

recognized by the State. The following 

information was used to identify the 

aboriginal land: California Native 

American Heritage Commission Native 

American Contact List for implementing 

AB275 (dated: 9/30/2021), Unratified 

Treaty E ‘‘Treaty at Dent’s and 

Valentine’s Crossing (May 28, 1851)’’ 

(Heizer 1972). 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, San Jose State University 

has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of five individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The one box of associated funerary 

objects 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. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

federally-recognized Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains and associated 

funerary objects described in this notice 

were removed from the aboriginal land 

of the Wilton Rancheria, California. 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 2, 2024. If competing 

requests for disposition are received, 

San Jose State University must 

determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

are considered a single request and not 

competing requests. San Jose State 

University is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 

identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 10.11. 

Dated: December 20, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037163; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items Amendment: Animas Museum/La 

Plata County Historical Society, 

Durango, CO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; amendment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Animas 

Museum/La Plata County Historical 

Society has amended a Notice of Intent 

to Repatriate published in the Federal 

Register on April 4, 2018. This notice 

amends the number of cultural items in 

a collection removed from San Juan 

County, NM. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Susan Jones, Museum, 

Collections Manager, Animas Museum/ 

La Plata County Historical Society, 3065 

W 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO 81301, 

telephone (970) 259–2402, email 

susanjones@animasmuseum.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the Animas 

Museum. The National Park Service is 

not responsible for the determinations 

in this notice. Additional information 

on the amendments and determinations 

in this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

summary or related records held by the 

Animas Museum. 

Amendment 

This notice amends the 

determinations published in a Notice of 

Intent to Repatriate in the Federal 

Register (83 FR 14497–14498, April 4, 

2018). Repatriation of the items in the 

original Notice of Intent to Repatriate 

has not occurred. During further 

analysis of the artifacts in the Museum’s 

collection, documentation was found 

concerning one bowl excavated by 

George F. Stewart from 31 archeological 

sites within Dolores, La Plata, and 

Montezuma Counties in Colorado and 

San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in 

New Mexico was found not to have been 

associated with a burial. This notice 

amends the number of unassociated 

funerary objects as listed in the original 

notice as follows: 

Between 1951 and 1971, 116 

unassociated funerary objects 

(previously identified as 117 

unassociated funerary objects) were 

removed from 31 archeological sites 

within Dolores, La Plata, and 

Montezuma Counties in Colorado and 

San Juan and Rio Arriba Counties in 

New Mexico. They were excavated by 

George F. Stewart, an amateur 

archeologist and private collector from 

La Plata County, CO, who donated most 

of his collection to the La Plata County 

Historical Society in 1978. These 

unassociated funerary objects are all 

from Ancestral Puebloan sites dating 

from the Basketmaker III (A.D. 500) to 

the Pueblo III (A.D. 1300) periods. The 

116 unassociated funerary objects 

include 106 ceramic objects (53 bowls, 

16 jars, 13 pitchers, seven seed jars, six 

ladles, five ollas, four pipes, and two 

dippers), two stone pendants, one stone 

pipe, one flake, one concretion, one 

sandstone bowl, one bone awl, one bone 

bead, and two unidentifiable objects. 

Determinations (as Amended) 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the Animas Museum has 

determined that: 

• The 118 cultural items 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items in this 


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notice and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 

Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; 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; 

Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur 

Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 2, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the Animas Museum must determine 

the most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The Animas 

Museum is responsible for sending a 

copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes 

and Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, 10.13, 

and 10.14. 

Dated: December 20, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28918 Filed 1–2–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037176; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville 

District, Nashville, TN, and University 

of Tennessee, Department of 

Anthropology, Knoxville, TN 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville 

District in cooperation with the 

University of Tennessee, Department of 

Anthropology (UTK) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

determined that there is no cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and any 

Indian Tribe. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from Stewart County, TN. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Crystal Geiger, 

Archaeologist, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Nashville District, 110 9th 

Avenue South, Room A–405, Nashville, 

TN 37203, telephone (615) 736–2472, 

email crystal.l.geiger@usace.army.mil 

and Dr. Ozlem Kilic, Vice Provost for 

Academic Affairs, University of 

Tennessee, 527 Andy Holt Tower, 

Knoxville, TN 37996–0152, telephone 

(865) 974–2454, email okilic@utk.edu 

and vpaa@utk.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Nashville District. 

The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. Additional information on 

the determinations in this notice, 

including the results of consultation, 

can be found in the inventory or related 

records held by the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Nashville District. 

Description 

In 1959, Michael D. Coe and F. 

William Fischer of the University of 

Tennessee undertook archeological 

research at the Stone site (40SW23) 

prior to the inundation of Lake Barkley. 

Coe and Fisher documented extensive 

looting and encountered few 

undisturbed areas of the site. Artifacts 

indicate a Mississippian occupation. 

Notices of Inventory Completion were 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 19, 2017 (82 FR 33155–33156), July 

6, 2020 (85 FR 40314), and May 24, 

2023 (88 FR 33635) listing human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from this site that have been repatriated. 

Subsequently, 19 additional funerary 

objects associated with these 

individuals were discovered in 

University of Tennessee collections. The 

collection is stored in the McClung 

Museum, University of Tennessee, 

Knoxville, TN. The 19 associated 

funerary objects are four lots of faunal 

bones, four lots of lithics, four lots of 

ceramic sherds, two lots of botanical 

material, three lots of coal fragments, 

and two dog mandible fragments. 

In 1959, human remains representing, 

at minimum, six individuals were 

removed from the Shamble site 

(40SW41) in Stewart County, TN. 

Michael D. Coe and F. William Fischer 

of the University of Tennessee 

undertook archeological research at the 

Shamble site prior to the inundation of 

Lake Barkley. Artifacts indicate 

Woodland and Mississippian 

occupation and a mound at the site 

dates to the Mississippian period. The 

collection is stored in the McClung 

Museum, University of Tennessee, 

Knoxville, TN. The human remains 

belong to four adults of indeterminate 

sex and two subadults. The 23 

associated funerary objects are one lot of 

lithics, three lots, 15 faunal bones, three 

lots of ceramics sherds, and one lot of 

coal fragments. (A Notice of Inventory 

Completion for additional human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from this site was published in the 

Federal Register on July 19, 2017 (82 FR 

33155–33156). The repatriation and 

reburial of those human remains and 

associated funerary objects took place in 

August of 2018.) 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice were 

removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. The following information was 

used to identify the aboriginal land: a 

final judgment of the Indian Claims 

Commission or the United States Court 

of Claims and treaties. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 


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