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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 human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

PSU must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. PSU 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 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00132 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037197; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Bonanzaville, Cass County Historical 

Society, West Fargo, ND 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 

Bonanzaville, Cass County Historical 

Society (Bonanzaville) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes in this notice. The 

human remains were removed from 

unknown locations in either North 

Dakota or South Dakota. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: David Hubin, Curator, 

Bonanzaville, Cass County Historical 

Society, 1351 Main Avenue West, West 

Fargo, ND 58078, telephone (701) 282– 

2822, email dhubin@bonanzaville.com. 

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 Bonanzaville. 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 Bonanzaville. 

Description 

On an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown location. The human remains, 

a bracelet made of human finger and toe 

bones, were loaned to the State Teachers 

College in Moorhead, MN, which would 

later become the Clay County Historical 

Society in Moorhead, MN, by Usher 

Burdick. It was part of a larger 

collection of Native American items 

loaned by Burdick for display starting in 

1930. In 1970, at the request of Quentin 

Burdick (Usher’s son), the collection 

was transferred to the Cass County 

Historical Society, ND, for display in 

their new Native American Museum 

with full ownership. The finger bone 

bracelet is mentioned in several early 

inventories, but no other information is 

given on how Usher Burdick received 

the items. No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

Usher Burdick was a member of the 

North Dakota State House of 

Representatives from 1907 to 1911 and 

served as Speaker in 1909. He was 

Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota 

from 1911 to 1913 and served as 

assistant United States district attorney 

for North Dakota from 1929 to 1932. 

Burdick was a State Representative for 

North Dakota from 1935 to 1944 and 

again from 1949–1959. His service to 

North Dakota led him to many 

relationships with tribal leaders in 

North and South Dakota who either gave 

him or sold him Native American items. 

We can only assume that these human 

remains were given to him in the same 

manner. 

A physical examination of the human 

remains by Phoebe Stubblefield, 

Professor of Forensic Anthropology at 

the University of North Dakota and Paul 

Picha, Chief Anthropologist at the State 

Historical Society of North Dakota 

revealed some additional clues. They 

confirmed the bones to be human and 

the bracelet contains a combination of 

first distal phalange from thumbs and 

first toe and distal phalange from other 

four digits. Stubblefield concluded that 

the human remains had spent some time 

buried and may have spent some time 

on a scaffold. Each bone has had a 

precise hole drilled suggesting a modern 

drill bit. Both Stubblefield and Picha 

estimate the age to be 100–150 years old 

based on native customs and the 

decomposition of the bones. Based on 

the physical evidence, we could not 

determine race or tribal affiliation. 

Because of its inclusion in the Native 

American collection given by Burdick 

and his collecting habits, staff has 

deduced that the human remains are 

Native American remains from a North 

Dakota or South Dakota Tribe. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: geographical and 

historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Bonanzaville has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the 

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the 

Cheyenne River Reservation, South 

Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the 

Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; 

Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South 

Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the 

Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; 

Oglala Sioux Tribe; Rosebud Sioux 

Tribe of the Rosebud Indian 

Reservation, South Dakota; SissetonWahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse 

Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake 

Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock 

Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; 

Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 

Berthold Reservation, North Dakota; 

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 

Indians of North Dakota; and the 

Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 


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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. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Bonanzaville must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. Bonanzaville 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, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00126 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037196; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Lake Mead National 

Recreation Area, NV 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Lake Mead National 

Recreation Area (LAKE) has completed 

an inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and associated funerary objects and 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Clark County, NV. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Mike Gauthier, 

Superintendent, Lake Mead National 

Recreation Area, 601 Nevada Way, 

Boulder City, NV 89005, telephone (760) 

252–6103, email mike_gauthier@

nps.gov. 

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 

Superintendent, LAKE. Additional 

information on the determinations in 

this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

inventory or related records held by 

LAKE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from the Lost City site (26CK007) in 

Clark County, NV, in the early to mid1960s by amateur archeologist R.V. 

Seeley during his exploration of the site. 

The collection was donated by Mr. 

Seeley to the Burke Museum at the 

University of Washington in 1965 and 

later transferred to LAKE in 2002. The 

two associated funerary objects are one 

lot of ceramic sherds and one lot of 

lithic fragments. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

geographical information, and historical 

information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, LAKE has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The two objects described in this 

notice 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Ak-Chin Indian 

Community; Chemehuevi Indian Tribe 

of the Chemehuevi Reservation, 

California; Colorado River Indian Tribes 

of the Colorado River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona and California; 

Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, 

California & Nevada; Gila River Indian 

Community of the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Havasupai Tribe 

of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona; 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai Indian 

Tribe of the Hualapai Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Kaibab Band of 

Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Las Vegas Tribe of 

Paiute Indians of the Las Vegas Indian 

Colony, Nevada; Moapa Band of Paiute 

Indians of the Moapa River Indian 

Reservation, Nevada; Navajo Nation, 

Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; 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); Quechan Tribe of the 

Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, 

California & Arizona; Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the Salt 

River Reservation, Arizona; YavapaiPrescott Indian Tribe; and the Zuni 

Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

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. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

LAKE must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. LAKE 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 


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