58794 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 191 / Monday, October 2, 2000 / Notices

comments received from written

responses. All 28 pieces of written

correspondence were included in the

final document.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

Rory D. Westberg,

Superintendent, Columbia Cascades Support

Office, Pacific West Region.

[FR Doc. 00–25253 Filed 9–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical

Park Advisory Commission; Notice of

Meeting

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with the Federal Advisory Committee

Act that a meeting of the Na Hoapili o

Kaloko Honokohau, Kaloko-Honokohau

National Historical Park Advisory

Commission will be held at 9 a.m.,

October 27, 2000 at the King

Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel,

Kulana Huli Honua Room, Kailua-Kona,

Hawaii.

The agenda will include the

following: FY2000 budget status,

replacement of Commission vacancies,

scheduling of future meetings, progress

of GMP, status of MOA, long range goals

of Na Hoapili Advisory Commission,

status of halau at Kaloko pond, kuapa

repairs and funding, cultural festival for

2000, and the plans for the Cultural

Learning Center.

This meeting is open to the public. It

will be recorded for documentation and

transcribed for dissemination. Minutes

of the meeting will be available to the

public after approval of the full

Advisory Commission. A transcript will

be available after November 27, 2000.

For copies of the minutes, contact

Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical

Park at (808) 329–6881.

Dated: September 20, 2000.

Geraldine K. Bell,

Superintendent, Kaloko-Honokohau National

Historical Park.

[FR Doc. 00–25251 Filed 9–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural

Items in the Possession of the

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology,

Brown University, Bristol, RI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

Notice is hereby given under the

Native American Graves Protection and

Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of

the intent to repatriate cultural items in

the possession of the Haffenreffer

Museum of Anthropology, Brown

University, Bristol, RI that meet the

definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary

object’’ under Section 2 of the Act.

This notice is published as part of the

National Park Service’s administrative

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR

10.2 (c). The determinations within this

notice are the sole responsibility of the

museum, institution, or Federal agency

that has control of these cultural items.

The National Park Service is not

responsible for the determinations

within this notice.

The 180 cultural items consist of

beads, lithic arrowheads, bottles,

spoons, other metal objects and

fragments, mat and blanket fragments, a

pipe, and pipe fragments.

Around 1918, Rudolf Haffenreffer

began collecting Burr’s Hill human

remains and objects by purchase from

local collectors and by exchange with

the Museum of the American Indian

(Heye Foundation).

Burr’s Hill is believed to be located on

the southern border of Sowams, a

Wampanoag village. Sowams is

identified in historic documents of the

17th and 18th centuries as a

Wampanoag village, and was ceded to

the English in 1653 by Massasoit and

his eldest son Wamsutta (Alexander).

Based the presence of European trade

goods and types of cultural items, these

cultural items have been dated to

between A.D. 1600–1710. Based on

accession records and condition of the

cultural items, these cultural items have

been determined to be grave goods.

Based on the above-mentioned

information, officials of the Haffenreffer

Museum of Anthropology have

determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR

10.2 (d)(2)(ii), these 180 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. Officials of the Haffenreffer

Museum of Anthropology also have

determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR

10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared

group identity that can be reasonably

traced between these items and the

Wampanoag Repatriation Confederation,

representing the Wampanoag Tribe of

Gay Head (Aquinnah), the Mashpee

Wampanoag (a non-Federally

recognized Indian group), and the

Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation

(a non-Federally recognized Indian

group). This notice has been sent to

officials of the Wampanoag Repatriation

Confederation, representing the

Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, the

Mashpee Wampanoag (a non-Federally

recognized Indian group), and the

Assonet Band of the Wampanoag Nation

(a non-Federally recognized Indian

group), the Narragansett Indian Tribe of

Rhode Island, and the Council of Seven/

Royal House of Pokanoket/Pokanoket

Tribe/Wampanoag Nation (a nonFederally recognized Indian group).

Representatives of any other Indian tribe

that believes itself to be culturally

affiliated with these unassociated

funerary objects should contact Thierry

Gentis, NAGPRA Coordinator,

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology,

Mount Hope Grant, Bristol, RI 02805,

telephone (401) 253–8388, facsimile

(401) 253–1198, before November 1,

2000. Repatriation of these unassociated

funerary objects to the Wampanoag

Repatriation Confederation,

representing the Wampanoag Tribe of

Gay Head, the Mashpee Wampanoag (a

non-Federally recognized Indian group),

and the Assonet Band of the

Wampanoag Nation (a non-Federally

recognized Indian group) may begin

after that date if no additional claimants

come forward.

Dated: September 21, 2000.

John Robbins,

Assistant Director, Cultural Resources

Stewardship and Partnerships.

[FR Doc. 00–25128 Filed 9–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–F

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural

Items in the Possession of the Rhode

Island Historical Society, Providence,

RI

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

Notice is hereby given under the

Native American Graves Protection and

Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10 (a)(3), of

the intent to repatriate cultural items in

the possession of the Rhode Island

Historical Society, Providence, RI that

meet the definition of ‘‘unassociated

funerary object’’ under Section 2 of the

Act.

This notice is published as part of the

National Park Service’s administrative

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR

10.2 (c). The determinations within this

notice are the sole responsibility of the

museum, institution, or Federal agency