[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 199 (Friday, October 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 60974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26345]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Buffalo Bill 
Historical Center, Cody, WY

AGENCY: National Park Service

ACTION: Notice

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, 
of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects in the possession of the Buffalo Bill Historical 
Center, Cody, WY.
    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 Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations within this 
notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Buffalo Bill 
Historical Center professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne 
Indian and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
    In 1876, human remains representing one individual were removed by 
``Buffalo Bill'' Cody during the Battle of Hat Creek, near present-day 
Montrose, NE. In 1957, the grandchildren of Mr. Cody, Fred H. Garlow, 
William Joseph Garlow, and Mrs. Jane Cody Garlow Mallehan, sold the 
remains to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. The remains, a scalp, 
were identified by Mr. Cody as belonging to Yellow Hair, a Cheyenne 
Indian. The remains are tied with two leather strips. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the Buffalo 
Bill Historical Center have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 
(d)(1), the human remains described above represent the physical 
remains of one individual of Native American ancestry. While the likely 
identity of the individual reported in this notice has been determined, 
officials of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center have not been able to 
trace a direct and unbroken line of descent to a particular individual, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (b)(1). However, officials of the Buffalo Bill 
Historical Center 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 Native American human remains and the Northern 
Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian and the Cheyenne-Arapaho 
Tribes of Oklahoma. Officials of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center 
also have determined that the two leather strips holding the braids of 
the hair, though not considered funerary objects, sacred objects, or 
objects of cultural patrimony, should be repatriated with the remains.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Northern Cheyenne 
Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian, and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes 
of Oklahoma. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes 
itself to be culturally affiliated with these human remains should 
contact Emma I. Hansen, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 720 Sheridan 
Avenue, Cody, WY 82414, telephone (307) 587-4771, before November 13, 
2000. Repatriation of the human remains to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe 
of the Northern Cheyenne Indian and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of 
Oklahoma may begin after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.

    Dated: September 26, 2000.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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