60974 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 199 / Friday, October 13, 2000 / Notices

Griswoldville, Kolb’s Farm, Lovejoy’s

Station, New Hope Church, Resaca,

Rocky Face Ridge; Kentucky Cynthiana,

Munfordville, Richmond; Louisiana

Fort De Russy, Irish Bend, LaFourche

Crossing, Mansfield, Mansura; Maryland

Boonsborough; Mississippi Big Black

River Bridge, Champion Hill, Grand

Gulf, Okolona, Snyder’s Bluff; Missouri

Carthage, Fredericktown, Lexington,

Lone Jack, Newtonia; New Mexico

Valverde; North Carolina Monroe’s

Cross Roads, Roanoke Island, Wyse

Fork; Oklahoma Chustenahlah; South

Carolina Grimball’s Landing, Honey

Hill; Tennessee Brentwood, Fair

Garden, Murfreesborough, Parker’s

Cross Roads, Thompson’s Station; Texas

Sabine Pass II; Virginia Aquia Creek,

Berryville, Buckland Mills, Cedar

Mountain, Cool Springs, Cross Keys,

Cumberland Church, Dinwiddie

Courthouse, 1st Deep Bottom, Hampton

Roads, Hatcher’s Run, Haw’s Shop,

Lewis’ Farm, Peebles’ Farm, Piedmont,

Port Republic, Port Walthall Junction,

Ream’s Station, Rice’s Station, Sailor’s

Creek, Saltville, Suffolk (Hill’s Point),

Sutherland’s Station, Swift Creek, Tom’s

Brook, Trevilian Station, Ware Bottom

Church, White Oak Swamp; West

Virginia Hoke’s Run, Smithfield

Crossing, Summit Point .

Dated: October 10, 2000.

Paul Hawke,

Chief, American Battlefield Protection

Program.

[FR Doc. 00–26347 Filed 10–12–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–P

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

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.

[FR Doc. 00–26345 Filed 10–12–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–F

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion for

Native American Human Remains and

Associated Funerary Objects in the

Possession of Mendocino National

Forest, USDA-Forest Service, Willows,

CA

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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 Mendocino

National Forest, USDA-Forest Service,

Willows, CA

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 Mendocino

National Forest professional staff in

consultation with representatives of

Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians

of California; Enterprise Rancheria of

Maidu Indians of California; Mechoopda

Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria,

California; Mooretown Rancheria of

Maidu Indians of California; and Round

Valley Indian Tribes of the Round

Valley Reservation, California.

Between 1976 and 1977, human

remains representing four individuals

were excavated from site CA–BUT–296

in Butte County, CA by field crews from

California State University, Chico. The

university was contracted by the

Mendocino National Forest in 1976 after

accidentally discovering the remains

during mechanical trenching for an

irrigation pipeline at a tree nursery. No