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W bowl, 1 North Creek Gray jar, 1 jar, 

1 bowl, 1 projectile point, 1 stone, 3 

Shinarump sherds, and 31 sherds. The 

following 21 objects were also identified 

in museum records and the excavation 

report as being associated with the 

human remains, but the museum could 

not verify their current location: 19 

stones, 1 North Creek Gray ladle, and 1 

sherd. 

The three reported burials are 

associated with the Virgin Anasazi. A 

report on the site excavation discusses 

the three burials; it is not clear whether 

the fourth set of human remains came 

from one of these burials or from some 

other location in the site. However, it is 

reasonably believed that the fourth 

burial listed in the museum records 

would have the same cultural affiliation 

since that is the primary cultural 

sequence noted at the site. 

The Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; and San Juan Southern Paiute 

Tribe of Arizona have all made 

generalized claims for a relationship 

with the Virgin Anasazi peoples in 

southwestern Utah and northwestern 

Arizona. Archeological evidence 

indicates that Virgin Anasazi peoples 

began to leave the area by A.D. 1150, 

and abandoned most locations shortly 

after A.D. 1200. Some evidence suggests 

that Paiute ancestors entered the region 

or at least were in contact with Virgin 

Anasazi peoples by A.D. 1150, but there 

is a distinct archeological record 

showing two separate occupations by 

two peoples, and evidence for a direct 

relationship between Virgin Anasazi 

peoples and present-day Paiutes has not 

been shown. Cultural continuity from 

Basketmaker through Puebloan times 

and into the present shows cultural 

continuity of Virgin Anasazi (and other 

Anasazi expressions) with extant 

Puebloans. Based on general evidence, 

extant Puebloan tribes are culturally 

affiliated to Virgin Anasazi at some 

general level. There is specific evidence, 

especially oral tradition and folklore, 

with support from archeology and other 

lines of evidence, to link the Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona directly to Virgin Anasazi 

culture by a simple preponderance of 

the evidence. 

Officials of the Utah State Office, 

Bureau of Land Management have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of four individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the Utah 

State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management also have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 41 

objects described above 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. Lastly, officials of the 

Utah State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is 

a relationship of shared group identity 

that can be reasonably traced between 

the Native American human remains 

and associated funerary objects and the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Dr. Byron Loosle, Utah State 

NAGPRA Coordinator, BLM Utah State 

Office, P.O. Box 45155, 440 West 200 

South, Suite 600, Salt Lake City, UT 

84145–0155, telephone (801) 539–4276, 

before April 13, 2009. Repatriation of 

the human remains and associated 

funerary objects to the Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Utah State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management is responsible for notifying 

the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute 

Reservation, Nevada and Utah; 

Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the 

Duckwater Reservation, Nevada; Ely 

Shoshone Tribe of Nevada; Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute 

Indians of the Kaibab Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Moapa Band of 

Paiute Indians of the Moapa River 

Indian Reservation, Nevada; Navajo 

Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; 

Northwestern Band of Shoshoni Nation 

of Utah (Washakie); Ohkay Owingeh, 

New Mexico; Paiute Indian Tribe of 

Utah; 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 Santo 

Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; San 

Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; 

Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River 

Reservation, Wyoming; ShoshoneBannock Tribes of the Fort Hall 

Reservation of Idaho; Shoshone-Paiute 

Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, 

Nevada; Skull Valley Band of Goshute 

Indians of Utah; Southern Ute Indian 

Tribe of the Southern Ute Reservation, 

Colorado; Te-Moak Tribes of Western 

Shoshone Indians of Nevada; Ute Indian 

Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 

Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Tribe 

of the Ute Mountain Reservation, 

Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; Ysleta 

del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and Zuni Tribe 

of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: January 26, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–5346 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great 

Plains Regional Office, Aberdeen, SD 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office, 

Aberdeen, SD, that meet the definition 

of ‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ 

under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The three cultural items are one 

quartzite endscraper and two bone awls. 

A detailed assessment of the cultural 

items was made by the South Dakota 

State Historical Society-Archaeological 

Research Center professional staff under 

the direction of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Three Affiliated 

Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 

North Dakota. 

In 1977, archeological salvage 

excavations were conducted at the 

Indian School Village, 39HU10/94–245, 

Hughes County, SD, by Tom Haberman, 

South Dakota State Historical SocietyArcheological Research Center. Human 

remains and funerary objects were 

found in an abandoned cache pit 

exposed by housing construction 

activities. The human remains were 

reburied in the adjacent churchyard that 

same year. The funerary objects were 

not reburied, and instead were curated 

at the Archaeological Research Center, 

Rapid City, SD. 


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The Indian School Village dates to the 

Extended Coalescent (A.D. 1500–A.D. 

1675) and Post-Contact Coalescent (A.D. 

1675–A.D. 1750) Periods. Evaluation of 

documentation from the excavation of 

the Indian School Village site indicates 

that the cultural items were found in 

association with Native American 

human remains. Other human remains 

from the Indian School Village have 

been identified as Native American 

based on physical anthropological 

assessment, manner and location of 

burial, and types of funerary objects. 

Based on historical documents, oral 

history, and archeological data, the 

Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples 

occupied what is now present-day 

South Dakota and North Dakota, and are 

represented today by the Three 

Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 

Reservation, North Dakota. 

In June 2008, the Mandan, Hidatsa, 

and Arikara Nation of the Three 

Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold 

Reservation, North Dakota submitted a 

request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Great Plains Regional Office for 

repatriation of cultural items from 

central South Dakota, including the 

three unassociated funerary objects 

described above from the Indian School 

Village. 

Officials of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs have determined that, pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the three 

cultural items described above 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 Bureau of 

Indian Affairs have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

can be traced between the unassociated 

funerary objects and the Three Affiliated 

Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 

North Dakota. 

Representatives of any Indian tribe 

that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Paul Hofmann, 

Chief, Division of Environment, Safety 

and Cultural Resources, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, 115 4th Ave., Aberdeen, 

SD 57401, telephone (605) 226–7656, 

before April 13, 2009. Repatriation of 

the unassociated funerary objects to the 

Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort 

Berthold Reservation, North Dakota may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great 

Plains Regional Office is responsible for 

notifying the Three Affiliated Tribes of 

the Fort Berthold Reservation, North 

Dakota that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: February 3, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–5327 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Forest Service, Coronado National 

Forest, Tucson, AZ and Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

control of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Coronado 

National Forest, Tucson, AZ, and in the 

possession of the Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ, that meets the definition of 

‘‘unassociated funerary objects’’ under 

25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

Between 1979 and 1980, two cultural 

items were removed from a prehistoric 

site (EE:2:79) within the ANAMAXRosemont Project in the Santa Rita 

Mountains, Coronado National Forest, 

Pima County, AZ, during legally 

authorized excavations by the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona. 

The two unassociated funerary objects 

are a ceramic bowl and charcoal. 

Between 1979 and 1980, one cultural 

item was removed from a prehistoric 

site (EE:2:113) within the ANAMAXRosemont Project in the Santa Rita 

Mountains, Coronado National Forest, 

Pima County, AZ, during legally 

authorized excavations by the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona. 

The one unassociated funerary object is 

a stone palette. 

The three cultural items have 

remained in the possession of the 

Arizona State Museum since their 

excavation. Based on architecture, 

material culture and site organization, 

the two sites (EE:2:79 and EE:2:113) 

within the ANAMAX-Rosemont Project 

have been identified as Pre-Classic 

Hohokam village occupations dating 

between A.D. 450 and 1150. 

Continuities of ethnographic materials, 

technology and architecture indicate the 

affiliation of Hohokam sites in the area 

of the Anamax-Rosemont Project with 

present-day O’odham cultures. The oral 

traditions of the Ak-Chin Indian 

Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) 

Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River 

Indian Community of the Gila River 

Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt River 

Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of 

the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; and 

Tohono O’odham Nation, Arizona, 

support the cultural affiliation of these 

four Indian tribes with Hohokam sites in 

this area of southeastern Arizona. The 

oral traditions of the Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico indicate some 

cultural ties or relationships to certain 

portions of southeastern Arizona in the 

late Post-Classic Period (A.D. 1300– 

1450). While the Hopi Tribe and Zuni 

Tribe have cultural ties to certain 

portions of southeastern Arizona in the 

late Pre-Classic Period, the Ak-Chin 

Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak 

Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila 

River Indian Community of the Gila 

River Indian Reservation, Arizona; Salt 

River Pima-Maricopa Indian 

Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; and Tohono 

O’odham Nation, Arizona, have a closer 

cultural relationship and affiliation with 

these Pre-Classic Period sites within the 

ANAMAX-Rosemont Project. 

Officials of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Coronado 

National Forest have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 

three cultural items described above 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 U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Coronado National Forest also 

have determined that, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a relationship 

of shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the 

unassociated funerary objects and the 

Ak-Chin Indian Community of the 

Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Gila River Indian Community 


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