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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 (Four 

constituent bands: Battle Mountain 

Band, Elko Band, South Fork Band and 

Wells Band); 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. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of two 

individuals were removed from site 

42TO23, referred to as the Ibapah 

Burials, in Tooele County, UT. No 

additional information is available 

regarding the excavation of the human 

remains or the circumstances under 

which they were accessioned into the 

Utah Museum of Natural History. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

32 associated funerary objects are 3 

animal bones, 1 wood item, 1 leather 

halter fragment, 1 log, 1 cedar post, 1 

cloth, 1 fabric swatch, 1 cloth bundle, 

20 buttons, 1 bottle of sclerotia, and a 

pair of glasses. The following 13 objects 

were also identified in museum records 

as being associated with the human 

remains, but the museum could not 

verify their current location: 1 lot of 

steel knives, 1 lot of buttons, 1 lot of 

mineral paint, 1 lot of beads, 1 butcher 

knife, 1 iron vessel, 1 log, 2 iron pan 

fragments, 1 rope, 1 ring, and 2 shoes. 

The burials date to the Historic 

Period, but their sex and age are 

unknown. The human remains are 

affiliated with the Confederated Tribes 

of the Goshute Reservation, Nevada and 

Utah based on the osteological 

assessment, associated funerary objects, 

and the location of the discovery. 

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 two 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 32 

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 

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute 

Reservation, Nevada and Utah. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Byron Loosle, Utah State 

NAGPRA Coordinator, BLM Utah State 

Office, PO 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 Confederated 

Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, 

Nevada and Utah 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. E9–5351 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Defense, Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, Portland, 

OR and University of Oregon Museum 

of Natural and Cultural History, 

Eugene, OR 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains for which the University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History, Eugene, OR, and U.S. 

Department of Defense, Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, Portland, 

OR, have joint responsibility. The 

human remains were removed from a 

site on Army Corps of Engineers land 

within the Fern Ridge Reservoir project 

area, Lane County, OR. 

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 Native 

American human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History and U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community 

of Oregon; and Confederated Tribes of 

the Siletz Reservation, Oregon. 


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Native American human remains 

described in this notice were excavated 

under an Antiquities Act permit by the 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on 

Army Corps of Engineers project lands. 

Following excavations at the site 

described below, and under the 

provisions of the permit, the University 

of Oregon retained the human remains 

for preservation. 

In 1950, human remains representing 

one individual were removed from site 

35–LA–282, also known as the Perkins 

Peninsula Site, Lane, OR, during 

excavations by the University of Oregon 

prior to construction of the proposed 

Fern Ridge Reservoir. No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Site 35–LA–282 is believed to have 

been used as a habitation site during an 

undetermined prehistoric period based 

on the presence of features and artifacts 

observed within the site. No evidence of 

a formal burial with associated funerary 

objects was found at the site. Based on 

the location of the human remains 

within the site, the individual has been 

determined to be Native American. 

Ethnographic records suggest the area 

surrounding site 35–LA–282 was likely 

occupied by Kalapuya bands during the 

early Contact Period. Site 35–LA–282 is 

within or near the traditional lands of 

Kalapuyan peoples whose descendants 

are culturally affiliated with the presentday members of the Confederated Tribes 

of the Grand Ronde Community of 

Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes of 

the Siletz Reservation, Oregon. 

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand 

Ronde Community of Oregon include at 

least 26 tribes and bands whose 

ancestral homelands span across 

western Oregon, southwestern 

Washington and northern California. 

The Grand Ronde tribes and bands 

include the Rogue River, Umpqua, 

Chasta, Kalapuya, Molala, Clackamas, 

Salmon River, Tillamook, and Nestucca, 

as well as other smaller groups. At the 

time of contact, the individual groups 

spoke 30 dialects of the Athapascan, 

Chinookan, Kalapuyan, Takelman, 

Molalan, Sahaptin, Salishan, and 

Shastan language families. In 1856– 

1857, the U.S. Government forcibly 

relocated the Grand Ronde peoples to 

the Grand Ronde Reservation at the 

headwaters of the South Yamhill River 

in Yamhill and Polk Counties, OR. The 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon were first 

incorporated in 1935, terminated from 

federal recognition in 1954, and restored 

with tribal recognition in 1983. 

The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon are a confederation 

of 30 bands whose ancestral territory 

ranged along the entire Oregon coast 

and Coast Range, inland to the main 

divide of the Cascade Range and south 

to the Rogue River watershed. The 

principal tribes include the Clatsop, 

Chinook, Klickitat, Molala, Kalapuya, 

Tillamook, Alsea, Siuslaw/Lower 

Umpqua, Coos, Coquille, Upper 

Umpqua, Tututni, Chetco, Tolowa, 

Takelma or Upper Rogue River, Galice/ 

Applegate, and Shasta. The ancestors of 

these tribes spoke at least 10 different 

base languages, many with strong 

dialectic divisions even within the same 

language. In general, five linguistic 

stocks – Salish, Yakonan, Kusan, 

Takelman, and Athapascan – are 

represented by the tribes. The tribes 

were forcibly removed from their 

homelands in 1855 by the U.S. 

Government and placed on the Siletz 

and Grand Ronde reservations. After 

having their tribal status terminated 

from federal recognition in 1954, the 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon were officially 

restored in 1977. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District have 

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

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Portland 

District 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 Native American human remains 

and the Confederated Tribes of the 

Grand Ronde Community of Oregon 

and/or Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Daniel Mulligan, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, Environmental 

Resources Branch, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, P.O. Box 

2946, Portland, OR 97208–2946, 

telephone (503) 808–4768, before April 

13, 2009. Repatriation of the human 

remains to the Confederated Tribes of 

the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon 

and/or Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Portland District is responsible for 

notifying the Confederated Tribes of the 

Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation, Oregon that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: January 26, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–5338 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary object 

in the possession of the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Great Plains Regional 

Office, Aberdeen, SD. The human 

remains and associated funerary object 

were removed from Buffalo and Hughes 

Counties, SD. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

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

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary object. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the South Dakota 

State Historical Society-Archaeological 

Research Center professional staff under 

the direction of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Three Affiliated 

Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 

North Dakota. 

In 1986, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed from a cache pit at the Twin 

or Lillian All Arounds Village, 

39BF206/87–131, Buffalo County, SD, 

by The Archeology Lab-Augustana 

College personnel during improvements 

to the Jennessee Road. The human 

remains were curated at the South 

Dakota State Historical SocietyArchaeological Research Center in 

Rapid City, SD. No known individual 

was identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

The manner of burial suggests that the 

human remains are associated with the 

Extended Coalescent Period (A.D. 1500– 

A.D. 1675). Based on archeological, 


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