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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 11 (Friday, January 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5989-5990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01167]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039367; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State Office, Phoenix, AZ

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 
of Land Management, Arizona State Office (BLM), has completed an 
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has 
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human 
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary object 
in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Raymond Suazo, Bureau of Land Management, Arizona State 
Office, One North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004, telephone (602) 
417-9500, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
BLM and additional information on the determinations in this notice, 
including the results of consultation, can be found in its inventory or 
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Human remains representing two individuals have been identified. 
The one associated funerary object is one lot of vegetable material 
(including a fragment of narrowleaf yucca and multiple loose 
unidentified fibers). The individuals and associated funerary object 
were found in a box on the shelf of a storage closet at the Safford 
Field Office, Safford, Graham County, Arizona. No documentation could 
be found to identify where the box's

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contents had come from or when they were removed.
    In consultation with BLM, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian 
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona and the Gila River 
Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona asserted 
a lengthy historic tradition of basketry among tribes of southern 
Arizona which used similar fibers to those represented in the 
associated funerary object.
    A fiber specialist's analysis of the associated funerary object 
indicated the manufacture of plaited basketry was a late (post 1100 CE) 
precontact perishable tradition south of the Mogollon Rim, primarily 
associated with the Late Mogollon and Salado archaeological cultures. 
The specialist suggested an association with the modern Hopi and Zuni 
pueblos.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographic 
location and acquisition history of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office has determined 
that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one associated funerary object described in this 
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or 
near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of 
the death rite or ceremony.
     There is a connection between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Ak-Chin 
Indian Community; Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian 
Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Salt River Pima-Maricopa 
Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O'odham 
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 
Mexico.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under ADDRESSES. 
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a 
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 
descendant or an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February 
18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the BLM 
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The BLM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this 
notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: January 13, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01167 Filed 1-16-25; 8:45 am]
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