Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 164 / Thursday, August 25, 2005 / Notices 49947

Indian Tribe of the Port Madison 

Reservation, Washington. Historical 

evidence presented during consultation 

supports this determination.

Officials of the Kitsap County 

Coroner’s Office have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the 

human remains listed above represent 

the physical remains of a minimum of 

two individuals of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of the Kitsap County 

Coroner’s Office 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 Suquamish Indian 

Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation, 

Washington.

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Louise Hall, Chief 

Deputy Coroner, Kitsap County 

Coroner’s Office, 714 Division Street 

MS–17, Port Orchard, WA 98366, 

telephone (360) 337–5603, before 

September 26, 2005. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Suquamish 

Indian Tribe of the Port Madison 

Reservation, Washington may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward.

Kitsap County Coroner’s Office is 

responsible for notifying the Suquamish 

Indian Tribe of the Port Madison 

Reservation, Washington that this notice 

has been published.

Dated: July 22, 2005.

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Louisiana State University Museum of 

Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA; 

Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.8 (f), that, upon 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register, the Louisiana State University 

Museum of Natural Science, Baton 

Rouge, LA, rescinds the notice of 

inventory completion published in the 

Federal Register of December 13, 2000 

(FR Doc 00–31659, 77908) because the 

Louisiana State University Museum of 

Natural Science has determined that the 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History, Historic Preservation Division, 

Jackson, MS, has legal control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects from the Fatherland site 

(22AD001), Adams County, MS.

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 and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice.

The December 13, 2000, notice 

identified the Louisiana State University 

Museum of Natural Science as having 

possession of human remains and 

associated funerary objects from the 

Fatherland site (22AD001), Adams 

County, MS. Following publication of 

the notice, Mississippi Department of 

Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division submitted 

additional documentation regarding 

control of the aforementioned items to 

the Louisiana State University Museum 

of Natural Science. Upon evaluation of 

the new documentation, Louisiana State 

University Museum of Natural Science 

reconsidered its control of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from the Fatherland site (22AD001) and 

transferred possession to the Mississippi 

Department of Archives and History, 

Historic Preservation Division in March 

2005. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects are now in 

the possession and control of the 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History, Historic Preservation Division.

The Mississippi Department of 

Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division, as the museum in 

control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects, is 

responsible for determining cultural 

affiliation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects from the 

Fatherland site (22AD001). The 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History, Historic Preservation Division 

will consult and notify the proper 

groups once cultural affiliation is 

determined.

Representatives of any tribal 

government who wish to comment on 

this notice should address their 

comments to Pamela D. Edwards, 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History, Historic Preservation Division, 

P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205, 

telephone (601) 576–6940.

Louisiana State University Museum of 

Natural Science is responsible for 

notifying the Chitimacha Tribe of 

Louisiana that this notice has been 

published.

Dated: July 22, 2005. 

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Mississippi Department of 

Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division, Jackson, MS

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 Mississippi 

Department of Archives and History, 

Historic Preservation Division, Jackson, 

MS, 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.

An assessment of the cultural items 

was made by the Mississippi 

Department of Archives and History, 

Historic Preservation Division 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Chickasaw 

Nation, Oklahoma.

In the summer of 1937, one cultural 

item was removed from the McCullough 

site (MLe11), Lee County, MS, along a 

ridgetop south of Kings Creek, by 

Moreau Chambers, an archeologist with 

the Mississippi Department of Archives 

and History, Historic Preservation 

Division as part of an ongoing survey 

and legally authorized excavation. The 

excavation and survey were undertaken 

to study Chickasaw culture in Lee 

County, MS, and to find the location of 

the Battle of Ackia, as part of the 

process for establishing Ackia 

Battleground National Monument. The 

one cultural item, a shell gorget, was 

found in association with Native 

American human remains.

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The McCullough site (MLe11) was 

determined by Mr. Chambers not to be 

the location of the Battle of Ackia, but 

a multi-component site consisting of a 

possibly late prehistoric component, an 

early Chickasaw component, and a later 

historic Chickasaw component based on 

the type of prehistoric and historic 

artifacts found, ethnohistorical maps, 

local tradition, and archeological 

findings (Atkinson 1985; B. Lieb, 

personal communication 2005; Stubbs 

1982). The ethnohistorical maps show 

this area to be inhabited by historic 

Chickasaw. Allotment records also show 

that Ah Thla Tubby, a Chickasaw, was 

allotted this section of land in 1836 

(Stubbs 1982).

In the summer of 1937, Mr. Chambers 

removed cultural items from the AlstonWilson site (MLe14), Lee County, MS. 

The 550 cultural items are 1 shell ear 

plug; 6 grog-tempered potsherds; 1 

gunspall; 1 clear, cut-faceted, crystal 

bead; 455 blue seed beads (Type IIA4); 

15 large, wound, glass necklace beads 

with a heavy patina (Type WIA6); 29 

wound, mold-faceted, clear, glass 

necklace beads (Type WIIA2); 12 blue, 

faceted glass necklace beads (Type 

WIIA3); 1 wound, mold-faceted, amber 

glass necklace bead (Type WIIA4); 9 

drawn and wound, black and white 

(‘‘rattlesnake’’) beads (Type WIIIA5); 1 

drawn, spiral-striped, black and white 

bead (Type WIIIA3); 18 tubular, faceted, 

translucent beads (Type WIIC1); and 1 

translucent, oval-shaped, faceted 

necklace bead (Type WIC1). The 550 

cultural items were found in association 

with Native American human remains.

The human remains associated with 

these cultural items from the 

McCullough and Alston-Wilson sites 

were stored in an off-site repository in 

Jackson, MS. In the 1940s, the 

repository burned and the human 

remains were destroyed and are no 

longer in the possession of the 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History, Historic Preservation Division.

The Alston-Wilson site, now better 

known as MLe14 because of later 

excavations by Jesse Jennings in 1939 on 

behalf of the National Park Service, was 

excavated one month after the 

McCullough site and has a major 

occupation dating to A.D.1730–1750. 

Archeological evidence found at the 

Alston-Wilson site suggests that this site 

was part of a major historic Chickasaw 

village. In the 1730s, there were two 

major villages in the vicinity of the 

Alston-Wilson site that were occupied 

by the Chickasaw: Tchichatala and 

Falatchao. Tchichatala was a major 

Chickasaw village. Falatchao was a 

‘‘white mother town’’ meaning it was 

both a ‘‘white’’ town (or a peace town, 

as opposed to a ‘‘red’’ war town) and 

‘‘mother’’ town from which other towns 

emerged (Hudson 1976:238–239: Nairne 

[1708] 1988:38).

Both Tchichatala and Falatchao are 

recognized in historical documents as 

being occupied by the Chickasaw. 

However, because of the fluid nature of 

Chickasaw village occupation, it is 

difficult to identify the specific 

boundaries of historic Chickasaw 

villages. Therefore, based on the 

archeological evidence that the site was 

part of a major Chickasaw village and at 

that time both villages were in the area, 

the Alston-Wilson site is most probably 

part of either the village of Tchichatala 

or Falatchao (Atkinson 1985, 2004; Brad 

Lieb, personal communication 2004; 

Cook et al. 1980; Jennings 1941; Johnson 

et al. 2004).

Based on historical evidence that Lee 

County, MS, where both the AlstonWilson site (MLe14) and the 

McCullough site (MLe11) are located, 

was occupied by the Chickasaw until 

their removal to Oklahoma from 1837 

until 1850, both sites are probably 

Chickasaw. The Chickasaws are 

represented by the present-day 

Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma.

Officials of the Mississippi 

Department of Archives and History, 

Historic Preservation Division have 

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

3001 (3)(B), the 551 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 Mississippi Department 

of Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division 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 

Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma.

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the 551 unassociated 

funerary objects should contact Pamela 

D. Edwards, Mississippi Department of 

Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division, P. O. Box 571, 

Jackson, MS 39205, telephone (601) 

576–6940, before September 26, 2005. 

Repatriation of the unassociated 

funerary objects to the Chickasaw 

Nation, Oklahoma may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward.

The Mississippi Department of 

Archives and History, Historic 

Preservation Division is responsible for 

notifying the Chickasaw Nation, 

Oklahoma that this notice has been 

published.

Dated: July 26, 2005.

Sherry Hutt,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: Neville Public Museum of Brown 

County, Green Bay, WI

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 a cultural item in the 

possession of the Neville Public 

Museum of Brown County, Green Bay, 

WI, that meets the definition of ‘‘objects 

of cultural patrimony’’ 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 

item. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice.

The cultural item is a wampum belt, 

30 inches long and 2 inches wide, 

composed of white beads strung on 

hemp with four intersecting rows of 

black beads.

Neville Public Museum of Brown 

County professional staff consulted with 

the representatives of the Oneida Tribe 

of Indians of Wisconsin and Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin.

In 1923, the cultural item was 

purchased by Arthur Neville, Director of 

the Green Bay City Museum. The Green 

Bay City Museum became the Neville 

Public Museum of Brown County in 

1927. According to museum 

documentation, the wampum belt was 

purchased from Phoebe Quinney for 

$10.00. Mrs. Quinney was the widow of 

Osceola Quinney, Sachem of the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin. Mr. Quinney had inherited 

the title and wampum belt from his 

father, John Quinney.