Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 176 / Tuesday, September 13, 2005 / Notices 54075 

In 1969, human remains representing 

a minimum of eight individuals were 

removed from sites CA-SHA–385, CASHA–395, CA-SHA–396, and CA-SHA–

409 or ‘‘J 37’’, along the shoreline of 

Lake Britton, Shasta County, CA, by 

California State University, Sacramento, 

Department of Anthropology personnel 

during the course of an archeological 

site survey for Pacific Gas &Electric. No 

known individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

The exposed human remains were 

salvaged from site surfaces that were 

being eroded by wave action caused by 

water ski boats and water releases at 

Lake Britton. The concern was to 

remove the human remains from an area 

where pot-hunters were active to 

prevent illegal collection from along the 

artificial lake shores. Sites CA-SHA–

385, CA-SHA–395, CA-SHA–396, and 

CA-SHA–409 are prehistoric in age and 

are not currently identified to specific 

temporal periods. Based on the 

condition of the human remains, it is 

estimated that they are approximately 

500 years of age and are Native 

American. Determination of cultural 

affiliation is based on testimony in 

Indian Claims Commission proceedings 

(7 ICC 815 [1959]), which states that the 

Pit River Tribe, California can be 

divided into 11 autonomous bands, one 

of which have occupied the area around 

Lake Britton since time immemorial. 

Officials of the California State 

University, Sacramento, Department of 

Anthropology have determined that, 

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

human remains listed above represent 

the physical remains of eight 

individuals of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of the California State 

University, Sacramento, Department of 

Anthropology 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 Pit River Tribe, 

California. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. M. Elizabeth Strasser, 

Department Chair, Department of 

Anthropology, California State 

University, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, 

CA 95819, telephone (916) 278–6452, 

before October 13, 2005. Repatriation of 

the human remains to the Pit River 

Tribe, California may proceed after that 

date if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

California State University, 

Sacramento, Department of 

Anthropology is responsible for 

notifying the Alturas Indian Rancheria, 

California; Pit River Tribe, California; 

Redding Rancheria, California; Round 

Valley Indian Tribes of the Round 

Valley Reservation, California; and 

Susanville Indian Rancheria, California 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: August 1, 2005 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 05–18085 Filed 9–12–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert 

S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, 

Andover, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with provisions of 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 objects 

in the control of the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology, Andover, MA. 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects were removed from 

Bartow and Murray Counties, GA. 

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. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; 

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians of North 

Carolina: Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United 

Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 

Oklahoma. 

Between 1925 and 1928, human 

remains representing a minimum of 99 

individuals were removed from the 

Etowah site, Bartow County, GA, by 

Warren King Moorehead of the Robert S. 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

21,468 associated funerary objects are 

5,116 miscellaneous beads, 10,725 

tubular beads, 3,036 ovoid beads, 188 

freshwater periwinkles, 6 sea turtle shell 

beads, 1 ceramic bead, 3 ceramic bowls, 

1 ceramic fragment, 1 ceramic handle, 4 

ceramic jars, 1 ceramic pipe, 314 textile 

fragments (some with copper attached), 

315 copper fragments, 69 matting 

fragments, 76 headdress fragments, 4 

flint pieces, 59 copper hair ornaments, 

64 potsherds, 325 wood fragments 

(some with copper attached), 32 

modified animal bone and animal bone 

fragments, 1 basketry fragment, 2 

columella ornament fragments, 1 

freshwater shell, 1 strombus shell, 402 

shells, 12 shell gorgets, 1 shell spoon 

fragment, 1 axe, 3 bone bayonets, 2 

charcoal samples, 4 galena pieces, 2 

kaolin cores, 1 leather fragment, 2 

Whelk fragments, 1 tooth, 6 stone celts, 

166 stones, 1 soil sample, 402 shell and 

stone discoidals, 1 mineral ore sample, 

80 mica fragments, 6 Busycon cups and 

fragments, and 22 repousse copper 

plates. 

The Etowah site, situated on the 

Etowah River, was occupied circa A.D. 

880–1550 with two breaks in 

occupation, one circa A.D. 1200–1250 

and the other circa A.D. 1400–1450. The 

first occupation of Etowah was during 

the Wilbanks Phase (A.D. 1250–1375). 

The inhabitants of the first occupation 

were culturally affiliated, possibly 

ancestrally, to the people who reoccupied the site after A.D. 1450 during 

the Brewster Phase (A.D. 1450–1550). 

Specific cultural practices, such as the 

use of black drink, Whelk (Busycon) 

bowls, and repousse copper plates, 

which are identified with the first 

occupation of Etowah are still evident in 

Creek communities today. The building 

of earthen works, such as those found at 

Etowah, are considered by Creek 

communities to be an important part of 

their historic practice and are echoed 

today in modern Creek architecture. 

In its second phase, Etowah and the 

geographic areas surrounding it are 

recognized by modern Muscogee 

speakers as ‘‘daughter’’ towns, subject to 

the Coosa chiefdom, which controlled 

smaller polities throughout the region. 

The term Coosa applies to the core 

town, the local ‘‘province’’ and the 

extended region subject to the control of 

the core town. A ‘‘mother’’ town is a 

town from which other towns emerge. 

‘‘Daughter’’ towns are created when a 

mother town becomes too large; they are 

politically and culturally linked to the 

mother town, but geographically 

separate. Linguistic evidence, using 

historical documents, also links the 

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place name of Etowah to the Muscogee 

language. 

Between 1927 and 1928, human 

remains representing a minimum of five 

individuals were removed from the 

Little Egypt site in Murray County, GA, 

by Warren King Moorehead of the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology. The Little Egypt site is 5 

hectares and contains two or three 

platform mounds, which were utilized 

through the mid–16th century. No 

known individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

The Little Egypt site is located at the 

eastern edge of the Coosa chiefdom 

where the Coosawattee River enters the 

Great Valley. The name Coosa applies to 

the core town, local province, and 

extended region, and was the most 

politically important chiefdom in 

southeastern North America in the 

1500s during the time of occupation of 

the Little Egypt site [Hally et. al., 1989 

]. The oral tradition of Muscogee 

speakers recognizes two ancestral 

mother towns, Tukabatchee and Coosa, 

and particular individuals in present 

day Creek communities identify 

themselves as descendants of the 

mother towns. Muscogee oral tradition 

and historic documents indicate the 

area in and around Little Egypt as the 

paramount chiefdom of Coosa, home to 

the chief and the core town. Although 

it cannot be definitively stated that 

Little Egypt was the core town, size and 

other attributes single it out as an 

important site in the Coosa political 

landscape. 

The decline in archeological evidence 

of settlements, including public works 

and burial goods, in the Coosa area in 

the early 17th century suggests 

population decline and movement, 

perhaps the result of disease. The 

increase in settlements and the rise of a 

brushed pottery style that appears to be 

the melding of several Creek styles 

suggests that the inhabitants of 16th and 

early 17th century communities in the 

Coosa River drainage, as well as those 

along the Coosawatte and Etowah rivers, 

including the inhabitants at the Little 

Egypt site, probably moved southwest to 

the Lower Coosa River during the late 

17th century [Smith, 1987]. Historic 

documentation indicates that Muscogee 

speakers were living along the Lower 

Coosa River at the turn of the 18th 

century and were likely the descendants 

of the inhabitants of the Little Egypt 

site. 

Present-day Creek communities are 

the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma. 

Officials of the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology have 

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

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of 104 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology also have determined that, 

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

21,468 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 

a death rite or ceremony. Lastly, 

officials of the Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology 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 

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Victoria Cranner, Senior 

Collections Manager, Robert S. Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology, Phillips 

Academy, Andover, MA 01810, 

telephone (978) 749–4490 before 

October 13, 2005. Repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal 

Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Robert S. Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology is responsible for notifying 

the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of 

North Carolina; Kialegee Tribal Town, 

Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 

Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek 

Indians of Alabama; Thlopthlocco 

Tribal Town, Oklahoma; and United 

Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 

Oklahoma that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: August 4, 2005 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 05–18073 Filed 9–12–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

School of American Research, Santa 

Fe, NM 

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 objects 

in the possession of the School of 

American Research, Santa Fe, NM. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from Santa Fe 

County, NM. 

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. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the School of 

American Research professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona; 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 San 

Juan, 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; and Zuni Tribe of 

the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. 

Between 1970 and 1974, human 

remains representing a minimum of 283 

individuals were removed from the 

Arroyo Hondo Pueblo site (LA 12), 

Santa Fe County, NM, during 

archeological investigations led by Dr. 

Douglas Schwartz, School of American