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The island was an important village site 

and burial site for the people of the 

Columbia Plateau. The island and its 

immediate vicinity were also used for 

camping, fishing, food gathering, 

grazing of horses and as a location for 

important social gatherings of the tribes. 

A report prepared in 2002 by Teara 

Farrow for the Walla Walla District of 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

identifies the island and its immediate 

vicinity as a Traditional Cultural 

Property of the Waluuluapam (‘‘Walla 

Walla people’’), Imatalamlama 

(‘‘Umatilla people’’), and Weyiiletpuu 

(‘‘Cayuse people’’). It was also an 

important area for the Paluus 

(‘‘Palouse’’), Yakama, Niimiipuu (‘‘Nez 

Perce people’’), and Wanapam (‘‘river 

people’’ or Wanapum). Descendants of 

the Walla Walla, Umatilla, Cayuse, 

Palouse, Yakama, Nez Perce, and 

Wanapum are members of the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho; 

and Wanapum Band, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group. 

Officials of the Arizona State Museum 

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 

Arizona State Museum have also 

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 Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; and Nez Perce Tribe, 

Idaho. Furthermore, officials of the 

Arizona State Museum have determined 

that there is a cultural relationship 

between the human remains and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact John McClelland, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ 85721, telephone (520) 626- 

2950, before September 12, 2008. 

Repatriation of the human remains to 

the Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; and Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho 

on behalf of themselves and the 

Wanapum Band, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group may proceed 

after that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Arizona State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington; Confederated 

Tribes of the Umatilla Indian 

Reservation, Oregon; Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho; 

and Wanapum Band, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: June 30, 2008 

Daniel Odess, 

Assistant Associate Director, Park Cultural 

Resources. 

[FR Doc. E8–18691 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Alaska 

State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management, Anchorage, AK; Alutiiq 

Museum and Archaeological 

Repository, Kodiak, AK; and University 

of Wisconsin Anthropology 

Department, Madison, 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. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in the control of the Alaska 

State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management, Anchorage, AK, and in the 

possession of the Alutiiq Museum and 

Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK, 

and University of Wisconsin 

Anthropology Department, Madison, 

WI. The human remains were removed 

from the Crag Point archeological site 

(49–KOD–00044) and Anton Larsen 

archeological site (49–KOD–00040) on 

Kodiak Island, AK. 

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 Alaska State 

Office, Bureau of Land Management; 

Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological 

Repository; University of Wisconsin 

Anthropology Department; and 

Smithsonian Institution professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Koniag, Inc., 

Native Village of Ouzinkie, and 

Ouzinkie Native Corporation. 

In 1968, excavations occurred at the 

Crag Point archeological site (49–KOD–

00044) on Kodiak Island, AK, by 

researchers from Bryn Mawr College 

working in partnership with the Kodiak 

Area Native Association. Faunal 

samples from the project were shipped 

directly from the field to the Department 

of Anthropology’s zooarchaeology 

laboratory at Hunter College for 

analysis, where they remained 

unstudied. In 2000, Robert Kopperl, a 

graduate student of the University of 

Washington, Department of 

Anthropology, gained permission to 

move the faunal samples to Seattle, WA, 

to study a portion of the material as part 

of his doctoral research. During 

analyses, the human remains were 

identified. They consist of 41 individual 

human bones that together make up 20 

skeletal elements representing the 

partial remains of at least 3 individuals. 

In 2002, 21 of the 41 individual bones 

were sent to the Alutiiq Museum and 

Archaeological Repository by Robert 

Kopperl for assistance with repatriation. 

In July of 2006, 19 of the 41 individual 

bones were hand-carried from Seattle to 

the Alutiiq Museum by a visiting 

researcher. In September 2007, with 

permission from the Bureau of Land 

Management, one additional bone was 

hand-carried from Seattle to the Alutiiq 

Museum. No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

At an unknown date in the 1970s, 

human remains representing a 

minimum of one individual were 

removed from Crag Point archeological 

site (49–KOD–00044) on Kodiak Island, 

AK, by the now–deceased William 

Laughlin. The human remains were 

transported to the University of 

Wisconsin Anthropology Department at 

an unknown date and under unknown 

circumstances. In 2006, the human 

remains were found among William 

Laughlin’s collections at the University 

of Wisconsin Anthropology Department 

where they are presently located. No 


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known individual was identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

At an unknown date in the 1970s, 

human remains representing a 

minimum of two individuals were 

removed from Crag Point archeological 

site (49–KOD–00044) on Kodiak Island, 

AK, by the now-deceased William 

Laughlin. The human remains were 

transported to the University of 

Wisconsin Anthropology Department at 

an unknown date and under unknown 

circumstances. In 2006, the human 

remains were found among William 

Laughlin’s collections at the University 

of Wisconsin Anthropology Department. 

In 2007, the human remains were sent 

to the Smithsonian Institution where 

they are presently located. No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

At an unknown date in the 1960s or 

1970s, human remains representing a 

minimum of one individual were 

removed from Anton Larsen 

archeological site (49–KOD–00040) on 

Kodiak Island, AK, by the now-deceased 

William Laughlin. The human remains 

were transported to the University of 

Wisconsin Anthropology Department at 

an unknown date and under unknown 

circumstances. In 2006, the human 

remains were found among William 

Laughlin’s collections at the University 

of Wisconsin Anthropology Department. 

In 2007, the human remains were sent 

to the Smithsonian Institution for 

inventory, where they are presently 

located. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

The Crag Point and Anton Larsen sites 

are located on Federal lands 

administered by the Bureau of Land 

Management. The Crag Point site is a 

prehistoric archeological deposit with 

strata spanning the period from about 

7,000 to 800 years ago. The human 

remains at the Alutiiq Museum that 

were found in the faunal samples come 

from dense deposits of well-preserved 

shell midden in the site’s upper layers 

(L1 and L2). These deposits surround a 

cluster of collapsed sod houses and are 

known to include both formal burials 

and scattered deposits of human 

remains. These well-preserved deposits 

date primarily to the Late Kachemak 

tradition (circa 2,700 B.P. to 800 B.P.) as 

evidenced by typological studies of 

artifacts and features, as well as 

multiple radiometric dates. The human 

remains were not found in a specific 

feature or area within the midden, but 

represent scattered elements from a 

variety of excavation squares. They may 

be from burials disturbed by the 

construction of site features, as the site 

was occupied repeatedly during the Late 

Kachemak tradition and is known to 

have contained both individual pit 

burials and crypt burials in the midden; 

or they may be the remains of 

individuals who were not formally 

buried. Previous studies of human 

remains from Crag Point illustrate that 

the remains of some individuals were 

butchered and mixed with midden 

deposits. Archeologists believe that the 

people of the Late Kachemak tradition 

are ancestors of modern day Alutiiqs. 

Archeological data collected over the 

past 20 years indicates that Late 

Kachemak societies evolved into the 

more complexly organized societies of 

the Koniag tradition observed at historic 

contact in the late 18th century. As 

such, the human remains from the Crag 

Point site are presumed to be Native 

American and most closely affiliated 

with the contemporary Native residents 

of the Kodiak archipelago, the Kodiak 

Alutiiq. Specifically, they were 

recovered from an area of the Kodiak 

Archipelago traditionally used by 

members of the Native Village of 

Ouzinkie. 

The human remains found at the Crag 

Point archeological site by William 

Laughlin in the 1970s presently located 

at the University of Wisconsin 

Anthropology Department and at the 

Smithsonian Institution are similarly 

presumed to date no more recently than 

800 B.P., though no specific information 

is available about them. 

The Anton Larsen site is a prehistoric 

archeological deposit near the Crag 

Point site. The human remains found at 

this site by William Laughlin in the 

1960s or 1970s and presently at the 

Smithsonian Institution are similarly 

presumed to date no more recently than 

800 B.P., though no specific information 

is available about them. 

Officials of the Alaska 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 at least seven individuals of 

Native American ancestry. Officials of 

the Alaska State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management have also 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 Native Village of Ouzinkie. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. Robert E. King, 

Alaska State NAGPRA Coordinator, 

Bureau of Land Management, 222 W. 

7th Avenue, Box 13, Anchorage, AK 

99513–7599, telephone (907) 271–5510, 

before September 12, 2008. Repatriation 

of the human remains to the Native 

Village of Ouzinkie may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Alaska State Office, Bureau of 

Land Management is responsible for 

notifying the Koniag, Inc., Native 

Village of Ouzinkie, and Ouzinkie 

Native Corporation that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: July 8, 2008 

Daniel Odess, 

Assistant Associate Director, Park Cultural 

Resources. 

[FR Doc. E8–18713 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Coconino National Forest, 

Flagstaff, AZ and Arizona State 

University, School of Evolution and 

Social Change, Phoenix, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with 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 U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Coconino 

National Forest, Flagstaff, AZ, and in 

the possession of the Arizona State 

University, School of Evolution and 

Social Change (formerly Department of 

Anthropology), Tempe, AZ. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Yavapai County, 

AZ. 

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 Coconino 

National Forest and Arizona State 

University, School of Human Evolution 

and Social Change professional staffs in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from site AZ 


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