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of shared group identity that can 

reasonably be traced between the Native 

American human remains and the 

Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Patricia Capone, 

Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, before October 25, 2010. 

Repatriation of the human remains to 

the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of 

Louisiana may proceed after that date if 

no additional claimants come forward. 

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology 

and Ethnology is responsible for 

notifying the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe 

of Louisiana that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: September 10, 2010 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

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 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 

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 and associated funerary 

objects were removed from a site on 

Army Corps of Engineers land within 

the John Day Dam project area, Gilliam 

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 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 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 Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon; Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington; Confederated Tribes of the 

Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon; 

and Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho. 

Native American cultural items 

described in this notice were excavated 

under Antiquities Act permits by the 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on 

Army Corps of Engineers project land. 

Following excavations at the site 

described below, and under the 

provisions of the permits, the University 

of Oregon retained the collections for 

preservation. 

Between 1959 and 1968, human 

remains representing a minimum of 134 

individuals were removed from site 35– 

GM–9, also known as the Wildcat 

Canyon site, Gilliam County, OR, during 

excavations by the University of Oregon 

prior to construction of the John Day 

Dam. No known individuals were 

identified. The 1,182 associated 

funerary objects are 41 projectile points, 

8 projectile point fragments, 2 chert 

bifacial tips, 6 stone knives, 2 knife 

fragments, 17 blades, 14 blade 

fragments, 3 crude chert bifaces, 1 

bifacially-modified obsidian crescent, 

19 scrapers, 4 utilized flakes, 41 worked 

flakes, 2 cores, 1 worked shale piece, 4 

shaft smoothers, 3 abrading stones, 8 

gravers, 1 burin, 1 needle, 1 chert drill, 

3 choppers, 2 hopper mortars, 2 net 

sinkers, 4 hammerstones, 3 stone mauls, 

5 pestles, 2 large pestle fragments, 84 

basalt fragments, 3 chert fragments, 663 

unmodified flakes, 1 thermally-fractured 

rock, 2 columnar slabs, 1 fractured 

cobble, 1 flaked cobble, 1 stone pendant, 

1 stone ring, 5 round stones, 1 girdled 

stone, 2 pierced stones, 49 pebbles, 1 

girdled pebble, 9 broken pebbles, 1 

worked scoria piece, 34 dentalium 

shells, 1 pectin shell, 1 incised bead, 8 

steatite beads, 12 bone beads, 3 vials of 

bone beads, 4 fossil crinoid beads, 10 

stone beads, 3 unspecified beads, 21 

worked antlers/fragments, 2 vials of 

antler/bone, 1 vial of elk teeth, 2 faunal 

effigies, 2 awls, 1 bone tube fragment, 16 

worked non-human bones/fragments, 18 

non-human bones/fragments, 11 burned 

non-human bone fragments, 6 red ochre 

pieces, and 1 green chalk piece. 

Site 35–GM–9 is located along the 

south side shoreline of the Columbia 

River, approximately 9.5 river miles east 

of the John Day River confluence. The 

multicomponent site contains multiple 

activity areas that are believed to have 

been repeatedly occupied from 

approximately 9,000 B.P. to A.D. 1750. 

Site 35–GM–9 frequently served as a 

village, camping area and cemetery. 

Based on distinctive osteological 

evidence, the associated funerary 

objects and the location of the human 

remains within the site, all the 

individuals have been determined to be 

Native American. 

Oral traditions and ethnographic 

reports indicate that site 35–GM–9 lies 

within the historic territory of Sahaptinspeaking Tenino or Warm Springs 

peoples whose descendants are 

culturally-affiliated with the presentday Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon. The 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation is composed of 

three Wasco bands, four Warm Springs 

bands, and Northern Paiutes. The 

Columbia River-based Wasco were the 

easternmost group of Chinookanspeaking Indians. The Sahaptinspeaking Warm Springs bands lived 

farther east along the Columbia River 

and its tributaries. Northern Paiutes, 

who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, 

historically occupied much of 

southeastern Oregon. The Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon peoples also traditionally 

shared the site area with relatives and 

neighbors whose descendants may be 

culturally affiliated with the 14 

Sahaptin, Salish and Chinookanspeaking tribes and bands of the 

present-day Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. Yakama homelands were 

traditionally located on the Washington 

side of the Columbia River between the 

eastern flanks of the Cascade Range and 

the lower reaches of the Yakima River 

drainage. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, have 

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

3001(9), the human remains described 

above represent the physical remains of 

at least 134 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Portland 

District, and University of Oregon 

Museum of Natural and Cultural 

History, have also determined that, 

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

1,182 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, 

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Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, 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 Warm Springs Reservation of 

Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects 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 October 25, 

2010. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington, may 

proceed after this 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 

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon 

and Confederated Tribes and Bands of 

the Yakama Nation, Washington, that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: September 10, 2010 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Brigham Young University, Museum of 

Peoples and Cultures, Provo, UT 

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 Brigham Young 

University, Museum of Peoples and 

Cultures, Provo, UT. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Kane and San Juan 

Counties, UT. 

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. 

Between 1993 and 1996, a detailed 

assessment of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects was made by 

the Brigham Young University, Museum 

of Peoples and Cultures, professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians 

of the Kaibab Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(formerly the Pueblo of San Juan); 

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; and 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of 23 

individuals were removed from four 

unidentified caves in San Juan County, 

UT. Between 1893 and 1894, Mr. 

Charles Lang and Mr. Platte Lyman 

donated the human remains to the 

Deseret Museum, Salt Lake City, UT, 

which was later incorporated into the 

Church History Museum of the Church 

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 

Salt Lake City, UT. The collection 

became known as the Lang-Lyman 

Collection, and was acquired by the 

Museum of Peoples and Cultures 

through museum transfers in 1966 and 

1995, and accessioned (Catalog Nos. 

1966.55.1.1, 1966.56.1.1, 1966.57.2.1, 

1966.57.3.1. 1966.57.7.1, 1966.58.1.0, 

1966.58.2.0, 1966.58.3.1, 1966.58.4.1, 

1966.58.5.1, 1966.58.5.2, 1966.58.6.1, 

1966.58.7.1, 1966.58.8.1, 1966.58.9.1, 

1966.58.10.1, 1966.59.1.1, 1966.60.1.1, 

1966.61.1.1, 1966.62.1.1, 1966.62.2.1, 

1966.62.4.0, and 1966.64.01.1). No 

known individuals were identified. The 

127 associated funerary objects are 1 

spear, 1 small spear, 9 sandals, 6 animal 

skins, 1 net bag, 1 net, 5 atlatl darts, 2 

feathered blankets, 2 buckskin pouches, 

8 baskets, 1 piece of leather, 1 moccasin, 

1 pipe, 1 onyx pipe bowl, 14 turkey 

feathers, 1 bundle of human hair, 1 mug, 

1 leather pouch, 1 piece of buckskin, 1 

gourd container, 60 feathers, 1 bone awl, 

1 stone implement, 1 ceramic bowl, 1 

wooden pillow, 1 throwing stick and 3 

ceramic vessels. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown site, in either Kane or San 

Juan County, UT. These remains are also 

part of the previously mentioned LangLyman Collection, acquired and 

accessioned by the Museum of Peoples 

and Cultures through museum transfers 

in 1966 (Catalog No. 1966.63.1.1). No 

known individual was identified. The 

four associated funerary objects are one 

basket, one feather and yucca blanket, 

one lot of seed corn and one feather 

blanket. 

Documentation surrounding the LangLyman expedition indicates that all the 

burials were found within various dry 

cave locations. This is consistent with 

the deposition of other known 

prehistoric Puebloan burials. In 

addition, the typology of the objects 

found with the human remains supports 

the determination that these burials are 

affiliated with the prehistoric Anasazi 

culture. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of three 

individuals were removed from an 

unknown location in Iceberg Canyon 

near Lake Powell, San Juan County, UT, 

by private individuals. No further 

geographical information is known. In 

1971, the human remains were donated 

to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures 

and were accessioned (Catalog No. 

1971.11.5.0). No known individuals 

were identified. The one associated 

funerary objects is one lot of clothing 

fragments. 

A twisted fragment of animal hide 

present on one of the sets of the human 

remains may represent the remains of a 

Basketmaker-style rabbitskin robe. 

Based on the presence of the clothing 

fragments, it is reasonably determined 

that the burials date to either the late 

Basketmaker or early Pueblo era of the 

Anasazi culture. Based on the period to 

which the burials date and the general 

location in which they were found, 

museum officials have determined that 

the burials are prehistoric Anasazi and 

affiliated with modern Puebloan 

cultures. 

In 1971, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed from 42Sa2110, Nancy 

Patterson Village, in Montezuma 

Canyon, San Juan County, UT, by Nancy 

Patterson. The human remains were 


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