28944 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 116 / Thursday, June 18, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Defense, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Sacramento 

District, Sacramento, CA; U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon 

National Parks, Three Rivers, CA; and 

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 

Anthropology, University of California, 

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 

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 control of the U.S. Department of 

Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA, 

and in the physical custody of the 

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 

Anthropology, University of California, 

Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, and the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon 

National Parks, Three Rivers, CA. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from within the 

boundaries of Lake Kaweah, Tulare 

County, CA. 

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. 

An assessment of the human remains 

in the physical custody of the Phoebe A. 

Hearst Museum of Anthropology was 

made by the museum’s professional 

staff. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National 

Parks also did an assessment of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in their physical custody. The 

assessment of the cultural affiliation for 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Sacramento District was based on a 

Corps of Engineers contracted study 

done in 2004, titled ‘‘Cultural Affiliation 

of the Lake Kaweah Property, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Sacramento 

District.’’ These assessments were made 

based on the results of an extensive 

study utilizing the four fields of 

anthropology. Copies of the report were 

sent to representatives of the Big Sandy 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Cold Springs Rancheria of 

Mono Indians of California; Northfork 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Picayune Rancheria of 

Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa 

Rosa Indian Community of the Santa 

Rosa Rancheria, California; Table 

Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule 

River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California; and Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California. 

Consultation was also carried out by 

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks’ 

professional staff with the following 

non-Federally recognized Indian groups, 

which represent traditionally associated 

peoples who have maintained interest 

in previous repatriation and reburial 

efforts for the area: Dunlap Band of 

Mono Indians, Sierra Foothill Wuksachi 

Tribe, Sierra Nevada Native American 

Coalition, and Wukchumni Tribal 

Council. 

Between 1959 and 1961, human 

remains were removed from CA–TUL– 

145 (‘‘Cobble Lodge’’), Tulare County, 

CA. In 1959, the human remains were 

removed during an excavation of a 

borrow pit in support of the 

construction of Terminus Dam and the 

creation of the reservoir that forms Lake 

Kaweah, a Federal project undertaken 

and still managed by the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers. Between 1960 and 

1961, human remains were removed 

during salvage work being carried out 

by Dr. Jay von Werlhof, under contracts 

coordinated by the National Park 

Service at the request of the Army 

Corps. The report by Dr. von Werlhof 

(1961) identified 130 individuals and 

502 artifacts. An unidentified number of 

fragmentary and skeletal remains were 

re-interred at the site following the field 

work. Human remains were transferred 

to the museum at the University of 

California, Berkeley. Additionally, 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were deposited at the Ash 

Mountain Headquarters of Sequoia & 

Kings Canyon National Parks. One 

brownware pottery vessel had been 

transferred to the University of New 

Mexico (Maxwell Museum), and is now 

in the physical custody of the Sequoia 

& Kings Canyon National Parks. The 

human remains in the physical custody 

of the University of California, Berkeley 

and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National 

Parks represent a minimum of five 

individuals. No known individuals were 

identified. The 120 associated funerary 

objects are 16 projectile points, 25 

bifaces and fragments, 5 modified flaked 

stones, 18 flaked stones/debitage, 16 

ground stone artifacts, 16 steatite 

artifacts, 1 brownware pottery sherd, 1 

brownware vessel, 6 faunal remains, 

and 16 marine shell ornaments. 

The Cobble Lodge materials in the 

possession of Sequoia & Kings Canyon 

National Parks have been re-examined 

by URS, Inc. (Browning and Nilsson 

2007). The artifact assemblage includes 

chipped stone projectile points (Desert 

Series, Cottonwood, Rose Spring, and 

Sierra Concave Base), steatite vessels 

and beads, marine shell ornaments, and 

the single brownware vessel. These 

temporally diagnostic artifacts support 

an interpretation that the site is a 

multiple component site that would 

have been occupied circa 300 B.C. to 

A.D. 1850. The report by von Werlhof 

(1961) interpreted Cobble Lodge to be a 

late Prehistoric housepit village and 

cemetery, and to have been permanently 

occupied until the early 1860s. This 

suite of artifact types is most strongly 

affiliated in the archeological record 

with the Yokuts and Western Mono 

(Monache) cultural groups. 

Geographic and linguistic evidence 

also places Yokuts and Western Mono 

(Monache) groups within the western 

foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada 

during this time period. Descendants of 

the Yokuts and Western Mono 

(Monache) are members of the Big 

Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Cold Springs Rancheria of 

Mono Indians of California; Northfork 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Picayune Rancheria of 

Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa 

Rosa Indian Community of the Santa 

Rosa Rancheria, California; Table 

Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule 

River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California; and Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California. 

Officials of the Army Corps of 

Engineers, Sacramento District and 

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks 

have determined that, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of five individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento 

District and Sequoia & Kings Canyon 

National Parks also have determined 

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

the 120 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, 

officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, 

Sacramento District 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 

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remains and associated funerary objects 

and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono 

Indians of California; Cold Springs 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono 

Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California; Table Mountain 

Rancheria of California; Tule River 

Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California; and Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Richard Perry, NAGPRA Point 

of Contact, USACE Army Corps of 

Engineers, 1325 J St., Sacramento, CA 

95814, telephone (916) 557–5218, before 

July 20, 2009. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono 

Indians of California; Cold Springs 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono 

Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California; Table Mountain 

Rancheria of California; Tule River 

Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California; and Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

Officials of the Army Corps of 

Engineers, Sacramento District are 

responsible for notifying the Big Sandy 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Cold Springs Rancheria of 

Mono Indians of California; Northfork 

Rancheria of Mono Indians of 

California; Picayune Rancheria of 

Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa 

Rosa Indian Community of the Santa 

Rosa Rancheria, California; Table 

Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule 

River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 

Reservation, California; and Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: May 18, 2009 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–14296 Filed 6–17–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Binghamton University, State 

University of New York, Binghamton, 

NY 

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 associated 

funerary objects in the possession and 

control of Binghamton University, State 

University of New York, Binghamton, 

NY. The associated funerary objects 

were removed from the Engelbert site, 

Tioga County, NY. 

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 associated funerary objects. 

The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the 

associated funerary objects was made by 

Binghamton University professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Cayuga Nation of 

New York; Delaware Tribe (part of the 

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma); Delaware 

Nation, Oklahoma; Oneida Tribe of 

Indians of Wisconsin; Oneida Nation of 

New York; Onondaga Nation of New 

York; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, New 

York (formerly the St. Regis Mohawk 

Band of Mohawk Indians of New York); 

Seneca Nation of New York; SenecaCayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Stockbridge 

Munsee Community, Wisconsin; 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York; and Tuscarora Nation of New 

York. 

In 1967 and 1968, human remains 

representing a minimum of 188 

individuals and associated funerary 

objects were removed from the 

Engelbert site in Tioga County, NY, 

during gravel mining for construction of 

the Southern Tier Expressway (NY 17). 

Initial assessment of the site was done 

in 1967 by Dr. Robert E. Funk of the 

New York State Museum, Albany, NY. 

In 1967, Dr. Marian E. White, assisted 

by students from the State University of 

New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, conducted 

trench excavations in a portion of the 

site. In 1967 and 1968, the primary 

archeological excavations and recovery 

were directed by Dr. William D. Lipe of 

SUNY-Binghamton over two field 

seasons, with the assistance of members 

of the Triple Cities Chapter of the New 

York State Archeological Association, 

students from SUNY-Binghamton, and 

local volunteers. In 1967, the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were placed under the control of the 

Triple Cities Chapter of the New York 

State Archeological Association, and 

then transferred to the State University 

of New York at Binghamton in 1968. In 

1989, the human remains were 

transferred to the New York State 

Museum for curation. No known 

individuals were identified. The 

associated funerary objects are in the 

physical possession and control of 

Binghamton University. The 2,640 

associated funerary objects are 804 

pieces of lithic debitage; 438 lots of 

fragmented pottery; 319 roughstone 

tools; 136 chipped stone bifaces and 

tools; 104 lots of animal bone and shell; 

88 bone beads; 51 copper ornaments; 47 

pieces of fire-cracked rock; 18 fragments 

of pipes; 18 groundstone tools; 4 bone 

points; 2 shell beads; 1 bone comb; and 

610 geologic/organic samples. 

Archeological evidence shows that 

the Engelbert site is a large, 

multicomponent habitation site on a 

gravel knoll bordering the Susquehanna 

River in New York. The knoll was used 

intermittently over a period of about 

5,000 years, as suggested by diagnostic 

artifacts from the Late Archaic (Lamoka, 

Dustin, and Snook Kill points), 

Transitional (Susquehanna Broad 

points), Late Woodland (triangular 

points, pottery), Proto-historic and 

Historic (beads, copper ornaments, and 

pottery) periods. The site was also used 

as a burial site during at least two 

different periods, from about A.D. 1000 

to the 1400s, and again during the late 

1500s and possibly into the early 1600s. 

The later burials are few in number. 

Archeologists have concluded that 

artifacts associated with the earlier 

burials, including pottery (e.g., 

Carpenter Brook, Levanna, Sackett, 

Kelso, Castle Creek, and Oak Hill) and 

projectile points (triangular Levannas/ 

Madisons), are similar to other sites 

across a broad geographic region that 

later became associated with both 

Iroquoian- and Algonquian-speaking 

peoples, some of whom became 

members of the Haudenosaunee 

Confederacy, a non-Federally 

recognized Indian group for the 

purposes of NAGPRA. The 

Haudenosaunee Confederacy includes 

the Federally-recognized six Nations of 

the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, 

Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.