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that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

If no additional requestors come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the lineal descendants, Indian 

tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations 

stated in this notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

at the address in this notice by October 

5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3003, of the correction of an inventory 

of human remains and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

in the physical custody of the Arizona 

State Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, AZ (ASM). The human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed from a location within the 

boundaries of the Fort Apache Indian 

Reservation, Navajo 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. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects originally 

published in a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register (77 

FR 11578–11580, February 27, 2012) 

and subsequently published in a 

corrected Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register (79 

FR 68472–68473, November 17, 2014). 

The number of human remains and 

associated funerary objects increased 

due a search through uncatalogued 

object collections. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, 

November 17, 2014), column 1, 

paragraphs 3 and 4, under the heading 

‘‘Correction,’’ are corrected by 

substituting the following paragraphs: 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11579, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 7 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

In the years 1963 through 1977, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 1,023 

individuals were removed from the 

Grasshopper Pueblo site AZ P:14:1(ASM), in 

Navajo County, AZ, as a result of legally 

authorized excavations conducted by the 

University of Arizona Archaeological Field 

School. Archeological collections from the 

site were brought to the museum at the end 

of each field season. No known individuals 

were identified. The 10,418 associated 

funerary objects are 710 animal bones, 2 

animal skeletons, 1 antler wrench, 9 antler 

artifacts, 9 lots of beads of unidentified 

material, 21 bird bones, 1 bird effigy pendant, 

6 bird skeletons, 1 bird skull, 31 bone 

artifacts, 53 bone awls, 9 bone awl fragments, 

6 lots of bone beads, 2 bone needles, 47 bone 

rings, 1 bone spatula, 1 bone tool, 1 bone 

wand, 9 lots of botanical material, 2 ceramic 

artifacts, 719 ceramic bowls, 8 ceramic bowl 

fragments, 2 ceramic canteens, 1 ceramic 

figurine fragment, 223 ceramic jars, 7 ceramic 

jar fragments, 1 ceramic ladle, 4 ceramic 

mugs, 1 ceramic pendant, 9 ceramic pitchers, 

2 ceramic plates, 1 ceramic platter, 3 ceramic 

scoops, 4,960 ceramic sherds, 7 ceramic 

sherd artifacts, 27 ceramic vessels, 7 ceramic 

vessel fragments, 21 chipped stone cores, 2 

chipped stone drills, 2 chipped stone firecracked rocks, 2,233 chipped stone flakes, 1 

chipped stone scraper, 1 clay sample, 14 

crystals, 22 flotation samples, 10 fossils, 3 

ground stones, 16 hammerstones, 1 

handstone, 17 manos, 2 mano fragments, 8 

lots of matting, 45 minerals, 3 mortars, 1 

mosaic shell, 4 lots of organic material, 96 

pebbles, 2 pecking stones, 12 pendants, 18 

polishing stones, 6 pollen samples, 57 quartz 

crystals, 12 lots of raw material, 5 shaft 

straighteners, 111 shells, 3 lots of shell and 

stone beads, 7 shell artifacts, 1 shell artifact 

fragment, 32 lots of shell beads, 49 shell 

bracelets, 6 shell bracelet fragments, 25 shell 

pendants, 3 shell pendant fragments, 12 shell 

rings, 62 shell tinklers, 9 snail shells, 2 soil 

impressions, 58 soil samples, 14 stone 

artifacts, 1 stone axe, 8 lots of stone beads, 

3 stone blades, 1 stone bowl, 1 stone disk, 6 

stone figurines, 9 stone knives, 2 stone 

pendants, 257 stone projectile points, 7 stone 

scrapers, 2 stone shaft smoothers, 4 stone 

slabs, 12 tree ring samples, 5 lots of turquoise 

beads, 112 turquoise pendants, 58 turquoise 

tesserae, 1 lot of unidentified material, 1 lot 

of unidentified organic material, 4 wood 

fragments, 9 worked and unworked bones, 

and 3 worked stone flakes. 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 68473, 

November 17, 2014), column 2, 

paragraphs 1 through 4, under the 

heading ‘‘Correction,’’ are corrected by 

substituting the following paragraphs: 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 5 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

Pursuant to 25 U.S.C 3001(9), the human 

remains described in this notice represent the 

physical remains of 1,023 individuals or 

Native American ancestry. 

In the Federal Register (77 FR 11580, 

February 27, 2012), paragraph 6 is corrected 

by substituting the following paragraph: 

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

10,418 objects described above are 

reasonably believed to have been placed with 

or near individual human remains at the time 

of death or later as a part of the death rite 

or ceremony. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov, by 

October 5, 2017. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and 

Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New 

Mexico may proceed. 

The Arizona State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Hopi Tribe 

of Arizona; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 29, 2017. 

Sarah Glass, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18684 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023810] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 

TN 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley 

Authority (TVA) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

federally recognized Indian Tribes, and 

has determined that a cultural affiliation 

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between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects and presentday federally recognized Indian Tribes 

can reasonably be traced. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

federally recognized Indian Tribe not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

to TVA. If no additional requestors 

come forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the federally recognized 

Indian Tribes stated in this notice may 

proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any federally 

recognized Indian Tribe not identified 

in this notice that wish to request 

transfer of control of these human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the request to 

TVA at the address in this notice by 

October 5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 

400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11D, 

Knoxville, TN 37902–1401, telephone 

(865) 632–7458, email tomaher@tva.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of 

TVA. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from archeological sites in 

Jackson and Marshall Counties, AL. 

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. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

was made by TVA professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of 

Texas (previously listed as the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas); Cherokee 

Nation; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; 

Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; 

Poarch Band of Creeks (previously listed 

as the Poarch Band of Creek Indians of 

Alabama); The Chickasaw Nation; The 

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole 

Nation of Oklahoma; and United 

Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in 

Oklahoma (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The 

Consulted Tribes’’). 

History and Description of the Remains 

The sites listed in this notice were 

excavated as part of TVA’s Guntersville 

Reservoir project by the Alabama 

Museum of Natural History (AMNH) at 

the University of Alabama, using labor 

and funds provided by the Works 

Progress Administration. Details 

regarding these excavations and sites 

may be found in a report, ‘‘An 

Archaeological Survey of Guntersville 

Basin on the Tennessee River in 

Northern Alabama,’’ by William S. 

Webb and Charles G. Wilder. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects excavated from the sites listed in 

this notice have been in the physical 

custody of the AMNH at the University 

of Alabama since excavation, but are 

under the control of TVA. 

From March to April of 1938, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 10 

individuals were removed from the 

Hardin site (1JA27) in Jackson County, 

AL, after TVA acquired the site on 

October 16, 1936. Excavations revealed 

two primary occupations during the 

Late Woodland Flint River phase (A.D. 

500–1000) and the Mississippian Henry 

Island phase (A.D. 1200–1450). The 

culturally affiliated human remains are 

from the Henry Island phase. The 

human remains include adults, 

juveniles, and infants of female and 

indeterminate sex. No known 

individuals were identified. The 11 

associated funerary objects include 2 

Bell Plain sherds; 1 Carthage Incised rim 

sherd; 1 conch shell cup; 1 Etowah 

Complicated Stamped jar; 1 Mississippi 

Plain bowl; 1 Mississippi Plain 

composite jar; 1 Mississippi Plain 

standard jar; 1 Moundville Engraved 

sherd; 1 Mulberry Creek Plain 

hemispherical bowl; and 1 Nashville 

Negative Painted bottle. 

From January to June of 1938, human 

remains representing, at minimum, 19 

individuals were removed from the 

Saulty and Riley site (1JA28) in Jackson 

County, AL, after TVA purchased the 

site on October 16, 1936. Site 1JA28 was 

composed of both a village and adjacent 

mound with Woodland (Flint River 

phase) and Mississippian occupations 

identified. The culturally affiliated 

human remains are from the Henry 

Island phase (circa A.D. 1200–1450). 

The human remains include adults, 

juveniles, and children of both sexes. 

No known individuals were identified. 

The 190 associated funerary objects 

include 4 Bell Plain sherds; 1 Bell Plain 

jar; 4 bone awls or Fids; 1 Carthage 

Incised bowl; 2 clay earspools; 3 pieces 

of cut mica; 1 stone discoidal; 2 mussel 

shells; 7 Mississippi Plain jars; 145 

Mississippi Plain sherds; 9 Mississippi 

Plain bowl sherds; 1 Mississippi Plain 

effigy jar; 1 Mississippi Plain bowl; 1 

Moundville Incised, var. Snows Bend 

jar; 1 Moundville Incised, var. Carrolton 

jar; 2 Mulberry Creek Plain, var. 

Hamilton sherds; 3 shell gorgets; 1 

eroded shell-tempered sherd; and 1 

Wright Check Stamped sherd. 

From September of 1938 to January of 

1939, human remains representing, at 

minimum, 48 individuals were removed 

from the Laws site (1MS100) on Pine 

Island in Marshall County, AL, after 

TVA purchased the site on April 21, 

1937. Excavations began at the levee 

adjacent to the river and proceeded by 

both vertical slicing and horizontal 

excavations. There appear to have been 

at least four occupations at this site, 

including a pre-ceramic period with 

steatite vessels; a village using 

limestone-tempered pottery during the 

Flint River phase (A.D. 500–1000); a late 

Mississippian occupation using shelltempered ceramics and rectilinear wall 

trench structures (Crow Creek phase, 

A.D. 1500–1700); and the EuroAmerican trade period (circa A.D. 1670– 

1715). The human remains are from the 

last two occupations and include adults, 

juveniles, and children of both sexes. 

No known individuals were identified. 

The 32,239 associated funerary objects 

include 21 bark container fragments; 8 

bark pouch fragments; 1 Bell Plain redfilmed bowl, 1 biface fragment; 5 bone 

beads; 2 dog canines; 3 botanical 

fragments; 14 brass arm band fragments; 

2 brass arm cuffs; 55 brass arm cuff 

fragments; 352 brass beads; 23 brass 

bells; 6 brass disks; 16 brass fragments; 

1 brass ring; 9 brass ring fragments; 3 

brass sheet fragments; 8 brass spherical 

buttons; 1 brass square; 10 brass tinkler 

cones; 2 buckskin fragments; 5 buckskin 

pouch fragments; 1 burnishing stone; 6 

charred cane fragments; 1 chipped stone 

drill; 29 drum tooth beads; 1 stone effigy 

pipe; 2 pieces of fired clay; 29,965 glass 

beads; 1 glass mirror; 1 ground limonite; 

145 iron and brass wire bracelets; 718 

iron bracelet fragments; 2 iron buckle 

fragments; 2 iron ring fragments; 56 iron 

wire fragments; 4 modified bones; 1 lead 

musket ball; 7 pieces of shell; 1 red 

pigment; 735 shell beads; 4 shell ear 

pins; 2 shell gorgets; 6 shell ornament 

fragments; and 1 split cane fragment. 

From October to November of 1937, 

human remains representing, at 

minimum, 4 individuals were removed 

from site 1MS121 on Pine Island, in 

Marshall County, AL, after TVA 

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purchased the site on April 19, 1937. 

There were excavations in both the 

village and adjacent mound. There are 

no radiocarbon dates for this site. The 

culturally affiliated human remains are 

from the Mississippian period (A.D. 

1200–1500). The human remains are of 

four female adults. No known 

individuals were identified. The 16 

associated funerary objects include 11 

Bell Plain jar sherds; 1 crinoid bead; 2 

Langston Fabric Marked sherds; and 2 

Mississippi Plain bowls. 

Although there is no absolute 

certainty that Native Americans of the 

Mississippian period are directly related 

to modern federally recognized Tribes, a 

relationship of shared group identity 

can reasonably be traced between these 

modern Tribes and the human remains 

and associated funerary objects of the 

earlier culture identified as 

Mississippian. The preponderance of 

the evidence indicates that the cultural 

items from Mississippian and early 

historic occupations at 1JA27, 1JA28, 

1MS100, and 1MS121 are culturally 

affiliated with Native Americans 

descendants of the Koasati/Kaskinampo. 

These descendants include the 

Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas 

(previously listed as the AlabamaCoushata Tribes of Texas); AlabamaQuassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe 

of Louisiana; and The Muscogee (Creek) 

Nation. 

Chronicles from Spanish explorers of 

the 16th century and French explorers 

of the 17th and 18th century indicate 

the presence of chiefdom level tribal 

entities in the southeastern United 

States which resemble the Mississippian 

chiefdoms. Linguistic analysis of place 

names noted by multiple Spanish 

explorers indicates that Koasati 

speaking groups inhabited northeastern 

Alabama. Early maps and research into 

the historic Native American occupation 

of northeastern Alabama indicates that 

the Koasati (as called by the English) or 

the Kaskinampo (as called by the 

French) were found at multiple sites in 

Jackson and Marshall Counties in the 

17th and 18th centuries. Oral history, 

traditions, and expert opinions of the 

descendants of Koasati/Kaskinampo 

indicate that this portion of the 

Tennessee River valley was a homeland 

of their Tribe. The subsequent 

involuntary diaspora of these peoples 

resulted in descendants of the Koasati/ 

Kaskinampo among multiple federally 

recognized Tribes. 

Determinations Made by the Tennessee 

Valley Authority 

Officials of TVA have determined 

that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of 81 

individuals of Native American ancestry 

due to their presence in a prehistoric 

and early historic archeological site and 

osteological analysis. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the 32,456 objects described in this 

notice 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. 

• 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 

listed in this notice and the AlabamaCoushatta Tribe of Texas (previously 

listed as the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes 

of Texas); Alabama-Quassarte Tribal 

Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; 

and The Muscogee (Creek) Nation. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any federally recognized Indian Tribe 

not identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to Dr. Thomas O. Maher, TVA, 

400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT11D, 

Knoxville, TN 37902–1401, telephone 

(865) 632–7458, email tomaher@tva.gov, 

by October 5, 2017. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe 

of Texas (previously listed as the 

Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas); 

Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; 

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; and The 

Muscogee (Creek) Nation may proceed. 

TVA is responsible for notifying The 

Consulted Tribes that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: August 29, 2017. 

Sarah Glass, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–18688 Filed 9–1–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23729; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC, and 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 

the Arizona State Museum, University 

of Arizona, have completed an 

inventory of human remains, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and have determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and present-day Indian 

tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 

Lineal descendants or representatives of 

any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request to the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs. If no additional requestors come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the lineal 

descendants, Indian tribes, or Native 

Hawaiian organizations stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs at the address in this notice by 

October 5, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, NAGPRA 

Coordinator, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Room 6084, 

Reston, VA 20191, telephone (703) 390– 

6343, email Anna.Pardo@bia.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of 

the U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, 

DC, and in the physical custody of the 

Arizona State Museum, University of 

Arizona, Tucson, AZ (ASM). The 

human remains were removed from a 

location within the boundaries of the 

Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Navajo 

County, AZ. 

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