44454 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 183 / Friday, September 22, 2017 / Notices 

objects to the Sac & Fox Nation, 

Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Nation of 

Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & 

Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; 

and The Osage Nation (previously listed 

as the Osage Tribe) may proceed. 

The Missouri Department of Natural 

Resources is responsible for notifying 

the Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & 

Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and 

Nebraska; Sac & Fox Tribe of the 

Mississippi in Iowa; and The Osage 

Nation (previously listed as the Osage 

Tribe) that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 26, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20296 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–23967; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Florida Department of State, Division 

of Historical Resources, Tallahassee, 

FL 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Florida Department of 

State, Division of Historical Resources, 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

determined that there is no cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and any present-day Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations. 

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 Florida Department of 

State, Division of Historical Resources. 

If no additional requestors come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the non-federally 

recognized Indian group stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: 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 Florida Department of 

State, Division of Historical Resources, 

at the address in this notice by October 

23, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Jason O’Donoughue, Florida 

Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources, The Governor John 

Martin House, 1001 De Soto Park Drive, 

Tallahassee, FL 32301, telephone (850) 

245–6481, email Jason.ODonoughue@

dos.myflorida.com. 

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 Florida Department of State, 

Division of Historical Resources, 

Tallahassee, FL. The human remains 

were removed from a site in Queens 

County, Long Island, 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 human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by the Florida 

Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources, professional staff 

in consultation with the Unkechaug 

Indian Nation and the Matinecock Tribe 

of Long Island, both of which are nonfederally recognized Indian groups. The 

Shinnecock Indian Nation was invited 

to participate but was not involved in 

consultations. 

History and Description of the Remains 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from an 

unknown site in Long Island, Queens 

County, NY, and were subsequently 

donated to the Museum of Arts and 

Sciences in Daytona Beach. The Florida 

Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources, assumed 

jurisdiction over these human remains 

pursuant to Section 872.05, Florida 

Statutes. The human remains were 

determined to be from a Native 

American individual based on the 

labeling on the mandible stating 

‘‘MATINICACK INDIN LONG ISLAND.’’ 

The Matinecock are a Native American 

group who are historically documented 

on Long Island and connected through 

kinship to the other Long Island Nations 

including the Unkechaug, Shinnecock, 

and Montaukett. Historical evidence 

suggests that the human remains may 

have come from a Matinecock cemetery 

that was removed in 1931 and 1932, 

when Northern Boulevard was widened 

in Queens Borough, Long Island, NY. 

The burials belonging to that cemetery 

were reportedly relocated to another 

cemetery. Descendants of people buried 

in the cemetery note that some of the 

human remains and items removed 

during the exhumations were not 

reburied. The Museum of Arts and 

Sciences in Daytona Beach lacked 

accession records from many of its older 

collections. The spelling of ‘‘Matinicack 

Indin’’ on the label of the mandible 

suggests that the human remains were 

collected by a non-professional 

archeologist or anthropologist who, on 

information or belief, determined that 

they were affiliated with the 

Matinecock. No other provenience 

information is available. No known 

individual was identified. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.16, the 

Secretary of the Interior may 

recommend transfer of control of 

culturally unidentifiable human 

remains. In September 2016, the Florida 

Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources, requested that the 

Secretary, through the Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation 

Review Committee, recommend the 

proposed transfer of control of the 

culturally unidentifiable Native 

American human remains in this notice 

to the Unkechaug Indian Nation, a nonfederally recognized Indian group. The 

Review Committee, acting pursuant to 

its responsibility under 25 U.S.C. 

3006(c)(5), considered the request at its 

March 2017 meeting and recommended 

to the Secretary that the proposed 

transfer of control proceed. An April 

2017 letter on behalf of the Secretary of 

Interior from the National Park Service 

Associate Director for Cultural 

Resources, Partnerships, and Science 

transmitted the Secretary’s independent 

review and concurrence with the 

Review Committee that: 

• No Indian Tribes or Indian groups 

objected to the proposed transfer of 

control, and 

• the Florida Department of State, 

Division of Historical Resources, may 

proceed with the agreed upon transfer of 

control of the culturally unidentifiable 

human remains to the Unkechaug 

Indian Nation, a non-federally 

recognized Indian group. 

Transfer of control is contingent on 

the publication of a Notice of Inventory 

Completion in the Federal Register. 

This notice fulfills that requirement. 

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Determinations Made by the Florida 

Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources 

Officials of the Florida Department of 

State, Division of Historical Resources, 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on 

contextual and historical information. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

any present-day Indian Tribe. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), a 

‘‘tribal land’’ or ‘‘aboriginal land’’ 

provenience cannot be ascertained. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.10(g)(2)(ii) 

and 43 CFR 10.16, the disposition of the 

human remains will be to the 

Unkechaug Indian Nation, a nonfederally recognized Indian group. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

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 Jason O’Donoughue, 

Florida Department of State, Division of 

Historical Resources, The Governor John 

Martin House, 1001 De Soto Park Drive, 

Tallahassee, FL 32301, telephone (850) 

245–6481, email Jason.ODonoughue@

dos.myflorida.com, by October 23, 2017. 

After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains to the 

Unkechaug Indian Nation, a nonfederally recognized Indian group, may 

proceed. 

The Florida Department of State, 

Division of Historical Resources, is 

responsible for notifying the Shinnecock 

Indian Nation, the Unkechaug Indian 

Nation, and the Matinecock Tribe of 

Long Island that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: August 8, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20300 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023997; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Rogue River-Siskiyou National 

Forest, Medford, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, 

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

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 Rogue RiverSiskiyou National Forest. 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 Rogue River-Siskiyou 

National Forest, at the address in this 

notice by October 23, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Robert MacWhorter, Forest 

Supervisor, Rogue River-Siskiyou 

National Forest, 3040 Biddle Road, 

Medford, OR 97501, telephone (541) 

618–2030, email rmacwhorter@fs.fed.us. 

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 that are housed at the 

Southern Oregon University Laboratory 

of Anthropology and under the control 

of the USDA, Forest Service, Rogue 

River-Siskiyou National Forest. The 

human remains were removed from the 

Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District of 

the Rogue River-Siskiyou National 

Forest, Jackson 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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

Based on the likely cultural affiliation 

of the human remains and the 

aboriginally occupied lands of the 

Tribes, the Rogue River-Siskiyou 

National Forest consulted with the 

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of 

Oregon (previously listed as the 

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz 

Reservation); Confederated Tribes of the 

Grand Ronde Community of Oregon; 

and Quartz Valley Indian Community of 

the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation of 

California. Formal consultation 

regarding the human remains began in 

1995 and continued through 2007. 

History and Description of the Remains 

In 1971, and at some time between 

1975 and 1979, human remains 

representing, at minimum, three 

individuals were removed from site 

35JA90 in Jackson County, OR. The site 

is located on Federal land within the 

Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District. The 

Jackson County Sheriff’s Department 

was notified of the discovery and 

removed the human remains for further 

examination. After examination, the 

Sheriff’s Department turned the skeletal 

remains over to the Department of 

Sociology and Anthropology at 

Southern Oregon State College (now 

Southern Oregon University). Analysis 

of the human remains in 1995 and 1999 

identified one female of an unknown 

age (Catalogue #11–425), one male 

between 20–23 years old (Catalogue 

#11–426), and one incomplete set of 

human remains of unknown sex and age 

(Catalogue Collection #2). No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Site 35JA90 is a pre-contact village 

site with burial grounds located on 

Federal lands with a portion of the site 

located on private property. In 1979, 

Oregon State University (OSU) 

Department of Anthropology was 

contracted by the Rogue River National 

Forest to further investigate the site. The 

site was archeologically tested and 

recorded by archeologists Dr. David 

Brauner and Sandy Snyder. A Guntherbarbed projectile point and other 

projectile point types were noted at the 

site indicating an occupation date of 

approximately 1,500–150 years BP. The 

site is associated with the descendants 

of the Dakubetede (applegate