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from the University of Montana with 

training in Native American osteology to 

the museum to examine the remains. 

The remains were determined to be a 

Native American woman in her early 

twenties. The human remains were 

probably not more than a few hundred 

years old. No known individuals were 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

At the time of the excavation and 

removal of these human remains, the 

land from which the human remains 

were removed was not the tribal land of 

any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. In 2017, the Luther Bean 

Museum consulted with all Indian 

tribes who are recognized as aboriginal 

to the area from which these Native 

American human remains were 

removed. These tribes are the Arapahoe 

Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, 

Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho 

Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as 

the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of 

Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, 

Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New 

Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico 

(previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo 

Domingo); Kiowa Indian Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona, 

New Mexico & Utah; Northern 

Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern 

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; 

Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(previously listed as 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 Picuris, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Pojoaque, 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 

Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New 

Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe 

of Arizona; Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah; Ute 

Mountain Ute Tribe (previously listed as 

the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 

Mexico & Utah); and Zuni Tribe of the 

Zuni Reservation, New Mexico. None of 

these Indian tribes agreed to accept 

control of the human remains. In 2017, 

the Luther Bean Museum agreed to 

transfer control of the human remains to 

the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado. 

Determinations Made by the Luther 

Bean Museum 

Officials of the Luther Bean Museum 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on an 

examination by an osteologist. 

• 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)(2)(i), 

the disposition of the human remains 

may be to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe 

of the Southern Ute Reservation, 

Colorado. 

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 Danielle Persinger, Luther 

Bean Museum, 208 Edgemont 

Boulevard, Alamosa, CO 81101, 

telephone (719) 587–7151, email 

lutherbean@adams.edu, by October 23, 

2017. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains to the 

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, 

may proceed. 

The Luther Bean Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Arapahoe 

Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, 

Wyoming; Cheyenne and Arapaho 

Tribes, Oklahoma (previously listed as 

the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of 

Oklahoma); Comanche Nation, 

Oklahoma; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New 

Mexico; Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico 

(previously listed as the Pueblo of Santo 

Domingo); Kiowa Indian Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Navajo Nation, Arizona, 

New Mexico & Utah; Northern 

Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern 

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana; 

Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico 

(previously listed as 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 Picuris, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Pojoaque, 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 

Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New 

Mexico; San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe 

of Arizona; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of 

the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; 

Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 

Reservation, Utah; Ute Mountain Ute 

Tribe (previously listed as the Ute 

Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 

Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 

Utah); and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 25, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20306 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023937; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Omaha District, Omaha, NE 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha 

District), in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to the 

Omaha District. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural items 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 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Omaha District at the address in this 

notice by October 23, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. 

Army Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: 

CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, 

Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 

995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

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

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the Omaha 

District, Omaha, NE, that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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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 cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

In 1953, two cultural items were 

removed from the Cottonwood site 

(39HU43) in Hughes County, SD, and 

are presently located at the South 

Dakota State Archaeological Research 

Center (SARC), under the managerial 

control of the Omaha District. The 

Cottonwood site was excavated in 1953 

by Wesley R. Hurt and Todd G. Willy. 

The excavation was a joint effort 

between the W.H. Over MuseumVermillion, the South Dakota 

Archaeological Commission, and the 

U.S. National Park Service. At least two 

sets of human remains were recovered 

and stored at the W.H. Over Museum 

until 1974, when they were moved to 

SARC. In 1987, the University of 

Tennessee-Knoxville received the 

human remains and conducted an 

inventory before returning them to 

SARC in 1988. The human remains 

were then housed at SARC until May 

20, 1994, when they were repatriated to 

the Sioux. SARC currently has two 

funerary objects that excavation records 

show as having been removed from the 

burial of a specific individual from site 

39HU43. The two unassociated funerary 

objects are 1 unmodified wolf canine 

tooth and 1 ceramic body sherd. 

The Cottonwood site (39HU43) is a 

farm settlement on a low terrace above 

the Missouri River that was probably 

occupied between 1870 and 1880, 

which falls into the Historic Sioux 

(Teton/Lakota) (1867–1900). Peoria 

Bottom was occupied in the early 1870s 

by 200 to 300 Native Americans, as well 

as by the first Protestant mission in the 

area, which included a boarding school 

for the Lakota Sioux. The Cottonwood 

site included 15 circular houses and 

several outdoor cache pit depressions. 

Three houses and one outdoor cache pit 

were excavated. The houses had basinshaped tipi floors, in common with latenineteenth century Lakota farm 

settlements. Gun cartridges were also 

recovered at the site, not in association 

with the burials, but which support the 

Historic Sioux occupation. 

In 1962, six cultural items were 

removed from the Fort Thompson 

Burials II site (39BF10) in Buffalo 

County, SD, and are presently located at 

the South Dakota State Archaeological 

Research Center (SARC), under the 

managerial control of the Omaha 

District. The Fort Thompson Burials II 

site (39BF10) has six mound groups 

spread out along the left bank of the 

Missouri River on a terrace in the Big 

Bend area, downstream from Fort 

Thompson. Early in the 1960s, several 

burials were disturbed during 

construction of the Big Bend Dam. In 

December of 1962, Robert Grant and 

Joseph B. Brandon, State Archaeological 

Commission-Vermillion, SD, recovered 

the human remains and funerary 

objects. At least 4 sets of human remains 

were recovered. The human remains 

were stored at the W.H. Over Museum 

until 1974, when they were moved to 

the Office of the State Archaeologist 

(OSA) at Fort Meade. In 1979, the 

University of Tennessee-Knoxville 

received the human remains and 

conducted an inventory before returning 

them to the OSA. The human remains 

were then repatriated in 1982 to the 

Sioux. SARC currently holds six 

funerary objects that excavation records 

show as having been removed from the 

burial of a specific individual from site 

39BF10. The six unassociated funerary 

objects are 2 linen textiles; 2 brass 

buttons; 1 wrought-iron coffin nail; and 

1 bison femur fragment. 

The Fort Thompson Burials II site 

(39BF10) was most likely occupied post1860, which falls into the Early 

Reservation Period and is associated 

with the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, 

inhabited by the Santee and Winnebago, 

who were moved to Nebraska in the 

mid-1860s. In the 1870s, the reservation 

was inhabited by the Yanktonai. The 

unassociated funerary objects and 

manner of burial are most likely 

affiliated with the Yanktonai, who 

occupied the reservation for a longer 

period of time post-1860, than the 

Santee and Winnebago. 

The Yanktonai today are represented 

by the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South 

Dakota. Consultation with the Yankton 

Sioux Tribe of South Dakota indicates 

that these kinds of funerary objects are 

placed with individuals at the time of 

death. 

Determinations Made by the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Omaha District 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Omaha District, have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 8 cultural items 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 and are 

believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the unassociated funerary 

objects and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of 

South Dakota. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Ms. Sandra Barnum, U.S. Army 

Engineer District, Omaha, ATTN: 

CENWO–PM–AB, 1616 Capital Avenue, 

Omaha, NE 68102, telephone, (402) 

995–2674, email sandra.v.barnum@

usace.army.mil, by October 23, 2017. 

After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the unassociated funerary 

objects to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of 

South Dakota. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Omaha District, is responsible for 

notifying the Yankton Sioux Tribe of 

South Dakota that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: August 2, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20295 Filed 9–21–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0023919; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, 

KY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Kentucky Historical 

Society 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 Kentucky Historical 

Society. If no additional requestors