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oral evidence presented during 

consultation with members of the 

Haudenosaunee Standing Committee on 

Burial Rules and Regulations, indicates 

that these medicine masks are culturally 

affiliated with the Seneca Nation of 

Indians (previously listed as the Seneca 

Nation of New York) and the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously 

listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca 

Indians of New York). 

Determinations Made by the New York 

State Museum 

Officials of the New York State 

Museum have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), 

the 32 cultural items described above 

are specific ceremonial objects needed 

by traditional Native American religious 

leaders for the practice of traditional 

Native American religions by their 

present-day adherents. 

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

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the sacred objects and the 

Seneca Nation of Indians (previously 

listed as the Seneca Nation of New 

York) and the Tonawanda Band of 

Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York). 

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 

Lisa Anderson, New York State 

Museum, 3049 Cultural Education 

Center, Albany, NY 12230 telephone 

(518) 486–2020, email lisa.anderson@

nysed.gov, by December 8, 2017. After 

that date, if no additional claimants 

have come forward, transfer of control 

of the sacred objects to the Seneca 

Nation of Indians (previously listed as 

the Seneca Nation of New York) and the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously 

listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca 

Indians of New York) may proceed. 

The New York State Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Cayuga 

Nation; Oneida Nation (previously 

listed as the Oneida Tribe of Indians of 

Wisconsin); Oneida Nation of New 

York; Onondaga Nation; Saint Regis 

Mohawk Tribe (previously listed as the 

St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of 

New York); Seneca Nation of Indians 

(previously listed as the Seneca Nation 

of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Nation 

(previously listed as the Seneca-Cayuga 

Tribe of Oklahoma); Tonawanda Band 

of Seneca (previously listed as the 

Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of 

New York); and the Tuscarora Nation 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: September 15, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0024192: 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, National 

Park Service, Tuzigoot National 

Monument, Clarkdale, AZ; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, National Park Service, Tuzigoot 

National Monument, has corrected an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects, published 

in a Notice of Inventory Completion in 

the Federal Register on July 28, 2014. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects. 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 to Tuzigoot National Monument. 

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 Tuzigoot National Monument 

at the address in this notice by 

December 8, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Dorothy FireCloud, 

Superintendent, Tuzigoot National 

Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, 

AZ 86322, telephone (928) 567–5276, 

email dorothy_firecloud@nps.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, 

National Park Service, Tuzigoot 

National Monument, Clarkdale, AZ. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from multiple 

locations in Coconino and Yavapai 

Counties, 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 Superintendent, Tuzigoot National 

Monument. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and number of 

associated funerary objects published in 

a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 43774, July 28, 

2014). The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

inadvertently omitted from the 

published notice. Transfer of control of 

the additional items in this correction 

notice has not occurred. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, 

July 28, 2014), column 2, paragraph 3, 

sentence 1, under the heading ‘‘History 

and Description of the Remains,’’ is 

corrected by substituting the following 

sentence: 

At unknown dates, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 20 individuals 

were removed from unknown locations in 

Yavapai County, AZ. 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, 

July 28, 2014), column 2, paragraph 5, 

under the heading ‘‘History and 

Description of the Remains,’’ is 

corrected by substituting the following 

paragraph: 

At unknown dates, human remains 

representing, at minimum, 19 individuals 

were removed from unknown locations in 

Yavapai County, AZ. The remains were 

found in Tuzigoot National Monument 

collections at the National Park Service’s 

Western Archeological and Conservation 

Center and so were likely removed from the 

area of the monument. No known individuals 

were identified. The one associated funerary 

object is a soil sample. 

In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, 

July 28, 2014), column 2, under the 

heading ‘‘History and Description of the 

Remains,’’ is corrected by adding the 

following paragraph after paragraph 7: 

In 1954, human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from the Will Steele property in Coconino 

County, AZ by Tapco workmen working on 

the property. No known individuals were 

identified. The one associated funerary object 

is a bead. 


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In the Federal Register (79 FR 43775, 

July 28, 2014), column 3, paragraph 2, 

under the heading ‘‘Determinations 

Made by Tuzigoot National Monument,’’ 

is corrected by substituting the 

following paragraphs: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of 51 

individuals of Native American ancestry. 

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

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. The National Park Service intends 

to convey the associated funerary objects to 

the Tribes pursuant to 54 U.S.C. 102503(g) 

through (i) and 54 U.S.C 102504. 

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 object should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Dorothy FireCloud, 

Superintendent, Tuzigoot National 

Monument, P.O. Box 219, Camp Verde, 

AZ 86322, telephone (928) 567–5276, 

email dorothy_firecloud@nps.gov, by 

December 8, 2017. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects to the Ak Chin Indian 

Community (previously listed as the Ak 

Chin Indian Community of the 

Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, 

Arizona); Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; 

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, 

Arizona; Fort Sill Apache Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Gila River Indian 

Community of the Gila River Indian 

Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Hualapai Indian Tribe of the 

Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona; 

Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; 

Mescalero Apache Tribe of the 

Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico; 

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian 

Community of the Salt River 

Reservation, Arizona; San Carlos 

Apache Tribe of the San Carlos 

Reservation, Arizona; Tohono O’odham 

Nation of Arizona; Tonto Apache Tribe 

of Arizona; White Mountain Apache 

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, 

Arizona; Yavapai-Apache Nation of the 

Camp Verde Indian Reservation, 

Arizona; Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe 

(previously listed as the YavapaiPrescott Tribe of the Yavapai 

Reservation, Arizona); and Zuni Tribe of 

the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico 

(hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’) 

may proceed. 

Tuzigoot National Monument is 

responsible for notifying The Tribes that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: September 21, 2017 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24234 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0024154; 

PCU00RP14.R50000–PPWOCRDN0] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Washington, DC 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects, 

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 associated 

funerary objects 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 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 Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations 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 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 

December 8, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Anna Pardo, Museum 

Program Manager/NAGPRA 

Coordinator, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, 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 and associated 

funerary objects under the control of the 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from a site in the 

southern portion of the Blackfeet Indian 

Reservation of Montana, Glacier County, 

MT. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). 

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 was made by the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian 

Reservation of Montana. 

History and Description of the Remains 

In September of 1961, human remains 

representing, at minimum, four 

individuals were removed by Thomas 

Kehoe, Archeologist and Curator of the 

Museum of the Plains Indian, from a site 

in Glacier County, MT. At the time of 

this surface removal, the Museum of the 

Plains Indian was a part of the Bureau 

of Indian Affairs, and Kehoe had been 

conducting extensive archeological 

surveys throughout the Blackfeet Indian 

Reservation. A note found in the box 

with these items states, ‘‘Surface burial 

found in Southern portion of Blackfeet 

Reservation, CUA, 9/61.’’ The human 

remains have continued to be housed at 

the Museum since being collected. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

41 associated funerary objects are 5 

small wooden ladders, 4 spoons, 1 

partial key, 1 bullet press, 1 iron, 1 

ladle, 1 enamel tin cup, 2 belt buckles, 

1 scissors blade, 1 bucket part, 16 beads, 

and 7 brass buttons. 

Determinations Made by the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs 

Officials of the Bureau of Indian 

Affairs have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

are Native American based on biological 

and historical evidence. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of four 


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