Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 8, 2017 / Notices 51867 

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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individuals of Native American 

ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the 41 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), a 

relationship of shared group identity 

cannot be reasonably traced between the 

Native American human remains and 

associated funerary objects and any 

present-day Indian Tribe. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (15), the 

land from which the Native American 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed is the tribal land 

of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet 

Indian Reservation of Montana. 

• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the 

disposition of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects may be to 

the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet 

Indian Reservation of Montana. 

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 and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to 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, 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 Blackfeet Tribe of the 

Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana 

may proceed. 

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is 

responsible for notifying the Blackfeet 

Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian 

Reservation of Montana that this notice 

has been published. 

Dated: September 14, 2017. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24233 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0024163; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: New York State Museum, 

Albany, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The New York State Museum, 

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 sacred 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 

New York State Museum. 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 New York State Museum at the 

address in this notice by December 8, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Lisa Anderson, New York 

State Museum, 3049 Cultural Education 

Center, Albany, NY 12230, telephone 

(518) 486–2020, email lisa.anderson@

nysed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here 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 New York 

State Museum, Albany, NY, that meet 

the definition of sacred objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

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 1898, the New York State Museum 

(hereafter ‘‘Museum’’) acquired three 

wooden medicine masks from Harriet 

Maxwell Converse of New York City, 

NY. Two of the cultural items were 

obtained on the Cattaraugus Reservation 

(E–37059, E–37623), and one was 

acquired at Salamanca, NY (E–37048). 

In 1905, Arthur C. Parker, Museum 

ethnologist and archeologist, acquired 

two wooden medicine masks from the 

Cattaraugus Reservation for the 

Museum. Parker reported one of the 

masks, made of wood and rabbit skin, 

was used to expel the causes of venereal 

disease (E–36897). The other reportedly 

represented Ganuska, the Stone Giant, 

and was purchased from Nancy Cook 

through Mrs. A. C. Parker (E–36928). 

In 1908, Arthur C. Parker obtained 

four wooden medicine masks for the 

Museum from Delos Kettle of Lawton, 

NY. Parker attributed three of the 

medicine masks to the I’dos Society (E– 

36864, E–36865, E–36866). A fourth 

medicine mask was unattributed (E– 

37022). 

In June of 1909, Arthur C. Parker 

commissioned one partially carved 

medicine mask for the Museum to be 

made on the Cattaraugus Reservation 

(E–36917). The face was carved on the 

trunk of a basswood tree by a man 

named either Jonas or Green, with Delos 

Kettle in attendance. 

In 1910, Arthur C. Parker acquired 

two cornhusk medicine masks on the 

Cattaraugus Reservation in New York 

for the Museum (E–36922A, E–36922B). 

In 1933, Willard A. Gibson of 

Salamanca, NY, donated one cultural 

item to the Museum. The item is a 

cornhusk medicine mask that was given 

to him by Louis Plummer at Allegany, 

NY (E–37965). 

In 1956, the Museum purchased two 

cultural items from the Logan Museum 

of Anthropology at Beloit College, WI. 

The cultural items were part of a larger 

collection made by Albert Green Heath. 

One of the cultural items is a wooden 

medicine mask that Heath purchased 

from Wilson Stevens on the Cattaraugus 

Reservation (E–50315). The other is a 

miniature cornhusk medicine mask that 

he obtained from Delos Big Kettle at 

Lawtons, NY, in 1912 (E–50312). 

Traditional religious leaders of the 

Seneca Nation of Indians (previously 

listed as the Seneca Nation of New 

York) have identified these 15 medicine 

faces as being needed for the practice of 

traditional Native American religions by 

present-day adherents. Museum 

documentation, supported by oral 

evidence presented during consultation 


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