[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8854-8855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4470]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Correction--Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American
Human Remains from Yavapai County, AZ in the Control of the Prescott
National Forest, USDA Forest Service, Prescott, AZ
AGENCY: National Park Service, DOI.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9,
of the completion of an inventory of human remains from Yavapai County,
AZ in the control of the Prescott National Forest, USDA Forest Service,
Prescott, AZ.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Arizona
State University, Museum of Northern Arizona and USDA Forest Service
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Camp
Verde Yavapai-Apache Indian Community, the Havasupai Tribe, the Hopi
Tribe, the Hualapai Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Pueblo of Zuni, and
the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe.
This notice corrects the original notice's cultural affiliation of
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects published
Thursday, December 17, 1998.
Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the USDA
Forest Service have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1),
the human remains listed above represent the physical remains of 22
individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the USDA Forest
Service have also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the
23 objects listed 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. Lastly, officials of the USDA
Forest Service have also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e),
there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be
reasonably traced between these Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects and the Hopi Tribe.
This notice has been sent to officials of the Camp Verde Yavapai-
Apache Indian Community, the Havasupai Tribe, the Hopi Tribe, the
Hualapai Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Pueblo of Zuni, and the Yavapai-
Prescott Indian Tribe. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that
believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these human
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remains should contact Dr. Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator,
Southwestern Region, USDA Forest Service, 517 Gold Ave. SW,
Albuquerque, NM 87102; telephone: (505) 842-3238, fax: (505) 842-3800,
before March 25, 1999. Repatriation of the human remains to the Hopi
Tribe and the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe may begin after that date
if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: January 25, 1999.
Francis P. McManamon,
Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-4470 Filed 2-22-99 ; 8:45 am]
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