[Federal Register: December 27, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 249)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of the Southwestern
Region, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque,
NM, and in the Possession of the Office of the State Archaeologist,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

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 and associated
funerary objects in the control of the Southwestern Region, U.S. Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, NM, and in the
possession of the Office of the State Archaeologist, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2 (c). The
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of these Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations within this
notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Office
of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Ak Chin Indian Community of
the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River
Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; the
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of
the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham Nation of
Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
    At an unknown date, human remains representing one individual were
removed by an unknown person from a grave in the Sierra Ancha
Experimental Forest, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, AZ. In 1994,
the remains were discovered in the collections of the Iowa State
University, Ames, IA, and transferred to the Office of the State
Archaeologist Burials Program. No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
    Limited accession information indicates that these human remains
were recovered from a grave within the Sierra Ancha Experimental
Forest, Tonto National Forest, AZ. Morphological cranial features and
craniometric evidence indicate that this individual is Native American.
Archeological and settlement sites within the Sierra Ancha Experimental
Forest have been identified as Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokam, and
historically Hopi, Zuni, and Pima. The Anasazi, Mogollon, and Hohokam
sites in this area are considered ancestral to the Ak Chin Indian
Community, the Gila River Indian Community, the Hopi Tribe, the Salt
River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Tohono O'odham Nation, and
the Zuni Tribe, based on archeological evidence indicating cultural
continuity since early precontact times, historical documents, and oral
history.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the
Southwestern Region, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture,
have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains
listed above represent the physical remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry. Also, officials of the Southwestern Region, U.S.
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, have determined that,
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced between these Native American
human remains and the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak
Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River Indian Community of
the Gila River Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River
Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Ak Chin Indian
Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian Reservation, Arizona; the
Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation,
Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian
Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona; the Tohono O'odham
Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself
to be culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Dr.
Frank E. Wozniak, NAGPRA Coordinator, Southwestern Region, USDA Forest
Service, 517 Gold Avenue SW., Albuquerque, NM 87102, telephone (505)
842-3238, before January 26, 2001. Repatriation of the human remains to
the Ak Chin Indian Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian
Reservation, Arizona; the Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River
Indian Reservation, Arizona; the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; the Salt River
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona;
the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Reservation, New Mexico may begin after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.

    Dated: December 11, 2000.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
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