Remains and funerary items found in 1952 near the Little Applegate River by miner O.N. Snavely are expected to be returned to the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde later this month, reported the Mail Tribune.
The items, which included 10 teeth from at least two individuals, were given to the Southern Oregon Historical Society (SOHS) by Snavely that same year. Now, they are being returned under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Archaeologist Ted Goebel, an assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Oregon University, determined that the items were Native American but were not affiliated to any modern-day tribe. SOHS decided it would give the items to Grand Ronde, in Grand Ronde, Oregon because they were found on land once occupied by their tribal ancestors.
?Credible lines of evidence indicate that the land from which the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon,? states the notice in the Federal Register, published August 24.
According to the Mail Tribune, Snavely found the items about two miles above the Little Applegate River?s confluence with the Apple River in Buncom, which is about 260 miles south of Grand Ronde. In 1856, after the end of the Rogue River War, 2,000 western Oregon Indians were removed from their homelands and placed at the Grand Ronde Reservation.
?Now we find ourselves at Grand Ronde with 2,000 Native people, all from different parts of western Oregon, many speaking many languages?so they cannot communicate together,? says June Olson, cultural resources manager from 1996-2005 for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, in a 2002 video. ?Their cultures were often very different as were the issues between them and they were all confined on a very small reservation.?
The items will be turned over September 24 if no other tribe makes a claim, the Mail Tribune reported. SOHS did contact a number of other tribes, but did not receive a response.
Along with the teeth, Grand Ronde would get back 387 other items, mostly consisting of shells and beads, according to the notice in the Federal Register.
The notice also stated that the items were, ?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.?
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