Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Long Beach, and California State University, Sacramento, CA, 53779-53780 [2014-21477]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53779-53780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21477]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16431; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State 
University, Long Beach, and California State University, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: California State University, Sacramento and California State 
University, Long Beach, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, have determined that the 
cultural items listed

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in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary 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 California 
State University, Sacramento. 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 California State University, 
Sacramento at the address in this notice by October 10, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and 
Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-
6109, telephone (916) 278-4864, email obbodvarsson@csus.edu.

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 California State University, Long Beach, and in the 
physical custody of California State University, Sacramento, that meet 
the definition of unassociated funerary 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 Item(s)

    In 1967, 199 cultural items were removed from 4-SJo-17 in San 
Joaquin County, CA, during a salvage excavation project on private 
property. Faculty and students from what was then Long Beach State 
College (now California State University, Long Beach) and local 
volunteers conducted the excavations. The unassociated funerary objects 
included in this notice were transferred to California State 
University, Sacramento, from California State University, Long Beach, 
via California State University, Fresno, during the 1990s. The 199 
unassociated funerary objects are 22 baked clay fragments, 1 piece of 
daub, 114 non-human bone fragments, 3 worked bones, 20 flaked stones, 
13 modified stones, 11 unmodified stones, 1 manuport, 2 pieces of 
charcoal, 2 shell beads, and 10 pieces of modified shell.
    Based on burial patterns and artifact types, the unassociated 
funerary objects are dated to the Middle Horizon (2,500-2,000 B.P.). 
The establishment of a cultural chronology of the 4-SJo-17 collection 
relied upon the California Prehistoric Cultural Chronology and Artifact 
Classification System used by most regional archeologists. Multiple 
lines of evidence were used to determine the antiquity of this 
collection. Geographic, linguistic, archeological, and ethnographic 
evidence, as well as oral historical evidence presented at 
consultation, were used to determine cultural affiliation to the 
Eastern Miwok and Central Valley Yokuts peoples. The Eastern Miwok and 
Yokuts cultures of the Late Horizon (from 1,500 years ago to the 
European contact) are believed to have descended from the Middle 
Horizon cultures represented at this site, which lies on the border of 
the traditional territory of the Eastern Miwok and the Northern Valley 
Yokuts.

Determinations Made by the California State University, Sacramento, and 
California State University, Long Beach

    Officials of California State University, Sacramento, and 
California State University, Long Beach, have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 199 cultural items 
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 and are believed, by a preponderance 
of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a 
Native American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-wuk 
Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; 
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of California; 
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; 
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria 
(Verona Tract), California; Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and 
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of 
California.

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 Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of the College of 
Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J Street, 
Sacramento, California, 95819-6109; telephone: (916) 278-4864, email: 
obbodvarsson@csus.edu, by October 10, 2014. After that date, if no 
additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the 
unassociated funerary objects to the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-wuk 
Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; 
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of California; 
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; 
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria 
(Verona Tract), California; Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and 
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California 
may proceed.
    California State University, Sacramento is responsible for 
notifying the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of California; 
California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of 
Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; 
Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria 
of the Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of 
the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table 
Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 
River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: August 3, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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