Notice of Inventory Completion: Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, 54066-54067 [E7-18663]
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Tuolumne Band of Me–Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
In 1938, human remains representing
a minimum of three individuals were
removed from an unknown site near
Lancaster, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles
County, CA, by the Sheriff’s Office in
Newhall, CA. The Sheriff’s Office
turned the human remains over to the
Coroner’s Office. The human remains
were donated to the museum by Frank
A. Nance, of the Coroner’s Office in Los
Angeles, CA. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
Based on archeological analysis, the
individuals have been identified as
Native American, but the age is
unknown. Consultation with a
representative of the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California, confirmed that
the provenience of the human remains
is consistent with that of other
discoveries of indigenous remains in the
area. Geographical and historical
evidence indicates that the sites are
located within the traditional territory
of the Southern Valley Yokuts and the
Serrano people. Descendants of the
Southern Valley Yokuts and the Serrano
people are members of the San Manuel
Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the
San Manuel Reservation, California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table
Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule
River Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation of California; and
Tuolumne Band of Me–Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of
the American Indian, Autry National
Center have determined that, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human
remains described above represent the
physical remains of three individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of
the Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and the San
Manuel Band of Serrano Mission
Indians of the San Manuel Reservation,
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California; Table Mountain
Rancheria of California; Tule River
Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation of California; and
Tuolumne Band of Me–Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Duane H. King, Ph.D.,
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Executive Director, or LaLena Lewark,
Senior NAGPRA Coordinator,
Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles,
CA 90065, (323) 221–2164, extension
241, before October 22, 2007.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the
American Indian, Autry National
Center, is responsible for notifying the
San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission
Indians of the San Manuel Reservation,
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California; Table Mountain
Rancheria of California; Tule River
Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation of California; and
Tuolumne Band of Me–Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California
that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 30, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7–18661 Filed 9–20–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center, Los
Angeles, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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 in the control of the Southwest
Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center, Los Angeles, CA. The
human remains were removed from
Contra Costa and San Joaquin Counties,
CA.
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 human remains. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the Southwest
Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center professional staff in
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consultation with representatives of
Jackson Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians
of California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); 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. The
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me–Wuk
Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California (formerly the
Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me–Wuk
Indians of California); Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
and Susanville Indian Rancheria,
California were contacted, but did not
choose to participate in the
consultations.
In 1933, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from an undetermined site in
Stockton, San Joaquin Valley, San
Joaquin County, CA. The museum has
no additional information regarding the
removal and museum’s acquisition of
the human remains. No known
individual was identified. No associated
funerary objects are present.
In 1939, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from an undetermined site
twenty feet from the water’s edge–most
likely the San Pablo Bay–in Richmond,
Contra Costa County, CA, by Mr. J.E.
Peterson. The human remains were
donated by Mr. J.E. Peterson to the
Southwest Museum on April 23, 1939.
No known individual was identified. No
associated funerary objects are present.
The geographic locations described
above lie within Yokut or Miwok
territories. Archeologists believe that the
Penutian–speaking Yokut and Miwok
descend from the Windmiller people
who occupied the Central Valley of
California nearly 4,000 years ago. The
history of California rancherias in the
Central Valley and Sierra Nevada
foothill regions of California shows that
these Windmiller descendants
ultimately dispersed to the federally
recognized Yokut and Miwok
rancherias. The tribes that have a shared
group identity with the Yokut and
Miwok are Berry Creek Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Buena
Vista Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians of
California; California Valley Miwok
Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians of
California; Enterprise Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Greenville
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Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me–
Wuk Indians of California; Mooretown
Rancheria of Maidu 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;
Susanville Indian Rancheria, 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.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of
the American Indian, Autry National
Center have determined that, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human
remains described above represent the
physical remains of two individuals of
Native American ancestry. Officials of
the Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and the Berry
Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Buena Vista Rancheria of
Me–Wuk Indians of California;
California Valley Miwok Tribe,
California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of
Me–Wuk Indians of California;
Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Greenville Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Ione Band
of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson
Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians of
California; Mooretown Rancheria of
Maidu 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;
Susanville Indian Rancheria, 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.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Duane H. King, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, or LaLena Lewark,
Senior NAGPRA Coordinator,
Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles,
CA 90065, (323) 221–2164, extension
241, before October 22, 2007.
Repatriation of the human remains to
the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
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The Southwest Museum of the
American Indian, Autry National Center
is responsible for notifying the Berry
Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Buena Vista Rancheria of
Me–Wuk Indians of California;
California Valley Miwok Tribe,
California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of
Me-Wuk Indians of California;
Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Greenville Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Ione Band
of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson
Rancheria of Me–Wuk Indians of
California; Mooretown Rancheria of
Maidu 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;
Susanville Indian Rancheria, 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.
54067
Environmental Assessment and FONSI
for Improvements to the Main and North
Floodways Levee System, in the Lower
Rio Grande Flood Control Project,
located in Hidalgo, Cameron and
Willacy Counties, Texas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Borunda, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Environmental
Management Division, United States
Section, International Boundary and
Water Commission; 4171 N. Mesa, C–
100; El Paso, Texas 79902. Telephone:
(915) 832–4767; e-mail:
danielborunda@ibwc.state.gov.
DATES: Comments on the Draft EA and
Draft FONSI will be accepted through
October 22, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
United States Section,
International Boundary and Water
Commission, United States and Mexico.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft
Environmental Assessment (EA) and
Draft Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI).
Background
The USIBWC is authorized to
construct, operate, and maintain any
project or works projected by the United
States of America on the Lower Rio
Grande Flood Control Project (LRGFCP),
as authorized by the Act of the 74th
Congress, Sess. I Ch. 561 (H.R. 6453),
approved August 19, 1935 (49 Stat. 660),
and codified at 22 U.S.C. 277, 277a,
277b, 277c, and Acts amendatory
thereof and supplementary thereto. The
LRGFCP was constructed to protect
urban, suburban, and highly developed
irrigated farmland along the Rio Grande
delta in the United States and Mexico.
The USIBWC, in cooperation with the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department,
prepared this EA for the proposed
action to improve flood control along
sections of the Main and North
Floodways Levee System located in
Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy
Counties, Texas. This levee system is
part of the LRGFCP that extends
approximately 180 miles from the Town
˜
of Penitas in south Texas to the Gulf of
Mexico. The Main and North Floodways
Levee System, extends approximately
75 levee miles along the Rio Grande,
downstream from Anzalduas Dam,
extending near the town of Mercedes to
the Laguna Madre northwest of Arroyo
City, Texas.
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969, the Council on
Environmental Quality Final
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508), and the United States Section,
International Boundary and Water
Commission’s (USIBWC) Operational
Procedures for Implementing Section
102 of NEPA, published in the Federal
Register September 2, 1981, (46 FR
44083); the USIBWC hereby gives notice
of availability of the Draft
Proposed Action
The Proposed Action would increase
the flood containment capacity of the
Main and North Floodways Levee
System by raising elevation of a number
of levee segments for improved flood
protection. Fill material would be added
to the existing levee to bring height to
its original design specifications, or to
meet a 2 feet freeboard design criterion.
Typical height increases in
improvement areas would be from less
than 1 foot up to 2 feet, extending levee
Dated: August 30, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7–18663 Filed 9–20–07; 8:45 am]
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INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND
WATER COMMISSION
United States and Mexico; United
States Section; Notice of Availability of
a Draft Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact for
Improvements to the Main and North
Floodways Levee System in the Lower
Rio Grande Flood Control Project,
Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy
Counties, TX
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 in the control of the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center, Los
Angeles, CA. The human remains were removed from Contra Costa and San
Joaquin Counties, CA.
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 human remains. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center
professional staff in consultation with representatives of Jackson
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California (also known as the Tachi Yokut
Tribe); 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. The Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok
Tribe, California (formerly the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
of California); Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California; and Susanville Indian Rancheria, California were contacted,
but did not choose to participate in the consultations.
In 1933, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from an undetermined site in Stockton, San Joaquin Valley,
San Joaquin County, CA. The museum has no additional information
regarding the removal and museum's acquisition of the human remains. No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
In 1939, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from an undetermined site twenty feet from the water's
edge-most likely the San Pablo Bay-in Richmond, Contra Costa County,
CA, by Mr. J.E. Peterson. The human remains were donated by Mr. J.E.
Peterson to the Southwest Museum on April 23, 1939. No known individual
was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
The geographic locations described above lie within Yokut or Miwok
territories. Archeologists believe that the Penutian-speaking Yokut and
Miwok descend from the Windmiller people who occupied the Central
Valley of California nearly 4,000 years ago. The history of California
rancherias in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada foothill regions of
California shows that these Windmiller descendants ultimately dispersed
to the federally recognized Yokut and Miwok rancherias. The tribes that
have a shared group identity with the Yokut and Miwok are Berry Creek
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California;
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Greenville
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Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of
California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu 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;
Susanville Indian Rancheria, 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.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-
10), the human remains described above represent the physical remains
of two individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center also
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is a
relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and the Berry Creek Rancheria
of Maidu Indians of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria
of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu 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; Susanville Indian Rancheria,
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.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Duane H.
King, Ph.D., Executive Director, or LaLena Lewark, Senior NAGPRA
Coordinator, Southwest Museum of the American Indian, 234 Museum Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90065, (323) 221-2164, extension 241, before October
22, 2007. Repatriation of the human remains to the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center
is responsible for notifying the Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of
Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Ione
Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu 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; Susanville Indian Rancheria,
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 30, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-18663 Filed 9-20-07; 8:45 am]
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