Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA; U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA; and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 28944-28945 [E9-14296]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of Defense, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Sacramento
District, Sacramento, CA; U.S.
Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Parks, Three Rivers, CA; and
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, 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 and associated funerary objects
in the control of the U.S. Department of
Defense, Army Corps of Engineers,
Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA,
and in the physical custody of the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, and the U.S.
Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Parks, Three Rivers, CA. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from within the
boundaries of Lake Kaweah, Tulare
County, 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 and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
An assessment of the human remains
in the physical custody of the Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology was
made by the museum’s professional
staff. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National
Parks also did an assessment of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects in their physical custody. The
assessment of the cultural affiliation for
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Sacramento District was based on a
Corps of Engineers contracted study
done in 2004, titled ‘‘Cultural Affiliation
of the Lake Kaweah Property, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Sacramento
District.’’ These assessments were made
based on the results of an extensive
study utilizing the four fields of
anthropology. Copies of the report were
sent to representatives of the Big Sandy
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Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Cold Springs Rancheria of
Mono Indians of California; Northfork
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Picayune Rancheria of
Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Consultation was also carried out by
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks’
professional staff with the following
non-Federally recognized Indian groups,
which represent traditionally associated
peoples who have maintained interest
in previous repatriation and reburial
efforts for the area: Dunlap Band of
Mono Indians, Sierra Foothill Wuksachi
Tribe, Sierra Nevada Native American
Coalition, and Wukchumni Tribal
Council.
Between 1959 and 1961, human
remains were removed from CA–TUL–
145 (‘‘Cobble Lodge’’), Tulare County,
CA. In 1959, the human remains were
removed during an excavation of a
borrow pit in support of the
construction of Terminus Dam and the
creation of the reservoir that forms Lake
Kaweah, a Federal project undertaken
and still managed by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers. Between 1960 and
1961, human remains were removed
during salvage work being carried out
by Dr. Jay von Werlhof, under contracts
coordinated by the National Park
Service at the request of the Army
Corps. The report by Dr. von Werlhof
(1961) identified 130 individuals and
502 artifacts. An unidentified number of
fragmentary and skeletal remains were
re-interred at the site following the field
work. Human remains were transferred
to the museum at the University of
California, Berkeley. Additionally,
human remains and associated funerary
objects were deposited at the Ash
Mountain Headquarters of Sequoia &
Kings Canyon National Parks. One
brownware pottery vessel had been
transferred to the University of New
Mexico (Maxwell Museum), and is now
in the physical custody of the Sequoia
& Kings Canyon National Parks. The
human remains in the physical custody
of the University of California, Berkeley
and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National
Parks represent a minimum of five
individuals. No known individuals were
identified. The 120 associated funerary
objects are 16 projectile points, 25
bifaces and fragments, 5 modified flaked
stones, 18 flaked stones/debitage, 16
ground stone artifacts, 16 steatite
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artifacts, 1 brownware pottery sherd, 1
brownware vessel, 6 faunal remains,
and 16 marine shell ornaments.
The Cobble Lodge materials in the
possession of Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Parks have been re-examined
by URS, Inc. (Browning and Nilsson
2007). The artifact assemblage includes
chipped stone projectile points (Desert
Series, Cottonwood, Rose Spring, and
Sierra Concave Base), steatite vessels
and beads, marine shell ornaments, and
the single brownware vessel. These
temporally diagnostic artifacts support
an interpretation that the site is a
multiple component site that would
have been occupied circa 300 B.C. to
A.D. 1850. The report by von Werlhof
(1961) interpreted Cobble Lodge to be a
late Prehistoric housepit village and
cemetery, and to have been permanently
occupied until the early 1860s. This
suite of artifact types is most strongly
affiliated in the archeological record
with the Yokuts and Western Mono
(Monache) cultural groups.
Geographic and linguistic evidence
also places Yokuts and Western Mono
(Monache) groups within the western
foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada
during this time period. Descendants of
the Yokuts and Western Mono
(Monache) are members of the Big
Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Cold Springs Rancheria of
Mono Indians of California; Northfork
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Picayune Rancheria of
Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Officials of the Army Corps of
Engineers, Sacramento District and
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
have determined that, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of five individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento
District and Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Parks also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A),
the 120 objects described 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 Army Corps of Engineers,
Sacramento District 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
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remains and associated funerary objects
and the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Cold Springs
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
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, 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 and
associated funerary objects should
contact Richard Perry, NAGPRA Point
of Contact, USACE Army Corps of
Engineers, 1325 J St., Sacramento, CA
95814, telephone (916) 557–5218, before
July 20, 2009. Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
to the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Cold Springs
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
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, California; and Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
Officials of the Army Corps of
Engineers, Sacramento District are
responsible for notifying the Big Sandy
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Cold Springs Rancheria of
Mono Indians of California; Northfork
Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Picayune Rancheria of
Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California that
this notice has been published.
Dated: May 18, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion:
Binghamton University, State
University of New York, Binghamton,
NY
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 associated
funerary objects in the possession and
control of Binghamton University, State
University of New York, Binghamton,
NY. The associated funerary objects
were removed from the Engelbert site,
Tioga County, NY.
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 associated funerary objects.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
A detailed assessment of the
associated funerary objects was made by
Binghamton University professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Cayuga Nation of
New York; Delaware Tribe (part of the
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma); Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Oneida Tribe of
Indians of Wisconsin; Oneida Nation of
New York; Onondaga Nation of New
York; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, New
York (formerly the St. Regis Mohawk
Band of Mohawk Indians of New York);
Seneca Nation of New York; SenecaCayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Stockbridge
Munsee Community, Wisconsin;
Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of
New York; and Tuscarora Nation of New
York.
In 1967 and 1968, human remains
representing a minimum of 188
individuals and associated funerary
objects were removed from the
Engelbert site in Tioga County, NY,
during gravel mining for construction of
the Southern Tier Expressway (NY 17).
Initial assessment of the site was done
in 1967 by Dr. Robert E. Funk of the
New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
In 1967, Dr. Marian E. White, assisted
by students from the State University of
New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, conducted
trench excavations in a portion of the
site. In 1967 and 1968, the primary
archeological excavations and recovery
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were directed by Dr. William D. Lipe of
SUNY-Binghamton over two field
seasons, with the assistance of members
of the Triple Cities Chapter of the New
York State Archeological Association,
students from SUNY-Binghamton, and
local volunteers. In 1967, the human
remains and associated funerary objects
were placed under the control of the
Triple Cities Chapter of the New York
State Archeological Association, and
then transferred to the State University
of New York at Binghamton in 1968. In
1989, the human remains were
transferred to the New York State
Museum for curation. No known
individuals were identified. The
associated funerary objects are in the
physical possession and control of
Binghamton University. The 2,640
associated funerary objects are 804
pieces of lithic debitage; 438 lots of
fragmented pottery; 319 roughstone
tools; 136 chipped stone bifaces and
tools; 104 lots of animal bone and shell;
88 bone beads; 51 copper ornaments; 47
pieces of fire-cracked rock; 18 fragments
of pipes; 18 groundstone tools; 4 bone
points; 2 shell beads; 1 bone comb; and
610 geologic/organic samples.
Archeological evidence shows that
the Engelbert site is a large,
multicomponent habitation site on a
gravel knoll bordering the Susquehanna
River in New York. The knoll was used
intermittently over a period of about
5,000 years, as suggested by diagnostic
artifacts from the Late Archaic (Lamoka,
Dustin, and Snook Kill points),
Transitional (Susquehanna Broad
points), Late Woodland (triangular
points, pottery), Proto-historic and
Historic (beads, copper ornaments, and
pottery) periods. The site was also used
as a burial site during at least two
different periods, from about A.D. 1000
to the 1400s, and again during the late
1500s and possibly into the early 1600s.
The later burials are few in number.
Archeologists have concluded that
artifacts associated with the earlier
burials, including pottery (e.g.,
Carpenter Brook, Levanna, Sackett,
Kelso, Castle Creek, and Oak Hill) and
projectile points (triangular Levannas/
Madisons), are similar to other sites
across a broad geographic region that
later became associated with both
Iroquoian- and Algonquian-speaking
peoples, some of whom became
members of the Haudenosaunee
Confederacy, a non-Federally
recognized Indian group for the
purposes of NAGPRA. The
Haudenosaunee Confederacy includes
the Federally-recognized six Nations of
the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga,
Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA; U.S.
Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Sequoia & Kings
Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA; and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, 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 and associated funerary
objects in the control of the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA, and in the physical
custody of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, and the U.S. Department of the
Interior, National Park Service, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks,
Three Rivers, CA. The human remains and associated funerary objects
were removed from within the boundaries of Lake Kaweah, Tulare County,
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 and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
An assessment of the human remains in the physical custody of the
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology was made by the museum's
professional staff. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks also did an
assessment of the human remains and associated funerary objects in
their physical custody. The assessment of the cultural affiliation for
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District was based on a
Corps of Engineers contracted study done in 2004, titled ``Cultural
Affiliation of the Lake Kaweah Property, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Sacramento District.'' These assessments were made based on the results
of an extensive study utilizing the four fields of anthropology. Copies
of the report were sent to representatives of the Big Sandy Rancheria
of Mono Indians of California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians
of California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California;
Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California. Consultation was also carried out
by Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks' professional staff with the
following non-Federally recognized Indian groups, which represent
traditionally associated peoples who have maintained interest in
previous repatriation and reburial efforts for the area: Dunlap Band of
Mono Indians, Sierra Foothill Wuksachi Tribe, Sierra Nevada Native
American Coalition, and Wukchumni Tribal Council.
Between 1959 and 1961, human remains were removed from CA-TUL-145
(``Cobble Lodge''), Tulare County, CA. In 1959, the human remains were
removed during an excavation of a borrow pit in support of the
construction of Terminus Dam and the creation of the reservoir that
forms Lake Kaweah, a Federal project undertaken and still managed by
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Between 1960 and 1961, human remains
were removed during salvage work being carried out by Dr. Jay von
Werlhof, under contracts coordinated by the National Park Service at
the request of the Army Corps. The report by Dr. von Werlhof (1961)
identified 130 individuals and 502 artifacts. An unidentified number of
fragmentary and skeletal remains were re-interred at the site following
the field work. Human remains were transferred to the museum at the
University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, human remains and
associated funerary objects were deposited at the Ash Mountain
Headquarters of Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. One brownware
pottery vessel had been transferred to the University of New Mexico
(Maxwell Museum), and is now in the physical custody of the Sequoia &
Kings Canyon National Parks. The human remains in the physical custody
of the University of California, Berkeley and Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Parks represent a minimum of five individuals. No known
individuals were identified. The 120 associated funerary objects are 16
projectile points, 25 bifaces and fragments, 5 modified flaked stones,
18 flaked stones/debitage, 16 ground stone artifacts, 16 steatite
artifacts, 1 brownware pottery sherd, 1 brownware vessel, 6 faunal
remains, and 16 marine shell ornaments.
The Cobble Lodge materials in the possession of Sequoia & Kings
Canyon National Parks have been re-examined by URS, Inc. (Browning and
Nilsson 2007). The artifact assemblage includes chipped stone
projectile points (Desert Series, Cottonwood, Rose Spring, and Sierra
Concave Base), steatite vessels and beads, marine shell ornaments, and
the single brownware vessel. These temporally diagnostic artifacts
support an interpretation that the site is a multiple component site
that would have been occupied circa 300 B.C. to A.D. 1850. The report
by von Werlhof (1961) interpreted Cobble Lodge to be a late Prehistoric
housepit village and cemetery, and to have been permanently occupied
until the early 1860s. This suite of artifact types is most strongly
affiliated in the archeological record with the Yokuts and Western Mono
(Monache) cultural groups.
Geographic and linguistic evidence also places Yokuts and Western
Mono (Monache) groups within the western foothills of the southern
Sierra Nevada during this time period. Descendants of the Yokuts and
Western Mono (Monache) are members of the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District and
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks have determined that, pursuant to
25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above represent the
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
Officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District and
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks also have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 120 objects described 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 Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento
District 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
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remains and associated funerary objects and the Big Sandy Rancheria of
Mono Indians of California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 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, 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 and associated funerary
objects should contact Richard Perry, NAGPRA Point of Contact, USACE
Army Corps of Engineers, 1325 J St., Sacramento, CA 95814, telephone
(916) 557-5218, before July 20, 2009. Repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects to the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 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, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
Officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District are
responsible for notifying the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California;
Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria
of Chukchansi Indians of 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,
California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne
Rancheria of California that this notice has been published.
Dated: May 18, 2009
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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