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and Colorado State University,
Laboratory of Public Archaeology, have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of two individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Land Management, White
River Field Office, and the Colorado
State University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, have also determined,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that
the two objects described above are
reasonably believed to have been placed
with or near individual human remains
at the time of death. Lastly, officials of
the Bureau of Land Management, White
River Field Office, and Colorado State
University, Laboratory of Public
Archaeology, have determined pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there is a
relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between
the Native American human remains
and associated funerary objects and the
Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Dan Haas, State Archaeologist,
Bureau of Land Management, Colorado
State Office, 2850 Youngfield St.,
Lakewood, CO 80215–7076, telephone
(303) 239–3647 before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects to the Ute
Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray
Reservation, Utah, may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants
come forward.
The Bureau of Land Management is
responsible for notifying The Tribes that
this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
California State Department of
Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento,
CA, and California State University,
Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
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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 California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans),
Sacramento, CA, and in the possession
of California State University,
Sacramento, CA. The human remains
and associated funerary objects were
removed from Site CA–SJO–91, also
known as French Camp Slough Site, San
Joaquin 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.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians
of California; and Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe), as well as the nonFederally recognized Indian groups: The
Southern Sierra Miwoks of California,
Northern Valley Yokuts, and
Tubatulabals of Kern Valley. The
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Table Mountain Rancheria of
California; Tule River Indian Tribe of
the Tule River Reservation, California;
and Wilton Rancheria, California, were
also contacted, but did not participate in
consultation about the human remains
and associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
In 1970, human remains representing
498 individuals were removed from
CA–SJO–91 on private property, in San
Joaquin County, CA, during a salvage
excavation project. Faculty and students
from what was then Sacramento State
College (now California State
University, Sacramento) were brought in
by the California Division of Highways
(now California Department of
Transportation [Caltrans]) to conduct
salvage excavations. No known
individuals were identified. The 4,667
associated funerary objects are 3,967
beads, 16 bifaces, 4 pieces of charcoal,
1 charmstone fragment, 1 silicate core,
2 lots of debitage, 490 faunal bones, 2
flake tools, 61 tule mat impressions, 20
modified bones, 1 modified shell, 2
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modified stones, 20 pieces of ochre, 14
ornaments, 3 pestles, 20 projectile
points, 35 quartz crystals and pebbles, 6
soil samples, and 2 whistles. In
addition, there are 187 missing
associated funerary objects (156 beads, 1
piece of charcoal, 1 igneous core, 15 lots
of debitage, 5 faunal bones, 1 flake tool,
1 modified bone, 1 quartz rock, 1
steatite ring, and 5 bone whistles).
Multiple lines of evidence were used
to determine the cultural affiliation of
the CA–SJO–91 collection.
Archeological evidence indicates that
the site was occupied from the Early
Horizon through the Late Horizon. Most
of the burials were in two cemeteries
that were located 60 meters apart. Other
burials were located between the two
cemeteries or are of uncertain horizontal
provenience due to construction
activities. Cemetery I was
radiometrically dated to between
1845±90 and 2985±160 years B.P. The
burial patterns and artifact types in
Cemetery I correspond to a transitional
time period between the Early Horizon
and Middle Horizon time periods.
Cemetery II was not radiometrically
dated. Based on mode of interment and
artifact types, Cemetery II burials date
slightly earlier to the Early Horizon,
although there are similarities in
constituents between the two
cemeteries. A Late Horizon component
(1500 B.P. to European contact) at CA–
SJO–91 was essentially removed by
construction activities before salvage
excavations began.
Biological, archeological, and
linguistic evidence indicate that
population movement occurred between
the Early and Middle Horizon in the
French Camp Slough area. It may be that
the individuals buried in the Early
Horizon Cemetery II represent an
earlier, Utian speaking people
(linguistic evidence supports a
relationship of shared group identity
between early Utian speaking peoples
and contemporary Miwok tribes), while
the individuals in the Middle Horizon
Cemetery I may represent a more recent
pre-Yokut speaking people. Historical
and geographical lines of evidence
indicate that CA–SJO–91 lies on the
border of the traditional territory of the
Plains Miwok and the Northern Valley
Yokuts. At the time of first contact with
Spanish missionaries in the early 19th
century, the area is thought to have been
occupied by the Passasime, a Northern
Valley Yokuts people who were also
related to the Plains Miwok. Oral and
documentary evidence provided by
representatives of Indian tribes during
consultation demonstrates an interrelationship between Northern Valley
Yokuts and Plains Miwok tribes.
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Based on the geographic, linguistic,
archeological, and ethnographic
evidence, as well as oral and
documentary evidence presented during
consultations, Caltrans and California
State University, Sacramento, including
the University’s College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
Committee on Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
Compliance (SSIS NAGPRA
Committee), reasonably believe that the
cultural affiliation of CA–SJO–91 is to
the Plains Miwok and Northern Valley
Yokuts.
Officials of California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent a minimum
of 498 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of California State
University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
also have determined, pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that the 4,667 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
California State University, Sacramento,
and Caltrans have determined, pursuant
to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there is a
relationship of shared group identity
that can be reasonably traced between
the Native American human remains
and associated 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 MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); 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; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as
to the non-Federally recognized Indian
groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains and
associated funerary objects should
contact Tina Biorn, Caltrans, P.O. Box
942874 (M.S. 27), Sacramento, CA
94274–0001, telephone (916) 653–0013,
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or Charles Gossett, Dean of the College
of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary
Studies, California State University
Sacramento, CA, 95819–6109, telephone
(916) 278–6504, before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the human remains and
associated 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 MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); 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; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California;
and/or Wilton Rancheria, California,
may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
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 MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California (also known as the
Tachi Yokut Tribe); 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; Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as
the non-Federally recognized Indian
groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California, Northern Valley Yokuts, and
Tubatulabals of Kern Valley, that this
notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA; Correction
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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 in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 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 cultural
items. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
This notice corrects the total number
of unassociated funerary objects from
four to five described in a Notice of
Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items (72
FR 48677–48678, August 24, 2007).
Since publication, an additional
funerary object was found for one of the
two sites in the notice.
In the Federal Register (72 FR 48677–
48678, August 24, 2007), paragraph
three is corrected by substituting the
following paragraph:
The five cultural items are three brass
sheet fragments, one lot of elk teeth
pendants and white discoidal beads,
and one vial of shell and glass bead
fragments.
Paragraph four is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
In 1903, four cultural items were
recovered from the Silverheels site in
Brant, Erie County, NY, during a
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology expedition led by M. R.
Harrington and A. C. Parker. Museum
documentation indicates that the
cultural items were interred with
human remains. The human remains
that were originally associated with
these items were published in the
Federal Register in a Notice of
Inventory Completion (66 FR 51060–
51062, October 5, 2001), and have since
been transferred to the culturally
affiliated groups. Therefore, the cultural
items are now unassociated funerary
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Notice of Inventory Completion: California State Department of
Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, CA, and California State
University, Sacramento, 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 California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans), Sacramento, CA, and in the possession of California State
University, Sacramento, CA. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Site CA-SJO-91, also known as French Camp
Slough Site, San Joaquin 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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by California
State University, Sacramento, and Caltrans professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California;
and Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California
(also known as the Tachi Yokut Tribe), as well as the non-Federally
recognized Indian groups: The Southern Sierra Miwoks of California,
Northern Valley Yokuts, and Tubatulabals of Kern Valley. The Chicken
Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of
the Chukchansi Indians of California; Table Mountain Rancheria of
California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation,
California; and Wilton Rancheria, California, were also contacted, but
did not participate in consultation about the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice.
In 1970, human remains representing 498 individuals were removed
from CA-SJO-91 on private property, in San Joaquin County, CA, during a
salvage excavation project. Faculty and students from what was then
Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento)
were brought in by the California Division of Highways (now California
Department of Transportation [Caltrans]) to conduct salvage
excavations. No known individuals were identified. The 4,667 associated
funerary objects are 3,967 beads, 16 bifaces, 4 pieces of charcoal, 1
charmstone fragment, 1 silicate core, 2 lots of debitage, 490 faunal
bones, 2 flake tools, 61 tule mat impressions, 20 modified bones, 1
modified shell, 2 modified stones, 20 pieces of ochre, 14 ornaments, 3
pestles, 20 projectile points, 35 quartz crystals and pebbles, 6 soil
samples, and 2 whistles. In addition, there are 187 missing associated
funerary objects (156 beads, 1 piece of charcoal, 1 igneous core, 15
lots of debitage, 5 faunal bones, 1 flake tool, 1 modified bone, 1
quartz rock, 1 steatite ring, and 5 bone whistles).
Multiple lines of evidence were used to determine the cultural
affiliation of the CA-SJO-91 collection. Archeological evidence
indicates that the site was occupied from the Early Horizon through the
Late Horizon. Most of the burials were in two cemeteries that were
located 60 meters apart. Other burials were located between the two
cemeteries or are of uncertain horizontal provenience due to
construction activities. Cemetery I was radiometrically dated to
between 184590 and 2985160 years B.P. The
burial patterns and artifact types in Cemetery I correspond to a
transitional time period between the Early Horizon and Middle Horizon
time periods. Cemetery II was not radiometrically dated. Based on mode
of interment and artifact types, Cemetery II burials date slightly
earlier to the Early Horizon, although there are similarities in
constituents between the two cemeteries. A Late Horizon component (1500
B.P. to European contact) at CA-SJO-91 was essentially removed by
construction activities before salvage excavations began.
Biological, archeological, and linguistic evidence indicate that
population movement occurred between the Early and Middle Horizon in
the French Camp Slough area. It may be that the individuals buried in
the Early Horizon Cemetery II represent an earlier, Utian speaking
people (linguistic evidence supports a relationship of shared group
identity between early Utian speaking peoples and contemporary Miwok
tribes), while the individuals in the Middle Horizon Cemetery I may
represent a more recent pre-Yokut speaking people. Historical and
geographical lines of evidence indicate that CA-SJO-91 lies on the
border of the traditional territory of the Plains Miwok and the
Northern Valley Yokuts. At the time of first contact with Spanish
missionaries in the early 19th century, the area is thought to have
been occupied by the Passasime, a Northern Valley Yokuts people who
were also related to the Plains Miwok. Oral and documentary evidence
provided by representatives of Indian tribes during consultation
demonstrates an inter-relationship between Northern Valley Yokuts and
Plains Miwok tribes.
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Based on the geographic, linguistic, archeological, and
ethnographic evidence, as well as oral and documentary evidence
presented during consultations, Caltrans and California State
University, Sacramento, including the University's College of Social
Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Committee on Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Compliance (SSIS NAGPRA
Committee), reasonably believe that the cultural affiliation of CA-SJO-
91 is to the Plains Miwok and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Officials of California State University, Sacramento, and Caltrans
have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent a minimum of 498 individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of California State University,
Sacramento, and Caltrans also have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(A), that the 4,667 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 California State University, Sacramento, and
Caltrans have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that there is
a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human remains and associated 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 (also known as the Tachi Yokut
Tribe); 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; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria
of California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria
of California; and Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as to the non-
Federally recognized Indian groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Tina Biorn, Caltrans, P.O. Box 942874 (M.S. 27),
Sacramento, CA 94274-0001, telephone (916) 653-0013, or Charles
Gossett, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary
Studies, California State University Sacramento, CA, 95819-6109,
telephone (916) 278-6504, before April 14, 2011. Repatriation of the
human remains and associated 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 (also known as the Tachi Yokut Tribe); 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; Tuolumne Band
of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California; United
Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California; and/or
Wilton Rancheria, California, may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
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 (also known as the Tachi Yokut
Tribe); 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; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria
of California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria
of California; and Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as the non-
Federally recognized Indian groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of
California, Northern Valley Yokuts, and Tubatulabals of Kern Valley,
that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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