Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, CA and California State University, Sacramento, CA, 14047-14048 [2011-5883]
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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 15, 2011 / Notices
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2011–5859 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312–50–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
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.
At an unknown date, an iron fish
spear, a string of bird bone ornaments,
and a segment of bird bone were
removed from an Indian grave in
Ontonagon, Ontonagon County, MI, by
an unknown individual. The string of
bird bone ornaments was donated to the
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology by Mary S. Felton and Dr.
Joseph Leidy in 1868. The iron fish
spear and segment of bird bone were
donated to the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology by Mary
Felton in 1868.
At an unknown date, a string of glass
beads and a mirror were removed from
Indian graves in Ontonagon, Ontonagon
County, MI, by an unknown individual.
These items were donated by Mary S.
Felton to the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology in 1868.
At an unknown date, a silver trade
cross was removed from an Indian grave
in Ontonagon, Ontonagon County, MI,
by an unknown individual. Mary S.
Felton donated this item to the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
in 1869.
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Museum records indicate that these
cultural items were removed from
Indian graves in Ontonagon, Ontonagon
County, MI. The Peabody Museum is
not in possession or control of the
human remains from these interments.
The presence of trade items, such as the
iron fish spear, mirror, glass beads, and
silver trade cross, indicates that these
interments date to the Historic/Contact
period, specifically the late 18th and
19th centuries. Historical
documentation indicates that the
Ontonagon area was occupied by the
Ontonagon Band of Chippewa people
during this time period. The present-day
tribe that represents the Ontonagon
Band of Chippewa is the Keweenaw Bay
Indian Community, Michigan.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(B), that the six cultural items
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 and are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of Native American individuals.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology also 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
unassociated funerary objects and the
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community,
Michigan.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave.,
Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617)
496–3702, before April 14, 2011.
Repatriation of the unassociated
funerary objects to the Keweenaw Bay
Indian Community, Michigan, may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology is responsible for
notifying the Bad River Band of the Lake
Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of
the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin;
Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake) of the
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota;
Fond du Lac Band of the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Grand
Portage Band of the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Keweenaw
Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac
Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac
Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior
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Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Leech
Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe, Minnesota; Mille Lacs Band of
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe,
Minnesota; Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of
Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians
of Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa
Community, Wisconsin; and the White
Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe, Minnesota, that this notice has
been published.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural
Items: California 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
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the
control of the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento,
CA, and in the possession of the
California State University, Sacramento,
CA, 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.
In 1970, unassociated funerary objects
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. The location of the
associated human remains is unknown,
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however, other human remains and
associated funerary objects also
removed from this site are described in
a Notice of Inventory Completion. The
393 unassociated funerary objects are
384 beads, 2 bifaces, 1 charmstone
fragment, 4 round stones, 1 ornament
and 1 quartz rock. There are an
additional 30 missing unassociated
funerary objects (30 beads).
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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Officials of Caltrans and California
State University, Sacramento, have
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(3)(B), that the 393 cultural items
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 and are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of a Native American individual.
Officials of Caltrans and California State
University, Sacramento, also 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
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 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 and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated 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 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 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
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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.
[FR Doc. 2011–5883 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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[2253–665]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate a
Cultural Item: Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate a cultural item in the
possession of the Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253-665]
Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: California
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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the control of the California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, CA, and in the
possession of the California State University, Sacramento, CA, 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.
In 1970, unassociated funerary objects 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. The location of the associated human remains is unknown,
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however, other human remains and associated funerary objects also
removed from this site are described in a Notice of Inventory
Completion. The 393 unassociated funerary objects are 384 beads, 2
bifaces, 1 charmstone fragment, 4 round stones, 1 ornament and 1 quartz
rock. There are an additional 30 missing unassociated funerary objects
(30 beads).
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.
Officials of Caltrans and California State University, Sacramento,
have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), that the 393
cultural items 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 and are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific
burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of Caltrans and
California State University, Sacramento, also 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 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 (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 and Northern Valley Yokuts.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated 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 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 (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.
[FR Doc. 2011-5883 Filed 3-14-11; 8:45 am]
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