Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA, 14703-14704 [2024-04089]
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation has
determined that:
• The two lots of cultural items
described above have ongoing historical,
traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group or
culture itself, rather than property
owned by an individual.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash
Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez
Reservation, California.
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Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
notice must be sent to the Responsible
Official identified in ADDRESSES.
Requests for repatriation may be
submitted by any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice
who shows, by a preponderance of the
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated
Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural items in
this notice to a requestor may occur on
or after March 29, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the University of California, Riverside
and the California Department of Parks
and Recreation must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation is
responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
This notice was submitted before the
effective date of the revised regulations
(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023,
effective January 12, 2024). As the
notice conforms to the mandatory
format of the Federal Register and
includes the required information, the
National Park Service is publishing this
notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
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Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of California, Riverside,
Riverside, CA and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation,
Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
University of California, Riverside and
the California Department of Parks and
Recreation has completed an inventory
of human remains and associated
funerary objects and has determined
that there is a cultural affiliation
between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations
in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Kings County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University
of California, Riverside, 900 University
Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900,
telephone (951) 827–6349, email
megan.murphy@ucr.edu and Leslie
Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator,
California State Parks, 715 P Street,
Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814,
telephone (415) 831–2700, email
271eslie.hartzell@parks.ca.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by the University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation.
SUMMARY:
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Description
At some time before 1992, human
remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from the
Tulare Lake Witt Site locale in Kings
County, CA, by a private individual.
The human remains were donated to the
California Department of Parks and
Recreation by the private individual and
subsequently submitted to the
University of California, Riverside
Radiocarbon Laboratory for Uraniumseries method dating tests. The
collection was subsequently held in the
UCR Radiocarbon Laboratory under the
direction of Dr. R. Ervin Taylor. When
he retired in 2003, the lab was
decommissioned and its records and
remaining sample materials were
subsequently stored by Dr. Taylor in an
off-campus storage facility, which he
did not report to the campus
Repatriation Coordinator at the time.
The residual sample materials were
rediscovered by UCR NAGPRA Program
Staff during a collections inventory in
February of 2021. At the time no
documentation indicating who the
individual was or where they were
removed from was found and it was not
until September of 2022, that UCR
NAGPRA Staff were able to find
publications that described human
remains removed from the site and datasample sheets produced by the
laboratory that were consistent with this
individual. It was also discovered in
2023 that the larger skeletal elements
from which the samples were removed
were present at California State
University, Bakersfield since at least
2017 when Dr. Robert Bettinger (UCR
Alumnus) likely transferred them from
the University of California, Davis
without the knowledge of the Tribe or
any NAGPRA Program to Dr. Robert
Yohe III at CSUB. The human remains
are approximately 44 mineralized bone
fragments/elements representing at least
one cranium and at least one femur. No
known individuals were determined to
be represented by the human remains.
Uranium-series method dates suggest a
date between 11,390 ± 70 and 15,800 ±
380 BP. The three associated funerary
objects are one lot of lithic/stone
objects, one lot of soil samples, and one
lot of faunal remains.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: tribal traditional
knowledge, archeological information,
geographical information, historical
information, kinship, oral tradition, and
expert opinion.
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Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation has
determined that:
• The human remains described in
this notice represent the physical
remains of one individual of Native
American ancestry.
• The three objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have
been placed with or near individual
human remains at the time of death or
later as part of the death rite or
ceremony.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in
this notice and the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the
human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian
Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization
not identified in this notice who shows,
by a preponderance of the evidence, that
the requestor is a lineal descendant or
a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this
notice to a requestor may occur on or
after March 29, 2024. If competing
requests for repatriation are received,
the University of California, Riverside
and the California Department of Parks
and Recreation must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are
considered a single request and not
competing requests. The University of
California, Riverside and the California
Department of Parks and Recreation are
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responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in
this notice.
This notice was submitted before the
effective date of the revised regulations
(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023,
effective January 12, 2024). As the
notice conforms to the mandatory
format of the Federal Register and
includes the required information, the
National Park Service is publishing this
notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act, 25
U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing
regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024–04089 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037486;
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
California State University,
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and
California State Department of
Transportation, Sacramento, CA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California
State University, Sacramento and
California State Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) have
completed an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
and have determined that there is a
cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects
and Indian Tribes in this notice. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Sacramento
County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after
March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Mark Wheeler, Chief of
Staff to President Luke Wood, California
State University, Sacramento, 6000 J
Street, Sacramento, CA 95819,
telephone (916) 460–0490, email
mark.wheeler@csus.edu and Dr. Lisa
Bright, Branch Chief District 3, Cultural
Resources (South), California State
Department of Transportation, 703 B
Street, Marysville, CA 95901, telephone
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(530) 812–4569, email Lisa.Bright@
dot.ca.gov.
This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of California State
University, Sacramento and Caltrans.
The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on
the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related
records held by California State
University, Sacramento and Caltrans.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description
In 1954–1956, 1967 and 1972, human
remains representing, at minimum, 486
individuals were removed from CA–
SAC–29 (also known as Roeder Mound
and Sama). The 1954–56 excavations
were carried out by Sacramento State
College (now California State
University, Sacramento) under the
direction of Richard Reeve and Brigham
Arnold. The 1967 excavations were
carried out by the State Department of
Parks and Recreation (DPR) for Caltrans
under the direction of William Prichard.
A salvage excavation done under the
direction of Jerald J. Johnson for Pacific
Gas and Electric in 1972, a 1990
donation of human remains and artifacts
made by a private collector, and a 1950s
donation of artifacts by the estate of
Anthony Zallio to the University are
also part of the assemblage. Occupation
of the site is estimated to have occurred
during the Early through Historic
periods. The 643,304 associated
funerary objects removed from this site
include baked clay objects; ash;
modified bones, stones, and shells;
historic materials; flaked and ground
stones; thermally-altered rocks; textiles;
floral and faunal remains; pigment;
unmodified stones; cooking stones;
coprolites; mud dauber nests; soil and
column samples; modern refuse; and
unidentified materials. Of this number,
at least 198 objects are currently missing
from the collection and California State
University, Sacramento continues to
look for them. An unknown number of
additional objects are also missing.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037475; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, CA and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation, Sacramento, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside and
the California Department of Parks and Recreation has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Kings County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349,
email [email protected] and Leslie Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator,
California State Parks, 715 P Street, Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814,
telephone (415) 831-2700, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
University of California, Riverside and the California Department of
Parks and Recreation. The National Park Service is not responsible for
the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records held by the University
of California, Riverside and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation.
Description
At some time before 1992, human remains representing, at minimum,
one individual were removed from the Tulare Lake Witt Site locale in
Kings County, CA, by a private individual. The human remains were
donated to the California Department of Parks and Recreation by the
private individual and subsequently submitted to the University of
California, Riverside Radiocarbon Laboratory for Uranium-series method
dating tests. The collection was subsequently held in the UCR
Radiocarbon Laboratory under the direction of Dr. R. Ervin Taylor. When
he retired in 2003, the lab was decommissioned and its records and
remaining sample materials were subsequently stored by Dr. Taylor in an
off-campus storage facility, which he did not report to the campus
Repatriation Coordinator at the time. The residual sample materials
were rediscovered by UCR NAGPRA Program Staff during a collections
inventory in February of 2021. At the time no documentation indicating
who the individual was or where they were removed from was found and it
was not until September of 2022, that UCR NAGPRA Staff were able to
find publications that described human remains removed from the site
and data-sample sheets produced by the laboratory that were consistent
with this individual. It was also discovered in 2023 that the larger
skeletal elements from which the samples were removed were present at
California State University, Bakersfield since at least 2017 when Dr.
Robert Bettinger (UCR Alumnus) likely transferred them from the
University of California, Davis without the knowledge of the Tribe or
any NAGPRA Program to Dr. Robert Yohe III at CSUB. The human remains
are approximately 44 mineralized bone fragments/elements representing
at least one cranium and at least one femur. No known individuals were
determined to be represented by the human remains. Uranium-series
method dates suggest a date between 11,390 70 and 15,800
380 BP. The three associated funerary objects are one lot
of lithic/stone objects, one lot of soil samples, and one lot of faunal
remains.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: tribal
traditional knowledge, archeological information, geographical
information, historical information, kinship, oral tradition, and
expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of California, Riverside and the
California Department of Parks and Recreation has determined that:
The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
The three objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at
the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Santa Rosa Indian Community of
the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after March 29, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
California, Riverside and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The University of California, Riverside and the
California Department of Parks and Recreation are responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04089 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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