Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 90048-90049 [2024-26467]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 90048-90049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26467]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039040; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, 
Riverside, Riverside, 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 
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition 
of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural affiliation 
with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after December 16, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900 
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349, 
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 additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    A total of four cultural items have been requested for 
repatriation. The four lots of unassociated funerary objects are one 
lot of shell beads, one lot of arrowheads, one lot of faunal bones, and 
one lot of metal. In 1980 the UCR Archaeological Research Unit was 
contracted by The Planning Center, Newport Beach, to conduct a survey 
of 236 acres in Indio, California. During the survey the archaeologists 
identified fifteen loci of cultural materials in the project area; 
three of the loci contained possible human cremations. The three 
possible cremations were all located within archaeological site CA-RIV-
1970. The site was described in Archaeological Research Report #570 as 
a large area contained seven loci of artifact and bone concentrations. 
No human remains were reported to have been removed from site, however, 
the archaeologists removed about 30 complete and fragmentary burnt 
Olivella disk beads, 4 arrowhead fragments, burnt fish bone, and a 
piece of metal.

Determinations

    The University of California, Riverside has determined that:
     The four unassociated funerary objects described in this 
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with 
or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death 
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American 
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a 
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The 
unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance 
of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or 
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an 
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe 
or Native Hawaiian organization.

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     There is a reasonable connection between the cultural 
items described in this notice and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla 
Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California; Augustine 
Band of Cahuilla Indians, California; Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians 
(previously listed as Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, California); 
Cahuilla Band of Indians; Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno 
Indians, California; Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California; 
Ramona Band of Cahuilla, California; Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla 
Indians, California; and the Torrez Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, 
California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified 
in this notice under 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 December 16, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the University of California, Riverside 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 is responsible for sending a copy of this notice 
to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in 
this notice and to any other consulting parties.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.

    Dated: November 5, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-26467 Filed 11-13-24; 8:45 am]
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