Notice2021-20914
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
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Published
September 27, 2021
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
California State University, Sacramento in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to the California State University, Sacramento. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 184 (Monday, September 27, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53344-53345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20914]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0032656; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: California State University, Sacramento in consultation with
the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has
determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request to the California State University,
Sacramento. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of
control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not
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identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request with information in support of the
claim to the California State University, Sacramento at the address in
this notice by October 27, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College
of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State
University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone
(916) 278-6504, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#caaea2b3b9a5a48aa9b9bfb9e4afaebf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7c1814050f13123c1f0f090f52191809">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the
control of the California State University, Sacramento, 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 Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Items
On March 15, 2011, unassociated funerary objects from site CA-SAC-
16 in Sacramento County, CA, were listed in a Notice of Intent to
Repatriate published in the Federal Register (76 FR 14049-14050, March
15, 2011). Subsequently, these unassociated funerary objects were
repatriated to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle
Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.
Following repatriation of the objects listed in the 2011 notice,
290 additional unassociated funerary objects were found in the Anthony
Zallio collection. Zallio, a local amateur archeologist who collected
in the area during the 1920-30s, donated his collection to California
State University, Sacramento. The 290 unassociated funerary objects are
269 shell beads, four shell ornaments, and 17 projectile points.
Following repatriation of the objects listed in the 2011 notice,
three additional unassociated funerary objects were found among the
materials recovered during the 1953 Sacramento State College
excavations directed by Dr. Richard Reeve. The three unassociated
funerary objects are three shell beads.
Following repatriation of the objects listed in the 2011 notice,
two additional unassociated funerary objects were found among the
materials recovered during the 1960s American River College excavations
directed by Charles Gebhardt. This collection was transferred from
American River College to California State University Sacramento at an
unknown date. The two unassociated funerary objects are one worked
shell with ochre and one modified bone.
Following repatriation of the objects listed in the 2011 notice, an
additional 98 unassociated funerary objects were found among the
materials recovered during the 1971 Sacramento State College
excavations led by Ann Peak. The 98 unassociated funerary objects are
89 vertebrate remains, one shell bead, one invertebrate remain, one
groundstone fragment, one thermally altered rock, one lot of charcoal,
one obsidian projectile point, one modified bone, and two pieces of
baked clay.
Temporally diagnostic artifacts recovered from CA-SAC-16 indicate
that the site was used from the Middle Horizon until the early Historic
Period. Linguistic evidence suggests that ancestral-Penutian speaking
groups related to modern day Miwok, Nisenan, and Patwin groups occupied
the region during the Middle (550 B.C.-A.D. 1100) and Late (A.D. 1100-
Historic) Horizons. Ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources indicate
that the site was most likely historically occupied by Nisenan-speaking
groups. In summary, officials of California State University,
Sacramento reasonably believe that the ethnographic, historical, and
geographical evidence indicates that the historic burials and cultural
items recovered from Site CA-SAC-16 are most closely affiliated with
contemporary descendants of the Nisenan and are more distantly related
to neighboring groups, such as the Plains Miwok and Patwin.
Determinations Made by California State University, Sacramento
Officials of the California State University, Sacramento have
determined that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 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.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to Dr. Dianne Hyson, California State
University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone
(916) 278-6504, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5a3e32232935341a39292f29743f3e2f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="096d61707a6667496a7a7c7a276c6d7c">[email protected]</span></a>, by October 27, 2021. After that
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of
control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California may proceed.
California State University, Sacramento is responsible for
notifying the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California that this notice has been
published.
Dated: September 21, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-20914 Filed 9-24-21; 8:45 am]
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