Notice2023-02067
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
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Published
February 1, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program 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. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02067]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035226; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, 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 San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program 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. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after March 3, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway
Avenue, Administration Building 5th Floor, ADM 562C, San Francisco, CA
94132, telephone (415) 405-3545, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#46282721363427063520353368232233"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="96f8f7f1e6e4f7d6e5f0e5e3b8f3f2e3">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program. 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 summary or related
records held by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program.
Description
In 1953, cultural items were removed from archeological site CA-
SAC-189 in Sacramento County, CA, by Leonard R. Butler and Harry T.
Jones as part of archeological site documentation in an area along the
American River. Noting evidence of earlier pothunting and disturbance
due to cutting by the American River, during site documentation, Butler
and Jones collected material cultural items from these disturbed areas.
The items were stored in the San Francisco State College Anthropology
Collection and subsequently became a part of the Treganza Anthropology
Museum's (TAM) archeological collections at San Francisco State
University. At an unknown date, a single test unit of unknown size was
excavated at site CA-SAC-189, and in 1959, the material cultural items
removed during the excavation were recorded and stored as part of the
TAM archeological collections. Upon closure of the TAM in 2012, the
items were transferred to the San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program. The 15 unassociated funerary objects are one lot each of
green, yellow, brown, and blue tinted glass, one lot of glass
fragments, one porcelain vessel fragment, one lot of ``ironstone''
vessel fragments, one lot of earthenware fragments with blue
underglaze, one utility ware fragment with black glaze, one lot of
square nails, one copper or brass chain, one lot of fancy glass vessel
fragments, one pestle,
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one cooking rock, and one lot of obsidian.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items 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 Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: anthropological information,
geographical information, oral tradition, and tribal expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program has
determined that:
<bullet> The 15 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California;
and the Wilton Rancheria, California.
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.
If no additional requests are received, repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Wilton Rancheria may occur on or after
March 3, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program 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 San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR Sec. 10.8,
Sec. 10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: January 25, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-02067 Filed 1-31-23; 8:45 am]
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