Notice2023-03817
Notice of Inventory Completion: California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA
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Published
February 24, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 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 Los Angeles County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 37 (Friday, February 24, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11935-11936]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03817]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035387; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 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
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Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Los Angeles
County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Leslie L. Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, California
Department of Parks and Recreation, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA
94296-0001, telephone (916) 425-8016, email
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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
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 California Department of Parks and Recreation.
Description
In 1954, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from CA-LAN-192, the Lovejoy Springs site, in Los Angeles
County, CA, by the Archaeological Survey Association of Southern
California, a local avocational society. Under the direction of
archeologist Charles Rozaire, cultural materials were collected from
the surface and from four shallow, 5-by-5-foot units excavated on the
southern side of the site. The collection was obtained by the Antelope
Valley Indian Museum (AVIM) sometime prior to its incorporation into
the California State Park system in 1979. From that year onward, the
collection has been in the possession of the AVIM. No known individual
was identified.
In 1989, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from CA-LAN-192, the Lovejoy Springs site, in Los Angeles
County, CA by an archeological field class from the Cerro Coso College
campus at Edwards Air Force Base. The field class excavated seven 1-by-
1-meter units under the direction of archeologist Bruce Love. In 2017,
Love donated the collection from this site to the AVIM. Later that
year, while investigating the faunal assemblage from this collection,
Love identified human remains consisting of one burned phalange and one
highly burned human bone fragment. No known individual was identified.
The 258 associated funerary objects identified in the collection are
one bone bead, one botanical sample, one groundstone fragment, one lot
of charcoal, one manuport, one possible granitic biface, one quartz
projectile point fragment, one schist mortar bowl fragment, two lots of
fire-altered rock, two ceramic fragments, two mano fragments, two
schist metate fragments, four flaked stone biface, four flake tools,
six lithic cores, nine lots of groundstone fragments, 10 lots of shell
fragments, 11 edge-modified flakes, 41 lots of faunal bone, 18 Olivella
beads, and 139 lots of flaked stone.
According to Serrano-speaking elder Santos Manuel of the San Manuel
Band of Mission Indians, and Spanish explorers, including Father
Francisco Garces, who passed through the Antelope Valley in the 1770s,
the communities on the southeast side of the Antelope Valley were
Serrano-speaking and at the time of Spanish contact, were tied into the
Serrano social system. The Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California,
and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation (Previously listed as San
Manuel Band of Mission Indians, California) are present-day Indian
Tribes who identify themselves culturally as Serrano peoples.
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 Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical,
oral traditional, expert opinion, and other relevant information.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California Department of Parks and Recreation has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 258 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.
<bullet> 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 Morongo Band of Mission
Indians, California, and the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation
(Previously listed as San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, 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 27, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, 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 California Department of Parks
and Recreation 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 10.9, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: February 15, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-03817 Filed 2-23-23; 8:45 am]
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