Notice2023-12859
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
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Published
June 16, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object, and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County, and the Northern Sierra foothills, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39453-39454]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12859]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036001; 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: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of objects of cultural patrimony and a certain cultural item that meets
the definition of an unassociated funerary object, and that have a
cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from
Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County, and the Northern Sierra foothills,
CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after July 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: 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#fd9995848e9293bd9e8e888ed3989988"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="70141809031f1e30130305035e151405">[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
California State University, Sacramento. 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
California State University, Sacramento.
Description
At unknown dates, 29 cultural items were removed from multiple
locations in Stanislaus County, Tuolumne County, and the Northern
Sierra foothills, CA. These items were removed from Tulloch Cave,
Sonora, and Etnazum Cave in Tuolumne County; unknown locations near La
Grange and along Hood Creek in Stanislaus County; and unknown locations
in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. Two items from Sonora
were donated to the Anthropology Museum at California State University,
Sacramento in the 1970s. How or when the other 27 items came to
California State University, Sacramento is unknown. The 28 objects of
cultural patrimony consist of seed bead necklaces, flaked stones,
groundstones, thermally altered rocks, faunal remains, and floral
remains. The one unassociated funerary object is a shell ornament.
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,
archeological, geographical, historical, kinship, linguistic, oral,
traditional, 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 California State University, Sacramento has
determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above is 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 is
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from
a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> The 28 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.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Tuolumne Band
of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of 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.
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after July 17, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, California State University, Sacramento 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. California State University,
Sacramento is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12859 Filed 6-15-23; 8:45 am]
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