Notice2023-14382
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
July 7, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside (UCR) 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 Riverside in Riverside County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43389-43390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14382]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036126; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: 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
(UCR) 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
Riverside in Riverside County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 7, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#95f8f0f2f4fbbbf8e0e7e5fdecd5e0f6e7bbf0f1e0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5c31393b3d327231292e2c34251c293f2e72393829">[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
University of California, Riverside. 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 University of California, Riverside.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Riverside County, California. In 1973, the cremated remains
belonging to a Native American individual were removed from a
construction site in
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Indio by Thomas King. (UCR NAGPRA Repatriation Coordinator Megan Murphy
contacted King, but he did not remember the excavation. King suggested
that the excavation might have been an unplanned salvage project
requested by an Indian Tribe--perhaps the Torres Martinez Desert
Cahuilla Indians, California--when the Tribe heard that a cremation had
been disturbed by nearby construction.) Markings on the bags from the
excavation indicate that this cremation was removed from ``48th +
Jefferson--Indio,'' which UCR NAGPRA Program Staff believe connotes the
crossing of Avenue 48 and Jefferson Street in Indio. The site
identification, ``CV-126,'' is consistent with the system used by the
UCR Archaeological Research Unit in 1970s for work in the Coachella
Valley. The collection is identified as accession #47 in the UCR
Archaeological Curation Unit. The four lots of associated funerary
objects are one lot consisting of shells, one lot consisting of
charcoal, one lot consisting of soil and sand, and one lot consisting
of geological materials.
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
removed from Riverside County, California. In 1972, the cremated human
remains belonging to two Native American juveniles, together with
associated funerary objects, were removed from archeological site CA-
RIV-273 (CV-139) during an investigation by the UCR Archaeological
Research Unit led by Phillip Wilke. This site was reported to have been
located near the historic village of Toro, to which many living members
of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, California can trace
direct ancestry. Tribal members of the Torres-Martinez reservation had
reportedly been long aware of a surface scatter of objects that they
identified as funerary in nature. According to ethnographic accounts
and archeological evidence, the burials likely date to the early 19th
century. Although the human remains were reportedly reburied by the
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in 1990, Wilke and the UCR
Anthropology Department did not transfer the associated funerary
objects, and they remained at UCR. The 1,922 associated funerary
objects are 43 bobcat phalanges, three animal bone beads, one ceramic
spindle whorl, 1,276 ceramic sherds, one clay bead, one piece of
fabric, two samples of floral material, three pieces of cordage, one
fiber basketry fragment, two fiber carrying net fragments, 35 glass
seed beads, 20 fire-cracked stones, eight flaked stone tools, two
ground stone tools, one steatite arrow shaft straightener, one stone
bead, four metal objects, two lots consisting of charred seeds, two
faunal elements, one sandal, 512 Olivella shell beads, and one
reconstructed clay olla.
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: archeological, geographical, historical, kinship, oral
traditional, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of California, Riverside has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 1,926 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 Torres Martinez Desert
Cahuilla 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 August 7, 2023. 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 human
remains and associated funerary objects 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 Tribe
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: June 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-14382 Filed 7-6-23; 8:45 am]
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