Notice2023-15523
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Chico, Chico, CA
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Published
July 21, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University Chico (CSU Chico) 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 Butte County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 47164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15523]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036225; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, Chico, Chico, 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), California State University Chico (CSU
Chico) 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 Butte County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after August 21, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Rewolinski, California State University, Chico, 400 W
1st Street, Chico, CA 95929, telephone (530) 898-3090, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#97f3e5f2e0f8fbfef9e4fcfed7f4e4e2f4fffef4f8b9f2f3e2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89edfbecfee6e5e0e7fae2e0c9eafafceae1e0eae6a7ecedfc">[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 CSU
Chico. 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 CSU Chico.
Description
Accession 12
In 1962, nine cultural items were removed from Guill Ranch Mound
(CA-BUT-446), in Butte County, CA. The unassociated funerary objects
were collected when the site was partially destroyed through gravel
mining for the portion of Highway 99 that runs through Lower Bidwell
Park. Dorothy Hill recorded the site and collected these cultural
items. Although the site record states that one burial was discovered,
CSU Chico neither has control of any human remains nor any knowledge of
the whereabouts of any human remains from this site. The nine
unassociated funerary objects are one modified stone, four projectile
points, and four oversized stone tools.
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, historical, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, CSU Chico has determined that:
<bullet> The nine 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 Mechoopda
Indian Tribe of Chico 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.
Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after August 21, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, CSU Chico 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. CSU Chico 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: July 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-15523 Filed 7-20-23; 8:45 am]
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