Notice2023-18509
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
August 28, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California State University, Los Angeles has completed an inventory of human remains (hereafter referred to as "ancestors") in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the ancestors and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The ancestors were removed from Los Angeles County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 165 (Monday, August 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58613-58614]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18509]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036472; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, 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, Los Angeles has
completed an inventory of human remains (hereafter referred to as
``ancestors'') in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations and has determined that there is a
cultural affiliation between the ancestors and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The ancestors were removed from
Los Angeles County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice will occur on or
after September 27, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Michele Bleuze, California State University, 5151 State
University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, telephone (323) 343-2440,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fb9699979e8e819ebb989a97888f9a8f9e979ad59e9f8e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9cf1fef0f9e9e6f9dcfffdf0efe8fde8f9f0fdb2f9f8e9">[email protected]</span></a>; Amira Ainis, California State University,
5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, telephone (323)
343-2449, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6809090106011b5a280b09041b1c091c0d0409460d0c1d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b3d2d2dadddac081f3d0d2dfc0c7d2c7d6dfd29dd6d7c6">[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, Los Angeles. 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 California State University, Los Angeles.
Description
A minimum of two ancestors were removed from Los Angeles County,
CA. Located in the City of Carson, CA-LAN-98 is the site of Suangna, a
known Gabrielino-Tongva village. According to one source, it may have
been occupied as late as 1813 (McCawley, 1996). Another source notes
that, based on artifact comparisons, CA-LAN-98 was occupied for
approximately 600 years, from A.D. 1200-1800 (Eggers, 1977:44). It was
first excavated by Racer in 1910. In the late 1960s and early 1970s,
Hal Eberhart from LA City College and Ken Kuykendall and A. Van D.
Eggers from Dominquez College conducted excavations there, as did
Charles Irwin of the Bowers Museum in 1972-1973. The collection from
CA-LAN-98 at California State University, Los Angeles is assumed to
have arrived in the late 1960s or early 1970s with Hal Eberhart, at
that time a faculty member. (No reports or documents regarding this
collection have been found at California State University, Los
Angeles.) As no current faculty have examined the human remains, the
following descriptions derive solely from box and bag labels. One bag
is labeled ``Watson Site, Burial #1'' and another is labeled ``Watson
Site, Burial #2.'' There is also one small bag labeled ``Skull
fragments, no location, Watson'' along with what appears to be added,
in faint pencil, ``associated with Burial #1.'' No associated funerary
objects are present. (Additional collections from CA-LAN-98 are housed
at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a master's thesis
from California State University, Fullerton indicates that additional
materials from this site are curated with the Pacific Coast
Archaeological Society (Graling, 2004).)
Cultural Affiliation
The ancestors 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: geographical, archeological,
and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, California State University, Los Angeles has determined
that:
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the ancestors described in
this notice represent the physical remains of at least two individuals
of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native
American ancestors described in this notice and the Santa Rosa Band of
Cahuilla Indians, California and the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians,
California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the ancestors in this notice
must be sent to the Responsible Officials 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 and, if joined to a request
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the following non-federally
recognized Indian groups: the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians-Kizh
Nation; Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians;
Gabrielino/Tongva Nation; Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California
Tribal Council (Bellflower and Simi Valley); and the Gabrielino-Tongva
Tribe.
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.
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Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice to a requestor will
occur on or after September 27, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, California State University, Los Angeles
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the ancestors are considered a
single request and not competing requests. California State University,
Los Angeles 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: August 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18509 Filed 8-25-23; 8:45 am]
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