Notice2023-18825
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
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Published
August 31, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items were removed from Placer County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 168 (Thursday, August 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60237-60238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18825]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036500; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, 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 San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program intends to repatriate certain
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cultural items that meet the definition of objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural items
were removed from Placer County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after October 2, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco State NAGPRA Program, 1600
Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone (415) 405-3545,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b7cddbd6c3c3f7c4d1c4c299d2d3c2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="067c6a677272467560757328636273">[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
San Francisco State NAGPRA Program. 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
the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program.
Description
In 1964, cultural items were excavated and removed from sites PLA-
1, PLA-14, PLA-25, PLA-H-7, PLA-H-11, PLA-H-12, PLA-19, and PLA-UNK in
Placer County, CA. Upon the closure of the Tregenza Anthropology Museum
in 2012, the cultural items were transferred to the San Francisco State
University NAGPRA program. The objects of cultural patrimony are 15
lots consisting of modified stone, modified metal, and other objects.
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: oral traditional,
anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical, linguistic,
other relevant information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program has determined
that:
<bullet> The 15 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 United Auburn
Indian Community of the Auburn 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 October 2, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the San Francisco State NAGPRA Program must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of cultural items are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The San Francisco State
NAGPRA Program 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: August 23, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-18825 Filed 8-30-23; 8:45 am]
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