Notice2023-21248
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
September 28, 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, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 187 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66889-66890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21248]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036650; 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, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 30, 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#81ece4e6e0efafecf4f3f1e9f8c1f4e2f3afe4e5f4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f626a686e6121627a7d7f67764f7a6c7d216a6b7a">[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
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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
In 1970, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were removed from CA-RIV-381, the Marana Site, near Vail Lake, in
Riverside, CA. The human remains were removed during a field class led
by Robert Bettinger. No reports on the site have been published, though
it is referenced in a few publications. In UCR-ARU Report #292,
archeologist Richard Lando describes CA-RIV-381 as ``an important,
extensive permanent village site on Temecula Creek with a large range
of artifacts present including petroglyphs, pictographs, manos,
metates, mortars, pestles, pottery, bone awls, beads, and chipped
stones artifacts'' and as culturally Luise[ntilde]o. In a paper
authored by Bettinger and R.E. Taylor, ``Suggested Revisions in
Archaeological Sequences of the Great Basin in Interior Southern
California,'' a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1450 was reportedly obtained
from the Marana Site. The 14 associated funerary objects are one lot
consisting of unmodified animal bones, one lot consisting of ceramics
(indigenous and post-contact), one lot consisting of clay, one lot
consisting of glass, one lot consisting of lithic flakes and tools, one
lot consisting of metal, one lot consisting of plastic, one lot
consisting of modified shells, one lot consisting of charcoal, one lot
consisting of organic materials, one lot consisting of mineralogical
objects, one lot consisting of unmodified shells, one lot consisting of
fire-altered rocks, and one lot consisting of pipe fragments.
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: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical,
oral traditional, and expert tribal 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 14 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 Pechanga Band of Indians
(Previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the
Pechanga Reservation, 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 October 30, 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, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: September 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-21248 Filed 9-27-23; 8:45 am]
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