Notice2023-21250
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Chico, 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 California State University, Chico (CSU, Chico) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects and 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 and Sutter Counties, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 187 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66894-66895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-21250]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036652; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, 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), the California State University, Chico (CSU,
Chico) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects and 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 and Sutter Counties, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after October 30, 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#6a0e180f1d050603041901032a09191f0902030905440f0e1f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8beff9eefce4e7e2e5f8e0e2cbe8f8fee8e3e2e8e4a5eeeffe">[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
California State University, Chico. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in this notice.
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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 California State University, Chico.
Description
Accession 351
In 2002, two objects of cultural patrimony were archeologically
recovered at the Holiday Inn Express site in Roseville, Placer County,
CA, by the Archeological Research Program at CSU, Chico. The two
objects of cultural patrimony are one lot consisting of metal and one
lot consisting of unmodified faunal remains.
Accession 429
At an unknown date, six cultural items--two unassociated funerary
objects and four objects of cultural patrimony--were removed from
Placer and Sutter Counties, CA. Subsequently, these items became part
of the collection of Dale Ritter. In 2019, Ritter's son, Eric Ritter,
donated these items to the Chico State Anthropology Department. The two
unassociated funerary objects are one lot consisting of modified shells
and one lot consisting of unmodified shells. The four objects of
cultural patrimony are one lot consisting of modified stones, one lot
consisting of stone debitage, one lot consisting of modified shells,
and one lot consisting of unmodified shells.
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 in the form of Tribal
traditional knowledge.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California State University, Chico has determined
that:
<bullet> The two 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> The six 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 30, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the California State University, 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. The California State
University, 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: September 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-21250 Filed 9-27-23; 8:45 am]
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