Notice2023-23283
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
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Published
October 23, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento 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 and Yuba Counties, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72785-72786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23283]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036761; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, 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, Sacramento
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 and Yuba Counties, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after November 22, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento,
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone (916) 278-6504, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9ffbf7e6ecf0f1dffceceaecb1fafbea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6c0804151f03022c0f1f191f42090819">[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, Sacramento. 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 California State University, Sacramento.
Description
During the 1960s-1980's, California State University, Sacramento
students and faculty surveyed and investigated sites along creeks and
ravines in Placer County, CA, ahead of several development projects
(CA-PLA-47, PLA-63, PLA-64, PLA-66, PLA-67, PLA-69, PLA-70, PLA-71,
PLA-72, PLA-73, PLA-74, PLA-75, PLA-76, PLA-77, PLA-78, PLA-80, PLA-81,
PLA-83, PLA-90, PLA-92, PLA-93, PLA-94, PLA-95, PLA-99, PLA-105, PLA-
106, PLA-107/H, PLA-225, PLA-271/H, PLA-663/H, and four sites without a
designated name or trinomial (31-109, 31-60, 31-108, 31-78)). As a
result, 13 cultural items were collected from several of the sites. The
13 objects of cultural patrimony consist of the following individual
lots: flaked stones; groundstones; unmodified stones; thermally-altered
rocks; modified stones; modified shells; modified bones; historic
materials; faunal remains; floral remains; baked clay objects; soil
samples; and uncatalogued materials.
At an unknown date, 10 cultural items were collected from CA-PLA-
292, PLA-293, and another, unknown location (31-62) by an individual
who subsequently donated them to California
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State University, Sacramento, most likely in the 1960s. The 10 objects
of cultural patrimony consist of the following individual lots: flaked
stones; groundstones; unmodified stones; modified stones; modified
shells; faunal remains; floral remains; historic materials; soil
samples; and uncatalogued materials.
In the 1960s and 1970s, American River Junior College (ARJC)
conducted investigations at several sites in Placer and Yuba Counties
(CA-PLA-2907, CA-PLA-2908, possibly PLA-38, and CA-YUB-05), which
resulted in the collection of 12 cultural items. In 1977, the
collections from these sites were transferred to California State
University, Sacramento along with other ARJC collections. The 12
objects of cultural patrimony consist of the following individual lots:
flaked stones; groundstones; modified bones; modified shells; modified
stones; thermally-altered rocks; unmodified stones; baked clay objects;
floral remains; faunal remains; historic materials; and uncatalogued
materials.
At an unknown date, one cultural item was collected from a quarry
site near Bowman, CA, and was donated to California State University,
Sacramento. The object of cultural patrimony is one lot consisting of
uncatalogued materials.
Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, Anthony Zallio, a private
collector, collected two cultural items from sites in Placer County,
CA. In 1951, Zallio's collection was posthumously donated to the
Department of Anthropology at Sacramento State College, CA (now
California State University, Sacramento). The two objects of cultural
patrimony are a flaked stone and a modified stone.
In the 1970s, a cultural item was donated to the Anthropology
Museum at California State University, Sacramento that was said to have
been found on the North Fork of the American River, possibly near CA-
PLA-34. The one object of cultural patrimony is a steatite pipe.
In the 1970s, cultural items were collected from an unknown
location near Bowman, CA, and at an unknown date, they were donated to
California State University, Sacramento. The five objects of cultural
patrimony consist of the following individual lots: flaked stones;
modified shells; faunal remains; historic materials; and uncatalogued
materials.
In 1990, one cultural item was collected at historic Virginiatown,
in Placer County, CA, during a California State University, Sacramento-
sponsored field school. The object of cultural patrimony is one lot
consisting of archaeologically recovered Native American objects.
At an unknown date, two cultural items were removed from CA-PLA-36
in Placer County, CA. The circumstances surrounding their recovery and
curation at California State University, Sacramento are not known. The
two objects of cultural patrimony are one lot consisting of flaked
stones and one lot consisting of groundstones.
At an unknown date, five cultural items were removed from CA-PLA-
2879, in Placer County, CA. The circumstances surrounding their
recovery and curation at California State University, Sacramento are
not known. The five objects of cultural patrimony consist of the
following individual lots: worked shells; faunal remains; flaked
stones; unmodified stones; and historic materials.
At an unknown date, one cultural item was collected from an unknown
site in Yuba County, CA, by Charles McKee. Subsequently, this item was
donated to California State University, Sacramento by his estate. The
object of cultural patrimony is a modified stone.
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, geographical, historical, kinship, linguistic, oral
traditional, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the California State University, Sacramento has
determined that:
<bullet> The 53 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 November 22, 2023. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the California State University, Sacramento
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, Sacramento 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: October 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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