Notice2023-27796
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
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Published
December 19, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), San Jose State University (SJSU) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any federally recognized Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the Ryan Mound (CA-ALA-329) of Newark/ Fremont, Alameda County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87811-87812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27796]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037090; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Jose State University, San
Jose, 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), San Jose State University (SJSU) has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and any federally
recognized Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from the Ryan Mound (CA-ALA-329) of Newark/
Fremont, Alameda County, CA.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after January 18, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Charlotte Sunseri, Ph.D., San Jose State University, One
Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0113, telephone (408) 924-5713,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5d3e353c2f3132292938732e28332e382f341d2e372e2873383928"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a7c4cfc6d5cbc8d3d3c289d4d2c9d4c2d5cee7d4cdd4d289c2c3d2">[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 San
Jose State University. 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 San Jose State
University.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, 377 individuals were
removed from Alameda County, CA. The Ryan Mound collection was
excavated by a team from San Jose State University from 1962-1968. The
excavations recovered materials from three distinct strata, all of
which contained burials and cultural remains. The CA-ALA-329 collection
was split between SJSU and Stanford University in 1962; Stanford
repatriated their holdings in 1989 to Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San
Francisco Bay Area. The collection at SJSU was transferred in January
2004 from the Biological Sciences Department to Anthropology Department
and was covered in a culturally unidentifiable Native American
inventory in 2006. The 102 boxes of associated funerary objects include
groundstone (mortars, pestles), other artifacts (charmstones, lithics
and tools, beads, pendants), faunal remains and shell, charcoal, or
soil samples.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
were removed from known geographic locations. These locations are the
aboriginal lands of one or more Federally recognized Indian Tribes.
These locations are also the aboriginal lands of the Ohlone/Costanoan
Tribes recognized by the State. The following information was used to
identify the aboriginal land: California Native American Heritage
Commission Native American Contact List for implementing AB275 (dated:
6/22/2021), Unratified Treaty E ``Treaty at Dent's and Valentine's
Crossing (May 28, 1851)'' (Heizer 1972).
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
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Indian Tribes, San Jose State University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 377 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 102 boxes of 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> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and
any Federally recognized Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice were removed from the aboriginal land of the
Wilton Rancheria, California.
Requests for Disposition
Written requests for disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land
Indian Tribe.
Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January
18, 2024. If competing requests for disposition are received, San Jose
State University must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. San Jose State University 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 and Sec.
10.11.
Dated: December 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27796 Filed 12-18-23; 8:45 am]
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