Notice2024-00133
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Chico, Chico, CA
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Published
January 8, 2024
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) 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 CSU Chico.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 957-958]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00133]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037204; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University,
Chico, 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) 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 CSU
Chico.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects
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in this notice may occur on or after February 7, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Rewolinski, California State University, Chico, 400 W
1st Street, Chico, CA 95929, telephone (530) 898-3090, email
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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 CSU
Chico. 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 CSU Chico.
Description
The Finch Site (CA-BUT-12) in Butte County, CA, was first recorded
by A. Pilling in 1949 and later in 1963 by Dorothy Hill. Francis
Riddell led a Chico State College (now CSU, Chico) field class
excavation at the site in the summer of 1963, and Professor Keith
Johnson, accompanied by Riddell, led a second excavation at the site
with a Chico State College field class in spring, 1964. Joseph
Chartkoff (then of UCLA) led an excavation at the site in summer, 1967.
In spring, 1983, and spring, 1984, Professor Makoto Kowta led CSU,
Chico field class excavations at the site. Our records indicated the
site was archeologically recovered as a joint project between UCLA and
CSU Chico. CSU Chico contacted UCLA to determine if they held any
additional human remains and cultural items from the 1967 archeological
recovery. UCLA determined they did have cultural items from CA-BUT-12
and transferred legal and physical control of the additional cultural
items to CSU Chico on October 23, 2023. Human remains were also
identified in the rehousing process of the additional cultural items at
CSU Chico.
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
removed from Butte County, CA. The 6,735 associated funerary objects
were a part of the original excavations and collection, which UCLA
transferred to CSU Chico to be reinterred with the ancestors and
cultural items of Accession 4, Finch Site (CA-BUT-12) listed in the
Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal Register on
June 29, 2023 (88 FR 42099-42101). The additional 6,735 associated
funerary objects are 47 lots of organics, 1,914 lots of debitage, 426
lots of modified stone, 123 lots of projectile points, 218 lots of
unmodified shell, 500 lots of modified shell, 53 lots of charcoal, 325
lots of soil, 2,866 lots of faunal elements, 261 lots of modified
faunal elements, one lot of modified clay, and one lot of ochre.
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 information, archeological information,
oral tradition, 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, CSU Chico has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 6,735 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 Mechoopda Indian Tribe of
Chico Rancheria, 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 February 7, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, CSU Chico 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. CSU Chico is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to
the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00133 Filed 1-5-24; 8:45 am]
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