Notice2024-00134
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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), California State University, Chico (CSU Chico) 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 Butte County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 950-951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00134]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037205; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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), California State University, Chico (CSU
Chico) 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 Butte County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e4809681938b888d8a978f8da4879791878c8d878bca818091"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d7b3a5b2a0b8bbbeb9a4bcbe97b4a4a2b4bfbeb4b8f9b2b3a2">[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 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 summary or related records held by CSU Chico.
Description
Accession 434
The 15 cultural items were removed from Butte County, CA. Sycamore
Canyon Rock Shelter (CA-BUT-827) was surveyed by Bill Dreyer and Dan
Foster in 1982. The cultural items that were archeologically recovered
were brought to CSU Chico at an unknown date by an unknown individual.
The 15 objects of cultural patrimony are 14 lots of modified stone and
one lot of soil.
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: 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:
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<bullet> The 15 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 Mechoopda
Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, 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 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 cultural items 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 28, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00134 Filed 1-5-24; 8:45 am]
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