Notice2024-00433
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
January 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were removed from Chatham County, GA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00433]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037218; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, 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 University of California, Riverside has
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains were
removed from Chatham County, GA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after February 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University of California, Riverside, 900
University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900, telephone (951) 827-6349,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c2afa7a5a3acecafb7b0b2aabb82b7a1b0eca7a6b7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b4d9d1d3d5da9ad9c1c6c4dccdf4c1d7c69ad1d0c1">[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
University of California, Riverside. 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 the University of California, Riverside.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Chatham County, GA. In 1983, a partially fossilized human jaw
representing one Native American adult individual was removed from the
Forest River in Savannah, Georgia by Bobby Schauber, a local bait
shrimper, who reportedly found the jaw in his shrimping net after
dragging the river bed. Schauber displayed the human remains in a
display case at the Coffee Bluff Fishing Camp where it was noticed by
members of an amateur archeological society who contacted assistant
professor, Clark Larson, at Northern Illinois University. The jaw was
subsequently studied at the Center for Study of Early Man, University
of Maine under the direction of Robson Bonnichsen. In 1988, Dr. R.E.
Taylor, director of the University of California, Riverside Radiocarbon
Laboratory, obtained a sample of the individual for radiocarbon dating.
The residual sample material was subsequently stored by Dr. Taylor at
an off-campus storage facility and never reported to the UCR NAGPRA
Program Staff. In February of 2022, the sample from the individual was
discovered by NAGPRA Program Staff during a collections inventory. No
associated funerary objects were found with the individual.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains 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: archeological information,
geographical information, historical information, kinship, oral
tradition, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of California, Riverside has determined
that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains described in this notice
and the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town; Catawba Indian Nation; Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians; Kialegee Tribal Town; Miccosukee Tribe of
Indians; Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of Florida; The
Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after February 12, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the University of California, Riverside must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The University of
California, Riverside 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: January 4, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00433 Filed 1-10-24; 8:45 am]
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