Notice2024-04089
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA
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Published
February 28, 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 and the California Department of Parks and Recreation 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 Kings County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14703-14704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04089]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037475; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, CA and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation, 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 University of California, Riverside and
the California Department of Parks and Recreation 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 Kings County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 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#cfa2aaa8aea1e1a2babdbfa7b68fbaacbde1aaabba"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cfa2aaa8aea1e1a2babdbfa7b68fbaacbde1aaabba">[email protected]</span></a> and Leslie Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator,
California State Parks, 715 P Street, Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814,
telephone (415) 831-2700, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3a080d0b5f4956535f14525b484e405f56567a4a5b48514914595b145d554c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="93a1a4a2f6e0fffaf6bdfbf2e1e7e9f6ffffd3e3f2e1f8e0bdf0f2bdf4fce5">[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 and the California Department of
Parks and Recreation. 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 and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation.
Description
At some time before 1992, human remains representing, at minimum,
one individual were removed from the Tulare Lake Witt Site locale in
Kings County, CA, by a private individual. The human remains were
donated to the California Department of Parks and Recreation by the
private individual and subsequently submitted to the University of
California, Riverside Radiocarbon Laboratory for Uranium-series method
dating tests. The collection was subsequently held in the UCR
Radiocarbon Laboratory under the direction of Dr. R. Ervin Taylor. When
he retired in 2003, the lab was decommissioned and its records and
remaining sample materials were subsequently stored by Dr. Taylor in an
off-campus storage facility, which he did not report to the campus
Repatriation Coordinator at the time. The residual sample materials
were rediscovered by UCR NAGPRA Program Staff during a collections
inventory in February of 2021. At the time no documentation indicating
who the individual was or where they were removed from was found and it
was not until September of 2022, that UCR NAGPRA Staff were able to
find publications that described human remains removed from the site
and data-sample sheets produced by the laboratory that were consistent
with this individual. It was also discovered in 2023 that the larger
skeletal elements from which the samples were removed were present at
California State University, Bakersfield since at least 2017 when Dr.
Robert Bettinger (UCR Alumnus) likely transferred them from the
University of California, Davis without the knowledge of the Tribe or
any NAGPRA Program to Dr. Robert Yohe III at CSUB. The human remains
are approximately 44 mineralized bone fragments/elements representing
at least one cranium and at least one femur. No known individuals were
determined to be represented by the human remains. Uranium-series
method dates suggest a date between 11,390 <plus-minus> 70 and 15,800
<plus-minus> 380 BP. The three associated funerary objects are one lot
of lithic/stone objects, one lot of soil samples, and one lot of faunal
remains.
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
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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: tribal
traditional knowledge, 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 and the
California Department of Parks and Recreation has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The three 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 Santa Rosa Indian Community of
the Santa Rosa 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 March 29, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
California, Riverside and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation 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. The University of California, Riverside and the
California Department of Parks and Recreation are responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04089 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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