Notice2024-04092
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 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 San Luis Obispo, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14702-14703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04092]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037478; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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 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 San Luis Obispo, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 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#a8c5cdcfc9c686c5dddad8c0d1e8ddcbda86cdccdd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="58353d3f393676352d2a283021182d3b2a763d3c2d">[email protected]</span></a> and Leslie Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, at
California State Parks, 715 P Street, Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814,
telephone (415) 831-2700, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#036f66706f6a662d6b62717779666f6f4373627168702d60622d646c75"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7d11180e11141853151c0f09071811113d0d1c0f160e531e1c531a120b">[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 summary or related records held by the University
of California, Riverside and the California Department of Parks and
Recreation.
Description
The two cultural items were removed from San Luis Obispo County,
CA. In 2001, Terry Jones removed sea-snail shells for radiocarbon date
calibration from archeological site CA-SLO-116 (San Simeon State Park).
The site, which is under the legal control of the California Department
of Parks and Recreation, consists of 19 recorded bedrock mortars and
large shell midden deposits. The shell samples submitted to the UCR
radiocarbon laboratory dated to 665 <plus-minus> BP, 785 <plus-minus>
BP, and 3910 <plus-minus> BP. There are no known associated collections
from this site held by CDPR at other locations.
In 1981, R.O. Gibson removed shell fragments for radiocarbon date
sampling from archeological site CA-SLO-978, Morro Bay Sandspit. The
site, located in Montana de Oro State Park Los Osos, was originally
recorded in 1969 as a shell mound or midden. Other noted cultural
constituents included debitage, fire-affected, and additional nearby
shell middens. There are no known associated collections from this site
held by CDPR at other locations. The two lots of objects of cultural
patrimony are two lots of shells.
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: tribal traditional
knowledge, archeological information, geographical information,
historical information, kinship, oral tradition, and expert opinion.
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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 two lots of 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 Santa Ynez Band
of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 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 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 cultural items are considered a single request and
not competing requests. The University of California, Riverside and the
California Department of Parks and Recreation is 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. 2024-04092 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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