Notice2024-04099
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and California State Department of Transportation, 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), California State University, Sacramento and California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans) have completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Sacramento County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14704-14705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04099]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037486; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University,
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA and California State Department of
Transportation, 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), California State University, Sacramento and
California State Department of Transportation (Caltrans) have completed
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and have
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes in this
notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed
from Sacramento County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Mark Wheeler, Chief of Staff to President Luke Wood,
California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA
95819, telephone (916) 460-0490, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ff929e8d94d188979a9a939a8dbf9c8c8a8cd19a9b8a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cfa2aebda4e1b8a7aaaaa3aabd8facbcbabce1aaabba">[email protected]</span></a> and Dr.
Lisa Bright, Branch Chief District 3, Cultural Resources (South),
California State Department of Transportation, 703 B Street,
Marysville, CA 95901, telephone (530) 812-4569, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d41647e6c234f7f646a65794d696279236e6c236a627b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bff3d6ccde91fdcdd6d8d7cbffdbd0cb91dcde91d8d0c9">[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
California State University, Sacramento and Caltrans. 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 California State University, Sacramento and Caltrans.
Description
In 1954-1956, 1967 and 1972, human remains representing, at
minimum, 486 individuals were removed from CA-SAC-29 (also known as
Roeder Mound and Sama). The 1954-56 excavations were carried out by
Sacramento State College (now California State University, Sacramento)
under the direction of Richard Reeve and Brigham Arnold. The 1967
excavations were carried out by the State Department of Parks and
Recreation (DPR) for Caltrans under the direction of William Prichard.
A salvage excavation done under the direction of Jerald J. Johnson for
Pacific Gas and Electric in 1972, a 1990 donation of human remains and
artifacts made by a private collector, and a 1950s donation of
artifacts by the estate of Anthony Zallio to the University are also
part of the assemblage. Occupation of the site is estimated to have
occurred during the Early through Historic periods. The 643,304
associated funerary objects removed from this site include baked clay
objects; ash; modified bones, stones, and shells; historic materials;
flaked and ground stones; thermally-altered rocks; textiles; floral and
faunal remains; pigment; unmodified stones; cooking stones; coprolites;
mud dauber nests; soil and column samples; modern refuse; and
unidentified materials. Of this number, at least 198 objects are
currently missing from the collection and California State University,
Sacramento continues to look for them. An unknown number of additional
objects are also missing.
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:
anthropological, archeological, folkloric, geographical, historical,
kinship, linguistic, oral traditional, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, California State University, Sacramento and Caltrans has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 486 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 643,304 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 Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of
Miwuk Indians; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and the Wilton 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, California State
University, Sacramento and Caltrans 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. California State University,
Sacramento and Caltrans are responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes 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. 2024-04099 Filed 2-27-24; 8:45 am]
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