Notice2024-04453
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Published
March 4, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (Fowler Museum at UCLA), 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 Orange County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 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: 2024-04453]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037497; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum at the University
of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 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 Fowler Museum at the University of
California Los Angeles (Fowler Museum at UCLA), 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 Orange County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remain in this notice may occur on or
after April 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Michael Chavez, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, Los
Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, email
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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
Fowler Museum at UCLA. 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 Fowler
Museum at UCLA.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Orange County, CA. The ancestor was transferred from Catherine
Asper to Renatta Russell in 1975 along with a typed letter stating that
they were found on a golf course in Aliso Beach. Russell then mailed
the ancestor to Dr. Berger, Director of the UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory
in 1976. In 1994 after UCLA closed the Laboratory many of the
collections were transferred to UC Riverside's Radiocarbon Laboratory.
In 2019, after the retirement of Professor Erwin Taylor, UCR
inventoried all the materials and returned collections to UCLA
including this ancestral remain, assigned catalog number PC#618A. In
2021 UCLA determined that there was sufficient reason to assume control
and in consultation with local archaeologists and tribal members that
the individual represented by PC#618A may have been taken from ORA-9.
No lineal descendant can be determined. No associated funerary objects
are present.
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: geographical information and
expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 Pechanga Band of Indians (previously listed as Pechanga Band of
Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pechanga Reservation, California).
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 identified in this notice
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the
Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation--Belardes; Juaneno
Band of Mission Indians Acjachemen Nation 84A; and the Gabrielino/
Tongva Nation.
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 April 3, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04453 Filed 3-1-24; 8:45 am]
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