Notice2024-04456
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Folsom History, Folsom, 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), Folsom History intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or 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 Sacramento County, CA, or an unknown county.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15608-15609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04456]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037508; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Folsom History,
Folsom, 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), Folsom History intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary
objects or 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 Sacramento County,
CA, or an unknown county.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after April 3, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Shelby Sorensen, Folsom History, 823 Sutter Street, Folsom,
CA 95630, telephone (916) 985-2707, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#314259545d534871575e5d425e5c595842455e43481f5e4356"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="06756e636a647f4660696a75696b6e6f757269747f28697461">[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 Folsom
History. 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 Folsom History.
Description
The three cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, CA,
or an unknown county, CA. The date of removal is unknown or from a
general local area. Acquisition dates are listed from 1977 to found in
collection in 2022. One cultural item was created by artist, Harry
Fonesca. Donor information is available upon request for all objects.
It is likely the object listed as 2015.01.17 (rhythm necklace; Nisenan)
was gifted or purchased from the Pacific Western Traders. The one
unassociated funerary item is a collection of 27 arrowheads and points.
The two objects of cultural patrimony are one rhythm necklace (Nisenan)
and one framed pen and ink with colored pencil both created by artist,
Harry Fonesca.
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: geography, kinship, biology,
archeology, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, oral tradition,
historical information, and other relevant information or expert
opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations Folsom History has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above 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 and
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> The two 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 Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
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 April 3, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, Folsom History 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. Folsom History is responsible for sending a
copy of this
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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. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: February 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04456 Filed 3-1-24; 8:45 am]
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