Notice2024-09409
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
May 1, 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 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35195-35196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09409]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037834; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, 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 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 31, 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#08656d6f696626657d7a786071487d6b7a266d6c7d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="08656d6f696626657d7a786071487d6b7a266d6c7d">[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 additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. The two
associated funerary objects are charcoal samples. From December 1984
through January 1985 the University of California, Riverside
Archaeological Research Unit (UCR-ARU) investigated archaeological site
CA-RIV-1806 (Hi Card Ranch) as part of an environmental impact
assessment related to a housing development near Wildomar. Daniel
McCarthy, staff archaeologist for the UCR-ARU published a report on the
excavation in 1986 entitled ``Excavations at Hi Card Ranch (CA-RIV-
1806), Santa Rosa Plateau, Near Wildomar, Riverside County,
California''. A total of 26 units, including four test units were
excavated. Items removed from the site included cremated human remains
and charcoal, as well as faunal bone, a bead made from faunal bone,
seeds, stone tools and flakes, ground stones, modified disc-shaped and
donut-shaped stones, and projectile points. The human bone removed from
the site was not identified as human until a morphological laboratory
analysis following excavation. Five small human bone fragments were all
uncovered in unit 6, which was located on the northwestern edge of the
excavation in what archaeologists believed was a single cremation. The
associated archaeological collection was temporarily housed in the
University of California Riverside Archaeological Curation Unit under
Accession #101. The cremated human bone fragments and charcoal listed
in this inventory were sent to the UCR Radiocarbon Laboratory under the
direction of Dr. Taylor to be dated and remained in the UCR collection
after testing. The remainder of the collection was returned to the
landowner, Mr. Keith Card, in October of 1989. UCR NAGPRA Program Staff
contacted the family and colleagues of the late Keith Card, but were
unable to locate the other artifacts removed from the site.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The University of California, Riverside has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The two objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in
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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 and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 May 31, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
California, Riverside 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 is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: April 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-09409 Filed 4-30-24; 8:45 am]
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