Notice2024-11443
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
May 24, 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 has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 102 (Friday, May 24, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45921-45922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11443]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037981; 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 has determined that there
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or
after June 24, 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#f29f9795939cdc9f8780829a8bb2879180dc979687"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d50585a5c531350484f4d55447d485e4f13585948">[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. No associated
funerary objects are present.
At an unknown date human remains were removed by an unknown
individual from a gravel pit in Madison County, Nebraska known as the
``Norfolk Gravel Pit'' (archaeological site 25MD7) and were donated to
the Nebraska State Historical Society. At some point prior to 2001,
Steve Holen loaned the remains from the Nebraska State Historical
Society to Robson
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Bonnichsen, at Oregon State University, as part of ``the Human Skeletal
Dating Project''. Bonnichsen obtained human remains that he believed to
be of great antiquity as part of the project to send for radiocarbon
dating analysis. The remains were submitted to the radiocarbon dating
laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, under the
direction of Dr. R.E. Taylor, and were tested on September 7, 2001
according to laboratory records. Although Taylor was well-aware of
NAGPRA and his obligations under the federal law, he concealed the
remains on campus until they were discovered in 2022 by UCR's
Repatriation Coordinator. The UCR NAGPRA Program contacted the
University of Nebraska State Museum upon discovering the remains, as
similar remains were reported in a Notice of Inventory Completion
published by the museum in 2000 which had reportedly been donated by
the Nebraska State Historical Society to the museum. The Nebraska State
Museum indicated that although the remains are likely from the same or
a nearby site, they could not confirm if they were from the same
individual previously repatriated by the museum and declined legal
responsibility for the repatriation.
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 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> There is a reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South
Dakota; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the
Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska; Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Nebraska; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud
Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Spirit
Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South
Dakota; Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North
Dakota; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota;
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after June 24, 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 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: May 15, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-11443 Filed 5-23-24; 8:45 am]
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