Notice2024-18684
Notice of Inventory Completion: David A. Fredrickson Archaeological Collections Facility at Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
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Published
August 21, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Sonoma State University 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 162 (Wednesday, August 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 67654]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18684]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038506; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: David A. Fredrickson
Archaeological Collections Facility at Sonoma State University, Rohnert
Park, 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 Sonoma State University 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 September 20, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Doshia Dodd, Sonoma State University, 1801 East Cotati
Avenue, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, telephone (530) 514-8472, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b3f7dcc0dbdad29dd7dcd7d7f3c0dcdddcded29dd6d7c6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fcb8938f94959dd298939898bc8f939293919dd2999889">[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
Sonoma State University, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its 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 removed from CA-TEH-1528 in Tehama County,
California, have been reasonably identified. The lot of 8,707
associated funerary objects removed from CA-TEH-1528 are groundstone
tools, ocher, unmodified shell, faunal bone, modified faunal bone,
flaked stone tools and debitage. Based on records concerning the
associated funerary objects and the institution in which they were
housed, there is no evidence of the human remains or associated
funerary items being treated with hazardous substances.
CA-TEH-1528 is located at the edge of a broad basaltic plateau
northeast of Red Bluff and west-northwest of Vales in Tehama County.
CA-TEH-1528 was first recorded by Pat Mikkelsen in 1992. The collection
is the result of Stage II and III archaeological investigations at the
PGT-PGE Pipeline Project by Far Western Anthropological Research Group.
The collection, Accession Number 91-31, has been housed at Sonoma State
University since 1995.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Sonoma State University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 8,707 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Paskenta
Band of Nomlaki Indians of 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after September
20, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Sonoma State University 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 Sonoma State University 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: August 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-18684 Filed 8-20-24; 8:45 am]
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