Notice2024-21531
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Published
September 20, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California Berkeley 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 183 (Friday, September 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77177-77178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21531]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038728; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley, 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 Berkeley has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
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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 October 21, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Alexandra Lucas, Repatriation Coordinator, Government and
Community Relations (Chancellor's Office), University of California,
Berkeley, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 570-
0964, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c6a8a7a1b6b4a7ebb3a5a486a4a3b4ada3aaa3bfe8a3a2b3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c4aaa5a3b4b6a5e9b1a7a684a6a1b6afa1a8a1bdeaa1a0b1">[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, Berkeley 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
In the Spring of 1986, Polly Quick and the University of
California, Berkeley Anthropology Field Class (133) removed at minimum,
101 ancestors from CA-SAC-42, also known as Souza Mound. The 10
associated funerary objects are nine lots consisting of faunal remains,
ground stone, beads, flaked and chipped stone, soil, and shell and one
mortar fragment. The ancestors and associated funerary objects were
accessioned by the Lowie Museum (today the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology) in 1988. One associated funerary object was removed by
R.F. Heizer and the University of California, Berkeley S197
Anthropology class in July 1949 and appropriated by the University of
California, Berkeley in 1949. The associated funerary object is a
mortar fragment.
Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural
substances were used prior to 1960.
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 University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 101 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 10 lots of 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 this notice and the Buena
Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Cachil Dehe Band of
Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria,
California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
Guidiville Rancheria of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of
California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River Reservation, California; United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; Wilton Rancheria, California; and
the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 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 October 21, 2024.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
California, Berkeley 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, Berkeley 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: September 12, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-21531 Filed 9-19-24; 8:45 am]
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