Notice2024-26456
Notice of Intended Repatriation: The San Diego Archaeological Center, San Diego, CA
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Published
November 14, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Diego Archaeological Center intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 220 (Thursday, November 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 90040-90041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26456]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039029; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: The San Diego Archaeological
Center, San Diego, 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 San Diego Archaeological Center intends
to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural
patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after December 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Stephanie Sandoval, The San Diego Archaeological Center,
16666 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027, telephone (760)
291-0370, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bccfd6cfddd2d8d3caddd0fccfddd2d8d5d9dbd3ddcedfd4ddd9d3d0d3dbc592d3cedb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eb9881988a858f849d8a87ab988a858f828e8c848a9988838a8e8487848c92c584998c">[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
San Diego Archaeological Center and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records. The
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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this
notice.
Abstract of Information Available
An approximate total of 12,901 cultural items representing 16
archaeological collections have been requested for repatriation by the
Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee (KCRC), on behalf of the 12
Federally recognized Kumeyaay Tribal Nations. The 58 unassociated
funerary objects include the following material classes: Ground stone
fragments and Shell beads/fragments; the 569 sacred objects include the
following material classes: Ceramic pipe fragments, figurine fragments,
and rattle beads; Chipped stone biface, blanks, core, debitage, flakes,
points, tools, and sucking tube fragment; Ground stone pendants; Ochre
mineral fragment; Shell beads and pendants; and tourmaline crystals;
and the 12,274 objects of cultural patrimony include the following
material classes: Bone (faunal) modified and unmodified; Ceramics;
Chipped stone tools; Chipped stone; Ground stone tools; Historic;
Lithics; Samples (charcoal and soil); Vegetal modified and unmodified;
Shell modified and unmodified.
There is no known presence of any potentially hazardous substances
used to treat any of the cultural items mentioned in this notice.
Determinations
The San Diego Archaeological Center has determined that:
<bullet> The 58 unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with
or near human remains, and are connected, either at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary objects have been identified by a preponderance
of the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> The 569 sacred objects described in this notice are
specific ceremonial objects needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> The 12,274 objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance
central to the Native American group, including any constituent sub-
group (such as a band, clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other
subdivision), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and Campo Band of Diegueno Mission
Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California; Capitan Grande
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California (Barona Group of Capitan
Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, California;
Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of
the Viejas Reservation, California); Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay
Indians, California; Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, California; Inaja
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation,
California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La Posta Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation,
California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; San Pasqual Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and the Sycuan Band of the
Kumeyaay Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under 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 December 16, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the San Diego Archaeological Center 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. The San Diego Archaeological
Center is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and
to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: November 5, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-26456 Filed 11-13-24; 8:45 am]
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