Notice2025-05818
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
April 4, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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 90, Number 64 (Friday, April 4, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14864-14865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05818]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039850; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: 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
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of 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 May 5, 2025.
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#d7bab2b0b6b9f9baa2a5a7bfae97a2b4a5f9b2b3a2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="45282022242b6b283037352d3c053026376b202130">[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 summary or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
A total of eight cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The eight objects of cultural patrimony are six lots of
charcoal, one lot of soil samples, and one lot of ceramics.
In 1979, Stanley Berryman submitted three charcoal samples to the
University of California, Riverside radiocarbon dating laboratory from
archaeological site CA-SDI-5344 (SDM-W-1583). The samples dated to
about A.D. 1100 and were associated with lithic debitage and marine
shell. No other items were collected from the site and no known
archaeological collections from the site exist at other institutions.
In 1979, Keith Polan submitted three charcoal samples and one soil
sample to the University of California, Riverside radiocarbon dating
laboratory from archaeological site CA-SDI-5669 in the city of Santee,
San Diego County. The site was described as a village site with
habitation debris. Objects removed from the site included lithics,
pottery, shell beads, stone beads, bone awls, arrow shaft straightener,
quartz crystals, metates and manos, pendants, clay pipes, animal bone,
fire-affected rock, charcoal, and historic items. UCR NAGPRA Program
staff attempted to locate the collection associated with the 1979
project but were unable to do so.
In 1975, Charlotte McGowan submitted one charcoal sample to the
University of California, Riverside radiocarbon dating laboratory from
archaeological site CA-SDI-12809. The sample dates to about 320 +/- 50
years before present. McGowan described the site as an extensive
village site, many hearths noted on surface. Objects reported include
lithic scatters, fire-affected rock, ground stone tools, ceramics,
steatite arrow-shaft straighteners, shell beads, bone tools, shelf
scatter and faunal scatter. UCR NAGPRA Program staff attempted to
locate the collection associated with the 1975 project but were unable
to do so.
In 2024, the University of California, Riverside NAGPRA Program
staff discovered a bag of ceramic sherds in UCR's archaeological
collections labelled, ``ceramic sherds, San Diego co.''. The sherds are
believed to be related to the work of retired archaeology professor
Philip Wilke.
Determinations
The University of California, Riverside has determined that:
<bullet> The eight 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 the 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
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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 May 5, 2025. 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 cultural items 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 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: March 26, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05818 Filed 4-3-25; 8:45 am]
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