Notice2025-06209
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Published
April 11, 2025
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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 90, Number 69 (Friday, April 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15474-15475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06209]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039893; 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
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 May 12, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Alexandra Lucas, University of California, Berkeley, 200
California Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 570-0964, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e987888e999b88c49c8a8ba98b8c9b828c858c90c78c8d9c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9ef0fff9eeecffb3ebfdfcdefcfbecf5fbf2fbe7b0fbfaeb">[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 its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Between 1898 and 1960, and potentially later, numerous individuals
removed, at minimum, 112 individuals,
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and 3,018 lots of associated funerary objects from the following sites
in Sacramento County, California: CA-SAC-16, CA-SAC-26, CA-SAC-28, CA-
SAC-29, CA-SAC-31, CA-SAC-32, CA-SAC-33, CA-SAC-37, CA-SAC-99, CA-SAC-
127, CA-SAC-160, CA-SAC-192, and donated them to the Phoebe A. Hearst
Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The
3,018 lots of associated funerary objects are stone tools, bone tools,
bone tubes, whistles, sinkers, awls, faunal remains, tool fragments,
beads, ornaments, scrapers, hooks, mineral samples, projectile points,
jewelry, charmstones, ground stone, stone fragments, botanical samples,
gambling bones, rubbing stones, bone fragments, lithics, pins, shell,
abraders, pebbles, discoidal fragments, pipes, grinding slabs, baked
clay, baked clay balls, needles, whetstones, painting supplies,
crystals, charms, vessels for food and drink, hair tubes, pottery,
metal materials and fragments, porcelain, glassware and glass
fragments, buttons, soil samples, charcoal, worked bone, pencil
fragment, gouges, polishing stones, anvils, carvings, basketry
fragments, and ammunition cases.
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 112 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 3,018 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Buena
Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok
Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of
California; and the Wilton Rancheria, 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 May 12,
2025. 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: April 1, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06209 Filed 4-10-25; 8:45 am]
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