Notice2025-07418
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Roseland School District, Santa Rosa, CA
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Published
April 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Roseland School District intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 90, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17964-17965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07418]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040017; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Roseland School District, Santa
Rosa, 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 Roseland School District intends to
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 May 30, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Ra[uacute]l Guerrero, Roseland School District, 1691 Burbank
Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95407, telephone (707) 545-0102, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0270657767707067706d42706d71676e636c6671662c6d7065"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d9abbeacbcababbcabb699abb6aabcb5b8b7bdaabdf7b6abbe">[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
Roseland School District, 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 43 lots of cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. The 37 lots of unassociated funerary objects are shell,
bone, clay and glass beads; shell ornaments; unmodified shells; a
flaked stone tool; a stone sphere; and a charmstone. The six lots of
objects of cultural patrimony are two scale replicas of traditional
roundhouse buildings; a feather hair ornament; wood whistles; and a
leather and glass bead medicine bag. The items were collected by
Roseland School District Indian Museum staff over a period of time
between 1975 and 2021, and were housed at the Museum on Roseland School
District property until 2024. In 2024, the items were transferred to
Sonoma State University for temporary housing due to mold and water
damage in the Museum building. No documentation regarding the
acquisition or geographic origin of the items has been found. The two
roundhouse scale replicas have been identified as made by esteemed Pomo
Elder Milton Bun Lucas. The remaining items are typical of those used
by Pomo people in the Sonoma County region. The age of the items is
uncertain, due to lack of information regarding their acquisition. The
presence of potentially hazardous substances used to treat any of the
cultural items is unknown, due to lack of documentation concerning the
origins and history of the items. However, recent treatment with
hazardous preservatives is unlikely, as the items in the museum were
intended to be in close proximity to young children. Additionally,
insects were found on or in the vicinity of some items, suggesting that
chemicals had not been used to deter such infestations.
Determinations
The Roseland School District has determined that:
<bullet> The 37 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 six 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 Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of
the Stewarts Point Rancheria, California.
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 30, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Roseland School District 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 Roseland School District 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.
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Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: April 15, 2025
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-07418 Filed 4-29-25; 8:45 am]
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