Notice2025-08031
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
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Published
May 8, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento 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 88 (Thursday, May 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19521-19522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08031]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040082; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University,
Sacramento, Sacramento, 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 California State University, Sacramento
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
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in this notice may occur on or after June 9, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Mark Wheeler, Chief of Staff to President Luke Wood,
California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA
95819, telephone (916) 460-0490, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cea3afbca5e0b9a6ababa2abbc8eadbdbbbde0abaabb"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="97faf6e5fcb9e0fff2f2fbf2e5d7f4e4e2e4b9f2f3e2">[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
California State University, Sacramento, 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
Human remains representing, at minimum, 14 individuals have been
identified. The 18,830 associated funerary objects consist of flaked
and ground stones; faunal and floral remains; geologic samples;
unmodified stones; historic materials; modified bone, shell, stone, and
wood objects; pigments; manuports; and thermally altered rocks. Of this
number, at least 425 objects are currently missing from the
collections. California State University, Sacramento continues to look
for any missing objects. These human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from CA-CAL-9, CAL-13, CAL-99, CAL-1255, CAL-1257,
and CAL-Cabin Site. They came into the University's possession through
surveys and excavations conducted in the 1960s and 1970s by California
State University, Sacramento students J. Michael McEachern, Louis
Payen, and Judy Rose in Calaveras County near San Domingo Creek and the
Stanislaus River. Donations made by landowners from sites in these same
areas were also received by the University. These human remains and
associated funerary objects have since been housed at the University
under accession numbers 81-344, 81-377, 81-352, 81-15, 81-16, 81-369,
and 81-17.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
The California State University, Sacramento has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 14 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 18,830 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed 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 relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California;
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; and the
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of
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 June 9,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
California State University, Sacramento 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 California
State University, Sacramento 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 22, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08031 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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