Notice2025-08036
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, Davis, 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 University of California, Davis (UC Davis) 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 19514-19515]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08036]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040070; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis,
Davis, 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, Davis (UC
Davis) 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 June 9, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616,
telephone (530) 752-8501, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fd9093929f9198bd889e999c8b948ed3989988"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="86ebe8e9e4eae3c6f3e5e2e7f0eff5a8e3e2f3">[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 UC
Davis, 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 least, five individuals have been
identified.
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The 20 associated funerary objects are eight lots of soil or clay
samples, five lots of carbon and charcoal samples, three lots of
miscellaneous ground stone, one pestle, one mortar, one lot of ochre,
and one lot of unidentified missing material. Yolo County Central
Landfill employees and UC Davis archaeologists removed burials and
funerary objects from CA-YOL-171, the Yolo Landfill Cemetery Site from
May to July 1981, after an inadvertent discovery during the excavation
of a new waste management pit. Three burials were removed, along with
human remains not part of formal burials. The material was brough to UC
Davis for study and curation upon excavation. In addition, a fourth
burial was uncovered near the other three burials but was not removed
by UC Davis.
The landfill expanded the waste management pit in 1991. Eleanor
Derr of Cultural Resources Unlimited performed a pedestrian field
survey and cultural resources study, which uncovered only one piece of
ground stone. This ground stone was brought to UC Davis for curation in
February 1992. UC Davis Accession 419 is comprised of materials from
both the 1981 and 1991 investigations. The University is unaware of any
treatment of the associated funerary objects with pesticides,
preservatives, or other substances that represent a potential hazard to
the objects or to persons handling the objects.
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
UC Davis has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of five individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 20 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 Cachil
DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the
Colusa Rancheria, California; Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina
Rancheria (previously listed as Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians);
and the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 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, UC Davis
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. UC Davis 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. 2025-08036 Filed 5-7-25; 8:45 am]
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