Notice2025-12832
Notice of Inventory Completion: Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
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Published
July 10, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Antelope Valley College (AVC) 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 130 (Thursday, July 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30664-30665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12832]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040479; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Antelope Valley College,
Lancaster, 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), Antelope Valley College (AVC) 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 August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Dr. Darcy L. Wiewall,
Antelope Valley College, 3041 W Ave. K, Lancaster, CA 93536, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b4d0d5c6d7cd9ac3ddd1c3d5d8d8f4d5c2d79ad1d0c1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f0b0e1d0c164118060a180e03032f0e190c410a0b1a">[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 AVC,
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, eight individuals have been
identified. The two lots of associated funerary objects consist of
shell & lithic beads and pendants, lithic, and faunal material. The
individuals and associated funerary objects were removed from the Lazy-
T Cemetery (CA-LAN-767) site is in Palmdale, California, in the
Antelope Valley portion of the western Mojave Desert, in North Los
Angeles County. Excavated by Roger Robinson, Instructor of Anthropology
at Antelope Valley College (AVC) between February and May 1975 as part
of an archaeological field class under his direction. Roger Robinson
subsequently transferred the collection to his personal residence in
2007. In 2019, Antelope Valley College took possession of the
collection. Based on the typology of associated funerary items, the
collection dates to approximately A.D. 800-1700. While there is no
record regarding potentially hazardous substances having been used to
treat the human remains, an unidentified adhesive is present.
Based on archaeological context and information learned from
consultations, with representatives of the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel
Nation (also known as the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians) and non-
federally recognized California Tribes including the Fernande[ntilde]o
Tataviam Band of Mission Indians and the San Fernando Band of Mission
Indians, these individuals are Native American. Archaeologists have
asserted that Serrano and Tataviam peoples have continuously occupied
the San Gabriel Mountains and the surrounding areas for up to 5,000-
6,000 years BP. Linguistic sources demonstrate a strong continuous
shared group identity between those people and modern Native Americans
of Serrano and Tataviam descent. Ethnographic evidence and Traditional
Knowledge document the Palmdale region as home to Serrano and Tataviam
peoples since time immemorial.
Based on archaeological context and information learned from
consultations, these individuals are Native American. Archaeologists
have asserted that Serrano and Tataviam peoples have continuously
occupied the San Gabriel Mountains and the surrounding areas for up to
5,000-6,000 years BP. Linguistic sources demonstrate a strong
continuous shared group identity between those people and modern Native
Americans of Serrano and Tataviam descent. Ethnographic evidence and
Traditional Knowledge document the Palmdale region as home to Serrano
and Tataviam peoples since time immemorial.
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. The following types of
information were used to reasonably trace the relationship:
anthropological information, archaeological information, geographical
information, folkloric, historical, kinship, linguistic, oral
traditional, and expert opinion, including Tribal Traditional
Knowledge.
Determinations
AVC has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of eight individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The two 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
Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation (previously listed as San Manuel Band
of Mission Indians, 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.
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Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August
11, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, AVC 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. AVC is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this
notice and any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: June 25, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-12832 Filed 7-9-25; 8:45 am]
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