Notice2025-17621
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
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Published
September 12, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Riverside intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 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 175 (Friday, September 12, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 44232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17621]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6509; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041054; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: University of California,
Riverside, Riverside, 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, Riverside
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of 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 October 14, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Megan Murphy, University of
California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517-5900,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a9c4cccec8c787c4dcdbd9c1d0e9dccadb87cccddc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3f525a585e5111524a4d4f57467f4a5c4d115a5b4a">[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, Riverside, 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 two cultural items have been requested for repatriation.
The two objects of cultural patrimony are a grinding stone and a lithic
core.
In 1989 one metate fragment and one lithic were collected from
archaeological site CA-RIV-4066 as part of a graduate student's
dissertation project and were assigned UCR accession number 176. The
site, located in the Elsinore Mountains, is described by archaeologists
in site records as ``a campsite that has a volcanic outcrop that was
probably used to quarry material to make milling stones''. A bedrock
mortar and concentrations of lithic debitage were noted in the site
records. This area is known to the Pechanga Band of Indians as part of
their ancestral lands and any cultural objects removed from this region
are of importance to the tribe; the metate and lithic core were
identified by tribal representatives as being objects of cultural
patrimony.
Determinations
The University of California, Riverside has determined that:
<bullet> The two 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 Pechanga Band of Indians
(previously listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the
Pechanga Reservation, 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 October 14, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the University of California, Riverside 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 University of
California, Riverside 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.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: August 29, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-17621 Filed 9-11-25; 8:45 am]
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