Notice2025-18576
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA
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Published
September 25, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of California, Berkeley 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 184 (Thursday, September 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46243-46244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18576]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6548; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041137; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California,
Berkeley, Berkeley 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, Berkeley 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 October 27, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
and associated funerary objects in this notice to Alexandra Lucas,
Government and Community Relations, Office of the Chancellor.
University of California, Berkeley, 200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA
94720, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#076966607775662a726465476562756c626b627e29626372"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="422c23253230236f3721200220273029272e273b6c272637">[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, Berkeley, 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
Between 1940 and 1967, ancestral remains representing, at minimum,
109 individuals and 3,560 associated funerary belongings were removed
from CA-Las-7 (Karlo Site), Lassen County, California by various
individuals and accessioned into the University of California Museum of
Anthropology (now known by Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology).
The 3,560 funerary belongings include abraders, arrows, awls, baked
and unbaked clay, beads, blades, blanks, bone tools, charcoal,
choppers, core tools, crystal, die, discoidal fragments, disk
fragments, drills, effigies, faunal remains, fishing equipment, flakes,
floral remains, gambling and gaming objects, grinding stones,
hammerstones, knives, level bag, lithics, manos, matrix, metates,
mortars and pestles, ocher, ore, pendants and ornaments, perforators,
pigment, pipes, plastic bird, points, rubbing stone, saws, scrapers,
shells, weights, worked and unworked scoria, worked and unworked stone,
and worked bone.
Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural
substances were used prior to 1960.
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.
Determinations
The University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 109 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 3,560 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 Berry
Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Bridgeport Indian
Colony; Cedarville Rancheria, California; Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu
Indians of California; Fort Bidwell Indian Community of the Fort
Bidwell Reservation of California; Greenville Rancheria; Mooretown
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Pit River Tribe, California
(includes IL Ranch, Big Bend, Likely, Lookout, Montgomery Creek, and
Roaring Creek Rancherias); and the Susanville Indian Rancheria,
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:
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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 October
27, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of California, Berkeley 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 University of California,
Berkeley 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: September 11, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-18576 Filed 9-24-25; 8:45 am]
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