[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63621-63622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27205]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items in the Possession 
of the San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given under the Native American Graves Protection 
and Repatriation Act, 43 CFR 10.10(a)(3), of the intent to repatriate 
cultural items in the possession of the San Diego State University, San 
Diego, CA that meet the definition of ``unassociated funerary object'' 
under Section 2 of the Act.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 43 CFR 10.2(c). The 
determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of these 
cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations within this notice.
    The minimum of 3,000 cultural items consists of cores, faunal 
material, flakes, manos, and shell.
    In 1978, these cultural items were recovered from a burial at the 
La Fleur site, SDSU-0093, SDI-6153, Jamul, CA. No records from this 
excavation of collection exist. The human remains recovered with these 
cultural items are no longer in the San Diego State University 
collection.
    Based on material culture, site location, ethnographic information, 
continuity of occupation, and consultation evidence, the burial from 
the La Fleur site has been identified as Kumeyaay.
    Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the San 
Diego State University have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 
10.2(d)(2)(ii), this minimum of 3,000 cultural items is 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 and is 
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from 
a specific burial site of an Native American. Officials of the San 
Diego State University also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 
10.2(e), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be 
reasonably traced between these items and the Campo Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of the Campo Reservation, the Capitan Grande Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of California, the Barona Group of Capitan 
Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, the Viejas 
(Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the 
Viejas Reservation, the Cuyapaipe Community of Degueno Mission Indians 
of the Cuyapaipe Reservation, the Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, the La Posta Band of 
Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Reservation, the Manzanita 
Band of Diegueno Mission

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Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, the Jamul Indian Village, the 
Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande 
Reservation, the San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
California, the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Santa Ysabel Reservation, and the Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of California, and the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation 
Committee, authorized NAGPRA representative of the aforementioned 
Indian tribes. This notice has been sent to officials of the Kumeyaay 
Cultural Repatriation Committee, the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the Campo Reservation, the Capitan Grande Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of California, the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band 
of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, the Viejas (Baron Long) 
Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas 
Reservation, the Cuyapaipe Community of Degueno Mission Indians of the 
Cuyapaipe Reservation, the Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of the La Posta Reservation, the Manzanita Band of Diegueno 
Mission Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, the Jamul Indian Village, 
the Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande 
Reservation, the San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of 
California, the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the 
Santa Ysabel Reservation, and the Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission 
Indians of California. Representatives of any other Indian tribe that 
believes itself to be culturally affiliated with these unassociated 
funerary objects should contact Lynne E. Christenson, Ph.D., Director, 
Collections Management Program, San Diego State University, 5500 
Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4443, telephone (619) 594-2305, 
before November 24, 2000. Repatriation of these unassociated funerary 
objects to the culturally affiliated tribes may begin after that date 
if no additional claimants come forward.

    Dated: October 12, 2000.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and Partnerships.
[FR Doc. 00-27205 Filed 10-23-00 ; 8:45 am]
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