[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 85 (Friday, May 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10917]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, 
Riverside, Riverside, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 
3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the 
possession of the University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA. 
The human remains were removed from a site in Yucaipa, San Bernardino 
County, CA.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). 
The determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of 
the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the 
Native American human remains. The National Park Service is not 
responsible for the determinations within this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by professional 
staff of the University of California, Riverside in consultation with 
the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo 
Reservation, California and San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians 
of the San Manual Reservation, California.
    In 1976-1977, human remains representing one individual were 
excavated by the University of California, Riverside from site CA-SBR-
1000, Yucaipa, San Bernardino County, CA. The remains are several 
fragments of a human cranium. A human metatarsal was also catalogued 
but cannot be located in the collection. No known individual was 
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. Site CA-SBR-
1000 includes both Archaic period (6500 B.C. to A.D. 500) and Late 
Prehistoric/Protohistoric period (A.D. 1500 to 1825) components. The 
human remains are believed to have come from the Late Prehistoric/
Protohistoric component of the site.
    Ethnohistoric evidence indicates that the area around Yucaipa, CA, 
was occupied by the Serrano tribe during the Protohistoric period. In 
1918, Serrano consultants identified the town of Yucaipa, where site 
CA-SBR-1000 is located, as the site of the Serrano village of 
Jukai'pa', Jukai'pa't, or Jukai'pit. The Serrano tribe is currently 
represented by the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the 
Morongo Reservation, California and San Manual Band of Serrano Mission 
Indians of the San Manual Reservation, California.
    Officials of the University of California, Riverside have 
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains 
described above represent the physical remains of one individual of 
Native American ancestry. Officials of the University of California, 
Riverside also have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), 
there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably 
traced between the Native American human remains and the Morongo Band 
of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo Reservation, California and 
San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San Manual 
Reservation, California.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains should contact Philip 
J. Wilke, Department of Anthropology, 1334 Watkins Hall, University of 
California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0418, telephone (909) 787-
5524, before June 2, 2003. Repatriation of the human remains to the 
Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo Reservation, 
California and San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians of the San 
Manuel Reservation, California may proceed after that date if no 
additional claimants come forward.
    The University of California, Riverside is responsible for 
notifying the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Morongo 
Reservation, California and San Manual Band of Serrano Mission Indians 
of the San Manual Reservation, California that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: March 17, 2003.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
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