[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 177 (Thursday, September 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52388-52389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-18101]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum of Cultural 
History, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves 
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects in the control of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History (Fowler 
Museum at UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 
CA. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
Tulare 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 in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National 
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Fowler 
Museum at UCLA professional staff in consultation with representatives 
of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, 
California (also known as the Tachi Yokut Tribe).
    In August 1958, human remains representing a minimum of 11 
individuals were removed from a site near the edge of the former Lake 
Tulare (CA-TUL-90) in Tulare County, CA, by C.N. Warren and M.B. 
McKusick. The collection was accessioned by the University of 
California, Los Angeles in 1958. No known individuals were identified. 
The 11 associated funerary objects are 6 animal bone, 2 land snail 
shell fragments, 1 basalt flake, and 2 sandstone net weights.
    The artifacts are consistent with others documented as associated 
with the indigenous inhabitants of the area. The burial position and 
orientation along with numbers of grave goods and the presence of net 
weights associate the burials with the Middle Period (3,500 to 1,500 
B.P). Lake Tulare is located within the traditional territory of the 
Yokut tribe. According to archeologists, the Yokut have occupied the 
territory around Tulare Lake and Buena Vista Lake for as long as two 
millennia.
    Tribal representatives from Santa Rosa Indian Community of the 
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Rosa Rancheria, California identified the site as being within the 
traditional territory of the Yokut people. Descendants of the Yokut are 
members of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; 
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; 
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of 
the Tule River Reservation, California.
    Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA have determined that, 
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above 
represent the physical remains of 11 individuals of Native American 
ancestry. Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA also have determined 
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 11 objects described above 
are 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. Lastly, officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 associated funerary 
objects and the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; 
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; 
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of 
the Tule River Reservation, California.
    Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to 
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact Wendy Teeter, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549, 
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, before October 
15, 2007. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, 
California may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come 
forward.
    The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for notifying the Picayune 
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian 
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table Mountain 
Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 
Reservation, California that this notice has been published.

    Dated: August 22, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-18101 Filed 9-12-07; 8:45 am]
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