[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34988-34989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-14293]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-10360; 2200-1100-665]


Notice of Inventory Completion: San Diego State University, San 
Diego, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: San Diego State University Archeology Collections Management 
Program has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes, 
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and present-day Indian 
tribes. Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary 
objects may contact San Diego State University Archeology Collections 
Management Program. Repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Indian tribes stated below may occur if no 
additional claimants come forward.

DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes it has a 
cultural affiliation with the human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact San Diego State University Archeology 
Collections Management Program at the address below by July 12, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Jaime Lennox, Interim Director, San Diego State University 
Archeology Collections Management Program, 5500 Campanile Dr., San 
Diego, CA 92182-6040, telephone (619) 594-4575.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 possession of San Diego State 
University Archeology Collections Management Program, San Diego, CA. 
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the 
Buchanan Reservoir site in Madera 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

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National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this 
notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the San 
Diego State University Archeology Collections Management Program 
professional staff in consultation with representatives 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 the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 
River Reservation, California (hereafter referred to as ``The 
Tribes'').

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1972, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals 
were removed from the Buchanan Reservoir site, SDSU-0368, MAD-117, 
(1972-15), located in Madera County, CA. This site was excavated as 
part of Thomas King's Ph.D. dissertation for the University of 
California, Riverside. The collection at San Diego State University 
appears to have been collected from back dirt by an unknown student and 
brought back to San Diego State University. The remains are two distal 
right humorous fragments and, based on diagnostics, represent two 
individuals. No known individuals were identified. The 92 associated 
funerary objects are 8 pieces of house daub, 61 chipped stone 
artifacts, 12 ground stone artifacts, 4 tools, 6 shells, and 1 lot of 
faunal remains.
    These objects were determined to be associated funerary objects 
based upon reasonable evidence derived from the provenience information 
recorded for this collection, as well as consultation with 
representatives of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa 
Rancheria, California. Geographic affiliation is consistent with the 
historically documented territory of the Picayune Rancheria of 
Chukchansi Indians of California and the Santa Rosa Indian Community of 
the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California, Table Mountain Rancheria of 
California, and the Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 
Reservation, California.

Determinations Made by the San Diego State University Archeology 
Collections Management Program

    Officials of the San Diego State University Archeology Collections 
Management Program have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 92 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.
     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 Tribes.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact Jaime Lennox, Interim Director, San Diego State 
University Archeology Collections Management Program, 5500 Campanile 
Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-6040, telephone (619) 594-4575, before July 
12, 2012. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to The Tribes may proceed after that date if no additional 
claimants come forward.
    The San Diego State University Archeology Collections Management 
Program is responsible for notifying The Tribes that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: June 7, 2012.
David Tarler,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2012-14293 Filed 6-11-12; 8:45 am]
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