[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53760-53761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21482]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16430; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Long 
Beach, and California State University, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: California State University, Sacramento and California State 
University, Long Beach have completed an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and have determined that there 
is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated 
funerary objects and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian 
tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice 
that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains and 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the 
California State University, Sacramento. If no additional requestors 
come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native 
Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to California State University, Sacramento at 
the address in this notice by October 10, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences 
and Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 
95819-6109, telephone (916) 278-4864, email [email protected].

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 under the control of the California State 
University, Long Beach, and in the physical custody of California State 
University, Sacramento. The human remains and associated funerary 
objects were removed from 4-SJo-17, San Joaquin 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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
California State University, Long Beach professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; 
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of California; 
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; 
Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria 
(Verona Tract), California; Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and 
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of 
California.

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History and Description of the Remains

    In 1967, human remains representing, at minimum, 15 individuals 
were removed from 4-SJo-17 in San Joaquin County, CA, during a salvage 
excavation project on private property. Faculty and students from what 
was then Long Beach State College (now California State University, 
Long Beach) and local volunteers conducted the excavations. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects included in this notice were 
transferred to California State University, Sacramento, from California 
State University, Long Beach, via California State University, Fresno, 
during the 1990s. The human remains of ten individuals from five burial 
features include one infant, one child, one juvenile, and seven adults 
(one female, one male, and five individuals of unknown sex). The human 
remains of two individuals, one infant and one adult, were documented 
as isolated human remains during the inventory of associated funerary 
objects from the site. The human remains of three individuals, one 
infant and two adults, were found during the review of sediment 
samples. No known individuals were identified. The 42 associated 
funerary objects are 33 fragments of non-human bone, 4 pieces of baked 
clay, 1 piece of daub, 1 flaked stone, 1 thermally altered rock, 1 
modified human bone, and 1 piece of historic metal.
    Based on burial patterns and artifact types, the human remains and 
associated funerary objects are dated to the Middle Horizon (2,500-
2,000 B.P.). The establishment of a cultural chronology of the 4-SJo-17 
collection relied upon the California Prehistoric Cultural Chronology 
and Artifact Classification System used by most regional archeologists. 
Multiple lines of evidence were used to determine the antiquity of this 
collection. Geographic, linguistic, archeological, and ethnographic 
evidence, as well as oral historical evidence presented at 
consultation, were used to determine cultural affiliation to the 
Eastern Miwok and Central Valley Yokuts peoples. The Eastern Miwok and 
Yokuts cultures of the Late Horizon (from 1,500 years ago to the 
European contact) are believed to have descended from the Middle 
Horizon cultures represented at this site, which lies on the border of 
the traditional territory of the Eastern Miwok and the Northern Valley 
Yokuts.

Determinations Made by the California State University, Sacramento, and 
California State University, Long Beach

    Officials of California State University, Sacramento, and 
California State University, Long Beach have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of a minimum of 15 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 42 objects described 
in this notice 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 Buena 
Vista Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of California; California Valley 
Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria 
of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi 
Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa 
Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle 
Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table Mountain Rancheria 
of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, 
California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria of California.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Dr. Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of the College of 
Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J Street, 
Sacramento, California, 95819-6109; telephone: (916) 278-4864, email: 
[email protected], by October 10, 2014. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Buena Vista 
Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok 
Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria 
of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi 
Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa 
Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle 
Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table Mountain Rancheria 
of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, 
California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria of California may proceed.
    California State University, Sacramento is responsible for 
notifying the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-wuk Indians of California; 
California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of 
Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; 
Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria 
of the Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of 
the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table 
Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 
River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: August 3, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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