[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68476-68477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27155]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17069; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: San Francisco State University 
NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations, and has 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 San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program. 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 the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program at the address in this notice by December 17, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State University 
NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State 
University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone 
(415) 338-3075, 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 San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA. The human remains 
and associated funerary objects were removed from site Ca-Sha-169, in 
Shasta 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 San 
Francisco State University NAGPRA Program professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of Redding Rancheria, California, and 
the Pit River Tribe, California (includes XL Ranch, Big Bend, Likely, 
Lookout, Montgomery Creek and Roaring Creek Rancherias).

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1960, human remains representing, at minimum, eight individuals 
were removed from site Ca-Sha-169 in Redding, CA, by San Francisco 
State University personnel in conjunction with construction of the 
Wintu Pumping Plant as part of the Whiskeytown Reservoir project. Site 
materials from the Whiskeytown Reservoir project were curated at San 
Francisco State University after excavation and surface collection. The 
270 individual and 1 lot of associated funerary objects are 9 obsidian 
projectile points and tools, 1 chert tool, 1 basalt tool, 5 bone tools, 
2 ground stone tools, 230 olivella beads, 4 haliotis pendants, 13 
glycymeris beads, 1 bone bead, 1 lot of traded beads, 1 possible charm 
stone, 1 mussel shell, and 2 pieces of red ochre.
    Ca-Sha-169 had archeological assemblages consistent with the Shasta 
Complex which is considered the

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archeological representation of the ethnographic Wintu, with a time-
depth of circa A.D. 1050. Oral history evidence presented during 
consultation indicates that the Redding, CA area has been continuously 
occupied by the Wintu since the contact period and that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the Redding Rancheria, California and the 
ancestral Wintu people.

Determinations Made by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program

    Officials of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of eight individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 270 individual and 1 
lot of 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 Redding 
Rancheria, 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 Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San 
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 
94132, telephone (415) 338-3075, email [email protected], by December 
17, 2014. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Redding Rancheria, California, may proceed.
    The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program is responsible 
for notifying the Redding Rancheria, California, and the Pit River 
Tribe, California (includes XL Ranch, Big Bend, Likely, Lookout, 
Montgomery Creek and Roaring Creek Rancherias) that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: October 29, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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