[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 23 (Wednesday, February 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6102-6104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02226]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17399; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, 
Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: California State University, Sacramento has completed an 
inventory of human remains, 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 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 should submit

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a written request to California State University, Sacramento. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains 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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to 
California State University, Sacramento at the address in this notice 
by March 6, 2015.

ADDRESSES: 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 under 
the control of California State University, Sacramento. The human 
remains were removed from Colusa 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. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by California 
State University, Sacramento professional staff, in consultation with 
representatives of Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 
California; Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian 
Community of the Colusa Rancheria, California; California Valley Miwok 
Tribe, California; Ione Band of Miwok 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; Susanville Indian Rancheria, California; United 
Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California; Wilton 
Rancheria, California; and Nashville-Eldorado Miwok, a non-Federally 
recognized Native American group. Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk 
Indians of California; Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of 
California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Picayune 
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Table Mountain Rancheria 
of California; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 
Reservation, California; Wiyot Tribe, California (previously listed as 
the Table Bluff Reservation-Wiyot Tribe); Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 
California (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun 
Indians of California); and the Miwok Tribe of the El Dorado Rancheria, 
a non-Federally recognized Native American group, were also contacted 
by California State University, Sacramento.

History and Description of the Remains

    Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, human remains representing, at 
minimum, one individual, were removed from CA-COL-001 (also known as 
Miller Mound, S-1), located on private property on the west bank of the 
Sacramento River, approximately 2.5 miles north of the boundary between 
Colusa and Yolo counties, CA. The human remains were in the possession 
of Anthony Zallio, a private collector, who posthumously donated his 
collection in 1951 to the Department of Anthropology at Sacramento 
State College, CA (now California State University, Sacramento). No 
known individuals were identified. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    Site records for CA-COL-001 indicate the name for the Patwin 
village is Cha'-kah de' he. Additional archeological data suggests the 
site is a Patwin village known by Kroeber as Tsaki. Archeological 
evidence suggests that occupation at the site occurred as early as the 
Middle Horizon, through the Late Horizon with the latest occupation 
lasting until circa A.D. 1872.
    Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, human remains representing, at 
minimum, six individuals, were removed from CA-COL-002 (also known as 
Howell's Point, Owl's Point, or S-2), located on the west bank of the 
Sacramento River in southeast Colusa County, approximately one mile 
north of the boundary between Colusa and Yolo counties, CA. The remains 
were in the possession of Anthony Zallio, a private collector, who 
posthumously donated his collection in 1951 to the Department of 
Anthropology at Sacramento State College, CA (now California State 
University, Sacramento). No known individuals were identified. No 
associated funerary objects are present.
    The limited archeological data available on the site suggests 
occupation occurred as early as Phase 2 of the Late Horizon. 
Archeological and ethnographic evidence indicates this site to be the 
location of the Patwin village of P[abreve]-lo. Its attribution as an 
ethnographic village suggests occupation lasted until sometime into the 
historic period.
    Archeological evidence indicates that the lower Sacramento Valley 
and Delta regions were continuously occupied since at least the Early 
Horizon (5550-550 B.C.). Cultural changes indicated by artifact 
typologies and burial patterns, historical linguistic evidence, and 
biological evidence reveal that the populations in the region were not 
static, with both in situ cultural changes and migrations of outside 
populations into the area. Linguistic evidence suggests that ancestral-
Penutian speaking groups related to modern day Miwok, Nisenan, and 
Patwin groups occupied the region during the Middle (550 B.C.-A.D. 
1100) and Late (A.D. 1100-Historic) Horizons, with some admixing 
between these groups and Hokan-speaking groups that occupied the region 
at an earlier date. The genetic data suggests that the Penutians may 
have arrived later than suggested by the linguistics.
    Geographical data from ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources 
indicate that the site was most likely occupied by Patwin-speakers 
which occupied the valley west of the Sacramento River and Miwok-
speakers resided south of the American River. Ethnographic data and 
expert testimony from Tribes support the high level of interaction 
between groups in the lower Sacramento Valley and Delta regions that 
crosscut linguistic boundaries. Historic population movements resulted 
in an increased level of shifting among populations, especially among 
the Miwok and Nisenan who were impacted by disease and Euro-American 
activities relating to Sutter's Fort and later gold-rush activities.
    In summary, the ethnographic, historical, and geographical evidence 
indicates that burials listed at CA-COL-001 and CA-COL-002 are most 
closely affiliated with contemporary descendants of the Patwin with 
more distant ties to neighboring groups, such as the Nisenan and Miwok. 
The earlier remains from the Middle and Late Horizons share cultural 
relations with the Plains Miwok and Nisenan based on archeological, 
biological, and historical linguistic evidence.

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Determinations Made by California State University, Sacramento

    Officials of California State University, Sacramento have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 7 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     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 Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of 
the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria, California; 
Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California; and Yocha 
Dehe Wintun Nation, California (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian 
Rancheria of Wintun Indians 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 should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to 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], by March 
6, 2015. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Cachil DeHe 
Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa 
Rancheria, California; Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of 
California; and Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California (previously listed 
as the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California) may 
proceed.
    California State University, Sacramento is responsible for 
notifying the Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian 
Community of the Colusa Rancheria, California; Cortina Indian Rancheria 
of Wintun Indians of California; and Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, 
California (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun 
Indians of California) that this notice has been published.

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