[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 76 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21344-21345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-08397]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031684; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


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

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The California State University, Sacramento has completed an 
inventory of human remains and an associated funerary object 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 object 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 this associated funerary object 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

[[Page 21345]]

object 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 this associated 
funerary object should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to the California State University, Sacramento 
at the address in this notice by May 24, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and 
Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6109, telephone (916) 278-6504, 
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 an 
associated funerary object under the control of the California State 
University, Sacramento, CA. The human remains and associated funerary 
object were removed from Sudden #1 site, Santa Barbara, 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 the associated funerary object. 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, Sacramento professional staff. The Santa 
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 
California as well as three non-federally recognized Indian groups--the 
Barbareno Chumash Council, the Coastal Band of Chumash Indians, and the 
San Luis Obispo County Chumash--were contacted by California State 
University, Sacramento several times, but ultimately, no in-person 
consultation was requested. Hereafter, all the above entities are 
referred to as ``The Tribe and Groups.''

History and Description of the Remains

    On March 8, 1936, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Sudden #1 site in Santa Barbara, CA, by 
Anthony Zallio, a private collector associated with Sacramento City 
College. While the exact location of this site is unknown, Zallio was 
with a party of professional and amateur archeologists visiting sites 
in the vicinity of Casmalia and Happy Canyon, located approximately 
four to ten miles east and northeast of Santa Ynez. In 1951, Zallio's 
estate posthumously donated the collection to the Department of 
Anthropology at Sacramento State College, California (now California 
State University, Sacramento). The individual is represented by a 
cranium and belongs to a male between 30-40 years old. No known 
individual was identified. The one associated funerary object is a 
small Olivella shell bead.
    No information about the Sudden #1 site was located. The lack of 
temporally diagnostic associated funerary objects makes it impossible 
to date the human remains. The Casmalia and Happy Canyon areas are 
within the aboriginal territory of the Yneze[ntilde]o Chumash. Recent 
archeological research suggests that the Chumash have been in the 
region since at least the early Holocene.

Determinations Made by California State University, Sacramento

    Officials of the 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 one individual of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the one object described 
in this notice is 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 object and the Santa 
Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 
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 this associated 
funerary object should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of 
Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State 
University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6109, 
telephone (916) 278-6504, email [email protected], by May 24, 2021. After 
that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary object to the 
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez 
Reservation, California may proceed. If joined to a request from the 
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez 
Reservation, California, any of the following non-federally recognized 
Indian groups may receive transfer of control of the human remains and 
associated funerary object: The Barbareno Chumash Council, the Coastal 
Band of Chumash Indians, and the San Luis Obispo County Chumash.
    The California State University, Sacramento is responsible for 
notifying The Tribe and Groups that this notice has been published.

    Dated: April 15, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-08397 Filed 4-21-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4312-52-P