[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 76 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21345-21346]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-08398]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031685; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State 
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The California State University, Sacramento, in consultation 
with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, 
has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items 
should submit a written request to the California State University, 
Sacramento. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of 
control of the cultural items 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 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to

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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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the 
control of the California State University, Sacramento, CA, that meet 
the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    In 1935 or 1936, two cultural items were removed from Happy Canyon 
in Santa Barbara County, CA, by Anthony Zallio, a private collector 
associated with Sacramento City College. While the exact site location 
is unknown, Zallio was with a party of professional and amateur 
archeologists visiting sites in the vicinity of Casmalia and Happy 
Canyon, which is 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 
two unassociated funerary objects are one modified bone tube with 
adhered asphaltum and inlaid Olivella tiny saucer (Type G1) shell beads 
and one ochre sample.
    Happy Canyon is within the aboriginal territory of the 
Yneze[ntilde]o Chumash. The objects were designated as unassociated 
funerary objects because associated documentation indicates that they 
were found in association with a burial and the location of the human 
remains is unknown. Recent archeological research suggests that the 
Chumash have been in the region since at least the early Holocene.

Determinations Made by the California State University, Sacramento

    Officials of the California State University, Sacramento have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the two cultural items 
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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary objects 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 claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim 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 claimants have come forward, transfer of 
control of the unassociated funerary objects to the Santa Ynez Band of 
Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation, California and 
the joint requestors--the Barbareno Chumash Council, the Coastal Band 
of Chumash Indians, and the San Luis Obispo County Chumash, which are 
non-federally recognized Indian groups--may proceed.
    The California State University, Sacramento is responsible for 
notifying the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa 
Ynez Reservation, California and the joint requestors--the Barbareno 
Chumash Council, the Coastal Band of Chumash Indians, and the San Luis 
Obispo County Chumash, which are non-federally recognized Indian 
groups--that this notice has been published.

    Dated: April 15, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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