[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6773-6774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02067]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035226; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects and that have a cultural 
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, 
CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after March 3, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway 
Avenue, Administration Building 5th Floor, ADM 562C, San Francisco, CA 
94132, telephone (415) 405-3545, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. 
Additional information on the determinations in this notice, including 
the results of consultation, can be found in the summary or related 
records held by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program.

Description

    In 1953, cultural items were removed from archeological site CA-
SAC-189 in Sacramento County, CA, by Leonard R. Butler and Harry T. 
Jones as part of archeological site documentation in an area along the 
American River. Noting evidence of earlier pothunting and disturbance 
due to cutting by the American River, during site documentation, Butler 
and Jones collected material cultural items from these disturbed areas. 
The items were stored in the San Francisco State College Anthropology 
Collection and subsequently became a part of the Treganza Anthropology 
Museum's (TAM) archeological collections at San Francisco State 
University. At an unknown date, a single test unit of unknown size was 
excavated at site CA-SAC-189, and in 1959, the material cultural items 
removed during the excavation were recorded and stored as part of the 
TAM archeological collections. Upon closure of the TAM in 2012, the 
items were transferred to the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program. The 15 unassociated funerary objects are one lot each of 
green, yellow, brown, and blue tinted glass, one lot of glass 
fragments, one porcelain vessel fragment, one lot of ``ironstone'' 
vessel fragments, one lot of earthenware fragments with blue 
underglaze, one utility ware fragment with black glaze, one lot of 
square nails, one copper or brass chain, one lot of fancy glass vessel 
fragments, one pestle,

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one cooking rock, and one lot of obsidian.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier 
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: anthropological information, 
geographical information, oral tradition, and tribal expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program has 
determined that:
     The 15 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Chicken Ranch 
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Shingle Springs Band of 
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 
United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California; 
and the Wilton Rancheria, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal 
descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice who shows, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal descendant or a culturally 
affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
    If no additional requests are received, repatriation of the 
cultural items in this notice to Wilton Rancheria may occur on or after 
March 3, 2023. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the 
San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. The San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian 
Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR Sec.  10.8, 
Sec.  10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: January 25, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-02067 Filed 1-31-23; 8:45 am]
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