[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37577-37578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12284]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035979; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: University of 
California, Davis, Davis, CA, and University of California, Berkeley, 
Berkeley, 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 University of California, Davis (UC 
Davis) and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) intend to 
repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of 
unassociated funerary objects and certain cultural items that meet the 
definition of objects of cultural patrimony, 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 July 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of 
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 
telephone (530) 752-8501, email [email protected], and Alex Lucas, 
Repatriation Coordinator, University of California, Berkeley, Office of 
Government and Community Relations, 120 California Hall, Berkeley, CA 
94720, telephone (510) 570-0964, 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 UC 
Davis and UC Berkeley. 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 UC Davis and UC 
Berkeley.

Description

    The four cultural items listed in this notice were removed from a 
site along the American River (CA-SAC-157) in Sacramento County, CA.
    In 1981, as a part of an archeology course, Richard Burrill, 
Cordova Senior High School, removed archeological items from CA-SAC-
157. Subsequently, these items were donated to the Folsom Historical 
Society, and in 2016, they were transferred to the UC Davis Shields 
Library. The items include two lots of unassociated funerary objects, 
only one of which is present and accounted for in the UC Davis 
collections. The unassociated funerary objects are one lot consisting 
of abalone shells and one lot consisting of projectile points, flakes, 
a scraper, a net weight, and a clamshell disc bead.
    On February 16, 1942, Jeremiah B. Lillard, Harry Wanzer, and the 
Sacramento County Board of Education gifted archeological items from 
CA-SAC-157 to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at the University of 
California, Berkeley. These items include one lot of unassociated 
funerary objects consisting of sinkers, mortars, and pestles.
    On June 3, 1938, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the 
University of California, Berkeley, acquired archeological items from 
CA-SAC-157 that were excavated by Robert Fleming Heizer and the 
University of California Field Party. These items include one lot of 
objects of cultural patrimony consisting of awls, ulnas, points, 
pestles, mortars, shells, and flakes.

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

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Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of 
information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: 
anthropological, archeological, folkloric, geographical, historical, 
kinship, linguistic, oral traditional, and other relevant information 
or expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, UC Davis and UC Berkeley have determined that:
     The three lots of 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.
     The one lot of cultural items described above has ongoing 
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native 
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an 
individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items 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.
    Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after July 10, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, UC Davis and UC Berkeley 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. UC Davis and UC Berkeley are responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe identified in this 
notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: May 31, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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