[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 126 (Monday, July 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42743-42744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14082]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036101; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: California Department 
of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; amendment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California Department of Parks and 
Recreation has amended a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal 
Register on September 28, 2012. This notice amends the number of 
associated funerary objects in a collection removed from Shannon 
County, SD.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after August 2, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Leslie L. Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, California 
Department of Parks and Recreation, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA 
94296-0001, telephone (916) 425-8016, 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 
California Department of Parks and Recreation. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice. 
Additional information on the amendments and determinations in this 
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the 
inventory or related records held by the California Department of Parks 
and Recreation.

Amendment

    This notice amends the determinations published in a Notice of 
Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (77 FR 59647-59648, 
September 28, 2012). Disposition of the items in the original Notice of 
Inventory Completion has not occurred. During consultation regarding 
the original notice, Department of Parks and Recreation staff located 
and subsequently identified additional associated funerary objects from 
the Wounded Knee Massacre Site.

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                   Site                       Original No.     Amended No.            Amended description
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Wounded Knee Massacre Site in Shannon                    2               12   four photographs, two armlets, two
 County, SD.                                                                   bandanas, one arm band, one lot
                                                                               of beads, one periodical, and one
                                                                               spur.
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Determinations (As Amended)

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the California 
Department of Parks and Recreation has determined that:
     The human remains represent the physical remains of two 
individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 12 objects 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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
Reservation, South Dakota; Oglala Sioux Tribe; and the Standing Rock 
Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in

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ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    2. 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects in 
this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August 2, 2023. If 
competing requests for disposition are received, the California 
Department of Parks and Recreation must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects are considered a single 
request and not competing requests. The California Department of Parks 
and Recreation 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 10.9, 10.11, 
and 10.13.

    Dated: June 21, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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