[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47164-47165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15518]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036218; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Los 
Angeles, 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), California State University, Los Angeles has 
completed an inventory of human remains (hereafter referred to as 
``ancestors'') in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations and has determined that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the ancestors and Indian Tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The ancestors were removed from 
Mariposa County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice will occur on or 
after August 21, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Michele Bleuze, California State University, 5151 State 
University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, telephone (323) 343-2440, 
email [email protected] and Amira Ainis, California State 
University, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, 
telephone (323) 343-2449, 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 
California State University, Los Angeles. 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 inventory or related records held

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by California State University, Los Angeles.

Description

    A minimum of two ancestors were removed from two burials during 
excavation at the Hackney Site (CA-MRP-283), in Mariposa County, CA. At 
the time of the excavation, Mr. Ray Hackney was the landowner of the 
property. The excavation was carried out by California State 
University, Fresno and California State University, Los Angeles in 
1972. That same year, Fred M. Reinman, a faculty member in the 
Department of Anthropology at California State University, likely 
brought the collection to California State University, Los Angeles. 
Burial I was found tightly flexed and partially disturbed, and the 
decedent is estimated to be a young male (~25 years of age) with an 
estimated stature of 168 cm. Burial II was highly fragmentary, and the 
decedent is estimated to be six years old. The above information was 
reported by F. K. Mulligan and D. E. Sanburg, Jr., in 1972. No 
associated funerary objects are present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The ancestors 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: geographical, archeological, 
and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, California State University, Los Angeles has determined 
that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the ancestors described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of Native 
American ancestry.
     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 ancestors described in this notice and the Chicken Ranch 
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono 
Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of 
California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, 
California; and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria of California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the ancestors in this notice 
must be sent to the Responsible Officials identified in ADDRESSES. 
Requests for repatriation may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice 
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the 
Nashville Enterprise Miwok-Maidu-Nishinam Tribe; Northern Valley 
Yokuts; Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation; and the Wuksache Indian Tribe/
Eshom Valley Band, non-federally recognized Indian groups.
    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.
    Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after August 21, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, California State University, Los Angeles 
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the ancestors are considered a 
single request and not competing requests. California State University, 
Los Angeles 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, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: July 14, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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