[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 139 (Friday, July 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 47170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15521]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036220; 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: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the California State University, Sacramento, 
Sacramento, CA 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 and Yolo Counties, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after August 21, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and 
Interdisciplinary Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone (916) 278-6504, 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, Sacramento. 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 
California State University, Sacramento.

Description

    The 1,061 cultural items were removed from several sites in 
Sacramento and Yolo Counties, CA. These sites include CA-SAC-01, CA-
SAC-25, CA-SAC-28, CA-SAC-35, CA-SAC-43, CA-SAC-64, CA-SAC-109, CA-SAC-
111, CA-SAC-197, CA-SAC-Sherman Island, CA-SAC-Unknown, CA-YOL-29, CA-
YOL-53, CA-YOL-54, and unknown locations in these counties. Many of 
these cultural items were part of collections donated to California 
State University, Sacramento by private collectors, among them Anthony 
Zallio and Charles McKee. Collections from CA-SAC-109, CA-YOL-29 and 
CA-YOL-53 derive from surveys led by William Beeson for Sacramento 
State College (now California State University, Sacramento). The 1,061 
unassociated funerary objects consist of faunal and floral remains; 
baked clay objects; flaked and ground stones; thermally-altered rocks; 
unmodified stones; historic materials; and modified bones, shells, and 
stones. Of this number, 15 objects are currently missing, and 
California State University, Sacramento continues to look for them.

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, 
archeological, folkloric, geographical, historical, kinship, 
linguistic, oral traditional, other relevant information, 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, Sacramento has determined 
that:
     The 1,061 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 Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians 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.
    Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after August 21, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, California State University, Sacramento 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. California State University, 
Sacramento 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 10.8, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

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