[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 148 (Thursday, August 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 51348]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-16484]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036305; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: 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, Berkeley 
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition 
of an unassociated funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation 
with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. 
The cultural item was removed from site CA-Sac-159, Sacramento County, 
CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or 
after September 5, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexandra Lucas, Repatriation 
Coordinator, Government and Community Relations (Chancellor's Office), 
University of California, Berkeley, 200 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 the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
University of California, 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 
the University of California, Berkeley.

Description

    The one unassociated funerary object was removed from site CA-Sac-
159 in Sacramento County, CA, by Robert Fleming Heizer and a field 
crew, and appropriated by the University of California, Berkeley's 
Lowie Museum of Anthropology (now known as the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum) 
in 1938. The one unassociated funerary object is a clamshell disc bead.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural item in this notice is 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: tribal traditional, 
linguistic, archeological, and geographical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the University of California, Berkeley has determined 
that:
     The one unassociated funerary object described above is 
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 item and the Wilton 
Rancheria, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 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 item in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after September 5, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the University of California, Berkeley must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item is considered a 
single request and not competing requests. The University of 
California, Berkeley is 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: July 26, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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