[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 165 (Monday, August 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58613-58614]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18509]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036472; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Los 
Angeles, 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 
Los Angeles County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice will occur on or 
after September 27, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Michele Bleuze, California State University, 5151 State 
University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, telephone (323) 343-2440, 
email [email protected]; 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 
by California State University, Los Angeles.

Description

    A minimum of two ancestors were removed from Los Angeles County, 
CA. Located in the City of Carson, CA-LAN-98 is the site of Suangna, a 
known Gabrielino-Tongva village. According to one source, it may have 
been occupied as late as 1813 (McCawley, 1996). Another source notes 
that, based on artifact comparisons, CA-LAN-98 was occupied for 
approximately 600 years, from A.D. 1200-1800 (Eggers, 1977:44). It was 
first excavated by Racer in 1910. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, 
Hal Eberhart from LA City College and Ken Kuykendall and A. Van D. 
Eggers from Dominquez College conducted excavations there, as did 
Charles Irwin of the Bowers Museum in 1972-1973. The collection from 
CA-LAN-98 at California State University, Los Angeles is assumed to 
have arrived in the late 1960s or early 1970s with Hal Eberhart, at 
that time a faculty member. (No reports or documents regarding this 
collection have been found at California State University, Los 
Angeles.) As no current faculty have examined the human remains, the 
following descriptions derive solely from box and bag labels. One bag 
is labeled ``Watson Site, Burial #1'' and another is labeled ``Watson 
Site, Burial #2.'' There is also one small bag labeled ``Skull 
fragments, no location, Watson'' along with what appears to be added, 
in faint pencil, ``associated with Burial #1.'' No associated funerary 
objects are present. (Additional collections from CA-LAN-98 are housed 
at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a master's thesis 
from California State University, Fullerton indicates that additional 
materials from this site are curated with the Pacific Coast 
Archaeological Society (Graling, 2004).)

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 at least 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 Santa Rosa Band of 
Cahuilla Indians, California and the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, 
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 or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice and, if joined to a request 
from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the following non-federally 
recognized Indian groups: the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians-Kizh 
Nation; Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians; 
Gabrielino/Tongva Nation; Gabrielino Tongva Indians of California 
Tribal Council (Bellflower and Simi Valley); and the Gabrielino-Tongva 
Tribe.
    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.

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    Repatriation of the ancestors in this notice to a requestor will 
occur on or after September 27, 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: August 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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