[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 203 (Monday, October 23, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72778-72779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23279]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036756; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California, Davis, 
Davis, 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, Davis (UC 
Davis) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Amador 
County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after November 22, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of 
California, Davis, 412 Mrak Hall, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 
telephone (530) 752-8501, 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 UC 
Davis. 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 UC Davis.

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Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, 39 individuals were removed 
from Amador County, CA. Jerald Johnson, a graduate student at the 
Department of Anthropology directed a salvage excavation at CA-AMA-56 
in 1965. There are 1,822 associated funerary objects. Of that number, 
1,657 funerary objects have been located and 165 objects are currently 
missing. UC Davis continues to look for the missing associated funerary 
objects. The 1,657 located associated funerary objects are 122 lots 
consisting of worked shell (including Olivella and haliotis beads, 
pendants, ornaments, and other worked shell); 141 lots consisting of 
worked bone (including beads, awls/needles/pins, tubes, incised bone, 
and other worked bone); 34 lots consisting of worked stone (including 
pendants, beads, a charmstone, a steatite bowl fragment, and other 
worked stone); 33 lots consisting of projectile points; 677 lots 
consisting of chipped stone (including bifaces, blades, cores, drills, 
knives, and debitage); three lots consisting of worked horn; 40 lots 
consisting of groundstones; 16 lots consisting of quartz crystals; 74 
lots consisting of ochre; two lots consisting of ash; five lots 
consisting of charcoal; seven lots consisting of baked clay; 17 lots 
consisting of historic items; 240 lots consisting of unmodified animal 
bones; 126 lots consisting of unmodified shells; three lots consisting 
of hull fragments; and 117 lots consisting of unmodified stones 
(including fire-affected rock). The 165 currently missing associated 
funerary objects are 73 lots consisting of worked shell (including 
Olivella shell beads and other worked shell); two lots consisting of 
worked stone; one bone pin; one miscellaneous worked bone; 46 lots 
consisting of projectile points; 30 lots consisting of chipped stone 
(including bifaces, knives, and debitage); two lots consisting of 
groundstones; one lot consisting of ochre; one lot consisting of 
miscellaneous minerals; three lots consisting of unmodified animal 
bones; three lots consisting of unmodified shells; one lot consisting 
of ``associated material''; and one lot consisting of miscellaneous 
unknown/missing material.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects 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, archaeological, biological, 
geographical, historical, linguistic, and oral traditional.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, UC Davis has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 39 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 1,822 objects described in this notice 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 described in this notice and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; 
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; Shingle 
Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona 
Tract), California; United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn 
Rancheria of California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official 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.
    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 human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after November 22, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, UC Davis must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. UC Davis 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: October 11, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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