[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74508-74509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23975]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036836; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: 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 has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 
and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the 
human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The 
human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from 
Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa 
Cruz Counties, CA.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice may occur on or after November 30, 2023.

ADDRESSES: 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 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 inventory or related records held 
by the University of California, Berkeley.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, 2,148 individuals were 
removed from Alameda County, CA, between 1876 and 2001, and donated or 
appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley campus 
anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed from sites CA-Ala-
12, CA-Ala-13,CA-Ala-17, CA-Ala-20, CA-Ala-23, CA-Ala-28 CA-Ala-307, 
CA-Ala-308, CA-Ala-309, CA-Ala-316, CA-Ala-317, CA-Ala-324, CA-Ala-328, 
CA-Ala-329, CA-Ala-330, CA-Ala-42, CA-Ala-47, CA-Ala-48, CA-Ala-50, CA-
Ala-52, CA-Ala-53, CA-Ala-55, and unknown sites. The 12,086 lots of 
associated funerary objects include awls, baked clay and baked clay 
objects, baskets, beads, bifaces, blades, bone tools, bone tubes, 
botanical samples, charcoal samples, charmstones, choppers, clubs, 
cooking stones, core tools, cores, drills, faunal remains, fishhooks, 
flakers, flakes, fleshers, ground stone, gun barrel, hammerstones, 
harpoons, historic refuse, knives, labrets (jewelry worn on the head), 
manos, mats (floor coverings), metates, mineral and rock samples, 
mortars, needles, net weights, ornaments, painting supplies, pendants, 
pestles, pins (fasteners), pipes, projectile points, saws, scrapers, 
shell samples, sinkers, soil samples, spearheads), stone tools, 
strigils (sweat scrapers), string, wedges, whistles, worked bone, 
worked shell, and worked stone.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 1,880 individuals were 
removed from Contra Costa County, CA, between 1904 and 2001, and 
donated or appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley 
campus anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed from sites CA-CCo-
1, CA-CCo-124, CA-CCo-126, CA-CCo-13, CA-CCo-133, CA-CCo-135, CA-CCo-
137, CA-CCo-138, CA-CCo-139, CA-CCo-14, CA-CCo-141, CA-CCo-142, CA-CCo-
146, CA-CCo-148, CA-CCo-15, CA-CCo-150, CA-CCo-151, CA-CCo-18, CA-CCo-
20, CA-CCo-224, CA-CCo-225, CA-CCo-227, CA-CCo-229, CA-CCo-241, CA-CCo-
242, CA-CCo-25, CA-CCo-250, CA-CCo-256, CA-CCo-259, CA-CCo-261, CA-CCo-
267, CA-CCo-271, CA-CCo-272, CA-CCo-274, CA-CA-CCo-290, CA-CCo-295, CA-
CCo-298, CA-CCo-300, CA-CCo-301, CA-CCo-306, CA-CCo-307, CA-CCo-4, CA-
CCo-5, and unknown sites. The 11,154 lots of associated funerary 
objects include abraders, acorn anvils, awls, baked clay and baked clay 
objects, bangles, basketry, beads, blades, bone tools, bone tubes, 
botanical samples, charcoal samples, charmstones, choppers, cooking 
stones, cores, drills, ear spools, faunal remains, fishhooks, flakers, 
flakes, gorge hooks, ground stone, hammerstones, harpoons, historic 
refuse, knives, labrets, level bags, manos, mineral and rock samples, 
mortars, needles, net weights, ornaments, painting supplies, pendants, 
pestles, pins, pipes, projectile points, saws, scrapers, shell samples, 
sinkers,

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soil samples, spearheads, spoons, stone tools, strigils (sweat 
scrapers), string, wedges, whistles, worked bone, worked shell, and 
worked stone.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 53 individuals were removed 
from San Francisco County, CA, between 1872 and 1985, and donated or 
appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley campus 
anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed from sites CA-SFr-
17, CA-SFr-7, and unknown sites. The 131 lots of associated funerary 
objects include awls, beads, bone tools, bone tubes, charmstones, 
crucifix, faunal remains, flakes, hammerstones, mortars, ornaments, 
pendants, pestles, pipes, projectile points, shell samples, sinkers, 
whistles, worked bone, and worked stone.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 119 individuals were 
removed from San Mateo County, CA, between 1872 and 1975, and donated 
or appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley campus 
anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed from sites CA-SMa-
151, CA-SMa-22, CA-SMa-23, CA-SMa-3, CA-SMa-4, CA-SMa-434, CA-SMa-88, 
CA-SMa-90, and unknown sites. The 1,157 lots of associated funerary 
objects include acorn anvils, awls, baked clay and baked clay objects, 
beads, blades, bone tools, botanical samples, charcoal samples, 
charmstones, cores, faunal remains, flakers, flakes, ground stone, 
hammerstones, harpoons, historic refuse, manos, metates, mineral and 
rock samples, mortars, painting supplies, pendants, pestles, projectile 
points, scrapers, shell samples, sinkers, soil samples, stone tools, 
whistles, worked bone, and worked stone.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 225 individuals were 
removed from Santa Clara County, CA, prior to 1881 and through to 1958, 
and donated or appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley 
campus anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed from sites CA-SCl-
1, CA-SCl-20, CA-SCl-38, CA-SCl-49, and unknown sites. The 422 lots of 
associated funerary objects are acorn anvils, awls, beads, blades, 
charmstones, cores, faunal remains, fishhooks, flakes, hammerstones, 
handles, historic refuse, mineral and rock samples, mortars, needles, 
ornaments, painting supplies, pendants, pestles, pins, projectile 
points, saws, scrapers, shell samples, soil samples, spoons, strigils, 
wedges, whistles, worked bone, and worked stone.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, 15 individuals were removed 
from Santa Cruz County, CA, between 1880 and 1956, and donated or 
appropriated into the University of California, Berkeley campus 
anthropology museum (Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology) by 
numerous individuals. The human remains were removed sites CA-SCr-1, 
CA-SCr-25, CA-SCr-41, CA-SCr-52, and unknown sites. The 43 lots of 
associated funerary objects are beads, botanical samples, cores, faunal 
remains, flakes, gorge hooks, ground stone, knives, mortars, ornaments, 
pebbles, pestles, scrapers, shell samples, soil samples, whistles, and 
worked bone.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice 
were removed from known geographic locations. These locations are the 
aboriginal lands of one or more Indian Tribes. These locations are also 
the aboriginal lands of the Ohlone/Costanoan State recognized tribes. 
The following information was used to identify the aboriginal land: 
California Native American Heritage Commission Native American Contact 
List for implementing AB275 (dated: 07/20/2023), Unratified Treaty E 
``Treaty at Dent's and Valentine's Crossing (May 28, 1851)'', and 
Unratified Treaty M ``Treaty of Camp Fr[eacute]mont (Mar. 19, 1851).''

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the University of 
California, Berkeley has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 4,440 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 24,993 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.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and 
any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice were removed from the aboriginal land of the 
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California 
Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk 
Indians of California; Guidiville Rancheria of California; Ione Band of 
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; Middletown 
Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of 
Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the 
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table 
Mountain Rancheria; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River 
Reservation, California; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 
Tuolumne Rancheria of California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after November 
30, 2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, the 
University of California, Berkeley must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects are 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 
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 and 
10.11.

    Dated: October 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-23975 Filed 10-30-23; 8:45 am]
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