[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28926]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037171; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: San Jose State University, San 
Jose, 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), San Jose State University (SJSU) has 
completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there 
is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any federally-
recognized Indian Tribe. The human remains were removed from Hollister 
in San Benito County, CA.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after February 2, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Charlotte Sunseri, Ph.D., San Jose State University, One 
Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0113, telephone (408) 924-5713, 
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 San 
Jose State University. 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 San Jose State 
University.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from San Benito County, CA. The Hollister collection was donated to the 
College of Science at SJSU and identified in 2023. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains in this notice were removed from known geographic 
locations. These locations are the aboriginal lands of one or more 
federally-recognized Indian Tribes. These locations are also the 
aboriginal lands of the Ohlone/Costanoan Tribes recognized by the State 
of California. The following information was used to identify the 
aboriginal land: California Native American Heritage Commission Native 
American Contact List for implementing AB275 (dated: 6/1/2023), 
Unratified Treaty A ``Treaty at Camp Belt (May 13, 1851)'', Unratified 
Treaty B ``Treaty at Camp Keyes (May 30, 1851)'', and Unratified Treaty 
N ``Treaty at Camp Barbour (April 29, 1851)'' (Heizer 1972).

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, San Jose State 
University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and any federally-recognized 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; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; 
Jackson Band of Miwuk Indians; Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians 
of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, 
California; Table Mountain Rancheria; and the Tule River Indian Tribe 
of the Tule River Reservation, California.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after February 2, 2024. If competing requests 
for disposition are received, San Jose State University must determine 
the most appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. San Jose State University 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: December 20, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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