[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15608-15609]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04456]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037508; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Folsom History, 
Folsom, 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), Folsom History intends to repatriate certain 
cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary 
objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural 
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice. The cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, 
CA, or an unknown county.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after April 3, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Shelby Sorensen, Folsom History, 823 Sutter Street, Folsom, 
CA 95630, telephone (916) 985-2707, 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 Folsom 
History. 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 Folsom History.

Description

    The three cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, CA, 
or an unknown county, CA. The date of removal is unknown or from a 
general local area. Acquisition dates are listed from 1977 to found in 
collection in 2022. One cultural item was created by artist, Harry 
Fonesca. Donor information is available upon request for all objects. 
It is likely the object listed as 2015.01.17 (rhythm necklace; Nisenan) 
was gifted or purchased from the Pacific Western Traders. The one 
unassociated funerary item is a collection of 27 arrowheads and points. 
The two objects of cultural patrimony are one rhythm necklace (Nisenan) 
and one framed pen and ink with colored pencil both created by artist, 
Harry Fonesca.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items 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: geography, kinship, biology, 
archeology, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, oral tradition, 
historical information, and other relevant information or expert 
opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations Folsom History has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above 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 and 
are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed 
from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
     The two cultural items described above have ongoing 
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native 
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an 
individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Shingle Springs 
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), 
California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. 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 items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after April 3, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, Folsom History must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. Folsom History is responsible for sending a 
copy of this

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notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations 
identified in this notice.
    This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised 
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12, 
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal 
Register and includes the required information, the National Park 
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.

    Dated: February 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04456 Filed 3-1-24; 8:45 am]
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