[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 183 (Friday, September 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77177-77178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21531]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038728; 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

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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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after October 21, 2024.

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 and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    In the Spring of 1986, Polly Quick and the University of 
California, Berkeley Anthropology Field Class (133) removed at minimum, 
101 ancestors from CA-SAC-42, also known as Souza Mound. The 10 
associated funerary objects are nine lots consisting of faunal remains, 
ground stone, beads, flaked and chipped stone, soil, and shell and one 
mortar fragment. The ancestors and associated funerary objects were 
accessioned by the Lowie Museum (today the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology) in 1988. One associated funerary object was removed by 
R.F. Heizer and the University of California, Berkeley S197 
Anthropology class in July 1949 and appropriated by the University of 
California, Berkeley in 1949. The associated funerary object is a 
mortar fragment.
    Collections and collection spaces at the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of 
Anthropology were treated with substances for preservation and pest 
control, some potentially hazardous. No records have been found to date 
at the Museum to indicate whether or not chemicals or natural 
substances were used prior to 1960.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location or acquisition history of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The University of California, Berkeley has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 101 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 10 lots of objects described in this notice are 
reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or near 
individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the 
death rite or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Buena 
Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Cachil Dehe Band of 
Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian Community of the Colusa Rancheria, 
California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; 
Guidiville Rancheria of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of 
California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the 
Tule River Reservation, California; United Auburn Indian Community of 
the Auburn Rancheria of California; Wilton Rancheria, California; and 
the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 October 21, 2024. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
California, Berkeley 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. The University of California, Berkeley is 
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and 
Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: September 12, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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