[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 149 (Monday, August 3, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46704-46705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-16782]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0030585; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State
University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: California State University, Sacramento, in consultation with
the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has
determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items
should submit a written request to the California State University,
Sacramento. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of
control of the cultural items to the lineal descendants, Indian Tribes,
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.
DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with
information in support of the claim to the California State University,
Sacramento at the address in this notice by September 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinary
Studies, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone (916) 278-6504, email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items under the
control of the California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects under 25
U.S.C. 3001.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
History and Description of the Cultural Item(s)
Sometime during the 1920s and 1930s, 42 unassociated funerary
objects were removed from a burial on private property, CA-SAC-157
(Wamser Mound), located on the south bank of the American River, near
River Bend Park of Rancho Cordova, in north-central Sacramento County,
CA. The unassociated funerary objects were in the possession of Anthony
Zallio, a private collector, who posthumously donated his collection in
1951 to the Department of Anthropology at Sacramento State College, CA
(now California State University, Sacramento). The 42 unassociated
funerary objects are one broken bone tube, one small foot of a harpoon,
one reworked obsidian biface, and 39 shell ornaments of various styles.
(California State University, Sacramento does not have control of the
associated human remains, and does not know their whereabouts.)
Archeological data from the site indicates occupation occurred
during the Middle and Late Horizons and terminated sometime during the
historic period. Geographical data from ethnohistoric and ethnographic
sources indicate that the site was most likely occupied by Nisenan-
speaking groups at the beginning of the historic period. Ethnographic
data and expert testimony from Indian Tribes support the high level of
interaction between groups in the lower Sacramento Valley and Delta
regions that crosscut linguistic boundaries. In summary, the
ethnographic, historical, and geographical evidence indicate that the
funerary objects listed above are most closely affiliated with
contemporary descendants of the Nisenan with more distant ties to
neighboring groups, such as the Miwok.
Determinations Made by the California State University, Sacramento
Officials of the California State University, Sacramento have
determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 42 cultural items
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.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary
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objects and the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California and the Wilton
Rancheria, California.
Additional Requestors and Disposition
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim
these cultural items should submit a written request with information
in support of the claim to Dr. Dianne Hyson, Dean of the College of
Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies, California State
University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819, telephone
(916) 278-6504, email [email protected], by September 2, 2020. After that
date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control
of the unassociated funerary objects jointly to the Ione Band of Miwok
Indians of California and the Wilton Rancheria, California may proceed.
The California State University, Sacramento is responsible for
notifying the Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California and the Wilton
Rancheria, California that this notice has been published.
Dated: July 6, 2020.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2020-16782 Filed 7-31-20; 8:45 am]
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