[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 10, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21403-21404]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08373]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-12618; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Francisco State University
NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects
and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request to the San Francisco State
University NAGPRA Program. If no additional requestors come forward,
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary
objects 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
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to the San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program at the address in this notice by May 10, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State University
NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State
University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone
(415) 338-3075.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and
associated funerary objects under the control of the San Francisco
State University NAGPRA Program. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from site CA-TUO-328 in Tuolumne County,
CA.
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 human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the San
Francisco State University NAGPRA Program professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk
Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
History and Description of the Remains
Between 1970 and 1971, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from site CA-TUO-328 in Tuolumne County, CA, by
San Francisco State University personnel in conjunction with the
construction of the New Don Pedro Reservoir. Site materials from the
New Don Pedro Reservoir project were curated at San Francisco State
University after excavation. No known individuals were identified. The
16 individual and 3 lots of associated funerary objects are 5 chert
flakes and tools, 1 obsidian projectile point, 4 obsidian flakes, 1
basalt flake, 1 ground stone, 1 one bone tool, 2 square cut nails, 1
piece of haliotis shell, and 3 lots of unmodified faunal.
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The age of site Ca-Tuo-328 is unknown, but the site is located
within the historically documented territory of the Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California. The objects are
consistent with the material culture of the ancestral and contact
period Sierra Miwok, who occupied this area from circa A.D. 500, at a
minimum, and during the Euro-American contact period. Oral history
evidence presented during consultation indicates that the area has been
continuously occupied by the Miwok since the contact period and that
there is cultural affiliation between the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk
Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California and the ancestral
Sierra Miwok Indians.
Determinations Made by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA
Program
Officials of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program have
determined that:
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described
in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 19 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.
Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects and the Tuolumne
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of 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
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in
support of the request to Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State
University NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA
94132, telephone (415) 338-3075, by May 10, 2013. After that date, if
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California may proceed.
The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program is responsible
for notifying the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne
Rancheria of California that this notice has been published.
Dated: March 20, 2013.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2013-08373 Filed 4-9-13; 8:45 am]
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