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and Colorado State University, 

Laboratory of Public Archaeology, have 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(9), that the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Bureau of Land Management, White 

River Field Office, and the Colorado 

State University, Laboratory of Public 

Archaeology, have also determined, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that 

the two objects described above are 

reasonably believed to have been placed 

with or near individual human remains 

at the time of death. Lastly, officials of 

the Bureau of Land Management, White 

River Field Office, and Colorado State 

University, Laboratory of Public 

Archaeology, have determined pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that 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 

Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 

Reservation, Utah. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Dan Haas, State Archaeologist, 

Bureau of Land Management, Colorado 

State Office, 2850 Youngfield St., 

Lakewood, CO 80215–7076, telephone 

(303) 239–3647 before April 14, 2011. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray 

Reservation, Utah, may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Bureau of Land Management is 

responsible for notifying The Tribes that 

this notice has been published. 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5874 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

California State Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans), Sacramento, 

CA, and California State University, 

Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 

in the control of the California 

Department of Transportation (Caltrans), 

Sacramento, CA, and in the possession 

of California State University, 

Sacramento, CA. The human remains 

and associated funerary objects were 

removed from Site CA–SJO–91, also 

known as French Camp Slough Site, San 

Joaquin 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. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by California State 

University, Sacramento, and Caltrans 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Buena Vista 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians 

of California; and Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe), as well as the nonFederally recognized Indian groups: The 

Southern Sierra Miwoks of California, 

Northern Valley Yokuts, and 

Tubatulabals of Kern Valley. The 

Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk 

Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Table Mountain Rancheria of 

California; Tule River Indian Tribe of 

the Tule River Reservation, California; 

and Wilton Rancheria, California, were 

also contacted, but did not participate in 

consultation about the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice. 

In 1970, human remains representing 

498 individuals were removed from 

CA–SJO–91 on private property, in San 

Joaquin County, CA, during a salvage 

excavation project. Faculty and students 

from what was then Sacramento State 

College (now California State 

University, Sacramento) were brought in 

by the California Division of Highways 

(now California Department of 

Transportation [Caltrans]) to conduct 

salvage excavations. No known 

individuals were identified. The 4,667 

associated funerary objects are 3,967 

beads, 16 bifaces, 4 pieces of charcoal, 

1 charmstone fragment, 1 silicate core, 

2 lots of debitage, 490 faunal bones, 2 

flake tools, 61 tule mat impressions, 20 

modified bones, 1 modified shell, 2 

modified stones, 20 pieces of ochre, 14 

ornaments, 3 pestles, 20 projectile 

points, 35 quartz crystals and pebbles, 6 

soil samples, and 2 whistles. In 

addition, there are 187 missing 

associated funerary objects (156 beads, 1 

piece of charcoal, 1 igneous core, 15 lots 

of debitage, 5 faunal bones, 1 flake tool, 

1 modified bone, 1 quartz rock, 1 

steatite ring, and 5 bone whistles). 

Multiple lines of evidence were used 

to determine the cultural affiliation of 

the CA–SJO–91 collection. 

Archeological evidence indicates that 

the site was occupied from the Early 

Horizon through the Late Horizon. Most 

of the burials were in two cemeteries 

that were located 60 meters apart. Other 

burials were located between the two 

cemeteries or are of uncertain horizontal 

provenience due to construction 

activities. Cemetery I was 

radiometrically dated to between 

1845±90 and 2985±160 years B.P. The 

burial patterns and artifact types in 

Cemetery I correspond to a transitional 

time period between the Early Horizon 

and Middle Horizon time periods. 

Cemetery II was not radiometrically 

dated. Based on mode of interment and 

artifact types, Cemetery II burials date 

slightly earlier to the Early Horizon, 

although there are similarities in 

constituents between the two 

cemeteries. A Late Horizon component 

(1500 B.P. to European contact) at CA– 

SJO–91 was essentially removed by 

construction activities before salvage 

excavations began. 

Biological, archeological, and 

linguistic evidence indicate that 

population movement occurred between 

the Early and Middle Horizon in the 

French Camp Slough area. It may be that 

the individuals buried in the Early 

Horizon Cemetery II represent an 

earlier, Utian speaking people 

(linguistic evidence supports a 

relationship of shared group identity 

between early Utian speaking peoples 

and contemporary Miwok tribes), while 

the individuals in the Middle Horizon 

Cemetery I may represent a more recent 

pre-Yokut speaking people. Historical 

and geographical lines of evidence 

indicate that CA–SJO–91 lies on the 

border of the traditional territory of the 

Plains Miwok and the Northern Valley 

Yokuts. At the time of first contact with 

Spanish missionaries in the early 19th 

century, the area is thought to have been 

occupied by the Passasime, a Northern 

Valley Yokuts people who were also 

related to the Plains Miwok. Oral and 

documentary evidence provided by 

representatives of Indian tribes during 

consultation demonstrates an interrelationship between Northern Valley 

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Based on the geographic, linguistic, 

archeological, and ethnographic 

evidence, as well as oral and 

documentary evidence presented during 

consultations, Caltrans and California 

State University, Sacramento, including 

the University’s College of Social 

Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies 

Committee on Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

Compliance (SSIS NAGPRA 

Committee), reasonably believe that the 

cultural affiliation of CA–SJO–91 is to 

the Plains Miwok and Northern Valley 

Yokuts. 

Officials of California State 

University, Sacramento, and Caltrans 

have determined pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(9), that the human remains 

described above represent a minimum 

of 498 individuals of Native American 

ancestry. Officials of California State 

University, Sacramento, and Caltrans 

also have determined, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), that the 4,667 objects 

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. Lastly, officials of 

California State University, Sacramento, 

and Caltrans have determined, pursuant 

to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), that 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 

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 Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as 

to the non-Federally recognized Indian 

groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of 

California and Northern Valley Yokuts. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Tina Biorn, Caltrans, P.O. Box 

942874 (M.S. 27), Sacramento, CA 

94274–0001, telephone (916) 653–0013, 

or Charles Gossett, Dean of the College 

of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary 

Studies, California State University 

Sacramento, CA, 95819–6109, telephone 

(916) 278–6504, before April 14, 2011. 

Repatriation of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to 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 Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; 

and/or Wilton Rancheria, California, 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

California State University, 

Sacramento is responsible for notifying 

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 Rancheria of MeWuk Indians of California; Picayune 

Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of 

California; Santa Rosa Indian 

Community of the Santa Rosa 

Rancheria, California (also known as the 

Tachi Yokut Tribe); Shingle Springs 

Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Table Mountain Rancheria of California; 

Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule 

River Reservation, California; Tuolumne 

Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the 

Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California, as well as 

the non-Federally recognized Indian 

groups: the Southern Sierra Miwoks of 

California, Northern Valley Yokuts, and 

Tubatulabals of Kern Valley, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: March 9, 2011. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2011–5871 Filed 3–14–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

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 in the 

possession of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA, 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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

This notice corrects the total number 

of unassociated funerary objects from 

four to five described in a Notice of 

Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items (72 

FR 48677–48678, August 24, 2007). 

Since publication, an additional 

funerary object was found for one of the 

two sites in the notice. 

In the Federal Register (72 FR 48677– 

48678, August 24, 2007), paragraph 

three is corrected by substituting the 

following paragraph: 

The five cultural items are three brass 

sheet fragments, one lot of elk teeth 

pendants and white discoidal beads, 

and one vial of shell and glass bead 

fragments. 

Paragraph four is corrected by 

substituting the following paragraph: 

In 1903, four cultural items were 

recovered from the Silverheels site in 

Brant, Erie County, NY, during a 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology expedition led by M. R. 

Harrington and A. C. Parker. Museum 

documentation indicates that the 

cultural items were interred with 

human remains. The human remains 

that were originally associated with 

these items were published in the 

Federal Register in a Notice of 

Inventory Completion (66 FR 51060– 

51062, October 5, 2001), and have since 

been transferred to the culturally 

affiliated groups. Therefore, the cultural 

items are now unassociated funerary 


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