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Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in 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 in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after September 27, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the PMAE must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18502 Filed 8–25–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036472; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

California State University, Los 

Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), California 

State University, Los Angeles has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains (hereafter referred to as 

‘‘ancestors’’) in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the ancestors and 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The 

ancestors were removed from Los 

Angeles County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the ancestors in 

this notice will occur on or after 

September 27, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Michele Bleuze, California 

State University, 5151 State University 

Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032, 

telephone (323) 343–2440, email 

mbleuze@calstatela.edu; Amira Ainis, 

California State University, 5151 State 

University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 

90032, telephone (323) 343–2449, email 

aainis2@calstatela.edu. 

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 California State 

University, Los Angeles. 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 inventory or related records held 

by California State University, Los 

Angeles. 

Description 

A minimum of two ancestors were 

removed from Los Angeles County, CA. 

Located in the City of Carson, CA–LAN– 

98 is the site of Suangna, a known 

Gabrielino-Tongva village. According to 

one source, it may have been occupied 

as late as 1813 (McCawley, 1996). 

Another source notes that, based on 

artifact comparisons, CA–LAN–98 was 

occupied for approximately 600 years, 

from A.D. 1200–1800 (Eggers, 1977:44). 

It was first excavated by Racer in 1910. 

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hal 

Eberhart from LA City College and Ken 

Kuykendall and A. Van D. Eggers from 

Dominquez College conducted 

excavations there, as did Charles Irwin 

of the Bowers Museum in 1972–1973. 

The collection from CA–LAN–98 at 

California State University, Los Angeles 

is assumed to have arrived in the late 

1960s or early 1970s with Hal Eberhart, 

at that time a faculty member. (No 

reports or documents regarding this 

collection have been found at California 

State University, Los Angeles.) As no 

current faculty have examined the 

human remains, the following 

descriptions derive solely from box and 

bag labels. One bag is labeled ‘‘Watson 

Site, Burial #1’’ and another is labeled 

‘‘Watson Site, Burial #2.’’ There is also 

one small bag labeled ‘‘Skull fragments, 

no location, Watson’’ along with what 

appears to be added, in faint pencil, 

‘‘associated with Burial #1.’’ No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

(Additional collections from CA–LAN– 

98 are housed at California State 

University, Dominguez Hills, and a 

master’s thesis from California State 

University, Fullerton indicates that 

additional materials from this site are 

curated with the Pacific Coast 

Archaeological Society (Graling, 2004).) 

Cultural Affiliation 

The ancestors 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: geographical, 

archeological, and expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, California State 

University, Los Angeles has determined 

that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

ancestors described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of at 

least two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• 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 ancestors 

described in this notice and the Santa 

Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, 

California and the Soboba Band of 

Luiseno Indians, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

ancestors in this notice must be sent to 

the Responsible Officials identified in 

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 and, if joined to 

a request from one or more of the Indian 

Tribes, the following non-federally 

recognized Indian groups: the 

Gabrieleno Band of Mission IndiansKizh Nation; Gabrieleno/Tongva San 

Gabriel Band of Mission Indians; 

Gabrielino/Tongva Nation; Gabrielino 

Tongva Indians of California Tribal 

Council (Bellflower and Simi Valley); 

and the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe. 

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. 


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58614 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 165 / Monday, August 28, 2023 / Notices 

Repatriation of the ancestors in this 

notice to a requestor will occur on or 

after September 27, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

California State University, Los Angeles 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to repatriation. Requests 

for joint repatriation of the ancestors are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. California State 

University, Los Angeles is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribes identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18509 Filed 8–25–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036459; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is no cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and any Indian Tribe. 

The human remains were removed from 

Worcester County, MA. 

DATES: Disposition of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after September 27, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 

02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, email 

pcapone@fas.harvard.edu. 

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 PMAE. 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 inventory or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

In 1909, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed by Samuel Kirkland Lothrop 

from the land of S.K. Warren in 

Harvard, Worcester County, MA. 

Lothrop donated the human remains to 

the PMAE in 1919. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

In 1857, human remains representing, 

at minimum, one individual were 

removed by John White from the area of 

Wachusett in Westminster, Worcester 

County, MA. White presented the 

human remains to the Warren 

Anatomical Museum, Harvard 

University (WAM) at an unknown date, 

and the WAM sent the human remains 

to the PMAE on permanent loan in May 

of 1959. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

On October 12, 1885, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed by Dr. W.H. 

Raymenton from William U. Maynard’s 

farm in the town of Northborough, near 

the town boundary with Shrewsbury, in 

Worcester County, MA. Raymenton 

collected the human remains as part of 

an excavation with the Worcester 

Society of Natural History. The 

Worcester Society of Natural History 

donated the human remains to the 

PMAE later in 1885. The human 

remains were found in a peat bog, under 

approximately five feet of soil and on 

solid bedrock, near where the teeth and 

tusks of a mastodon were excavated in 

1884. No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

On June 25, 1891, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed by an 

unknown person from an ‘‘Indian Burial 

Place’’ in Winchendon, Worcester 

County, MA. The Massachusetts 

Historical Society donated the human 

remains to the PMAE, likely in 1891. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Aboriginal Land 

The human remains in this notice 

were removed from known geographic 

locations. These locations are the 

aboriginal lands of one or more Indian 

Tribes. Historical documents and other 

information obtained through 

consultation show that Worcester 

County, MA, was aboriginally occupied 

by the Wampanoag people. These types 

of information also show that Worcester 

County, MA, was aboriginally occupied 

by the Nipmuc people, who are not 

represented by any federally recognized 

Indian Tribe. The following information 

was used to identify the aboriginal land: 

treaties. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of four individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• No relationship of shared group 

identity can be reasonably traced 

between the human remains and any 

Indian Tribe. 

• The human remains described in 

this notice were removed from the 

aboriginal land of the Mashpee 

Wampanoag Tribe and the Wampanoag 

Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). 

Requests for Disposition 

Written requests for disposition of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

disposition may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes 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, or who 

shows that the requestor is an aboriginal 

land Indian Tribe. 

Disposition of the human remains 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after September 27, 

2023. If competing requests for 

disposition are received, the PMAE 

must determine the most appropriate 

requestor prior to disposition. Requests 

for joint disposition of the human 

remains are considered a single request 

and not competing requests. The PMAE 

is responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 10.11. 

Dated: August 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18496 Filed 8–25–23; 8:45 am] 

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