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in this notice may occur on or after 

February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Dawn Rewolinski, 

California State University, Chico, 400 

W 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929, 

telephone (530) 898–3090, email 

drewolinski@csuchico.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 CSU Chico. 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 CSU Chico. 

Description 

The Finch Site (CA–BUT–12) in Butte 

County, CA, was first recorded by A. 

Pilling in 1949 and later in 1963 by 

Dorothy Hill. Francis Riddell led a 

Chico State College (now CSU, Chico) 

field class excavation at the site in the 

summer of 1963, and Professor Keith 

Johnson, accompanied by Riddell, led a 

second excavation at the site with a 

Chico State College field class in spring, 

1964. Joseph Chartkoff (then of UCLA) 

led an excavation at the site in summer, 

1967. In spring, 1983, and spring, 1984, 

Professor Makoto Kowta led CSU, Chico 

field class excavations at the site. Our 

records indicated the site was 

archeologically recovered as a joint 

project between UCLA and CSU Chico. 

CSU Chico contacted UCLA to 

determine if they held any additional 

human remains and cultural items from 

the 1967 archeological recovery. UCLA 

determined they did have cultural items 

from CA–BUT–12 and transferred legal 

and physical control of the additional 

cultural items to CSU Chico on October 

23, 2023. Human remains were also 

identified in the rehousing process of 

the additional cultural items at CSU 

Chico. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, two individuals were 

removed from Butte County, CA. The 

6,735 associated funerary objects were a 

part of the original excavations and 

collection, which UCLA transferred to 

CSU Chico to be reinterred with the 

ancestors and cultural items of 

Accession 4, Finch Site (CA–BUT–12) 

listed in the Notice of Inventory 

Completion published in the Federal 

Register on June 29, 2023 (88 FR 42099– 

42101). The additional 6,735 associated 

funerary objects are 47 lots of organics, 

1,914 lots of debitage, 426 lots of 

modified stone, 123 lots of projectile 

points, 218 lots of unmodified shell, 500 

lots of modified shell, 53 lots of 

charcoal, 325 lots of soil, 2,866 lots of 

faunal elements, 261 lots of modified 

faunal elements, one lot of modified 

clay, and one lot of ochre. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

oral tradition, and expert opinion in the 

form of tribal traditional knowledge. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, CSU Chico has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 6,735 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Mechoopda Indian 

Tribe of Chico Rancheria, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects 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 

and associated funerary objects in this 

notice to a requestor may occur on or 

after February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

CSU Chico 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. CSU Chico 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 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

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[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037201; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Portland State University, Portland, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Portland 

State University (PSU) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and 

associated funerary objects 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. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Tillamook County, 

OR. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

February 7, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Reno Nims, Portland State 

University, Research & Graduate 

Studies, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 

97207, telephone (503) 725–6611, email 

nagpra@pdx.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 PSU. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

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determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by PSU. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, five individuals were 

removed from an unknown location in 

Tillamook County, OR, at an unknown 

date. PSU faculty members encountered 

these human remains in the 

Anthropology Department’s archeology 

holdings at an unknown date between 

2003 and 2011. The 21 associated 

funerary objects are 15 pieces of worked 

stone, three burnt faunal remains, one 

bivalve shell, and two ceramic plate 

fragments. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from the site of Chishucks Village in 

Tillamook County, OR, in 1971 by Ron 

Kent, a PSU master’s student in the 

Anthropology Department. These 

human remains were inadvertently 

excavated from deposits of faunal 

remains, and subsequently identified as 

human in 2021 and 2022 by PSU staff 

members during a thorough search for 

Native American human remains and 

cultural items in the Anthropology 

Department’s archeology holdings. The 

one associated funerary object is a clay 

pipe fragment. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects 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: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

geographical information, and historical 

information. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, PSU has determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of six individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 22 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Confederated Tribes 

of Siletz Indians of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde 

Community of Oregon; and the 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects 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, and, if joined 

to a request from one or more of the 

Indian Tribes, Chinook Indian Nation, a 

non-federally recognized Indian group. 

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 February 7, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

PSU 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. PSU 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 10.9, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: December 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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