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trace the relationship: anthropological 

information, archeological information, 

biological information, folklore, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, linguistics, oral 

tradition, as well as expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, Fort Lewis College has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 30 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• 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 Hopi Tribe of 

Arizona; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo 

of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San 

Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa 

Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; 

Santo Domingo Pueblo; Ysleta del Sur 

Pueblo; and the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. 

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 March 29, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

Fort Lewis College 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. Fort Lewis College 

is responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 20, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04086 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037473; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of California, Riverside, 

Riverside, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Riverside has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains and has determined that there 

is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The human remains were 

removed from Ventura, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University 

of California, Riverside, 900 University 

Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900, 

telephone (951) 827–6349, email 

megan.murphy@ucr.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 University of 

California, Riverside. 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 University of California, 

Riverside. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual were removed 

from Ventura County, CA. The cranium 

of 1 young adult female Native 

American individual was discovered in 

a cave in Ventura County by a group of 

young boys participating in the 

‘‘Trailfinders’’ camp. The cranium was 

housed at the University of California 

James San Jacinto Mountain Natural 

Reserve in a cabinet with other mammal 

crania since its founding in 1966 by 

Harry James who was also the founder 

of Trailfinders. The cabinet and its 

contents were reportedly given to the 

reserve by the Department of Biology at 

the University of California, Riverside 

(UCR). Through conversations with 

previous reserve directors, UCR 

NAGPRA Staff found that there was an 

oral history among individuals (now in 

their 80s and 90s) who participated in 

the Trailfinders organization about how 

the cranium was discovered. Former 

director of the James Reserve, Michael 

Hamilton, indicated that he was told by 

former Trailfinders that the cranium 

was found in a cave in Ventura County 

during a hike. Through speaking with 

other former members, UCR NAGPRA 

Staff discovered that the Trailfinders 

owned property on Sespe Creek in 

Ventura County north of Filmore where 

they often had weekend camping trips. 

They typically hiked upstream (north) 

on Sespe Creek because that was the 

only direction they could go for a hike. 

Living Trailfinders who have spoken 

with UCR NAGPRA Staff suggested that 

it is likely that the cranium was found 

in the Sespe Creek drainage in Ventura 

County during one such hike. 

Additional post-cranial human 

remains representing one young adult 

female Native American individual 

were reported by the University of 

California, Riverside’s Department of 

Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology 

(EEOB) to the UCR NAGPRA Program. 

The department staff indicated that the 

human remains, which were stored in a 

cardboard box labeled ‘‘Indian Bones’’, 

had been in the department since at 

least before the 1990s. Despite an 

exhaustive attempt to contact previous 

professors and department chairs, no 

information was found by the NAGPRA 

Program Staff to indicate how the 

human remains became part of the 

department’s collections. The cabinet 

which the human remains were stored 

in contained the post-cranial remains of 

other vertebrate mammals. Examination 

of the human remains by an osteologist 

determined that there were also a few 


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large sea mammal bones mixed with the 

human remains and were likely from 

the same archeological context. 

Furthermore, osteological analysis 

suggested the post cranial remains could 

represent the same individual as the 

crania at the James San Jacinto 

Mountain Natural Reserve. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains 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, 

biological information, geographical 

information, historical information, oral 

tradition, expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of 

California, Riverside has determined 

that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the Santa 

Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians 

of the Santa Ynez Reservation, 

California. 

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 March 29, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the University of California, Riverside 

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 

University of California, Riverside is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations identified in 

this notice. 

This notice was submitted before the 

effective date of the revised regulations 

(88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, 

effective January 12, 2024). As the 

notice conforms to the mandatory 

format of the Federal Register and 

includes the required information, the 

National Park Service is publishing this 

notice as submitted. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.10. 

Dated: February 20, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04088 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037478; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: University of California, 

Riverside, Riverside, CA, and the 

California Department of Parks and 

Recreation, Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

University of California, Riverside and 

the California Department of Parks and 

Recreation intends to repatriate certain 

cultural items that meet the definition of 

objects of cultural patrimony and that 

have a cultural affiliation with the 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The 

cultural items were removed from San 

Luis Obispo, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Megan Murphy, University 

of California, Riverside, 900 University 

Avenue, Riverside, CA 92517–5900, 

telephone (951) 827–6349, email 

megan.murphy@ucr.edu and Leslie 

Hartzell, NAGPRA Coordinator, at 

California State Parks, 715 P Street, 

Suite 13, Sacramento, CA 95814, 

telephone (415) 831–2700, email 

leslie.hartzell@parks.ca.gov. 

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 University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

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 summary or related 

records held by the University of 

California, Riverside and the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

Description 

The two cultural items were removed 

from San Luis Obispo County, CA. In 

2001, Terry Jones removed sea-snail 

shells for radiocarbon date calibration 

from archeological site CA–SLO–116 

(San Simeon State Park). The site, 

which is under the legal control of the 

California Department of Parks and 

Recreation, consists of 19 recorded 

bedrock mortars and large shell midden 

deposits. The shell samples submitted 

to the UCR radiocarbon laboratory dated 

to 665 ± BP, 785 ± BP, and 3910 ± BP. 

There are no known associated 

collections from this site held by CDPR 

at other locations. 

In 1981, R.O. Gibson removed shell 

fragments for radiocarbon date sampling 

from archeological site CA–SLO–978, 

Morro Bay Sandspit. The site, located in 

Montana de Oro State Park Los Osos, 

was originally recorded in 1969 as a 

shell mound or midden. Other noted 

cultural constituents included debitage, 

fire-affected, and additional nearby shell 

middens. There are no known 

associated collections from this site held 

by CDPR at other locations. The two lots 

of objects of cultural patrimony are two 

lots of shells. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items 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: tribal traditional 

knowledge, archeological information, 

geographical information, historical 

information, kinship, oral tradition, and 

expert opinion. 


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