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###### Department of the Interior

###### National Park Service

          - [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037508; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

# AGENCY:

National Park Service, Interior.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Folsom History intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects or 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 Sacramento County, CA, or an unknown county.

# DATES:

Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on or after April 3, 2024.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Shelby Sorensen, Folsom History, 823 Sutter Street, Folsom, CA 95630, telephone (916) 985-2707, email                         *shelby@folsomhistory.org.*

# 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 Folsom History. 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 Folsom History.

## Description

The three cultural items were removed from Sacramento County, CA, or an unknown county, CA. The date of removal is unknown or from a general local area. Acquisition dates are listed from 1977 to found in collection in 2022. One cultural item was created by artist, Harry Fonesca. Donor information is available upon request for all objects. It is likely the object listed as 2015.01.17 (rhythm necklace; Nisenan) was gifted or purchased from the Pacific Western Traders. The one unassociated funerary item is a collection of 27 arrowheads and points. The two objects of cultural patrimony are one rhythm necklace (Nisenan) and one framed pen and ink with colored pencil both created by artist, Harry Fonesca.

## 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: geography, kinship, biology, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, folklore, oral tradition, historical information, and other relevant information or expert opinion.

## Determinations

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations Folsom History has determined that:
    - The one cultural item 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 and are believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
    - The two cultural items described above have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an individual.
    - There is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the cultural items and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California.

## Requests for Repatriation

                    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in                     **ADDRESSES**                    . Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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 cultural items in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 3, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, Folsom History must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are considered a single request and not competing requests. Folsom History is responsible for sending a copy of this                           ( print page 15609)                        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. 3004, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.                

Dated: February 23, 2024.

Melanie O'Brien,

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024-04456 Filed 3-1-24; 8:45 am]

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