[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 84393-84394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24414]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038917; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: San Bernardino County Museum, 
Redlands, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San Bernardino County Museum 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after November 21, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Tamara Serrao-Leiva, San Bernardino County Museum, 2024 
Orange Tree Lane, Redlands, CA 92374, telephone (909) 798-8623, email 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#196d6a7c6b6b787634757c706f78596a7b7a74376a7b7a766c776d60377e766f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a2e293f28283b3577363f332c3b1a2938393774293839352f342e23743d352c">[email protected]</span></a>.

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 
San Bernardino County Museum, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been 
identified. The seven associated funerary objects are burned beads, 
glass beads, shell, pipe fragments, petrified wood, pottery, and stone 
tools. The Deep Canyon collection housed at the museum was collected by 
a private corporation in the summer of 1972 in and around Deep Canyon 
in Palm Desert, CA. While the original field records do not mention 
human remains, the museum's records show that one skull fragment is 
associated with SBCM-5600 (Deep Canyon). Records show Gorden Redtfeldt 
and M.R. Harrington at the Southwest Museum were corresponding 
regarding a site report in 1955.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been 
identified. The two associated funerary objects are fish and faunal 
bone. The Lake LeConte collection (SBCM-5922) housed at the museum was 
originally part of the McCown collection, who was affiliated with 
Archaeological Survey Association. When ASA disbanded, this collection 
was donated to the county museum in the early 2000s.
    Human remains representing, at least, one individual has been 
identified. The four associated funerary objects are pottery, historic-
era objects, bone awls, and organic material. In the 1970s an ancestor 
and objects were sent to Riverside Sheriff's department for a small 
exhibit installed in the department. In early 2024, sheriff/coroner 
rediscovered these items in a box labelled ``SBCM'' which included the 
human remains and objects. In May 2024, coroner communicated this and 
dropped off the box to the museum. The ceramic potsherd found with 
ancestor is Cahuilla.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical local 
or acquisition history of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice.

Determinations

    The San Bernardino County Museum has determined that:
    <bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
    <bullet> The 13 objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
    <bullet> There is a connection between the human remains and 
associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian 
Reservation, California; Augustine Band of Cahuilla

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Indians, California; Cabazon Band of Cahuilla Indians (previously 
listed as Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, California); Cahuilla Band 
of Indians; Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians, 
California; Morongo Band of Mission Indians, California; Ramona Band of 
Cahuilla, California; Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians, California; 
and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with 
cultural affiliation.
    Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects 
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after November 
21, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the San 
Bernardino County Museum 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. The San Bernardino County Museum 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 10.10.

    Dated: October 11, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-24414 Filed 10-21-24; 8:45 am]
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