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practices. The burial was located in the 

ancestral territory of the Southern Ute 

Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute 

Reservation, Colorado, and Ute 

Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain 

Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & 

Utah. Oral tradition and historical 

documents cited by the Ute Tribes 

indicate Moache, Capute and Weenuche 

bands used the area where the remains 

were discovered on seasonal rounds and 

for trading and raiding. Descendants 

from these bands now reside on the 

Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute 

Reservations. Funerary objects are 

consistent with Ute culture. 

Determinations Made by History 

Colorado 

Officials of History Colorado have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the four 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. 

• 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 human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe of 

the Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado 

and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 

Mexico & Utah. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Sheila Goff, History 

Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, CO 

80203, telephone (303) 866–4531, email 

Sheila.goff@state.co.us, by March 6, 

2015. After that date, if no additional 

requestors have come forward, transfer 

of control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the 

Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the 

Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, 

and Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute 

Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New 

Mexico & Utah may proceed. 

History Colorado is responsible for 

notifying The Consulted and Invited 

Tribes that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: December 10, 2014. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17401; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: California State University, 

Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: California State University, 

Sacramento, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, has determined 

that the cultural items listed in this 

notice meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request to 

California State University, Sacramento. 

If no additional claimants come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

cultural items to the lineal descendants, 

Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian 

organizations stated in this notice may 

proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

California State University, Sacramento 

at the address in this notice by March 

6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of 

the College of Social Sciences and 

Interdisciplinary Studies, CSUS, 6000 J 

Street, Sacramento, CA 95819–6109, 

telephone (916) 278–4864, email 

obbodvarsson@csus.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of California 

State University, Sacramento, that meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

objects under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American cultural items. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

History and Description of the Cultural 

Items 

Sometime during the 1920s and 

1930s, six unassociated funerary objects 

were removed from CA–SAC–026 (also 

known as Cory Mound/Joe Mound), 

located adjacent to the northern bank of 

the American River, approximately one 

half mile east of the Sacramento River, 

in west-central Sacramento County, CA. 

The unassociated funerary objects were 

in the possession of Anthony Zallio, a 

private collector, who posthumously 

donated his collection in 1951 to the 

Department of Anthropology at 

Sacramento State College, CA (now 

California State University, 

Sacramento). The six unassociated 

funerary objects are one lot of charcoal, 

one modified bone, three Haliotis shell 

ornaments, and one shell bead. 

CA–SAC–026 is the location of 

Pujune, a Nisenan village that is well 

documented in the historic record due 

to its proximity to New Helvetia 

(Sutter’s Fort), which resulted in high 

levels of interaction with pioneer John 

Sutter. It is known to have been an 

extensive and influential village when 

Sutter arrived in the area in the 1840s. 

Sometime during the 1920s and 

1930s, seven unassociated funerary 

objects were removed from CA–SAC– 

029 (also known as Sama, King Brown, 

Roeder, and S–29), which is located 

approximately one half mile east of the 

Sacramento River and five miles south 

of the confluence of the American and 

Sacramento Rivers, in west-central 

Sacramento County, CA. The 

unassociated funerary objects were in 

the possession of Anthony Zallio, a 

private collector, who posthumously 

donated his collection in 1951 to the 

Department of Anthropology at 

Sacramento State College, CA (now 

California State University, 

Sacramento). The seven unassociated 

funerary objects are one modified antler, 

one chert biface, one bone awl tip, three 

modified bone tools, and one lot of 

charred cordage. CA–SAC–029 was 

occupied as early as the Middle Horizon 

with reoccupation occurring sometime 

during the Late Sutter period. The site 

is believed to be a Nisenan village 

known as Sama. 

Sometime during the 1920s and 

1930s, one unassociated funerary object 

was removed from ‘‘Rose Spring 

Mound,’’ located in Roseville in Placer 

County, CA. The exact location is 

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currently unknown. The unassociated 

funerary object was in the possession of 

Anthony Zallio, a private collector, who 

posthumously donated his collection in 

1951 to the Department of Anthropology 

at Sacramento State College, CA (now 

California State University, 

Sacramento). The unassociated funerary 

object is one projectile point. Although 

the exact site location for Rose Spring 

Mound in Placer County, CA, is 

unknown, the site is within the 

aboriginal territory of the Nisenan. 

Archeological evidence indicates that 

the lower Sacramento Valley and Delta 

regions were continuously occupied 

since at least the Early Horizon (5550– 

550 B.C.). Cultural changes indicated by 

artifact typologies and burial patterns, 

historical linguistic evidence, and 

biological evidence reveal that the 

populations in the region were not 

static, with both in situ cultural changes 

and migrations of outside populations 

into the area. Linguistic evidence 

suggests that ancestral-Penutian 

speaking groups related to modern day 

Miwok, Nisenan, and Patwin groups 

occupied the region during the Middle 

(550 B.C.–A.D. 1100) and Late (A.D. 

1100–Historic) Horizons, with some 

admixing between these groups and 

Hokan-speaking groups that occupied 

the region at an earlier date. The genetic 

data suggests that the Penutians may 

have arrived later than what is 

suggested by the linguistics. 

Geographical data from ethnohistoric 

and ethnographic sources indicate that 

the site was most likely occupied by 

Nisenan-speaking groups at the 

beginning of the historic period, while 

Patwin-speakers occupied the valley 

west of the Sacramento River and 

Miwok-speakers resided south of the 

American River. Ethnographic data and 

expert testimony from Tribes support 

the high level of interaction between 

groups in the lower Sacramento Valley 

and Delta regions that crosscut 

linguistic boundaries. Historic 

population movements resulted in an 

increased level of shifting among 

populations, especially among 

populations who were impacted by 

disease, violence, and Euro-American 

activities relating to Sutter’s Fort and 

later gold-rush activities. 

In summary, the ethnographic, 

historical, and geographical evidence 

indicate that the funerary objects listed 

above are most closely affiliated with 

contemporary descendants of the 

Nisenan with more distant ties to 

neighboring groups, such as Miwok, 

Patwin, and Yokut. The earlier cultural 

items from the Middle and Late 

Horizons share cultural relations with 

the Plains Miwok, Nisenan, and Yokut 

based on archeological, biological, and 

historical linguistic evidence. 

Determinations Made by California 

State University, Sacramento 

Officials of the California State 

University, Sacramento have 

determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), 

the 14 cultural items 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. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the unassociated funerary 

object and Shingle Springs Band of 

Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

and United Auburn Indian Community 

of the Auburn Rancheria of California. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Orn Bodvarsson, Dean of the College of 

Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary 

Studies, CSUS, 6000 J Street, 

Sacramento, CA 95819–6109, telephone 

(916) 278–4864, email obbodvarsson@

csus.edu, by March 6, 2015. After that 

date, if no additional claimants have 

come forward, transfer of control of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, 

Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona 

Tract), California and United Auburn 

Indian Community of the Auburn 

Rancheria of California may proceed. 

California State University, 

Sacramento is responsible for notifying 

the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok 

Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria 

(Verona Tract), California, and United 

Auburn Indian Community of the 

Auburn Rancheria of California that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: December 29, 2014. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02180 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–16405; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Forest Service, Chugach National 

Forest, Anchorage, AK, and the 

Thomas Burke Memorial Washington 

State Museum, University of 

Washington, Seattle, WA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, 

Chugach National Forest and the 

Thomas Burke Memorial Washington 

State Museum (Burke Museum), 

University of Washington, in 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, has determined that the 

cultural items listed in this notice meet 

the definition of unassociated funerary 

objects. Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request to the Chugach 

National Forest. If no additional 

claimants come forward, transfer of 

control of the cultural items to the lineal 

descendants, Indian tribes, or Native 

Hawaiian organizations stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

claim these cultural items should 

submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

the Chugach National Forest at the 

address in this notice by March 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Terri Marceron, Chugach 

National Forest, 161 East 1st Ave., Door 

8, Anchorage, AK 99501, telephone 

(907) 743–9525, email tmarceron@

fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

here given in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 

3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural 

items under the control of the USDA 

Forest Service, Chugach National Forest, 

Anchorage, AK, and in the physical 

custody of the Burke Museum, Seattle, 

WA, that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

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