[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68477-68478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-27147]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17040; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, 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 San Francisco 
State University NAGPRA Program. 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 San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program at the address in this notice by December 17, 
2014.

ADDRESSES: Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State University 
NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State 
University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, telephone 
(415) 338-3075, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e086858e9492859393a093869395ce858495"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6f090a011b1d0a1c1c2f1c091c1a410a0b1a">[email protected]</span></a>.

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 San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program 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

    Based on the request for repatriation submitted by the Tuolumne 
Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California, each of 
the objects below meets the definition of unassociated funerary objects 
under 25 U.S.C. 3001 and 43 CFR 10.2(d)(2)(ii), (d)(3), or (d)(4). 
Through the summary, consultation, and notification procedures in 43 
CFR 10.14, the cultural affiliation of the cultural items below with 
the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of 
California was established.
    Between 1970 and 1971, 2 cultural items were removed from site CA-
TUO-314, located on the southern bank of Moccasin Creek, near LaGrange, 
in Tuolumne County, CA, during archeological excavations conducted by 
San Francisco State University. The 2 unassociated funerary objects are 
ground stone artifacts associated with human remains from Burial 5; the 
human remains are not present at San Francisco State University. The 
geographic location of the sites and archeological, historical, and 
oral history evidence indicate that these unassociated funerary objects 
are Native American. The objects are consistent with the material 
culture of the ancestral Sierra Miwok who occupied this area during the 
Euro-American contact period, and Ca-TUO-314 is located in an area that 
is documented as Central Sierra Miwok territory. Oral history evidence 
presented during consultation indicates that the area has been 
continuously occupied by the Miwok since the contact period and that 
there is cultural affiliation between the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk 
Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.

Determinations Made by the San Francisco State University NAGPRA 
Program

    Officials of the San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program have 
determined that:
    <bullet> Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 2 unassociated 
funerary objects 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

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preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from a specific 
burial site of a Native American individual.
    <bullet> 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 objects and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians 
of the Tuolumne 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 Jeffrey Boland Fentress, San Francisco State 
University NAGPRA Program, c/o Department of Anthropology, San 
Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 
94132, telephone (415) 338-3075, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8debe8e3f9ffe8fefecdfeebfef8a3e8e9f8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fa9c9f948e889f8989ba899c898fd49f9e8f">[email protected]</span></a>, by December 
17, 2014. After that date, if no additional claimants have come 
forward, transfer of control of the unassociated funerary objects to 
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California 
may proceed.
    The San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program is responsible 
for notifying the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne 
Rancheria of California that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 25, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2014-27147 Filed 11-14-14; 8:45 am]
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