[Federal Register: January 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 4)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. Department of Defense, Army
Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA, and Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the control of the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Sacramento District, Sacramento, CA, and in the physical
custody of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. The human remains and associated
funerary objects were removed from Fresno County, CA.
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 human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
An assessment of the human remains, and catalog records and
associated documents relevant to the human remains, was made by Phoebe
A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology professional staff in consultation
with representatives of Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California;
Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria
of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California (also known as Santa Rosa Rancheria
Tachi Yokut Tribe, California); Table Mountain Rancheria of California;
Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of
California.
In 1948, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from site CA-Fre-27, Fresno County, CA, by F. Fenenga and
F.A. Riddell, University of California Archaeological Survey, and
transferred to the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology the same
year. No known individual was identified. The four associated funerary
objects are one abalone shell, one steatite ornament, and two pottery
fragments.
Site CA-Fre-27 is a habitation site located on the east bank of the
Kings River within the current impoundment boundaries of the Pine Flat
Reservoir. Characteristics of material culture, including steatite
beads, brownware ceramics, and historic glass trade beads, indicate
that the site was inhabited post-A.D. 1500.
Officials of the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of
Engineers, Sacramento District, and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
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3001 (9-10), the human remains described above represent the physical
remains of at least one individual of Native American ancestry.
Officials of the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers,
Sacramento District, and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology also
have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the four
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. Lastly, officials of the U.S.
Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District,
and Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology have determined that,
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 Big Sandy
Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Cold Springs Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono Indians of
California; Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California
(also known as Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe, California);
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian Tribe of the
Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians
of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact C. Richard Hitchcock, NAGPRA Coordinator, Phoebe
A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720, telephone (510) 642-6096, before February 7, 2005.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects to
the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Cold Springs
Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Northfork Rancheria of Mono
Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California (also known as Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe,
California); Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian
Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California may proceed
after that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology is responsible for
notifying the Big Sandy Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Cold
Springs Rancheria of Mono Indians of California; Northfork Rancheria of
Mono Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California (also known as Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe,
California); Table Mountain Rancheria of California; Tule River Indian
Tribe of the Tule River Reservation, California; and Tuolumne Band of
Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria of California that this notice
has been published.
Dated: November 24, 2004
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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