[Federal Register: September 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 183)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Southwest Museum of the American
Indian, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, 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 in the control of the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center, Los
Angeles, CA. The human remains were removed from Contra Costa and San
Joaquin Counties, 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. The National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center
professional staff in consultation with representatives of Jackson
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community
of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California (also known as the Tachi Yokut
Tribe); 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. The Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok
Tribe, California (formerly the Sheep Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
of California); Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Shingle Springs
Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract),
California; and Susanville Indian Rancheria, California were contacted,
but did not choose to participate in the consultations.
In 1933, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from an undetermined site in Stockton, San Joaquin Valley,
San Joaquin County, CA. The museum has no additional information
regarding the removal and museum's acquisition of the human remains. No
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are
present.
In 1939, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were removed from an undetermined site twenty feet from the water's
edge-most likely the San Pablo Bay-in Richmond, Contra Costa County,
CA, by Mr. J.E. Peterson. The human remains were donated by Mr. J.E.
Peterson to the Southwest Museum on April 23, 1939. No known individual
was identified. No associated funerary objects are present.
The geographic locations described above lie within Yokut or Miwok
territories. Archeologists believe that the Penutian-speaking Yokut and
Miwok descend from the Windmiller people who occupied the Central
Valley of California nearly 4,000 years ago. The history of California
rancherias in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada foothill regions of
California shows that these Windmiller descendants ultimately dispersed
to the federally recognized Yokut and Miwok rancherias. The tribes that
have a shared group identity with the Yokut and Miwok are Berry Creek
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California;
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise
Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Greenville
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Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of
California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band
of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Susanville Indian Rancheria, 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.
Officials of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry
National Center have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-
10), the human remains described above represent the physical remains
of two individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center also
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 the Berry Creek Rancheria
of Maidu Indians of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians
of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise Rancheria of
Maidu Indians of California; Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria
of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Susanville Indian Rancheria,
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 should contact Duane H.
King, Ph.D., Executive Director, or LaLena Lewark, Senior NAGPRA
Coordinator, Southwest Museum of the American Indian, 234 Museum Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90065, (323) 221-2164, extension 241, before October
22, 2007. Repatriation of the human remains to the Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may proceed after
that date if no additional claimants come forward.
The Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center
is responsible for notifying the Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians
of California; Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California;
California Valley Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch Rancheria of
Me-Wuk Indians of California; Enterprise Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California; Ione
Band of Miwok Indians of California; Jackson Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians of
California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Susanville Indian Rancheria,
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: August 30, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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