FR Doc E7-18101
[Federal Register: September 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 177)]
[Notices]
[Page 52388-52389]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Fowler Museum of Cultural
History, University of California, Los Angeles, 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 and associated funerary
objects in the control of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History (Fowler
Museum at UCLA), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from
Tulare 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.
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by Fowler
Museum at UCLA professional staff in consultation with representatives
of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California (also known as the Tachi Yokut Tribe).
In August 1958, human remains representing a minimum of 11
individuals were removed from a site near the edge of the former Lake
Tulare (CA-TUL-90) in Tulare County, CA, by C.N. Warren and M.B.
McKusick. The collection was accessioned by the University of
California, Los Angeles in 1958. No known individuals were identified.
The 11 associated funerary objects are 6 animal bone, 2 land snail
shell fragments, 1 basalt flake, and 2 sandstone net weights.
The artifacts are consistent with others documented as associated
with the indigenous inhabitants of the area. The burial position and
orientation along with numbers of grave goods and the presence of net
weights associate the burials with the Middle Period (3,500 to 1,500
B.P). Lake Tulare is located within the traditional territory of the
Yokut tribe. According to archeologists, the Yokut have occupied the
territory around Tulare Lake and Buena Vista Lake for as long as two
millennia.
Tribal representatives from Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa
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Rosa Rancheria, California identified the site as being within the
traditional territory of the Yokut people. Descendants of the Yokut are
members of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of
the Tule River Reservation, California.
Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 11 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the Fowler Museum at UCLA also have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 11 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 Fowler Museum at UCLA 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 Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California;
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California;
Table Mountain Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of
the Tule River Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Wendy Teeter, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Box 951549,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549, telephone (310) 825-1864, before October
15, 2007. Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria,
California may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Fowler Museum at UCLA is responsible for notifying the Picayune
Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Table Mountain
Rancheria of California; and Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California that this notice has been published.
Dated: August 22, 2007
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E7-18101 Filed 9-12-07; 8:45 am]
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