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FR Doc 04-6644
[Federal Register: March 25, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 58)]
[Notices]
[Page 15374-15375]
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 Intent to Repatriate Cultural Items: San Diego
Archaeological Center, San Diego, 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. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the San Diego
Archaeological Center, San Diego, CA, 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 within this notice are the sole responsibility of
the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the
cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations within this notice.
The 20 cultural items are 14 olivella shell beads, 3 natural quartz
crystals, 1 ceramic pipe fragment, 1 rabbit bone bead fragment, and 1
fragment of incised shell.
The 20 cultural items objects were excavated from site CA-SDI-
12809, located near Otay Ranch, 4 miles east of Chula Vista, CA. Site
CA-SDI-12809 was first excavated by archeologist Dr. Charlotte McGowan
from Southwestern Community College, Chula Vista, CA, in 1971. It is
reported that inhumations were discovered at that time and were
repatriated to the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo
Indian Reservation, California. In 1993, California Department of
Transportation, District 11 contracted Brian F. Mooney & Associates to
excavate the site for construction of State Route 125, part of the SR
125-South Otay Valley Project. During the 1993 excavations, inhumations
and artifacts were discovered at several locations. The archeology
report states that the human remains were reinterred at that time
``under the direction of a Native American observer.'' The artifacts
from the 1993 collection were taken to the San Diego Archaeological
Center on August 8, 2000. The unassociated funerary objects were
discovered during the sorting and classifying of artifacts from CA-SDI-
12809.
Archeological evidence, including artifacts typical of the late
Prehistoric period (3500 B.P. to circa A.D. 1700) indicates that the
site described above is Native American. Archeological and historical
literature, and oral historical evidence presented during consultation,
confirm that site CA-SDI-12809 is located within traditional and
historical Kumeyaay territory. The site is thought to be Otai Village,
a late Prehistoric-period Kumeyaay village abandoned during the
Historic period. The cultural items described above are believed to be
associated with known burials found at the site because of their
proximity to the burials and their intensely burned condition. The
cultural items are also typically associated with burial practices of
the Kumeyaay.
Officials of the San Diego Archaeological Center have determined
that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(B), the 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
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believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from
a specific burial site of a Native American individual. Officials of
the San Diego Archaeological 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 unassociated funerary objects
and the Barona Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the
Barona Reservation, California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of the Campo Indian Reservation, California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of
Kumeyaay Indians, California; Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village of
California; La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta
Indian Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission
Indians of the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California;
San Pasqual Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa
Ysabel Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel
Reservation, California; Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
California; and Viejas (Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of
Mission Indians of the Viejas Reservation, California.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the unassociated funerary objects should
contact Cindy Stankowski, Director, San Diego Archaeological Center,
16666 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027, before April 26,
2004. Repatriation of the unassociated funerary objects to the Kumeyaay
Cultural Repatriation Committee on behalf of the Barona Group of
Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation,
California; Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian
Reservation, California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians,
California; Inaja Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and
Cosmit Reservation, California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La
Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian
Reservation, California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of
the Manzanita Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno
Mission Indians of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; San Pasqual
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa Ysabel Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel Reservation, California;
Sycuan Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and Viejas
(Baron Long) Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the
Viejas Reservation, California may proceed after that date if no
additional claimants come forward.
The San Diego Archaeological Center is responsible for notifying
the Kumeyaay Cultural Repatriation Committee; Barona Group of Capitan
Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Barona Reservation, California;
Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation,
California; Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, California; Inaja
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Inaja and Cosmit Reservation,
California; Jamul Indian Village of California; La Posta Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation,
California; Manzanita Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Manzanita
Reservation, California; Mesa Grande Band of Diegueno Mission Indians
of the Mesa Grande Reservation, California; San Pasqual Band of
Diegueno Mission Indians of California; Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueno
Mission Indians of the Santa Ysabel Reservation, California; Sycuan
Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of California; and Viejas (Baron Long)
Group of Capitan Grande Band of Mission Indians of the Viejas
Reservation, California that this notice has been published.
Dated: January 28, 2004.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
[FR Doc. 04-6644 Filed 3-24-04; 8:45 am]
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