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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Park Service is not responsible for the the Inupiat in the North Slope of Alaska determinations in this notice. have demonstrated cultural and genetic National Park Service ties to their ancestral Thule and Birnirk Consultation cultures. Based on this information, the [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20964; A detailed assessment of the human PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] human remains described in this Notice remains was made by UC, Davis are determined to be culturally affiliated Notice of Inventory Completion: professional staff in consultation with with Inupiat of the Point Barrow area, University of California, Davis, Davis, representatives of the Native Village of represented today by the Native Village CA Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government. of Barrow Inupiat Traditional History and Description of the Remains Government. AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. In 1951, human remains representing, Determinations Made by the University at minimum, one individual were of California, Davis SUMMARY: The University of California, removed from Point Barrow in Barrow, Officials at UC Davis have determined Davis (UC Davis) has completed an AK. The human remains were collected that: inventory of human remains housed in by Henry Everett Childs, Jr., a graduate • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and student at University of California, human remains described in this notice Fish Biology, in consultation with the Berkeley at the time. In 2014, the human represent the physical remains of one appropriate Indian tribes or Native remains were identified in the individual of Native American ancestry. Hawaiian organizations, and has collections of the UC Davis, Museum of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there determined that there is a cultural Wildlife and Fish Biology and reported is a relationship of shared group affiliation between the human remains to the NAGPRA Project. No known identity that can be reasonably traced individuals were identified. No and present-day Indian tribes or Native between the Native American human associated funerary objects were Hawaiian organizations. Lineal remains and the Native Village of present. descendants or representatives of any Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government. Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian The human remains were collected organization not identified in this notice during a biological field expedition. The Additional Requestors and Disposition that wish to request transfer of control human remains have been determined Lineal descendants or representatives of these human remains should submit to be Native American based on of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian a written request to the UC Davis. If no antiquity, dental wear patterns, and organization not identified in this notice additional requestors come forward, historical and archeological that wish to request transfer of control transfer of control of the human remains information. Geographic, historical, of these human remains should submit to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, archeological, and biological a written request with information in or Native Hawaiian organizations stated information suggest continuity between support of the request to Megon Noble, in this notice may proceed. human remains from Point Barrow and NAGPRA Project Manager, University of contemporary Inupiat people that are DATES: Lineal descendants or California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One representatives of any Indian tribe or present day members of the Native Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, Native Hawaiian organization not Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional telephone (530)752–8501, email identified in this notice that wish to Government. [email protected], by June 10, 2016. The human remains described above request transfer of control of these After that date, if no additional lack precise context information. human remains should submit a written requestors have come forward, transfer However, there are several known request with information in support of of control of the human remains to archeological sites in the Point Barrow the request to the University of Native Village of Barrow Inupiat area including Nuvuk (Nuwuk), Birnirk, California, Davis at the address in this Traditional Government may proceed. Kugok, Utqiag˙vik, and Walakpa that notice by June 10, 2016. UC Davis is responsible for notifying have been extensively excavated, and the Native Village of Barrow Inupiat ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA provide related information to assist Traditional Government that this notice Project Manager, University of with interpretation. Collectively the has been published. California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One sites in the Point Barrow area represent Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, Birnirk, Thule, Historical and Modern Dated: April 27, 2016. telephone (530) 752–8501, email Inupiat archeological phases. Melanie O’Brien, [email protected]. Radiocarbon dates indicate an Manager, National NAGPRA Program. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is essentially continuous occupation of the [FR Doc. 2016–11093 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am] here given in accordance with the Nuvuk site. Based on the state of BILLING CODE 4312–50–P Native American Graves Protection and preservation, the human remains Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. described above date to the last 1000 3003, of the completion of an inventory years, but likely date to the late DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of human remains under the control of Prehistoric–early Historic period (1730s the University of California, Davis, 1850s B.C.). National Park Service Davis, CA. The human remains were The historic village of Nuvuk was removed from Barrow, AK. occupied at the time of Euroamerican [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20962; This notice is published as part of the contact (1826) and later abandoned. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] National Park Service’s administrative Some elders now living in Barrow were responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 born and raised at Nuvuk. Recent Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis University of California, Davis, Davis, this notice are the sole responsibility of suggests some genetic continuity CA the museum, institution, or Federal between Paleoeskimo (e.g., Arctic Small AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. agency that has control of the Native Tool tradition) and contemporary ACTION: Notice. American human remains. The National Inupiat people of the region. However,

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SUMMARY: The University of California, Nation, California (previously listed as • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Davis (UC Davis), has completed an the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun is a relationship of shared group inventory of human remains housed in Indians of California). identity that can be reasonably traced the UC Davis Museum of Wildlife and History and Description of the Remains between the Native American human Fish Biology, in consultation with the remains and the Cachil DeHe Band of appropriate Indian tribes or Native Sometime before 1940, human Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian remains representing, at minimum, Hawaiian organizations, and has Community of the Colusa Rancheria, three individuals were removed from determined that there is a cultural California; Cortina Indian Rancheria affiliation between the human remains site CA–YOL–118 in downtown Davis in Yolo County, CA. The human (previously listed as the Cortina Indian and present-day Indian tribes or Native Rancheria of Wintun Indians of Hawaiian organizations. Lineal remains were collected by F.M. Hayes, and later donated by Mrs. F. Griffin to California); and the Yocha DeHe Wintun descendants or representatives of any Nation, California (previously listed as Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian the UC Davis Zoology Department. The the Rumsey Indian Rancheria of Wintun organization not identified in this notice Zoology Department later became part Indians of California). that wish to request transfer of control of the College of Biological Sciences. of these human remains should submit The collections of the College of Additional Requestors and Disposition a written request to UC Davis. If no Biological Sciences were later additional requestors come forward, transferred to the UC Davis Museum of Lineal descendants or representatives transfer of control of the human remains Wildlife and Fish Biology within the of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and organization not identified in this notice or Native Hawaiian organizations stated Conservation Biology. No known that wish to request transfer of control in this notice may proceed. individuals were identified. No of these human remains should submit associated funerary objects are present. a written request with information in DATES: Lineal descendants or The human remains have been support of the request to Megon Noble, representatives of any Indian tribe or determined to be Native American Native Hawaiian organization not based on dental wear patterns and the NAGPRA Project Manager, University of identified in this notice that wish to archeological context of the site. The California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One request transfer of control of these human remains were not removed as a Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, human remains should submit a written part of a systematic excavation; telephone (530) 752–8501, email request with information in support of however, multiple subsequent [email protected], by June 10, 2016. the request to UC Davis at the address archeological excavations at site CA– After that date, if no additional in this notice by June 10, 2016. YOL–118 and surrounding sites yielded requestors have come forward, transfer ADDRESSES: Megon Noble, NAGPRA relevant information. The human of control of the human remains to the Project Manager, University of remains are reasonably believed to date Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of California, Davis, 433 Mrak Hall, One to Phase 2 of the Late Period (A.D. the Colusa Indian Community of the Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, 1520–1770) or to the later Historic/ Colusa Rancheria, California; Cortina telephone (530) 752–8501, email Mission Period based on the presence of Indian Rancheria (previously listed as [email protected]. temporally diagnostic artifacts including the Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is clam shell disc beads, glass beads, and Indians of California); and the Yocha here given in accordance with the Olivella H series beads, as well as DeHe Wintun Nation, California Native American Graves Protection and radiocarbon dating. Archeological and (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. linguistic models suggest individuals of Rancheria of Wintun Indians of 3003, of the completion of an inventory southern Wintun or Patwin descent California) may proceed. of human remains under the control of were present at site CA–YOL–118 the UC Davis, Davis, CA. The human during the Late and Historic Periods. UC Davis is responsible for notifying remains were removed from Yolo The human remains described in this Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of County, CA. Notice are determined to be culturally the Colusa Indian Community of the This notice is published as part of the affiliated with southern Wintun or Colusa Rancheria, California; Cortina National Park Service’s administrative Patwin, represented by the present day Indian Rancheria (previously listed as responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Indians of the Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in the Colusa Indian Community of the Indians of California); and the Yocha this notice are the sole responsibility of Colusa Rancheria, California; Cortina Dehe Wintun Nation, California the museum, institution, or Federal Indian Rancheria (previously listed as (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian agency that has control of the Native the Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Rancheria of Wintun Indians of American human remains. The National Indians of California); and the Yocha California) that this notice has been Park Service is not responsible for the DeHe Wintun Nation, California published. determinations in this notice. (previously listed as the Rumsey Indian Dated: April 27, 2016. Consultation Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California). Melanie O’Brien, A detailed assessment of the human Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Determinations Made by the University remains was made by UC Davis [FR Doc. 2016–11092 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am] of California, Davis professional staff in consultation with BILLING CODE 4312–50–P representatives of the Cachil DeHe Band Officials of the University of of Wintun Indians of the Colusa Indian California, Davis have determined that: Community of the Colusa Rancheria, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the California; Cortina Indian Rancheria human remains described in this notice (previously listed as the Cortina Indian represent the physical remains of three Rancheria of Wintun Indians of individuals of Native American California); and the Yocha Dehe Wintun ancestry.

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