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The determination that this item is an evidence, to have been removed from a Department of Parks and Recreation unassociated funerary object is based on specific burial site of a Native American Committee on Repatriation and museum documentation, consultation individual. Officials of the American professional staff in consultation with information provided by the tribe and Museum of Natural History also have representatives of Mechoopda Indian expert opinion. Though museum determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. Tribe of Chico Rancheria, California; documentation does not specifically 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared Round Valley Indian Tribes of the indicate that this cultural item was group identity that can be reasonably Round Valley Reservation, California; associated with a burial, the condition traced between the unassociated and United Maidu Nation, a non- of the item and its type are consistent funerary objects and the Caddo Nation federally recognized Indian group. The with a funerary context. Based on of Oklahoma. Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians ceramic style, this cultural item dates to Representatives of any other Indian of California; Enterprise Rancheria of between CE 1500 and 1750. Historical tribe that believes itself to be culturally Maidu Indians of California; and and archeological evidence indicates affiliated with the unassociated funerary Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians that the Ouachita River valley region objects should contact Nell Murphy, of California were contacted to was occupied by the Caddo during the Director of Cultural Resources, participate in the consultations. historic period, and that this group American Museum of Natural History, In February and April of 1963, human emerged from pre-contact Caddoan Central Park West at 79th Street, New remains representing a minimum of 25 culture dating back to approximately CE York, NY 10024, telephone (212) 769– individuals were removed from the 850. Expert analysis and consultation 5837, before May 19, 2008. Repatriation Murphy site, located 3 miles southeast have confirmed that this bottle is of the unassociated funerary objects to of Gridley, on the west bank of the consistent with the established Caddoan the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma may Feather River in southern Butte County, ceramic sequence. proceed after that date if no additional CA. The site was excavated by volunteer Between 1916 and 1917, Mark claimants come forward. students from Chico State College, Harrington collected cultural items from The American Museum of Natural Sacramento State College, and American the Ozan and Washington sites in History is responsible for notifying the River College in Sacramento, CA, under Hempstead County, AR, during a Caddo Nation of Oklahoma that this the direction of William H. Olsen. No Museum of the American Indian notice has been published. known individuals were identified. The expedition. The museum acquired the Dated: March 18, 2008. 546 associated funerary objects are 457 cultural items from the Museum of the Sherry Hutt, beads, 4 blades, 3 bone tools, 2 bowls, American Indian in an exchange in 1 disk, 6 flakes, 1 flaker, 15 food 1920. The 31 cultural items are 29 Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. E8–8295 Filed 4–15–08; 8:45 am] remains, 2 gorge hooks, 1 hammer stone, ceramic vessels and 2 vessel fragments. 1 incised tube, 1 knife, 9 ornaments, 2 The 29 ceramic vessels are 2 bottles, 14 BILLING CODE 4312–50–S pestles, 9 pins, 17 projectile points, 1 bowls, and 13 jars. The two vessel quartz crystal, 2 rocks, 1 scraper, 1 seed, fragments are those of a jar. The determination that these items DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 2 utilized flakes, and 8 whistles. are unassociated funerary objects is Excavations at the Murphy site were based on museum documentation, National Park Service intended to salvage materials and consultation information provided by information prior to site destruction for Notice of Inventory Completion: the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, expert agriculture, and were related to California Department of Parks and opinion, and archival information held researching the cultural chronology of Recreation, Sacramento, CA at the Smithsonian National Museum of the Lake Oroville vicinity. The Murphy the American Indian. While museum AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. site, dated circa A.D. 500–1500, is attributed to the Bidwell Complex (A.D. documentation and archival information ACTION: Notice. specifically identifies only six of the 1–A.D. 800), Sweetwater Complex (A.D. objects as having been associated with Notice is here given in accordance 800–1500), and Oroville Complex (A.D. burials, field records, the condition of with the Native American Graves 1500–1833). These sequences have been the items and type of object, indicate a Protection and Repatriation Act linked as the cultural antecedents of the funerary context. Based on ceramic (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the Maidu. Geographic affiliation is style, the vessels date to between CE 850 completion of an inventory of human consistent with the historically and 1700. Historical evidence indicates remains and associated funerary objects documented Konkow, also known as that the Hempstead County region was in the possession of the California Northwestern Maidu. occupied by the Caddo during the Department of Parks and Recreation, In 1957, human remains representing historic period, and that this group Sacramento, CA. The human remains a minimum of one individual were emerged from pre-contact Caddoan and associated funerary objects were removed from the Garner’s Cave site, culture dating back to approximately CE removed from Butte County, CA. which is located 7 miles north of Chico 850. Expert analysis and consultation This notice is published as part of the along Rock Creek in northern Butte have confirmed that the ceramics are National Park Service’s administrative County, CA. In 1957, the human consistent with the established Caddoan responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 remains and associated funerary objects ceramic sequence. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in were donated to the State Indian Officials of the American Museum of this notice are the sole responsibility of Museum, which is part of the California Natural History have determined that, the museum, institution, or Federal Department of Parks and Recreation, by pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the agency that has control of the Native Otis Croy of Yuba City, CA. No known 143 cultural items described above are American human remains and individual was identified. The 41 reasonably believed to have been placed associated funerary objects. The associated funerary objects are 1 awl, 1 with or near individual human remains National Park Service is not responsible basketry material, 1 botanical sample, 2 at the time of death or later as part of for the determinations in this notice. choppers, 1 cord, 11 food remains, 1 the death rite or ceremony and are A detailed assessment of the human net, 1 reed, 16 seeds, 2 twigs, and 4 believed, by a preponderance of the remains was made by California unidentified wood samples.

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Based on a May 1992 check of the Northwestern Maidu. No lineal California from 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. California Office of Historic descendants have been identified. No lineal descendant has been Preservation site files, identification of In 1960 and 1961, human remains identified. Geographic affiliation is this collection as Garner’s Cave was representing a minimum of 56 consistent with the historically determined. The cave was named for the individuals were removed from the documented Konkow (Northwestern landowner Jay Garner of Chico, CA. The Chapman site, Sweetwater Springs, Maidu). burial from the Garner’s Cave site has located 3 miles north of Oroville, north In 1961 and 1962, human remains been attributed to the proto–Historic of the Thermalito Diversion Pool, east of representing a minimum of seven period. The Bidwell Complex, Morris Ravine in south central Butte individuals were removed from the Sweetwater Complex, and Oroville County, CA, during excavations on the Western Pacific Railroad Relocation site, Complex are sequences that have been site by William H. Olsen and Francis A. 8 miles north of Oroville, along the linked as the cultural antecedents of the Riddell of the State Indian Museum. In Western Pacific Railroad line in south Maidu in the region. No lineal 1979, the human remains were central Butte County, CA, by the Central descendant has been identified. transferred from Sutter’s Fort Annex in California Archaeological Foundation, Geographic affiliation is consistent with Sacramento to the State Archeological directed by William H. Olsen and the historically documented Konkow or Collections and Research Facility in Francis A. Riddell, during excavations Northwestern Maidu. West Sacramento and inventoried by the under contract to California Department In 1966 and 1967, human remains California Department of Parks and of Parks and Recreation with funds representing a minimum of 125 Recreation in 1982. No known provided by Department of Water individuals were removed from the Tie– individuals were identified. The 1,480 Resources. Mr. Riddell directed a Wiah site, located 6 miles northeast of associated funerary objects are 1 antler, second phase of excavations in the Oroville, now under the main body of 9 awls, 1,143 beads, 8 blades, 9 bone summer of 1962 with a Chico State Lake Oroville; formerly northeast of the tools, 24 bowls, 1 chopper, 4 cobbles, 3 College archeological field methods confluence of the North and South cores, 1 core/scraper, 33 flakes, 69 food class. The new Western Pacific Railroad Forks of the Feather River, southeastern remains, 1 glass fragment, 1 gorge hook, line cut through the site, almost Butte County, CA. The site was first 7 hammer stones, 11 incised bones, 4 completely destroying it. The old excavated by American River College in knives, 5 manos, 5 metates, 1 mortar, 28 railroad right–of–way was inundated by 1964 under the direction of Charles ornaments, 2 pendants, 7 pestles, 2 Lake Oroville. No known individuals Gebhardt. In 1966, the California pigments, 3 pipes, 74 projectile points, were identified. The 62 associated Department of Parks and Recreation 6 quartz crystals, 5 scrapers, 1 slide funerary objects are 2 blades, 11 flakes, sponsored excavations under the sample, 7 spatulas, 3 spoons, 1 utilized 39 food remains, 1 metate, 1 projectile direction of Eric W. Ritter. In 1967, the flake, and 1 whetstone. point, and 8 whistles. excavation was under the direction of The Chapman site is attributed to the The Western Pacific Railroad site was Roland Gage of Sacramento State Sweetwater Complex. The Sweetwater occupied from circa A.D. 800 to 1833, College, as part of a salvage archeology Complex has been linked as the cultural during both Sweetwater Complex (to excavation prior to inundation by Lake antecedents of the Maidu in the region. A.D. 1500) and Oroville Complex (after Oroville, with funds provided by the The associated funerary objects are A.D. 1500), which have been linked as Department of Water Resources. No consistent with the occupation of the cultural antecedents of the Maidu. known individuals were identified. The site by people attributed to the There are two radiocarbon dates from 1,301 associated funerary objects are 3 Sweetwater Complex. Geographic the site with the first at 370 years B.P. acorns, 1 antler tine, 5 awls, 18 beads, affiliation is consistent with the (+150) and the second at 565 B.P. 2 bifaces, 1 blade, 11 bone tools, 59 historically documented Konkow or (+250). The associated funerary objects bowls, 1 burin and knife, 5 charcoal Northwestern Maidu. No lineal are consistent with the occupation of samples, 14 choppers, 1 chopper and descendants have been identified. the site by people attributed to the core, 2 cores, 1 drill, 240 flakes, 732 In the mid–1960s, human remains Sweetwater Complex. No lineal food remains, 1 gorge, 1 hammer stone representing a minimum of one descendant has been identified. and mano, 18 hammer stones, 26 knives, individual were removed from an Geographic affiliation is consistent with 5 manos, 11 metates, 5 mortars, 1 mud unknown site, located 8 miles north of the historically documented Konkow dob, 22 pestles, 2 pigments, 6 pipes, 1 Oroville, 2 miles southwest of Cherokee, (Northwestern Maidu). projectile point fragment, 37 projectile along the Western Pacific Railroad in In 1964, human remains representing points, 34 quartz crystals, 1 rod, 15 central Butte County, CA, possibly a minimum of 15 individuals were scrapers, 4 scraper planes, 5 seeds, 2 during surveys and excavations for the removed from an unknown site, 3 miles seed beaters, 1 shaft straightner, 2 tubes, Lake Oroville reservoir project. No northeast of Oroville, downstream from 3 unknown steatite and glass, 1 known individual was identified. No the Oroville Dam spillway, along the whetstone, and 1 whistle. associated funerary objects are present. Thermalito Diversion Pool, in south The Tie–Wiah site appears to have The site is attributed to the Messilla central Butte County, CA, under the been occupied intermittently from the Complex. The Messilla Complex has direction of Francis A. Riddell, State Messilla Complex (circa 1000 B.C.– been attributed to a possible sporadic Indian Museum with funds provided by A.D.1), Bidwell Complex, Sweetwater occupation of the area by an intrusion the Department of Water Resources. A Complex, and finally to the Oroville of Hokan speakers. However, the significant portion of the deposit has Complex. The oldest radiocarbon date succeeding Bidwell Complex, been removed due to natural erosion from the Tie–Wiah site is 950 years B.P. Sweetwater Complex, and Oroville and vandalism. No known individuals (±150 years). The Bidwell Complex, Complex are sequences that have been were identified. The 1,420 associated Sweetwater Complex, and Oroville linked as the cultural antecedents of the funerary objects are 4 awls, 12 beads, 1 Complex are sequences that have been Maidu. Generally, archeologists believe blade, 13 bone tools, 6 bowls, 2 charcoal linked as the cultural antecedents of the that the Penutian–speaking Maidu are samples, 2 choppers, 14 cobbles, 17 Maidu in the region. Geographic descended from what have been cores, 1 core/scrapper, 2 drills, 421 affiliation is consistent with the identified as the Windmiller people flakes, 845 food remains, 1 hammer historically documented Konkow or who occupied the Central Valley of stone/mano, 8 hammer stones, 6 knives,

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2 knife/scraper, 5 manos, 1 metate, 5 California; and Round Valley Indian Dated: March 19, 2008. pendants, 3 pestles, 2 pigment, 2 pins, Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation, Sherry Hutt, 1 pipe, 11 projectile points, 4 quartz California. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. crystals, 4 rocks, 1 rod, 14 scrapers, 3 Officials of the California Department [FR Doc. E8–8301 Filed 4–16–08; 8:45 am] seeds, 3 slags, 1 unknown, 2 utilized of Parks and Recreation have BILLING CODE 4312–50–S flakes, and 1 wood sample. determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. The burials have been attributed to 3001 (9–10), the human remains the Bidwell Complex. The oldest DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR radiocarbon date from the site is 2,800 described above represent the physical years B.P. (±100 years). The Bidwell remains of a minimum of 232 National Park Service Complex, Sweetwater Complex, and individuals of Native American Oroville Complex are sequences that ancestry. Officials of the California Notice of Inventory Completion: have been linked as the cultural Department of Parks and Recreation also Denver Museum of Nature & Science, antecedents of the Maidu. The have determined that, pursuant to 25 Denver, CO associated funerary objects are U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 4,850 objects AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. consistent with the occupation of the described above are reasonably believed site by people attributed to the Bidwell to have been placed with or near ACTION: Notice. Complex. Generally, archeologists individual human remains at the time of Notice is here given in accordance believe that the Penutian-speaking death or later as part of the death rite with the Native American Graves Maidu are descended from what have or ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Protection and Repatriation Act been identified as the Windmiller California Department of Parks and (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the people who occupied the Central Valley Recreation have determined that, completion of an inventory of human of California from 3,000 to 4,000 years pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is remains and associated funerary objects ago. No lineal descendant has been a relationship of shared group identity in the control of the Denver Museum of identified. Geographic affiliation is that can be reasonably traced between Nature & Science, Denver, CO. The consistent with the historically the Native American human remains human remains and associated funerary documented Konkow (Northwestern and associated funerary objects and the Maidu). objects were removed from Mesa Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians County, CO; Navajo County, AZ; San In 1930, human remains representing of California; Enterprise Rancheria of a minimum number of two individuals Juan County, NM; and an unknown Maidu Indians of California; Mechoopda location. were removed from the Bidwell Ranch Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, site, 4 miles east of Chico, 6 miles west This notice is published as part of the California; Mooretown Rancheria of National Park Service’s administrative of Paradise, along Little Chico Creek, Maidu Indians of California; and Round from the Bidwell Ranch, in responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Valley Indian Tribes of the Round U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in northwestern Butte County, CA, by a Valley Reservation, California. private individual on private land. On this notice are the sole responsibility of January 13, 1930, the collection was Representatives of any other Indian the museum, institution, or Federal received by the State Indian Museum tribe that believes itself to be culturally agency that has control of the Native from J. McCord Stilson of Chico, CA, affiliated with the human remains and American human remains and and purchased in 1933 from one of his associated funerary objects should associated funerary objects. The heirs, Mrs. Harry Clark of Hamilton contact Paulette Hennum, NAGPRA National Park Service is not responsible City. No known individuals were Coordinator, California Department of for the determinations in this notice. identified. No associated funerary Parks and Recreation, 1416 Ninth Street, A detailed assessment of the human objects are present. Room 902, Sacramento, CA 95814, remains was made by Denver Museum The age of the human remains is telephone (916) 653–7976, before May of Nature & Science professional staff in unknown. No lineal descendants have 19, 2008. Repatriation of the human consultation with the Ak Chin Indian been identified. The Bidwell Ranch’s remains and associated funerary objects Community of the Maricopa (Ak Chin) geographic location is consistent with to the Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indian Reservation, Arizona; Gila River the historically documented Konkow or Indians of California; Enterprise Indian Community of the Gila River Northwestern Maidu territory. Rancheria of Maidu Indians of Indian Reservation, Arizona; Hopi Tribe Butte County, CA, is in the Central California; Mechoopda Indian Tribe of of Arizona; Hualapai Indian Tribe of the Valley region of California and the Chico Rancheria, California; Mooretown Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona; traditional lands of the Maidu. The Rancheria of Maidu Indians, California; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & history of the formation of California and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico Indian reservations and rancherias in Round Valley Reservation, California (formerly the Pueblo of San Juan); the Central Valley regions of California Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo may proceed after that date if no reveal that the descendants of the of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of additional claimants come forward. historical Konkow (Northwestern Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, Maidu) were ultimately dispersed to The California Department of Parks New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New several federally recognized Native and Recreation is responsible for Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; American groups. Descendants of the notifying the Berry Creek Rancheria of Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo Konkow or Northwestern Maidu are Maidu Indians of California; Enterprise of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San members of the federally recognized Rancheria of Maidu Indians of Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San tribes of the Berry Creek Rancheria of California; Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Maidu Indians of California; Enterprise Chico Rancheria, California; Mooretown Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Rancheria of Maidu Indians of Rancheria of Maidu Indians, California; Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa California; Mechoopda Indian Tribe of and Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Chico Rancheria, California; Mooretown Round Valley Reservation, California Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, Rancheria of Maidu Indians of that this notice has been published. New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New

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