81 FR 43640 - Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Stanford University Heritage Services, Palo Alto, CA

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 128 (July 5, 2016)

Stanford University Heritage Services, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items should submit a written request to Stanford University Heritage Services. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control of the cultural items to the lineal descendant stated in this notice may proceed.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43640-43641]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-15838]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-21326; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Stanford 
University Heritage Services, Palo Alto, CA

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Stanford University Heritage Services, in consultation with 
the appropriate Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has 
determined that the cultural items listed in this notice meet the 
definition of unassociated funerary objects. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to claim these cultural items 
should submit a written request to Stanford University Heritage 
Services. If no additional claimants come forward, transfer of control 
of the cultural items to the lineal descendant stated in this notice 
may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim these cultural items should submit a written request with 
information in support of the claim to Stanford University Heritage 
Services at the address in this notice by August 4, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Laura Jones, Stanford University Heritage Services, 3160 
Porter Drive, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304, telephone (650) 723-9664, 
email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the 
control of the Stanford University Planning Office, Palo Alto, 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 in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.

History and Description of the Cultural Items

    In October 1895, 21 cultural items were removed from a historic 
cemetery in Longville, Plumas County, CA. Excavations were carried out 
by Stanford University alumna, Mabel Louise Miller in 1895. She is 
known to have excavated a Native American cemetery abandoned around 
1853 and located at a rancheria near Longville, in Plumas County. 
Miller gave the objects to the Leland Stanford Junior Museum in October 
1916, and subsequently, the Museum transferred them to the Stanford 
University Department of Anthropology. Currently, the objects are 
housed in the Stanford University Archaeology Collections. The location 
of the human remains of the individual with whom the objects were 
placed is not known. The 21 unassociated funerary objects include 1 
ferrous knife, 11 shell ornaments, 1 projectile point, 6 flakes, 1 
hammerstone, and 1 string of shell beads.
    The funerary objects were determined to be affiliated with the 
Mountain Maidu based on documentation provided by Mabel Miller and 
consultation with representatives of the Greenville Rancheria 
(previously listed as the Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of 
California), the Susanville Indian Rancheria, California, and with 
individual members of Mountain Maidu groups (Beverly Ogle, Trina 
Cunningham, and Melany Johnson). Beverly Ogle, whose family had 
exclusive use of the Longville cemetery, has requested the repatriation 
of these unassociated funerary objects as a lineal descendant of the 
individual with whom they were placed and has provided information 
sufficient to show her lineal descent from the Native American 
individuals buried in her family's small cemetery during the middle to 
late 1800s.

Determinations Made by Stanford University Heritage Services

    Officials of Stanford University Heritage Services have determined 
that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 21 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 believed, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, to have been removed from a specific burial site of a Native 
American individual.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.10(a)(1) and 43 CFR 10.14(b), 
Beverly Ogle is a lineal descendant of the individual with whom the 21 
unassociated funerary objects were placed, and whose human remains are 
not under the control of Stanford University Heritage Services.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to claim 
these cultural items should submit a written request with information 
in support of the claim to Dr. Laura Jones, Stanford University 
Heritage Services, 3160 Porter Drive, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304, 
telephone (650) 723-9664, email [email protected], by August 4, 2016. 
After that date, if no additional claimants have come forward, transfer 
of control of the unassociated funerary objects to Beverly Ogle may 
proceed.

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    Stanford University Heritage Services is responsible for notifying 
Beverly Ogle, Trina Cunningham, and Melany Johnson that this notice has 
been published.

    Dated: June 16, 2016.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2016-15838 Filed 7-1-16; 8:45 am]
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