Notice2023-02280
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
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Published
February 3, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Door, Marathon, and Pierce Counties, WI.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7456-7457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02280]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035253; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM)
has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between
the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from Door, Marathon, and
Pierce Counties, WI.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 6, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer R. Haas, NAGPRA Coordinator, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, telephone (414)
229-3078, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c7afa6a6b4adb587b2b0aae9a2a3b2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ef878e8e9c859daf9a9882c18a8b9a">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA.
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of UWM.
The National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in
this notice. Additional information on the determinations in this
notice, including the results of consultation, can be found in the
inventory or related records held by the UWM.
Description
In 1968 and 1971, human remains representing, at minimum, nine
individuals were removed during UWM field school excavations at the
Richter site (47-DR-80) in Door County, WI. The site dates to the
Middle Woodland, North Bay Tradition (A.D. 0 to 600). After each field
season, the collection was transferred to the UWM. The six associated
funerary objects are one copper awl, one bear tarsal bone, one bear
phalanx bone, one lot of cultural items including minimal amounts of
shell fragments, small pottery sherds, and lithic debitage, one beaver
incisor, and one copper fragment.
On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, five
individuals were removed by unknown individual(s) from a mound at the
Maine site (47-MR-22) in Marathon County, WI. The site and the human
remains date to the Late Woodland period (A.D. 900 to 1300). These
human remains were transferred to collector Steve Rosenbalm, a student
at the University of Wisconsin Center-Marathon County--today the
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau--who transferred them
to his professor, John Forde. In 1990, Forde gave the human remains to
the UWM. The two associated funerary objects are one white-tail deer
antler fragment and one white-tail deer bone fragment.
In the mid-1970s, human remains representing, at minimum, six
individuals were removed during UWM field school excavations at the
Diamond Bluff site (47-PI-0002) in Pierce County, WI. The site dates to
the Late Woodland (A.D. 900 to 1300)/Mississippian (A.D. 1100 to 1300)
periods. On an unknown date, this collection was transferred to the
UWM. The one associated funerary object is a lot of faunal remains.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following type of information was used to reasonably trace the
relationship: geographical, archaeological, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, UWM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 20 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The nine objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed with or near individual
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human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes
of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Bad River Band of the
Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation,
Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Cheyenne River Sioux
Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Chippewa Cree
Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen Potawatomi
Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation,
South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Forest
County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa
and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan;
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa
Tribe of Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Courte
Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du
Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau
Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of
Montana; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South
Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Match-
e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Menominee
Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe, Minnesota (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett
Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille
Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the
Potawatomi, Michigan; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians,
Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South
Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox
Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault
Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Shakopee Mdewakanton
Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Sokaogon Chippewa Community,
Wisconsin; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; St. Croix Chippewa Indians
of Wisconsin; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Upper Sioux
Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations identified in this notice.
2. Any lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization not identified in this notice who shows, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that the requestor is a lineal
descendant or a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after March 6, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, UWM must determine
the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for
joint repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
are considered a single request and not competing requests. UWM is
responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: January 27, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-02280 Filed 2-2-23; 8:45 am]
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