Notice2023-12856
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
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Published
June 16, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 Stanley County, SD.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39452-39453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12856]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036003; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL
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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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 Stanley County, SD.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Krystiana Krupa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
601 E. John Street, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone (217) 244-2587,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2b404740595e5b4a6b4247474245444258054e4f5e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e3888f8891969382a38a8f8f8a8d8c8a90cd868796">[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 the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Description
In 1927, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals
were removed from Stanley County, SD. Between 1918 and 1927, W.H. Over,
then Director of the University of South Dakota Museum-Vermillion (now
known as the W.H. Over Museum), excavated at Stony Point Village and
its associated cemetery. During three visits to the site (in 1918,
1919, and 1927), Over collected human remains belonging to 23
individuals as well as the associated funerary objects. (Also, Over
uncovered and reburied the human remains of three infants.)
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According to a letter from Over dated May 4, 1927, the ancestral
remains housed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are from
his 1927 excavations. On August 31, 1927, Over mailed to Dr. Frank C.
Baker (then Director of the University of Illinois Museum of Natural
History) the human remains and associated funerary objects listed in
this notice (the other human remains and funerary belongings were
stored at the University of South Dakota-Vermillion). These human
remains belong to an elderly adult and an infant. No known individuals
were identified. The five associated funerary objects are one lot of
glass beads, one brass tinkling cone, one bone awl or hair pin, one
faunal bone, and one lot of antler tine tips.
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 types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: archeological, geographical, and historical.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has
determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The five objects described in this notice 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.
<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 Three Affiliated Tribes of the
Fort Berthold Reservation, North 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 July 17, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribe
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: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12856 Filed 6-15-23; 8:45 am]
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