Notice2023-19961
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
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Published
September 15, 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 object and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary object were removed from Henderson County, IL.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 63611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19961]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036556; 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 object and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary object were removed from Henderson County, IL.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary object
in this notice may occur on or after October 16, 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#4c242d2d3f263e0c393b2162292839"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d7bfb6b6a4bda597a2a0baf9b2b3a2">[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
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 1972 and 1979, human remains representing, at minimum, three
individuals were removed during an archeological surface survey by UWM
of the Dusty Rhodes site (11-HE-14) in Henderson County, IL. The site
dates to the Middle Woodland Havana/Hopewell (A.D. 0 to 400) and Late
Woodland (A.D. 600 to 1200) periods. After completion of the survey,
these human remains were transferred to UWM. The one associated
funerary object is one lot consisting of faunal skeletal elements, a
projectile point, bifaces, lithic debitage, pottery sherds, and shell
fragments.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary object 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:
geographical, historical, oral traditional, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the UWM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is 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 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the
Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of
South Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and
Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the
State of Minnesota; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band
Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of
Minnesota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
Community of Minnesota; The Osage Nation; and the Winnebago Tribe of
Nebraska.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object 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 object in
this notice to a requestor may occur on or after October 16, 2023. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the UWM must
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary object are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The 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: September 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-19961 Filed 9-14-23; 8:45 am]
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