Notice2023-23547
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
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Published
October 25, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 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 Green Lake County, WI.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73367-73368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23547]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036804; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh,
Oshkosh, 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 Oshkosh 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 Green Lake County, WI.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after November 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Adrienne Frie, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma
Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901, telephone (920) 424-1365, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3157435854507144465e42591f545544"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1e786c777b7f5e6b69716d76307b7a6b">[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 Wisconsin Oshkosh. 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 Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Description
In 1954, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals
were removed from the Progressive Rod and Gun Club Site (47-GL-0186) in
Green Lake County, WI, by John (Jack) Steinbring during a surface
survey. After removing the remains of these individuals, Steinbring
kept them and did not report them to Wisconsin Historical Society. In
the 1960s, when he began working at the University of Winnipeg in
Canada, Steinbring took the individuals with him, and in the early
1990s, when he retired, he shipped the individuals back to Wisconsin.
In 1994, Steinbring donated the remains of these individuals to the
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and in 2022, employees at the
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh identified them while inventorying the
finds from the site. The 72 associated funerary objects are one lot
consisting of likely domesticated dog cranial fragments; one medium-
sized canid axis vertebra; one medium-sized canid left femur; one
medium-sized canid left ulna; one medium-sized canid left humerus; one
medium-sized canid fifth metacarpal; one medium-sized canid left
temporal bone; one medium-sized canid left tibia; one medium-sized
canid left zygomatic bone; one medium-sized canid lumbar vertebrae; one
medium-sized canid metatarsal or metacarpal; one medium-sized canid
right ulna; one medium-sized canid right humerus; one medium-sized
canid second metacarpal; one medium-sized canid fourth metatarsal; one
medium-sized canid right radius; one medium-sized canid right temporal
bone; one medium-sized canid right tibia; three medium-sized canid
thoracic vertebrae; one lot consisting of medium-sized mammal rib
fragments; one lot consisting of unidentified mammal bone fragments;
one unidentified mammal cranial fragment; one lot consisting of
unidentified medium/large mammal long bone fragments; one biface
preform; one lot consisting of unidentifiable unifacial tools; one lot
consisting of burins; one lot consisting of scrapers; two lots
consisting of unidentifiable bifaces; two lots consisting of Madison
projectile points; one lot consisting of Kramer projectile points; one
Honey Creek corner-notched projectile point; one Midland projectile
point; one lot consisting of Raddatz projectile points; one lot
consisting of unidentifiable cores; three lots consisting of lithic
debitage; one fire-cracked rock; one lot consisting of bifaces; two
unidentifiable bifaces; one lithic drill; one lot consisting of biface/
uniface scrapers; one hammerstone; one handstone; one white-colored
natural rock; one geologic mineral sample; one unidentifiable white
glass fragment; two unidentifiable copper fragments; one lot consisting
of soil matrix with potential crushed pottery and unidentifiable bone
fragments; three lots consisting of diagnostic Madison ware grit-
tempered ceramic rim sherds; five lots consisting of diagnostic grit-
tempered ceramic body sherds; four diagnostic Madison ware grit-
tempered ceramic body sherds; three undiagnostic grit-tempered ceramic
body sherds; one diagnostic grit-tempered ceramic rim sherd; and one
lot consisting of diagnostic Point Sauble grit-tempered ceramic rim
sherds.
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.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has determined that:
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<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 72 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 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; Kickapoo
Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo
Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; 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; 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 November 24, 2023.
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh 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 Wisconsin Oshkosh 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, Sec.
10.10, and Sec. 10.14.
Dated: October 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-23547 Filed 10-24-23; 8:45 am]
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