Notice2024-00611
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI
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Published
January 16, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate a cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Ashland County, WI.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2640-2641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00611]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037243; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College,
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, 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 Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate a cultural item that meets the
definition of an unassociated funerary object that has a cultural
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice. The cultural item was removed from Ashland County, WI.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after February 15, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Nicolette B. Meister, Logan Museum of Anthropology, 700
College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone (608) 363-2305, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#721f171b010617001c3210171e1d1b065c171607"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1e737b776d6a7b6c705e7c7b7271776a307b7a6b">[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
LMA. 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 the
consultation, can be found in the summary or related records held by
the LMA.
Description
One cultural item was removed from Feature 171, Burial 4 of the
Marina site (47As24) in Ashland County, WI. In 1975, an excavation was
directed by Robert J. Salzer under an agreement between Beloit College
and the Interagency Archeological Services branch of the National Park
Service. The one unassociated funerary object is wooden plank (7302.6).
La Pointe is the traditional home of the Lake Superior Ojibwa.
Burial 4 dates to circa 1760-1770 and the assemblage is consistent with
Ojibwa burials of the Late Historic period (1760-1820). The associated
human remains are not in the possession or control of a Federal agency
or museum because all human remains excavated from the site were
transferred in 1976 from Beloit College to the Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural item in this notice is 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: anthropological,
archeological, geographical, historical, and oral tradition.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the LMA has determined that:
<bullet> The one cultural item described above 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 and is
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from
a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the cultural item and the Red Cliff Band
of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by 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
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Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after February 15, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the LMA must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
cultural item are considered a single request and not competing
requests. The LMA 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 10.8, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: January 9, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-00611 Filed 1-12-24; 8:45 am]
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