Notice2024-03799
Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
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Published
February 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Department of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University (NIU Department of Anthropology) 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 an unknown county, IL, and Marshall County, IL.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 38 (Monday, February 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14098-14099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03799]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037455; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Department of Anthropology at
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 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 Department of Anthropology at Northern
Illinois University (NIU Department of Anthropology) 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 an unknown county, IL, and Marshall
County, IL.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 27, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Leila Porter, Chair, Department of Anthropology at
Northern Illinois University, 1425 W Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115,
telephone (815) 753-5669, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aac6c7dac5d8decfd8eac4c3df84cfcedf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="462a2b36293432233406282f3368232233">[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
NIU Department of Anthropology. 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 NIU Department of Anthropology.
Description
In 1976, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual
were donated to the NIU Department of Anthropology and were identified
by the donor as being from an unknown county, IL. It is not known how
or when the donor acquired the human remains, but the donor was the
owner of antique stores in Aurora, IL, and Geneva, IL. No associated
funerary objects are present.
In fall 1975, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from Hopewell Estates in Marshall County, IL. A
2010 collections inventory by NIU Department of Anthropology staff
noted these human remains and associated funerary objects in an
envelope marked with collection date and site information, but there is
no earlier record or information on how they came to be in the NIU
Department of Anthropology collections or who originally collected
them. The six associated funerary objects are one red ceramic sherd and
five lithic fragments.
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: anthropological, archeological, geographical, historical
information, and oral tradition.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the NIU Department of Anthropology has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The six 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 Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of
Kansas and Nebraska; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Indians of Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi
Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe,
Minnesota (Fond du Lac Band); Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Pokagon Band of
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Ponca Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe
of Michigan;
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Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Shawnee Tribe;
and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
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 27, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the NIU Department of
Anthropology 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 NIU Department of Anthropology is responsible
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native
Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 16, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-03799 Filed 2-23-24; 8:45 am]
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