Notice2024-04663
Notice of Inventory Completion: Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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Published
March 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Milwaukee Public Museum 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 Marinette County, WI.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16013-16014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04663]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037530; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Milwaukee Public Museum,
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 Milwaukee Public Museum 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 Marinette County, WI.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Dawn Scher Thomae, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W Wells
Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233, telephone (414) 278-6157, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#44302c2b292521042934296a212031"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="394d515654585c79544954175c5d4c">[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
Milwaukee Public Museum. 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 Milwaukee
Public Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Marinette County, WI. In 1964, historic burials were excavated at
the Potato Rapids site (47-MT-79) located along the Peshtigo River just
upstream of the Highway-64 Bridge near the town of Peshtigo and the
Potato Rapids power plant in Porterfield Township,
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Marinette County, WI. Members of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society
conducted the excavations under the supervision of Robert J. Hruska,
then Curator of Anthropology at the Oshkosh Public Museum. The
individual was then donated to the Milwaukee Public Museum by Hruska
and the Wisconsin Archaeological Society on June 6th, 1967. The
individual is a complete female that has associated funerary objects in
a suspended matrix within a plaster jacket and two metal poles attached
along the length serve as handles for transport. The 12 associated
funerary objects include birch bark fragments, two silver brooches, one
lot of black glass beads (>50), fabric fragments, a metal cup, a belt
buckle, a knife handle or pocketknife, a saucer or plate, brooch or
gorget, metal fragments, and fur fragments.
The Potato Rapids Burial site (47-MT-79) is located within the
ancestral territory of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and
within the area occupied by the Menominee during the early to mid-19th
century. According to the Treaty with the Menominee of 1836, a section
of land including the site was ceded by the Menominee to the United
States Federal Government. Additionally, a map of Indian Villages c.
1830 in the Wisconsin Region of Michigan Territory from Helen Hornbeck
Tanner's book, ``Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History'', shows several
Menominee villages located in the vicinity of the site. In 2000, a
burial from the same site was affiliated with and repatriated to the
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin by the Oshkosh Public Museum.
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: geographical information, historical information, and
expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Milwaukee Public Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 12 objects described in this notice were 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 Menominee Indian Tribe of
Wisconsin.
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 April 5, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Milwaukee Public
Museum 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 Milwaukee Public Museum 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 27, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04663 Filed 3-5-24; 8:45 am]
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