Notice2024-13247
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
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Published
June 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Chicago Historical Society and its affiliate Chicago History Museum ("Chicago Historical Society") intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary objects and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51358-51359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13247]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038096; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Chicago Historical Society,
Chicago, 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 Chicago Historical Society and its
affiliate Chicago History Museum (``Chicago Historical Society'')
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition
of an unassociated funerary objects and that has a cultural affiliation
with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or
after July 17, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jamie Lewis, Registrar, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N
Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614, telephone (312) 799-2067, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#610b0d04160812210209080200060e090812150e13184f0e1306"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a1cbcdc4d6c8d2e1c2c9c8c2c0c6cec9c8d2d5ced3d88fced3c6">[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
Chicago Historical Society, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
One cultural item has been requested for repatriation. The
unassociated funerary object is a stone club (CHM X.3563.2024). Writing
on the item indicates that the club head was removed from a burial
mound which historically stood at the current location of Forest Home
Cemetery on the Des Plaines River in Forest Park, IL. The item was
found in the collection with no associated museum records. Information
from external sources identifies this mound as a Potawatomi burial
mound that was razed in 1869 by the landowner, Ferdinand Haase, to
create Forest Home Cemetery for white settlers in the area. The
funerary items that were inside the mound were kept on semi-permanent
display by Haase at the Cemetery until 1968, when several of the items
were transferred to the Forest Park Public Library. It is unknown when
and by what means the club was acquired by the Chicago Historical
Society. In 2019, funerary items and human remains were returned by the
Forest Park Public Library to the Forest County Potawatomi Community.
Determinations
The Chicago Historical Society has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or
near human remains, and is connected, either at the time of death or
later, as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The
unassociated funerary object has been identified by a preponderance of
the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe
or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and the Forest County Potawatomi Community,
Wisconsin.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified
in this notice under 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 Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after July 17, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the Chicago Historical Society must
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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 Chicago Historical
Society is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and
to any other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.
Dated: June 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-13247 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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