Notice2024-23722
Notice of Intended Repatriation: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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Published
October 15, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, otherwise known as the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of a sacred object and object of cultural patrimony 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 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 83049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23722]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038881; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Madison, 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 State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
otherwise known as the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) intends to
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of a
sacred object and object of cultural patrimony 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 November 14, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Jacqueline Pozza Reisner, Wisconsin Historical Society, 204
S Thornton Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, telephone (608) 263-3537, email
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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
Wisconsin 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
A total of one cultural item has been requested for repatriation.
The item is described in WHS' documentation as a ``Chilkat blanket,
44'' x 24'', plus fringe. Yellow, black, blue and white design. Native
dyes. Made at Klukwan, Alaska. Mountain goat wool.'' Through
consultation, the design on the blanket has been identified as one
owned by the Tlingit. This blanket was donated to WHS by Mrs. P.A.
Strommen of Aniwa, Wisconsin. Mrs. Strommen indicated in correspondence
that the blanket was ``made by the [Chilkoot] Indians at Klukwan,
Alaska.'' WHS has no record of this blanket being treated with any
potentially hazardous substances in the past. The one sacred item and
object of cultural patrimony is one blanket.
Determinations
The Wisconsin Historical Society has determined that:
<bullet> The one object described in this notice is, according to
the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native
Hawaiian organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a
traditional Native American religious leader for present-day adherents
to practice traditional Native American religion, and has ongoing
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native
American group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band,
clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision).
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item
described in this notice and the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida
Indian Tribes.
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 Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may
occur on or after November 14, 2024. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Wisconsin Historical Society 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 Wisconsin 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: October 4, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-23722 Filed 10-11-24; 8:45 am]
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