Notice2025-01009
Notice of Inventory Completion: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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Published
January 16, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Northwestern University 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4792-4793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01009]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039316; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Northwestern University,
Evanston, 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), Northwestern University 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Eli Suzukovich III, Northwestern University, 633 Clark
Street, Evanston, IL 60208, telephone (847) 491-4133, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#fd989194d3949494bd93928f89958a988e89988f93d3989988"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8beee7e2a5e2e2e2cbe5e4f9ffe3fceef8ffeef9e5a5eeeffe">[email protected]</span></a> (preferred contact).
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
Northwestern University, and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains in Northwestern University's custody include 238
individual bones and fragments and represent a MNI of 44 individuals
from the Fisher Mounds Site (11WI5) located in Will County Illinois.
This determination is based on the number of sacrum and os coxa,
scapulae, clavicles, atlas bones, complete/partial spinal columns,
facial bones, and sternums. Along with human remains, there is one
associated funerary object (ceramic pot rim) marked as ``Fisher Trail
ed 11Wi5, 10RZ-L9, 4-2-1.'' The human remains and associated funerary
object were excavated from Will County, IL by George Langford and by
the University of Chicago between 1912 and 1941. The collection dates
to approximately A.D. 800-1400 and the late 17th century. No hazardous
substances are known to have been used to treat any of the human
remains or associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available
about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in
this notice.
Determinations
Northwestern University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 44 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one associated funerary object described in this
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally 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 connection between the human remains and
associated funerary object described in this notice and the Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Citizen Potawatomi Nation,
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi
Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk
Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota
(Fond du Lac Band; Mille Lacs Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the
Potawatomi, Michigan; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of
Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi
Nation; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox
Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; 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
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after February
18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 University
of
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Illinois Urbana-Champaign is responsible for sending a copy of this
notice to the Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations
identified in this notice.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: January 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01009 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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