Notice2025-04174
Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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Published
March 17, 2025
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Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Illinois State 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12360-12361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04174]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039432; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Illinois State Museum,
Springfield, 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 Illinois State 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Dr. Brooke M. Morgan, Illinois State Museum Research &
Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703,
telephone (217) 785-8930, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6200100d0d09074c0f0d1005030c220b0e0e0b0c0d0b114c050d14"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4426362b2b2f216a292b3623252a042d28282d2a2b2d376a232b32">[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
Illinois State Museum, 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 representing, at minimum, 10 individuals have been
identified. The 85 associated funerary objects are 13 antler tine
fragments, one antler tine projectile point, one bison or elk scapula
blade fragment, three bone awls, four bone beamers, one lot burned
antler, 17 lots fauna, one marine shell pendant fragment, two modified
bone tools, 11 lots mussel shell, three mussel shell hoes, one mussel
shell scraper, four mussel shell spoons, two mussel shell spoon
fragments, one painted bear canine, one perforated bone, three
perforated mussel shells, 13 lots pottery fragments, and three pottery
vessels.
The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from
the Fisher Site (11WI5), Will County, IL, by George Langford and by the
University of Chicago between 1912 and 1941. Portions of the
collections were received by the Illinois State Museum in 1951, 1978,
and an unknown date prior to 1989. The site 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.
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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
The Illinois State Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of at least 10 individuals of Native American
ancestry.
<bullet> The 85 objects described in this notice are 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 objects described in this notice and the Absentee
Shawnee Tribe 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 and
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 April 16,
2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the Illinois
State 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 Illinois State Museum 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 28, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-04174 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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