Notice2025-05596
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, Aurora, IL
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Published
April 2, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, Aurora, IL intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14471-14472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05596]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039800; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Schingoethe Center of Aurora
University, Aurora, 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 Schingoethe Center of Aurora University,
Aurora, IL intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the
definition of sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony and that
have a cultural affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on
or after May 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Zachary Bishop, Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, 347
S Gladstone Avenue, Aurora, IL 60506, telephone (630) 844-7845, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f68c949f859e9986b6978384998497d8939283"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0dac2c9d3c8cfd0e0c1d5d2cfd2c18ec5c4d5">[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
Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, 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 nine cultural items have been requested for
repatriation.
The eight items of cultural patrimony consist of one Loom Woven
Beaded Belt (1992.2.10); one Loom Beaded Belt (1992.2.46); one Beaded
Pouch (1992.2.51); one Handwoven Sash (1992.2.66); one Pair of Loom
Beaded Garters (1993.2.11); one Cradleboard (1989.1.89); one Flattened
Roach (1989.3.17); and one Cloth Shirt with Velvet Panels (1989.1.97).
The one sacred object is a tomahawk pipe (1989.5.9).
All of these objects were donated to the Schingoethe Center between
1989 and 1993 by Herb and Martha Schingoethe of Aurora, Illinois. The
flattened roach was purchased by Herb Schingoethe in 1967, most likely
in southwestern Colorado. The tomahawk pipe was purchased by Herb and
Martha Schingoethe at an unknown time and location. All other objects
were purchased by Herb and Martha Schingoethe through Dunning's Auction
Service in Elgin, Illinois in 1989 and 1992. One of the two loom woven
beaded belts was reportedly made by Hattie Rouge, a Winnebago woman who
lived on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska and acquired by Charles
F. Ayers around 1923. Available records do not include further
ownership or location information for the objects. The flattened roach
and cloth shirt with velvet panels were treated with Vikane brand
sulfuryl fluoride in 1990. There are no institution records indicating
the other objects were treated with potentially hazardous substances.
Determinations
The Schingoethe Center of Aurora University has determined that:
<bullet> The one sacred object described in this notice is a
specific ceremonial object needed by a traditional Native American
religious leader for present-day adherents to practice traditional
Native American religion, according to the Native American traditional
knowledge of a lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian
organization.
<bullet> The eight objects of cultural patrimony described in this
notice have 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), according to the Native American traditional knowledge of
an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural
items described in this notice and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items
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 items in this notice to a requestor
may occur on or after May 2, 2025. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, the Schingoethe Center of Aurora
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University must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural items are
considered a single request and not competing requests. The Schingoethe
Center of Aurora University 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: March 21, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-05596 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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