Notice2025-05606
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI
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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 Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object and that has 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 14461-14462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05606]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039811; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology, Beloit, 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 Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that
meets the definition of an unassociated funerary object 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 May 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Nicolette B. Meister, Beloit College, Logan Museum of
Anthropology, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone (608)
363-2305, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bbd6ded2c8cfdec9d5fbd9ded7d4d2cf95dedfce"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d0bdb5b9a3a4b5a2be90b2b5bcbfb9a4feb5b4a5">[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
LMA, 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 one unassociated funerary object (16928) is an undrilled slate
gorget removed by Charles Hatch in 1891 from a burial in a mound
located on his farm in Lot 118, Stockbridge Reservation, Calumet
County, WI. Frederick Stanton Perkins purchased the gorget from Mr.
Hatch and sold it to the LMA in 1904. The Stockbridge Munsee Community,
Wisconsin lived in New York and Massachusetts before relocation to the
east shore of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County, WI in the 1830s. Lot
118 was assigned to Austin E. Quinney, a Mohican sachem. Because the
gorget was removed from a mound, it may pre-date Stockbridge Munsee
occupation in Calumet County. Lake Winnebago falls within the ancestral
territory of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Menominee Indian
Tribe of Wisconsin. The LMA has no record that the gorget was exposed
to any hazardous substances while in the LMA's stewardship.
Determinations
The LMA 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 are 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 Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin;
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; and the Stockbridge Munsee
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
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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 May 2, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation
are received, the LMA 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
LMA 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. 2025-05606 Filed 4-1-25; 8:45 am]
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