Notice2025-06632
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
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Published
April 18, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM) 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 74 (Friday, April 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 16532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06632]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039942; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 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 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (UWM)
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 May 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Jennifer R. Haas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O.
Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, telephone (414) 229-3078, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#dfb7bebeacb5ad9faaa8b2f1babbaa"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="442c2525372e36043133296a212031">[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 UWM,
and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, human remains representing, at
least, 31 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 18
associated funerary objects are one large clam shell cup or tool; one
lot of faunal bone; one lot of grit tempered ceramic sherds; one lot of
pottery; one lot of Middle Woodland period pottery; one lot of ceramic
sherds; one lot of mixed material including faunal bone, charcoal, and
lithics; one lot of mixed material including faunal bone, charcoal,
groundstone, lithics, rocks, and pottery; 10 lots of mixed material
including shell fragments, lithic debitage, ceramic sherds, faunal
bone, pottery, and historic material. The individuals and associated
funerary objects were removed from the Pipe Site Complex, Fond du Lac
County, WI on several different occasions between 1958 and 1997. The
Pipe Site Complex consists of two sites: the Pipe Site (47FD0010) and
Camp Shaginappi (47FD0013).
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
UWM has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 31 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 18 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 reasonable connection between the human remains
and associated funerary objects described in this notice and the Ho-
Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa
Tribe of Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
of Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Otoe-Missouria Tribe
of Indians, Oklahoma; 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after May 19, 2025. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, UWO 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. UWO 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: April 8, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06632 Filed 4-17-25; 8:45 am]
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