Notice2025-14375
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
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Published
July 30, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35931-35932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14375]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6377; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040664; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh,
Oshkosh, 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 Oshkosh (UWO)
has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated
funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in
this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after August 29, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Adrienne Frie, University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c8aebaa1ada988bdbfa7bba0e6adacbd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0660746f636746737169756e28636273">[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 UWO,
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, associated funerary objects
have been identified from the St. Cloud Mound Group (47-FD-0036), Fond
du Lac County, WI. In 1976, an archaeology student at Wisconsin State
University--Oshkosh (WSU-O), now the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
(UWO), was called to a farm where mounds were known to exist. This
student, Daniel Seurer, worked with Dr. Alaric Faulkner, Assistant
Professor at WSU-O, to salvage the land before the mounds were
destroyed from plowing. There were no field notes from the salvage
work. The human remains and items recovered from this farm were not
looked at until 2012, when University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
affiliated researcher, Mark Bruhy, analyzed the collection. He noticed
that there was an original small bag labeled, ``Lithics and Human
Bone,'' however, no bone was found in this bag. All efforts to identify
the human remains from 47-FD-0036 from the UWO collection and elsewhere
have failed. UWO is working under the assumption that Seurer and Dr.
Faulkner removed Ancestral human remains in 1976 but they have since
been disassociated from their items. The 14 associated funerary objects
are six lots of lithic debitage, five lots of undecorated grit tempered
body sherds, two lots of lithics, and one metal bullet casing. UWO has
no knowledge or record of any potentially hazardous substances used to
treat the associated funerary objects.
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation,
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical
location of the associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
UWO has determined that:
<bullet> The 14 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 associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Assiniboine and Sioux
Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Bad River Band of
the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River
Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota;
Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen
Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek
Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South
Dakota; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian
Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas
and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community,
Michigan; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of
Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of
Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of
the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of
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Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of
Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Shell
Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little Traverse Bay Bands of
Odawa Indians, Michigan; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule
Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of
Minnesota; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma;
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (Six component reservations: Bois
Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech
Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band
of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Otoe-Missouria Tribe
of Indians, Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island Indian
Community in the State of Minnesota; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians,
Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South
Dakota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox
Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault
Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Shakopee Mdewakanton
Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake
Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Sokaogon Chippewa Community,
Wisconsin; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; St. Croix Chippewa Indians
of Wisconsin; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Upper Sioux
Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after August 29, 2025. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, UWO must determine the most appropriate
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the
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: July 15, 2025.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-14375 Filed 7-29-25; 8:45 am]
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