Notice2025-23536
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
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Published
December 22, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 243 (Monday, December 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59855-59856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23536]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6803; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041625; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Intended Repatriation: Wisconsin Historical Society,
Madison, 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 Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS)
intends to repatriate certain cultural items that meet the definition
of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and/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 January 21, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send additional, written requests for repatriation of the
cultural items in this notice to Jacqueline Pozza Reisner, Wisconsin
Historical Society, 204 S Thornton Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, email
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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
WHS, 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 sets of cultural items have been requested for
repatriation. A total of eight of the sets of items are objects of
cultural patrimony and one is an unassociated funerary object.
The objects of cultural patrimony are: items purchased from Paul J.
Warner of Chicago, Illinois: a string of wampum (1954.1676) and three
brooches worn and used by John W. Quinney collected in Stockbridge,
Wisconsin (1954.1677, a-b). A beaded pouch made by a Stockbridge woman,
c. 1843, and donated through the Rosellette Bird estate (1954.1680).
Four sets of items from Austin Quinney of Stockbridge, Wisconsin
donated through the Harriet B. Quinney estate: a firemaking set
(1954.1699, A-B, D), a fiber and buffalo bag (1954.2048), and two sets
of two garters (1954.2052, A and 1954.2053, a). Lastly, a wampum bead
collected in Outagamie County by William F. Wolf (1975.287.6).
The one unassociated funerary object is a stone pendant (1955.1341)
removed from a burial mound at Dorn's Landing in Calumet County,
Wisconsin by the donor of the pendant--Orrin Thompson--in 1844. WHS has
no documentation indicating that human remains were removed from the
mound by the donor.
Determinations
WHS has determined that:
<bullet> The one unassociated funerary objects described in this
notice are 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 objects have 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> The eight sets of objects of cultural patrimony described
in this notice have ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural
importance central to the Native American group, including any
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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 connection between the cultural items described
in this notice and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin.
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 January 21, 2026. If competing requests for
repatriation are received, WHS 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. WHS 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: December 11, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23536 Filed 12-19-25; 8:45 am]
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