[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 58 (Friday, March 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14757-14758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7502]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains 
and Associated Funerary Objects from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in the 
Possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given in accordance with provisions of the Native 
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, 
of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects in the possession of the State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin (Museum Division), Madison, WI.
    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Iowa Tribe of Kansas, 
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma, Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, and 
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
    During 1989-1991, human remains representing 46 individuals were 
recovered from the Gunderson Clinic site (47-Lc-0394) by field crews of 
the Mississippi Valley Archeological Center during parking lot 
expansion of the Gunderson Clinic, LaCrosse, WI. No known individuals 
were identified. The 38 associated funerary objects include ceramics, 
sherds, projectile point, scrapers, and flakes, shell, copper 
fragments, mammal bone, and wood fragments.
    Based on ceramic typology, the Gunderson Clinic site has been 
identified as an Oneota occupation dating between 1300-1650 A.D. The 
Oneota tradition in western Wisconsin has generally been documented by 
native oral traditions, European explorers' accounts, historians, and 
anthropologists as ancestral to the present-day Iowa Tribes of Oklahoma 
and Kansas, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, and the Winnebago Tribe 
of Nebraska.
    Based on the above mentioned information, officials of the State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin have determined that, pursuant to 43 
CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains listed above represent the physical 
remains of 46 individuals of Native American ancestry. Officials of the 
State Historical Society of Wisconsin have also determined that, 
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 38 objects listed above are 
reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human 
remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or 
ceremony. Lastly, officials of the State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a 
relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced 
between these Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects and the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Ho-Chunk Nation of 
Wisconsin.
    This notice has been sent to officials of the Iowa Tribe of 
Oklahoma, Iowa Tribe of Kansas, Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma, Ho-
Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to be 
culturally affiliated with these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should contact David Wooley, Curator of Anthropology, State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706-
1488; telephone: (608) 264-6574, before April 26, 1999. Repatriation of 
the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Iowa Tribe of 
Oklahoma and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin may begin after

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that date if no additional claimants come forward.
Dated: March 18, 1999.
Veletta Canouts,
Acting Departmental Consulting Archeologist,
Deputy Manager, Archeology and Ethnography Program.
[FR Doc. 99-7502 Filed 3-25-99; 8:45 am]
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