[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53744-53746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21505]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-16301; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Department of Anthropology, Madison, WI, and the State Historical 
Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology 
and the State Historical Society of

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Wisconsin have completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations, and have determined that there is no 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects and any present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations. Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request to the University of Wisconsin-
Madison Department of Anthropology. If no additional requestors come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 
stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request with information in support of 
the request to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of 
Anthropology at the address in this notice by October 10, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Sissel Schroeder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Department of Anthropology, 1180 Observatory Drive, 5240 Social 
Sciences Building, Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) 262-0317, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology, Madison, WI and State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Winnebago County, WI.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the sole 
responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has 
control of the Native American human remains and associated funerary 
objects. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) Department of Anthropology 
professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Forest 
County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; 
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 Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of 
Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; and the Stockbridge 
Munsee Community of Wisconsin. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska was 
invited to consult but did not send representatives.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1953, human remains representing, at minimum, 46 individuals 
were removed from the Reigh site in Winnebago County, WI. The Reigh 
site was identified decades earlier and reports of site disturbances 
date to the 1890s. The human remains were originally discovered when 
the landowner (M.C. Reigh) used heavy machinery to remove gravel from 
the vicinity of the site in 1953. This prompted archeological salvage 
excavations conducted by Hiroshi Daifuku and Warren Wittry, both of the 
Wisconsin Historical Society, and David Baerreis of the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison. The site was later disturbed and excavated by 
avocationals in 1956. The site is affiliated with the Old Copper 
Culture of the Middle Archaic Period (c.a.1000 B.C. to 3000 B.C.). The 
human remains have been housed at both the State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin and the UW-Madison Department of Anthropology since the time 
of excavation.
    Since there were two major institutions involved in the 1953 
excavations of this site, human remains and associated funerary objects 
are controlled by both the UW-Madison and State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin. The vast majority of the human remains are controlled by UW-
Madison and the funerary objects by State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin. At the request of the Wisconsin Inter-Tribal Repatriation 
Committee (WITRC), the associated funerary objects have been reunited 
with the human remains under a loan agreement between the State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin and UW-Madison Department of 
Anthropology.
    Human remains recovered from the site include nearly complete, 
partial, fragmentary, and cremated individuals. Many of the human 
remains were highly fragmentary. No known individuals were identified. 
There are 63 associated funerary objects. The following are in the 
control of State Historical Society of Wisconsin: 1 Side-notched knife/
projectile point from Burial 4; 1 elk antler axe and 3 side-notched 
projectile points from Burial 5; 2 conical antler points (one of which 
is fragmentary), 2 sets of crane bills, and 1 set of headdress 
components that included twenty-three copper pieces from Burial 6; 1 
chert projectile point and 1 white chert flake from Burial 8; 1 antler 
tine from Burial 10; 1 chipped stone knife, 1 worked swan ulna, 1 group 
of antler fragments, 1 ulna of a small mammal, and 1 group of lower leg 
bones of a great horned owl from Burial 11; 1 sandal soled gorget made 
of marine conch shell, 1 set of copper beads, and 5 shell beads from 
Burial 13; 1 rolled copper projectile point fragment from Burial 18; 1 
chert projectile point from Burial 21; 1 conical copper point, 1 elk 
antler axe, 1 knife/projectile point, 3 hematite pebbles, and 2 worked 
swan humeri from Burial 23; 1 side-notched projectile point from Burial 
25; 1 conical copper point, 1 chipped stone knife/projectile point, and 
2 hematite pebbles from Burial 26; and 2 groups of fragmentary faunal 
bones. The following are in the control and possession of UW-Madison: 6 
soil matrix samples, one each from Burial 5, Burial 6, Burial 7, Burial 
9, Burial 20, and Burial 22; 2 rounded blocks of soft sandstone and 1 
portion of a tortoise shell from Burial 11; 1 lot of small shell 
fragments from Burial 10; 1 soil matrix sample, 1 lot of shell 
fragments, 1 lot of charcoal, and 1 lot of small bone fragments from 
Burial 21; 3 bags of soil matrix and charcoal from Burial 21; 2 soil 
matrix samples and 1 lot of bone fragments from Burial 26; 1 lot of 
small land shells from a non-specific location at the site.

Determinations Made by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department 
of Anthropology and the Wisconsin Historical Society

    Officials of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of 
Anthropology and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin have 
determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on an examination by a 
physical anthropologist and the recovery of these remains at a known 
Native American archeological site associated with prehistoric 
artifacts, recovered from a

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documented excavation with radiocarbon dates.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 46 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 63 objects described 
in this notice 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.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and associated funerary objects and any present-day 
Indian tribe.
     According to final judgments of the Indian Claims 
Commission or the Court of Federal Claims, the land from which the 
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects were 
removed is the aboriginal land of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and 
the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders, indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the 
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; 
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and the Winnebago Tribe of 
Nebraska.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects may be to the Ho-Chunk 
Nation of Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Stockbridge 
Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 
not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control 
of these human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Sissel 
Schroeder, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Anthropology, 
1180 Observatory Drive, 5240 Social Sciences Building, Madison, WI 
53706, telephone (608) 262-0317, email [email protected] by October 
10, 2014. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Menominee Indian 
Tribe of Wisconsin; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and the 
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska may proceed.
    The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology and 
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin are responsible for notifying 
the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; 
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; and the Winnebago Tribe of 
Nebraska that this notice has been published.

    Dated: July 17, 2014.
Melanie O'Brien,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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