[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 81 (Tuesday, April 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23576-23577]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-09909]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-17920; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, 
Museum Division, Madison, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, has 
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian tribes or Native 
Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural 
affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects 
and present-day Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 
descendants or 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 Wisconsin Historical 
Society, Museum Division. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian 
organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or 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 Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum 
Division, at the address in this notice by May 28, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum 
Division, Madison, WI 53703-2707, telephone (608) 264-6434, 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 Wisconsin 
Historical Society, Museum Division, Madison, WI. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Grant's Point Chippewa 
Cemetery on Madeline Island, Ashland 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). 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 
Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, professional staff in 
consultation with representatives of the Bad River Band of the Lake 
Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, 
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; Red Cliff Band of Lake 
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, 
Wisconsin; and the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

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History and Description of the Remains

    In 1961, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals 
(2009.35.AS12 C3584-C3588, C3590-C3594, C3596-C3600; 2009.35.AS12 
C3589, C3605-C3608, C3610-C3615, plus one additional unlabeled related 
fragment F2003.25.2.1) were removed from Grant's Point Chippewa 
Cemetery in Ashland County, WI. Leland Cooper from Hamline University 
in Minnesota, along with several archeology students, excavated the 
Grant's Point Chippewa Cemetery site (47-AS-0012). A single burial was 
excavated by Cooper's students with the aid of collector Al Galazen; a 
single skull fragment constitutes the second individual. The remains 
and funerary objects were then transferred to the Science Museum of 
Minnesota. In the mid-1970s, the remains and funerary objects were 
transferred to the Wisconsin Historical Society. No known individuals 
were identified. The 31 associated funerary objects include 4 brass 
buttons; 5 silver brooches; 1 collection of white glass beads; 1 lot of 
fabric fragments; 1 lead and silver brooch fragments; 1 assemblage of 
hide, bark, wool, silk, thimble, button, and beaded decoration; 1 
basket fragment; 1 silver ring; 1 musket ball; 3 gunflint flakes; 1 
steel fire striker; 1 set of tweezers; 1 lot of metal awl fragments; 1 
knife blade; 1 shot and brooch mold; 1 lead fragment; 1 lot of 
birchbark fragments; 1 lot of cedar wood fragments and square nails; 1 
brass kettle bail; 1 lot of scrapings from brass kettle; 1 brass pail 
with missing handle; and 1 tin pan.
    A relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably 
traced between these human remains and funerary objects and the Bad 
River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad 
River Reservation, Wisconsin, and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin who are known to have inhabited the 
region during the Historic Period. The Grant's Point Chippewa Cemetery 
site was a small Ojibwe cemetery that has an adjacent Ojibwe village 
that was in use from the late 18th to early 19th century. Consultation 
resulted in the identification of the Bad River Band of the Lake 
Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, 
Wisconsin, and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
Wisconsin as direct descendants of the occupants of the village on 
Madeline Island.

Determinations Made by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum 
Division

    Officials of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division, 
have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 31 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), there is a relationship of 
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native 
American human remains and associated funerary objects and the Bad 
River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad 
River Reservation, Wisconsin, and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or 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 Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, 
Museum Division, Madison, WI 53703-2707, telephone (608) 264-6434, 
email [email protected], by May 28, 2015. After that 
date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains and associated funerary objects the Bad 
River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad 
River Reservation, Wisconsin, and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin may proceed.
    The Wisconsin Historical Society, Museum Division is responsible 
for notifying the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa 
Indians of the Bad River Reservation, 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; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
Indians of Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; and the 
St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: March 9, 2015.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2015-09909 Filed 4-27-15; 8:45 am]
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