[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68364-68365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-23826]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031058; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Minnesota 
Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Minnesota Historical Society has corrected a Notice of 
Intent to Repatriate published in the Federal Register on November 14, 
2018. This notice corrects the identity and affiliation of one cultural 
item. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
claim this cultural item should submit a written request to the 
Minnesota Historical Society. If no additional claimants come forward, 
transfer of control of the cultural item to the lineal descendants, 
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 claim this 
cultural item should submit a written request with information in 
support of the claim to the Minnesota Historical Society at the address 
in this notice by November 27, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Ben Gessner, Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W Kellogg 
Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102, telephone (651) 259-3281, 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. 3005, of the intent to repatriate a cultural item under the 
control of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN, that meets 
the definition of unassociated funerary object and object of cultural 
patrimony under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
    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 cultural items. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the identity and affiliation of one cultural 
item, a Jefferson Peace Medal, that was published in a Notice of Intent 
to Repatriate in the Federal Register (83 FR 56871-56872, November 14, 
2018). Transfer of control of the item in this correction notice has 
not occurred.
    The Minnesota Historical Society's NAGPRA Committee and leadership 
examined additional geographic, historical, anthropological and 
archeological information provided by the Prairie Island Indian 
Community in the State of Minnesota (Mdewakanton Dakota), including a 
report provided by the Prairie Island Tribal Historic Preservation 
Officer and Dr. Ron Schirmer, Professor of Anthropology at Minnesota 
State University, Mankato, and have determined that in his role as a 
village headman, Tatankamani would have accepted a Jefferson Peace 
Medal on behalf of his entire community. Therefore, the Peace Medal 
cannot be owned by an individual. Further, Minnesota Historical 
Society's NAGPRA Committee and leadership have determined that the 
Peace Medal has ongoing historical, traditional, and cultural 
importance central to the Prairie Island Indian Community in the State 
of Minnesota. Mdewakanton Dakota people have lived on the shores of 
Lake Pepin and on Prairie Island since at least A.D. 1680, and the 
historical record unequivocally establishes the continuous presence of 
the Red Wing band of Mdewakanton Dakota people in the area from the 
1600s to the current time. Consequently, Minnesota Historical Society's 
NAGPRA Committee and leadership have determined that the Peace Medal is 
both an unassociated funerary object and an object of cultural 
patrimony.
    The Prairie Island Indian Community has requested the repatriation 
of this unassociated funerary object and object of cultural patrimony. 
Their request is supported by the Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska, as 
well as a lineal descendant of Tatankamani, Sheila Ann Red Wing.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56871, November 14, 2018), column 2, 
paragraph 1, sentence 1 under the heading ``Notice of Intent to 
Repatriate Cultural Items: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN'' 
is corrected by substituting the following sentence:

    The Minnesota Historical Society, in consultation with the 
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, has 
determined that the cultural item listed in this notice meets the 
definition of unassociated funerary object and object of cultural 
patrimony.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56871, November 14, 2018), column 2, 
paragraph 4, sentence 1 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American 
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of 
the intent to repatriate a cultural item under the control of the 
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN, that meets the 
definition of unassociated funerary object and object of cultural 
patrimony under 25 U.S.C. 3001.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56872, November 14, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 1 is corrected by adding the following sentence after 
sentence 1:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), the one cultural item 
described above has ongoing

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historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the 
Native American group or culture itself, rather than property owned 
by an individual.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56872, November 14, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 1, sentence 2 is corrected by substituting the following 
sentence:

    Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.14(b), Josie Redwing, Melody Redwing, and 
Sheila Ann Red Wing are direct lineal descendants of Tatankamani, 
based on genealogical evidence on file with the Minnesota Historical 
Society.

    In the Federal Register (83 FR 56872, November 14, 2018), column 1, 
paragraph 1, is corrected by adding the following sentence to the end 
of the paragraph:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared 
group identity that can be reasonably traced between the 
unassociated funerary object and object of cultural patrimony and 
the Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 
not identified in this notice that wish to claim this cultural item 
should submit a written request with information in support of the 
claim to Ben Gessner, Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W Kellogg 
Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55102, telephone (651) 259-3281, email 
[email protected], by November 27, 2020. After that date, if no 
additional claimants have come forward, transfer of control of the 
unassociated funerary object and object of cultural patrimony to the 
Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota may proceed.
    The Minnesota Historical Society is responsible for notifying Josie 
Redwing; Melody Redwing; Sheila Ann Red Wing; the Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State 
of Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe (previously listed as Oglala Sioux 
Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota); Prairie Island 
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Santee Sioux Nation, 
Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-
Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; and the 
Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: October 15, 2020
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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