[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 96 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27476-27477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10655]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0031918; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Department of Anthropology, Madison, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of 
Anthropology has completed an inventory of human remains, in 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations, and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation 
between the human remains 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 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 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 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 June 21, 2021.

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 under 
the control of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of 
Anthropology, Madison, WI. The human remains were removed from Grant 
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. 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, 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, Wisconsin. The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska was 
invited to consult but did not participate. Hereafter, the above listed 
Indian Tribes are referred to as ``The Consulted and Invited Tribes.''

History and Description of the Remains

    At an unknown time, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from the Nelson Dewey site (47GT1) in Grant 
County, WI. According to a dissertation by Lois Lippold, Dr. David A. 
Baerreis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Anthropology Department 
conducted limited salvage excavation at this site. Although no summary 
excavation report is available, the University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Anthropology Department reasonably believes these human remains were 
collected during Baerreis' salvage excavations, and that they have 
likely been curated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department 
of Anthropology since the time of their recovery. The human remains, 
which are fragmentary, belong to an adult of indeterminate sex. No 
known individual was identified. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    The Nelson Dewey site is situated east of the Mississippi River in 
Nelson Dewey State Park, near the town of Cassville. It is a large pre-
contact village site with Middle and Late Woodland components. Wilfred 
Logan excavated several trenches across the site in 1955. Plow zone 
deposits produced Late Woodland Madison Cord-Impressed

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pottery, as well as Millville Phase Middle Woodland artifacts.
    Between 1967-1972, human remains representing, at minimum, five 
individuals were removed from the Brogley Rockshelter in Grant County, 
WI. The partial and fragmentary skeletal remains belong to one adult of 
unknown sex, one subadult of unknown sex, one young child, and two 
fetuses. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    The Brogley Rockshelter (47GT156) is a rock overhang located on the 
west bank of the Platte River. It was excavated between 1967-1972 by 
the Platteville Student Archeologists under the direction of 
avocational archeologist Robert Nelson, and in the summer of 1972 by a 
UW-Madison graduate student, Donna Scott. Deeply stratified cultural 
deposits of Early-Middle Archaic through Late Woodland stages were 
identified. The upper levels of the site had been disturbed by looting 
and a tunnel at the rear of the overhang had been dug by spelunkers 
prior to 1965. The five individuals were believed to be recovered from 
this spelunker tunnel prior to the excavations. The human remains were 
identified during a 2012 rehousing project and are presumed to have 
been curated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of 
Anthropology since the conclusion of the excavations.

Determinations Made by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department 
of Anthropology

    Officials of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of 
Anthropology 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 from known archeological sites 
with recorded documentation of prehistoric Native American occupations.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of six individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     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 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 were removed is the aboriginal land of 
the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of 
the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, 
Michigan; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana 
[previously listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's 
Reservation, Montana]; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest 
County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa 
and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; 
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; 
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; Lac Vieux Desert Band of 
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish 
Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, 
Minnesota (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); 
Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; 
White Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan 
[previously listed as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.]; Ottawa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; 
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation [previously listed as Prairie Band of 
Potawatomi Nation, Kansas]; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian 
Reservation, California & Arizona; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 
Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & 
Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; 
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. 
Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 
Indians of North Dakota; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (hereafter 
referred to as ``The Tribes'').
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to The Tribes.

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 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 June 21, 2021. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to The Tribes may proceed.
    The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology is 
responsible for notifying The Tribes and The Consulted and Invited 
Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: May 6, 2021.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2021-10655 Filed 5-19-21; 8:45 am]
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