[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23541-23544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08354]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033716; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology, Beloit, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology 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 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 Beloit College, Logan Museum 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 Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology at the 
address in this notice by May 20, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicolette B. Meister, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, 
telephone (608) 363-2305, 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 Beloit College, Logan 
Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from Rock 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 Beloit 
College, Logan Museum of Anthropology 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; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Delaware Nation, 
Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse 
Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of 
Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; 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; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Oneida Nation [previously listed as Oneida Tribe of Indians of 
Wisconsin]; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; 
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Shakopee 
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon 
Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; 
and the Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin.
    An invitation to consult was extended to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe 
of Indians of Oklahoma; Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck 
Indian Reservation, Montana; Cayuga Nation; Cherokee Nation; Cheyenne 
River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; 
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; Crow Creek 
Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Delaware Tribe 
of Indians; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Hannahville 
Indian Community,

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Michigan; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Kaw Nation, Oklahoma; Keweenaw Bay 
Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; 
Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; 
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, 
Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little 
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe 
of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian 
Community in the State of Minnesota; 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.]; Oglala Sioux Tribe 
[previously listed as Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, 
South Dakota]; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, Oklahoma; Oneida Indian Nation [previously listed as Oneida 
Nation of New York]; Onondaga Nation; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria 
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Ponca 
Tribe of Nebraska; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation [previously listed as 
Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas]; Prairie Island Indian 
Community in the State of Minnesota; Quapaw Nation [previously listed 
as The Quapaw Tribe of Indians]; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, 
Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 
Dakota; 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; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe [previously 
listed as St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians of New York]; Santee Sioux 
Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; 
Seneca Nation of Indians [previously listed as Seneca Nation of New 
York]; Seneca-Cayuga Nation [previously listed as Seneca-Cayuga Tribe 
of Oklahoma]; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, 
South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux 
Tribe of North & South Dakota; The Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Osage 
Nation [previously listed as Osage Tribe]; Tonawanda Band of Seneca 
[previously listed as Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York]; 
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora 
Nation; United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma; Upper 
Sioux Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; Wyandotte 
Nation; Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; and four non-federally 
recognized Indian groups--the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi; Brothertown 
Indian Nation; Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians; and the 
Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians.
    Hereafter, all Indian Tribes and groups listed in this section are 
referred to as ``The Consulted and Notified Tribes and Groups.''

History and Description of the Remains

    Between 1942 and 1971, human remains representing, at minimum, six 
individuals were removed from Beloit College Mound Group (47Ro15) by 
Beloit College Anthropology faculty members Paul Nesbitt, Moreau 
Maxwell, William Godfrey, and Robert Alberts. The Beloit College Mound 
Group is located on the Beloit College campus in Beloit, WI, and it is 
situated on a bluff overlooking the Rock River. The site originally 
consisted of 25 mounds. Nineteen conical and linear mounds, and one 
effigy mound remain on the Beloit College campus. The human remains 
(16496; 17451; 17453; 17454; 17452; 17455; 17456; 17457; 23104; 23120; 
23231; 23241; 2005.7.1; 2011.4.1; 2011.4.2; 2020.4.1a; 2020.4.1b; 
2020.4.1c; TR73.65; TR73.66) were removed from Mounds 2, 3, 4, and 6.
    Sometime prior to 2011, human remains (16496; Ro3-4) were found in 
the Beloit College Anthropology Department. The catalog contained no 
geographic information on these human remains. In 2011, records dating 
to 1949 and 1950 were found. These records contained notations 
referring to Ro3-1 as being from ``Beloit campus, small conical 
mound.'' ``Ro'' most likely is a designation for Rock County. Based on 
these lines of evidence, ``Ro3'' most likely was an old, internal 
museum notation for the campus mounds. The nearly complete human 
remains, which most likely derive from the 1947-1948 excavations at 
Mound 3, belong to a young female.
    In 2010, fragmentary human remains--2011.4.1 and 2011.4.2.--were 
found at the University of Wisconsin--Madison (UW-Madison) repository 
during a renovation project. These human remains had been removed from 
Burials 1 and 2 at Mound 6 of the Beloit College Mound Group and loaned 
to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Anthropology for 
stable carbon isotope measurement in the early 1980s. Human remains 
from Burial 1 were tested, and the results were published in Baerreis 
and Bender (1984). In 2011, the human remains were returned to Beloit 
College, Logan Museum of Anthropology.
    On June 20, 2019, three vials of human remains (2020.4.1a; 
2020.4.1b; 2020.4.1c) were found at UW-Madison. They were sampled by 
the former University of Wisconsin Radiocarbon Lab, which operated from 
1963 to the mid-1990s. Most likely, these human remains derive from 
2011.4.1 and 2011.4.2. On November 10, 2020, UW-Madison transferred the 
human remains to the Logan Museum of Anthropology.
    In 1979, a Beloit alumna used human remains (TR73.65; TR73.66) in 
an educational program on ``Turtle Indian culture'' presented to fourth 
graders in the Beloit School District. The alumna recalled that the 
human remains were from the Beloit College Mound Group. Museum staff 
contacted the alumna's then-Beloit College supervisor and then-Logan 
Museum director to inquire whether they remembered the provenience of 
these human remains, but neither of them was able to recall details. 
Based on their use in programming about local Native American 
prehistory and their purported provenience, these human remains most 
likely derive from the Beloit College Mound Group. In June 2020, the 
Beloit College alumna returned these human remains to the Logan Museum.
    No known individuals were identified. The two associated funerary 
objects are two lots of soil samples from Mound 2 (2005.3.1) and Mound 
6 (2005.4.19).
    In October 1963, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Yost Mound (47Ro23), Beloit, Rock County, 
WI. The human remains (2004.12.2a; 2004.12.2b) were excavated by a 
Beloit College student as a special project. No known individual was 
identified. The two associated funerary objects are one distal half of 
a chert projectile point (2004.12.1) and one lot of soil samples 
(2004.12.3).
    Sometime prior to 1912 or 1913, human remains representing, at 
minimum, one individual were removed from Mound 3, Hillcrest Group/
Beloit Junction Mound Group (47Ro41 and 47Ro147), which overlook Turtle 
Creek in Beloit, Rock County, WI. A catalog card states that the human 
remains (23270) were ``found by Beloit College students in 1932.'' As 
there is no record of fieldwork in 1932, most likely these human 
remains derive from Robert H. Becker's 1912 or 1913 work at the 
Hillcrest group overlooking Turtle Creek. According to Robert Becker's 
1913 article titled ``Turtle Creek Mounds and Village Sites'' (The

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Wisconsin Archaeologist (Vol. 12, No. 1)), ``[o]ne skeleton was 
disinterred [from Mound 3], also one fine stone celt and several arrow 
points.'' The associated funerary objects are not in the possession or 
under the control of the Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology. 
In 1919, Ira Buell published an article titled ``Beloit Mound Groups'' 
in The Wisconsin Archaeologist (Vol. 18, No. 4), which included a map 
of the Hillcrest Group/Beloit Junction Mound Group. This map identified 
six mounds, including three conical mound, one linear mound, and two 
effigy mounds. No known individual was identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Determinations Made by Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College

    Officials of Beloit College, Logan Museum 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 archeological context.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of eight individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the four 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 Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 
Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville 
Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of 
Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish 
Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the 
Potawatomi, Michigan [previously listed as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.]; 
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi 
Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation 
[previously listed as Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas]; 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 
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; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa 
Tribe of Oklahoma; 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; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, 
Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little 
Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 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.]; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, Oklahoma; 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]; 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.
     According to other authoritative government sources, the 
land from which the Native American human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the Assiniboine 
and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Cheyenne 
River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota; Crow 
Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; 
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Kickapoo Traditional 
Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation 
in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the 
Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian Community in 
the State of Minnesota; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Miami 
Tribe of Oklahoma; Oglala Sioux Tribe [previously listed as Oglala 
Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota]; Peoria Tribe 
of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of 
Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South 
Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 
Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse 
Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; Standing 
Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; The Osage Nation [previously 
listed as Osage Tribe]; Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; and the 
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects may be to the Assiniboine 
and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana; Bad 
River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad 
River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; 
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South 
Dakota; 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; Crow Creek 
Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau 
Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Forest County Potawatomi Community, 
Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 
Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of 
Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of 
Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; 
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lac

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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; Little River Band of Ottawa 
Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; 
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Lower Brule Sioux 
Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux Indian 
Community in the State of Minnesota; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of 
Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; 
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; 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.]; Oglala Sioux Tribe [previously 
listed as Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South 
Dakota]; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Ottawa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 
Nation [previously listed as Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, 
Kansas]; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Red 
Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake 
Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud 
Indian Reservation, South Dakota; 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; Santee 
Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, 
Michigan; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-
Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Sokaogon 
Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; St. 
Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North 
& South Dakota; The Osage Nation [previously listed as Osage Tribe]; 
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Upper Sioux 
Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (hereafter referred to as ``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 and associated funerary objects should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Nicolette 
B. Meister, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College, 700 College 
Street, Beloit, WI 53511 telephone (608) 363-2305, email 
[email protected], by May 20, 2022. After that date, if no additional 
requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains 
and associated funerary objects to The Tribes may proceed.
    Beloit College, Logan Museum of Anthropology is responsible for 
notifying The Consulted and Notified Tribes and Groups that this notice 
has been published.

    Dated: April 7, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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