[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 76 (Wednesday, April 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23546-23549]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08359]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0033715; 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

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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 the Diamond Bluff Site (47Pi2) 
located on the Mississippi River bluff, Pierce 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, 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

    Sometime during 1948, human remains representing, at minimum, 10 
individuals were excavated and removed from the Diamond Bluff Site 
(47Pi2) located on the Mississippi River bluff, Pierce County, WI. The 
excavations were co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Archeological Survey and 
Beloit College. The project operated as a field school under the 
direction of Moreau Maxwell, Beloit College

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Professor of Anthropology, and Chandler Rowe from Lawrence University, 
WI. The complex includes remnants of a mound group that once numbered 
around 500 mounds, two village sites, and smaller occupational 
settings.
    The human remains derive from Mound 4 (2003.2.1.1; 2003.2.1.2; 
2003.2.1.4; 2003.2.1.5; 2003.2.1.6), Mound 15 (2003.2.3.1; 2003.2.3.2), 
and Mound 38 (2003.2.5.1; 2003.2.5.3; 2003.2.5.4; 2003.2.5.5). Mound 4 
included four adult burials and one child burial. Mound 15 included the 
human remains of at least two adults. (As Mound 6 contained no faunal 
or human remains, and as human remains were present at Mound 15, the 
human remains identified as deriving from Mound 6 most likely derive 
from Mound 15.) Mound 38 included three adult burials and a molar. 
While the molar could possibly belong to one of the burials, most 
likely it was included with fill used to construct the mound. No known 
individuals were identified. The three associated funerary objects are 
one fragmentary stone celt (2003.2.1.7), one rim sherd (2003.2.4.3), 
and one ceramic jar (22079). The ceramic jar (22079) was restored by 
the Milwaukee Public Museum. It was excavated from Mound 26 together 
with a large chunk of charcoal and in association with charred human 
remains belonging to a juvenile. The human remains and the charcoal are 
not at the Logan Museum.

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 their archeological 
context.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 10 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the three 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 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; 
Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Santee Sioux 
Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; 
Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South 
Dakota.
     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 
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; Lower Brule 
Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, 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; 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; Upper Sioux Community, 
Minnesota; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.
     According to other authoritative government sources, the 
land from which the Native American human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed is 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 Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; 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.]; 
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]; 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.
     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,

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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 Shell Tribe of 
Chippewa Indians of Montana; 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; 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; 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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