[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 2119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00474]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035104; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Beloit College, 
Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology (LMA) intends to repatriate a cultural item that meets the 
definition of an object of cultural patrimony and that has a cultural 
affiliation with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in 
this notice. The cultural item was removed from Oklahoma.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice may occur on 
or after February 13, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Nicolette B. Meister, Beloit College, Logan Museum of 
Anthropology, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511, telephone (608) 
363-2305, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published as part of the 
National Park Service's administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA. 
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
LMA. The National Park Service is not responsible for the 
determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the summary or related records held by the LMA.

Description

    In 1901, one item of cultural patrimony was removed from Oklahoma 
by Dr. George A. Dorsey. The object of cultural patrimony is a shield 
cover (31207.2) that originally belonged to Tall Chief. Osage shield 
covers of this nature are objects of cultural patrimony consecrated 
during ceremonies conducted by Osage clan priests. This shield was 
bestowed on a warrior who had earned all thirteen ceremonial war honors 
as part of the ``Rite of the Vigil'' ritual. The shield cover was 
received by the LMA in 1956, from C.H. Boyd of Minocqua, WI.

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural items in this notice are connected to one or more 
identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures. There is a 
relationship of shared group identity between the identifiable earlier 
groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures and one or more Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations. The following types of information were 
used to reasonably trace the relationship: linguistic, oral 
traditional, geographical, kinship, historical, and anthropological.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the LMA has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above has ongoing 
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native 
American group or culture itself, rather than property owned by an 
individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural item and The Osage Nation 
(previously listed as Osage Tribe).

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural items 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation may be submitted by any lineal 
descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice who shows, by a preponderance of the 
evidence, that the requestor is a lineal descendant or a culturally 
affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization.
    Repatriation of the cultural items in this notice to a requestor 
may occur on or after February 13, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the LMA must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the 
cultural items are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The LMA is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribe identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: January 4, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-00474 Filed 1-11-23; 8:45 am]
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