[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7461-7462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02279]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035258; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 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 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) 
has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary 
objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between 
the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed from Kenosha County, Milwaukee 
County, and Waukesha County, WI.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after March 6, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Jennifer R. Haas, NAGPRA Coordinator, University of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, telephone (414) 
229-3078, 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 UWM. 
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 
inventory or related records held by the UWM.

Description

    In the 1920s, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed by Frank Lyman from a sand dune south of 
Kenosha in Kenosha County, WI. In 1936, Dr. B.A. Becker donated these 
human remains to the Kenosha Historical Society Museum, and in 1988, 
the collection was transferred to the UWM. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    In the 1920s, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed by Frank Lyman from an unknown location in 
Kenosha County, WI. A projectile point had been glued into the frontal 
bone. (This projectile point has since been removed from the frontal 
bone but has been kept with the human remains.) In 1936, Dr. B.A. 
Becker donated the human remains and projectile point to the Kenosha 
Historical Society Museum, and in 1988, the collection was transferred 
to the UWM. The human remains date to the Middle Woodland (A.D. 0 to 
400)/Late Woodland (A.D. 900 to 1300) periods. The one associated 
funerary object is a projectile point.
    In 1897, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed by an unknown individual from the Julius Peter Farm in 
West Allis, Milwaukee County, WI, which is today the site of Nathan 
Hale High School. In 1967, Emil Peter donated these human remains to 
the West Allis Historic Society, and in 1991, the human remains to the 
UWM. The one associated funerary object is a lot of faunal bone.
    In 1980, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from one of the mounds at the Barforth-Blood Mound Group 
(47-WK-0063) in Waukesha County, WI, as part of an archeological survey 
and limited test excavations. This site dates to the Middle Woodland 
period (A.D. 0 to 400). In 2006, these human remains and an associated 
funerary object were

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donated to the UWM. The one associated funerary object is a lot of 
lithics comprised of a biface fragment and debitage.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary objects 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 type of information was used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: geographical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the UWM has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
     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.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects described in this notice and 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; 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 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; Oglala 
Sioux Tribe; 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; 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.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and 
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the 
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 
may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 
organizations identified in this notice.
    2. 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 human remains and associated funerary objects 
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after March 6, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the UWM must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and associated 
funerary objects are considered a single request and not competing 
requests. The UWM is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to 
the Indian Tribes identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: January 27, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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