[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7456-7457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02280]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035253; 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 Door, Marathon, and 
Pierce Counties, 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 1968 and 1971, human remains representing, at minimum, nine 
individuals were removed during UWM field school excavations at the 
Richter site (47-DR-80) in Door County, WI. The site dates to the 
Middle Woodland, North Bay Tradition (A.D. 0 to 600). After each field 
season, the collection was transferred to the UWM. The six associated 
funerary objects are one copper awl, one bear tarsal bone, one bear 
phalanx bone, one lot of cultural items including minimal amounts of 
shell fragments, small pottery sherds, and lithic debitage, one beaver 
incisor, and one copper fragment.
    On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, five 
individuals were removed by unknown individual(s) from a mound at the 
Maine site (47-MR-22) in Marathon County, WI. The site and the human 
remains date to the Late Woodland period (A.D. 900 to 1300). These 
human remains were transferred to collector Steve Rosenbalm, a student 
at the University of Wisconsin Center-Marathon County--today the 
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau--who transferred them 
to his professor, John Forde. In 1990, Forde gave the human remains to 
the UWM. The two associated funerary objects are one white-tail deer 
antler fragment and one white-tail deer bone fragment.
    In the mid-1970s, human remains representing, at minimum, six 
individuals were removed during UWM field school excavations at the 
Diamond Bluff site (47-PI-0002) in Pierce County, WI. The site dates to 
the Late Woodland (A.D. 900 to 1300)/Mississippian (A.D. 1100 to 1300) 
periods. On an unknown date, this collection was transferred to the 
UWM. The one associated funerary object is a lot of faunal remains.

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, archaeological, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, UWM has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 20 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The nine objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed with or near individual

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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; 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; Oglala Sioux Tribe; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, 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, 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. 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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