[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7458-7459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02281]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035259; 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 no cultural affiliation 
between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. The human remains were 
removed from unknown locations in WI.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains 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

    Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed 
from an unknown location in WI, by Paul Turney, and donated to UWM in 
1990 after his death. No associated funerary objects are present.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, nine individuals were 
removed from an unknown location in WI, by unknown individual(s). At an 
unknown date, these human remains were transferred to the UWM, where 
they became part of the Neal Tappen teaching collection. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains in this notice were removed from unknown 
geographic locations in Wisconsin, all of which is the aboriginal land 
of one or more Indian Tribes. The following information was used to 
identify the aboriginal land: a final judgment of the Indian Claims 
Commission or the United States Court of Claims, a treaty, an Act of 
Congress, and an Executive Order.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the UWM has determined 
that:

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     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains described in this notice were removed 
from the aboriginal land of 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; Cayuga Nation; 
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; Oneida Indian Nation; Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; 
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; Saint 
Regis Mohawk Tribe; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie 
Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians; Seneca-
Cayuga Nation; 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; Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; 
The Osage Nation; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain Band of 
Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora Nation; Upper Sioux 
Community, Minnesota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton 
Sioux Tribe of South Dakota.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains described in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after March 6, 2023. If competing requests 
for disposition are received, UWM must determine the most appropriate 
requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the 
human remains 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 and 
10.11.

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