[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 23 (Friday, February 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7454-7455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02282]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035256; 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 an associated funerary 
object and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between 
the human remains and the associated funerary object and Indian Tribes 
or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary object were removed from Grant and Jefferson 
Counties, WI.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary object 
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 UWM.

Description

    In August of 1880, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed by Captain W. P. Hall from a mound in the 
Millville Village site (47-GT-0053) in Grant County, WI. This site 
dates to the Middle Woodland period (A.D. 0 to 400). On an unknown 
date, the collection was transferred to the Putnam Museum in Davenport, 
IA, and in 1986, it was transferred from the Putnam Museum to the UWM. 
No associated funerary objects are present.
    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed by Captain W. P. Hall from a location in what 
is now Wyalusing State Park in Grant County, WI. Archeological sites 
and effigy mounds within Wyalusing State Park date to the Late Woodland 
period (A.D. 900 to 1200). On an unknown date, the collection was 
transferred to the Putnam Museum in Davenport, IA, and subsequently, it 
was transferred from the Putnam Museum to the UWM. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    In 1939, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed by collector R.T. Lawton and his daughter from an unknown 
location in the Lake Koshkonong region, in Jefferson County, WI. Lawton 
later sold these human remains to the Hoard Historical Museum, along 
with a Late Woodland (A.D. 900 to 1300) projectile point that had been 
glued to one of the vertebrae. In 2003, the collection was transferred 
to the UWM. The one associated funerary object is a Madison-style 
projectile point.
    In 1929, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed by T.M.N. Lewis from an unknown location in Jefferson 
County, WI. On an unknown date, these human remains were transferred to 
the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee, and in July of 2009, 
they were transferred to the UWM. No associated funerary objects are 
present.

Cultural Affiliation

    The human remains and associated funerary object 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, UWM has determined that:

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     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of four individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object 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 
object 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; The Osage Nation; 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 object 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 object 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 object 
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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