[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 15079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04898]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035448; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Mukwonago 
Community Library, Mukwonago, 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 Mukwonago Community Library intends to 
repatriate a cultural item that meets the definition of an unassociated 
funerary object and that has a cultural affiliation with the Indian 
Tribes in this notice. The cultural item was removed from Sacramento 
County, CA.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or 
after April 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Abby Armour, Mukwonago Community Library, 511 Division St., 
Mukwonago, WI 53149, telephone (262) 363-6411, 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 
Mukwonago Community Library. 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 Mukwonago Community Library.

Description

    The one cultural item was removed from Hollister Mound in 
Sacramento County, CA. It was bequeathed to the Mukwonago Community 
Library by Arthur Grutzmacher, a local collector and dealer, following 
his death in 1965. The unassociated funerary object is one lot of shell 
beads (G01124).

Cultural Affiliation

    The cultural item in this notice is 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: geographical and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Mukwonago 
Community Library has determined that:
     The one cultural item described above is 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 and is 
believed, by a preponderance of the evidence, to have been removed from 
a specific burial site of a Native American individual.
     There is a relationship of shared group identity that can 
be reasonably traced between the cultural item and the Wilton 
Rancheria, California.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
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.
    Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after April 10, 2023. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Mukwonago Community Library must 
determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. 
Requests for joint repatriation of the cultural item are considered a 
single request and not competing requests. The Mukwonago Community 
Library 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: March 1, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-04898 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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