[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39452-39453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12856]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036003; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL

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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
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 Stanley County, SD.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after July 17, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Krystiana Krupa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 
601 E. John Street, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone (217) 244-2587, 
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 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Description

    In 1927, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals 
were removed from Stanley County, SD. Between 1918 and 1927, W.H. Over, 
then Director of the University of South Dakota Museum-Vermillion (now 
known as the W.H. Over Museum), excavated at Stony Point Village and 
its associated cemetery. During three visits to the site (in 1918, 
1919, and 1927), Over collected human remains belonging to 23 
individuals as well as the associated funerary objects. (Also, Over 
uncovered and reburied the human remains of three infants.)

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    According to a letter from Over dated May 4, 1927, the ancestral 
remains housed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are from 
his 1927 excavations. On August 31, 1927, Over mailed to Dr. Frank C. 
Baker (then Director of the University of Illinois Museum of Natural 
History) the human remains and associated funerary objects listed in 
this notice (the other human remains and funerary belongings were 
stored at the University of South Dakota-Vermillion). These human 
remains belong to an elderly adult and an infant. No known individuals 
were identified. The five associated funerary objects are one lot of 
glass beads, one brass tinkling cone, one bone awl or hair pin, one 
faunal bone, and one lot of antler tine tips.

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 types of information were used to reasonably trace the 
relationship: archeological, geographical, and historical.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has 
determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The five 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 Three Affiliated Tribes of the 
Fort Berthold Reservation, North 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 July 17, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
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 10.9, 10.10, 
and 10.14.

    Dated: June 6, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12856 Filed 6-15-23; 8:45 am]
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