[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 63611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19961]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036556; 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 object and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and 
associated funerary object were removed from Henderson County, IL.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary object 
in this notice may occur on or after October 16, 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 the 
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 1972 and 1979, human remains representing, at minimum, three 
individuals were removed during an archeological surface survey by UWM 
of the Dusty Rhodes site (11-HE-14) in Henderson County, IL. The site 
dates to the Middle Woodland Havana/Hopewell (A.D. 0 to 400) and Late 
Woodland (A.D. 600 to 1200) periods. After completion of the survey, 
these human remains were transferred to UWM. The one associated 
funerary object is one lot consisting of faunal skeletal elements, a 
projectile point, bifaces, lithic debitage, pottery sherds, and shell 
fragments.

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 
types of information were used to reasonably trace the relationship: 
geographical, historical, oral traditional, and expert opinion.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 
organizations, the UWM has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of three individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one object described in this notice 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.
     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 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the 
Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of 
South Dakota; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and 
Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the 
State of Minnesota; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band 
Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of 
Minnesota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux 
Community of Minnesota; The Osage Nation; and the Winnebago Tribe of 
Nebraska.

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 October 16, 2023. If 
competing requests for repatriation are received, the 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. The 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: September 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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