[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73367-73368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23547]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0036804; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 
Oshkosh, 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 Oshkosh 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 Green Lake County, WI.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after November 24, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Adrienne Frie, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma 
Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901, telephone (920) 424-1365, 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 Wisconsin Oshkosh. 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 Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Description

    In 1954, human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals 
were removed from the Progressive Rod and Gun Club Site (47-GL-0186) in 
Green Lake County, WI, by John (Jack) Steinbring during a surface 
survey. After removing the remains of these individuals, Steinbring 
kept them and did not report them to Wisconsin Historical Society. In 
the 1960s, when he began working at the University of Winnipeg in 
Canada, Steinbring took the individuals with him, and in the early 
1990s, when he retired, he shipped the individuals back to Wisconsin. 
In 1994, Steinbring donated the remains of these individuals to the 
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and in 2022, employees at the 
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh identified them while inventorying the 
finds from the site. The 72 associated funerary objects are one lot 
consisting of likely domesticated dog cranial fragments; one medium-
sized canid axis vertebra; one medium-sized canid left femur; one 
medium-sized canid left ulna; one medium-sized canid left humerus; one 
medium-sized canid fifth metacarpal; one medium-sized canid left 
temporal bone; one medium-sized canid left tibia; one medium-sized 
canid left zygomatic bone; one medium-sized canid lumbar vertebrae; one 
medium-sized canid metatarsal or metacarpal; one medium-sized canid 
right ulna; one medium-sized canid right humerus; one medium-sized 
canid second metacarpal; one medium-sized canid fourth metatarsal; one 
medium-sized canid right radius; one medium-sized canid right temporal 
bone; one medium-sized canid right tibia; three medium-sized canid 
thoracic vertebrae; one lot consisting of medium-sized mammal rib 
fragments; one lot consisting of unidentified mammal bone fragments; 
one unidentified mammal cranial fragment; one lot consisting of 
unidentified medium/large mammal long bone fragments; one biface 
preform; one lot consisting of unidentifiable unifacial tools; one lot 
consisting of burins; one lot consisting of scrapers; two lots 
consisting of unidentifiable bifaces; two lots consisting of Madison 
projectile points; one lot consisting of Kramer projectile points; one 
Honey Creek corner-notched projectile point; one Midland projectile 
point; one lot consisting of Raddatz projectile points; one lot 
consisting of unidentifiable cores; three lots consisting of lithic 
debitage; one fire-cracked rock; one lot consisting of bifaces; two 
unidentifiable bifaces; one lithic drill; one lot consisting of biface/
uniface scrapers; one hammerstone; one handstone; one white-colored 
natural rock; one geologic mineral sample; one unidentifiable white 
glass fragment; two unidentifiable copper fragments; one lot consisting 
of soil matrix with potential crushed pottery and unidentifiable bone 
fragments; three lots consisting of diagnostic Madison ware grit-
tempered ceramic rim sherds; five lots consisting of diagnostic grit-
tempered ceramic body sherds; four diagnostic Madison ware grit-
tempered ceramic body sherds; three undiagnostic grit-tempered ceramic 
body sherds; one diagnostic grit-tempered ceramic rim sherd; and one 
lot consisting of diagnostic Point Sauble grit-tempered ceramic rim 
sherds.

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 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, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has determined that:

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     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 72 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 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 Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of 
Montana; 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; 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; Sokaogon 
Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota; St. 
Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North 
& South Dakota; 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 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 November 24, 2023. 
If competing requests for repatriation are received, the University of 
Wisconsin Oshkosh 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 Wisconsin Oshkosh 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, Sec.  
10.10, and Sec.  10.14.

    Dated: October 18, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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