[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35206-35208]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09399]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037825; 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.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects in this notice may occur on or after May 31, 2024.

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, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual (UnprovBurial1_UNKNO) have been reasonably 
identified. The individual was removed from an unknown geographic 
location in Wisconsin. There are no records indicating when or how this 
individual came into the possession of the Archaeology Collection at 
the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. The outside of the original 
storage box was labeled ``human burial, Wisconsin (?),'' according to 
the University of Oshkosh Culturally Unidentifiable NAGPRA Inventory, 
which was submitted in 1995. A note in the box reads ``Femur found in 
trunk at Doty Cabin--no other prov. Deer bone found under driveway in 
my neighbor's yard.'' The deer bone does not seem to have been 
originally associated with the human remains. There are no records of 
this acquisition from the Doty Cabin Museum. No associated funerary 
objects are present.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, 13 individuals (UnprovBurial2_UNKNO) have been reasonably 
identified. The individuals were removed from an unknown geographic 
location, WI. There is no known collection history for these 
individuals, however, they were described as ``Unprovenienced Burial 
#2'' in the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Culturally Unidentifiable 
NAGPRA Inventory, which was submitted in 1995. According to this 
Inventory, the outside of the original storage box had been labeled 
``human burial, Wisconsin (?)''. The six associated funerary objects 
are one deer antler; one fragment of an ungulate metapodial; one snake 
vertebra; one rodent incisor; one lot of gastropod shells and shell 
fragments; and one lot of soil matrix.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, three individuals (UnprovBurial3_UNKNO) have been reasonably 
identified. The individuals were removed from an unknown geographic 
location in Wisconsin. No information was found regarding the 
provenience of this burial. Jeff Behm, an archaeologist with the 
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, noted that the human remains were 
housed at the University for as long as he'd been employed (since 
1985). The box label and the history of the collections at the 
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh provides a preponderance of evidence 
that this individual was removed from somewhere in the state of 
Wisconsin. No associated funerary objects are present.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual (Unprov004_REHWIN) have been reasonably 
identified. The individual was removed from an unknown geographic 
location in Wisconsin. On February 16, 1976, the individual was donated 
to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh by John Rehwinkel, according to 
writing present on the individual. Based on Rehwinkel's residence and 
avocational

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archaeology in Wisconsin, the remains are thought to originate from the 
state. No associated funerary objects are present.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, two individuals (UnprovBurial5_UNKNO) have been reasonably 
identified. The individuals were removed from an unknown geographic 
location in Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh does not 
have any records related to this collection except what was reported in 
the Culturally Unidentifiable NAGPRA Inventory, which was submitted in 
1995. In that Inventory, the collection was reported as 
``Unprovenienced Burial Number 5'' with an MNI of one individual, as 
well as ``the apparent association with a flake of Hixton silicified 
sandstone strongly supports a Wisconsin, or at least Upper Midwest 
provenience''. The outside of the original storage box had simply been 
labeled ``human burial, Wisconsin (?)''. Based on this evidence, the 
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh concluded that these individuals were 
likely removed from Wisconsin. The seven associated funerary objects 
are one silicified sandstone flake; one cow rib fragment; one lot of 
incisors from a large ungulate; two large mammal long bone shaft 
fragments; one large mammal long bone fragment; and one large burnt 
mammal bone fragment.
    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual (UnprovStateWI001_UNKNO) have been reasonably 
identified. The individual was removed from an unknown geographic 
location in Wisconsin. There are no records indicating when or how this 
individual came into the possession of the University of Wisconsin 
Oshkosh. The box label read ``Unprovenienced Burial Wisconsin?''. The 
box label and the history of the collections at the University provides 
a preponderance of evidence that this individual was removed from 
somewhere in the state of Wisconsin. No associated funerary objects are 
present.
    The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has no record of any 
potentially hazardous substances being used to treat the human remains 
or associated funerary objects described in this notice.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location of the human remains and associated funerary objects described 
in this notice.

Determinations

    The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 21 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The 13 objects described in this notice are reasonably 
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual 
human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite 
or ceremony.
     There is a reasonable connection 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; Cayuga Nation; 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; Oneida Indian Nation; 
Oneida Nation; Onondaga Nation; 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; Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; 
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of 
Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; 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; Stockbridge Munsee Community, 
Wisconsin; The Osage Nation; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; Turtle Mountain 
Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; Tuscarora Nation; 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 
authorized representative identified in this notice under 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 May 31, 2024. 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

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competing requests. The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is responsible 
for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes and Native 
Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.

    Dated: April 23, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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