[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 117 (Monday, June 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51358-51359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13247]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038096; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intended Repatriation: Chicago Historical Society, 
Chicago, 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 Chicago Historical Society and its 
affiliate Chicago History Museum (``Chicago Historical Society'') 
intends to repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition 
of an unassociated funerary objects and that has a cultural affiliation 
with the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice may occur on or 
after July 17, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Jamie Lewis, Registrar, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N 
Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614, telephone (312) 799-2067, 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 
Chicago Historical Society, and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the summary or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    One cultural item has been requested for repatriation. The 
unassociated funerary object is a stone club (CHM X.3563.2024). Writing 
on the item indicates that the club head was removed from a burial 
mound which historically stood at the current location of Forest Home 
Cemetery on the Des Plaines River in Forest Park, IL. The item was 
found in the collection with no associated museum records. Information 
from external sources identifies this mound as a Potawatomi burial 
mound that was razed in 1869 by the landowner, Ferdinand Haase, to 
create Forest Home Cemetery for white settlers in the area. The 
funerary items that were inside the mound were kept on semi-permanent 
display by Haase at the Cemetery until 1968, when several of the items 
were transferred to the Forest Park Public Library. It is unknown when 
and by what means the club was acquired by the Chicago Historical 
Society. In 2019, funerary items and human remains were returned by the 
Forest Park Public Library to the Forest County Potawatomi Community.

Determinations

    The Chicago Historical Society has determined that:
     The one unassociated funerary object described in this 
notice is reasonably believed to have been placed intentionally with or 
near human remains, and is connected, either at the time of death or 
later, as part of the death rite or ceremony of a Native American 
culture according to the Native American traditional knowledge of a 
lineal descendant, Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization. The 
unassociated funerary object has been identified by a preponderance of 
the evidence as related to human remains, specific individuals, or 
families, or removed from a specific burial site or burial area of an 
individual or individuals with cultural affiliation to an Indian Tribe 
or Native Hawaiian organization.
     There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item 
described in this notice and the Forest County Potawatomi Community, 
Wisconsin.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
in this notice must be sent to the authorized representative identified 
in this notice under 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 or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the cultural item in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after July 17, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation 
are received, the Chicago Historical Society must

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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 Chicago Historical 
Society is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian 
Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and 
to any other consulting parties.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3004 and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9.

    Dated: June 7, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-13247 Filed 6-14-24; 8:45 am]
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