90 FR 74 pg. 16532 - Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 74Page: 16532
Page: 16532Docket number: [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039942; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-06632 Filed 4-17-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Interior Department
Sub Agency: National Park Service
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039942; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
AGENCY:
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
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 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 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Jennifer R. Haas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, telephone (414) 229-3078, email haasjr@uwm.edu.
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 UWM, 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, 31 individuals have been reasonably identified. The 18 associated funerary objects are one large clam shell cup or tool; one lot of faunal bone; one lot of grit tempered ceramic sherds; one lot of pottery; one lot of Middle Woodland period pottery; one lot of ceramic sherds; one lot of mixed material including faunal bone, charcoal, and lithics; one lot of mixed material including faunal bone, charcoal, groundstone, lithics, rocks, and pottery; 10 lots of mixed material including shell fragments, lithic debitage, ceramic sherds, faunal bone, pottery, and historic material. The individuals and associated funerary objects were removed from the Pipe Site Complex, Fond du Lac County, WI on several different occasions between 1958 and 1997. The Pipe Site Complex consists of two sites: the Pipe Site (47FD0010) and Camp Shaginappi (47FD0013).
Cultural Affiliation
Based on the information available and the results of consultation, cultural affiliation is clearly identified by the information available about the human remains and associated funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
UWM has determined that:
• The human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of 31 individuals of Native American ancestry.
• The 18 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 Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
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 19, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, UWO 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. UWO 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 8, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-06632 Filed 4-17-25; 8:45 am]
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