Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI, 48247-48248 [2017-22426]

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• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• National Park Service

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48247-48248]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22426]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0024103; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, 
Madison, WI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) has completed an 
inventory of human remains, in consultation with the appropriate Indian 
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there 
is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and any present-
day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. Representatives of 
any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this 
notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains 
should submit

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a written request to the Wisconsin Historical Society. If no additional 
requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to 
the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this 
notice may proceed.

DATES: Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization not identified in this notice that wish to request 
transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written 
request with information in support of the request to the Wisconsin 
Historical Society at the address in this notice by November 16, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State St., 
Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) 264-6434, email 
Jennifer.Kolb@wisconsinhistory.org.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI. The human 
remains were removed from Dickensen Gravel Pit and Krainik Conical site 
in Juneau County, WI.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 
43 CFR 10.11(d). The determinations in this notice are the sole 
responsibility of the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has 
control of the Native American human remains. The National Park Service 
is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the 
Wisconsin Historical Society professional staff in consultation with 
representatives of the Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; 
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; 
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; and the Upper Sioux Community, 
Minnesota.

History and Description of the Remains

    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Dickensen Gravel Pit (47-JU-0101) in 
Juneau County, WI. The human remains represent a single adult of 
indeterminate sex and were donated to the WHS by the County Coroner 
Clarence R. Sorenson in 1939. A letter written by John Barr in June of 
1939 states that the human remains were exhumed by a dentist from New 
Lisbon at an unstated date from a cultivated field. No known 
individuals were identified. Charcoal was found with the human remains, 
but there is no record of it being brought to the WHS. Therefore, no 
associated funerary objects are present.
    At an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one 
individual were removed from Krainik Conical site (47-JU-0203) in 
Juneau County, WI. In 1980, Dick Robinson, a local landowner, donated 
to the WHS a box of items that he and his father had collected from the 
site over several years. In a letter dated December of 1980, Robinson 
made no mention of having collected human remains, but WHS employees 
identified three human long bone fragments representing one adult of 
indeterminate sex. No known individuals were identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present.

Determinations Made by the Wisconsin Historical Society

    Officials of the Wisconsin Historical Society have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice are Native American based on Wisconsin Historical 
Society records, burial location, archeological context, oral 
histories, and skeletal analysis.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of two individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a relationship of shared 
group identity cannot be reasonably traced between the Native American 
human remains and any present-day Indian Tribe.
     According to final judgments of the Indian Claims 
Commission or the Court of Federal Claims, the land from which the 
Native American human remains were removed is not the aboriginal land 
of any Indian Tribe, but is near the judicially established aboriginal 
lands of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of 
Nebraska.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains were removed 
is the aboriginal land of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the 
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains may be to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the 
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 
not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control 
of these human remains should submit a written request with information 
in support of the request Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, 
816 State St., Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) 264-6434, by November 
16, 2017. After that date, if no additional requestors have come 
forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the Ho-Chunk 
Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska may proceed.
    The Wisconsin Historical Society is responsible for notifying the 
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk Nation of 
Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of 
Wisconsin; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Upper Sioux Community, 
Minnesota, that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 5, 2017.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2017-22426 Filed 10-16-17; 8:45 am]
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