83 FR 17435 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 76 (April 19, 2018)

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FR Document		2018-08175

The Wisconsin Historical Society has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects 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 associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the Wisconsin Historical Society. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0025287, 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 has completed an inventory of 
human remains and associated funerary objects 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 associated funerary objects 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 and 
associated funerary objects should submit a written request to the 
Wisconsin Historical Society. If no additional requestors come forward, 
transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary 
objects 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 and associated funerary 
objects should submit a written request with information in support of 
the request to the Wisconsin Historical Society at the address in this 
notice by May 21, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State 
Street, Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) 264-6434, email 
[email protected].

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 and 
associated funerary objects under the control of the Wisconsin 
Historical Society, Madison, WI. The human remains and associated 
funerary objects were removed from the Mosquito Island Sandbar 
Discovery, Buffalo County, and the Schwert Mound Group, Trempealeau 
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 and associated funerary 
objects. 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 Upper Sioux Community, 
Minnesota.

History and Description of the Remains

    In 1966, human remains representing, at minimum, 56 individuals 
were removed from Schwert Mound Group (47-TR-0031) in Trempealeau 
County, WI. The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), in a joint project 
with the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Anthropology 
and Center for Climatic Research, excavated two mounds (Mounds 4 and 
26) at the site in 1966. All of the human remains in Mound 4 were found 
in a single sub-floor burial pit with 24 distinct burial areas within 
the pit (Burials 1-15, 17-25). Internment patterns included fully 
extended individuals and bundle burials. Skeletal analysis determined 
that these remains represent four adult males, five adult females, 
thirteen adults of indeterminate sex, six juveniles, and five 
individuals of indeterminate age and sex. Five out of the six subadults 
were interred with an adult. Remains were found in two separate 
locations

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within Mound 26. The earliest burials were interred in a single sub-
floor burial pit below the mound, and a second internment phase 
consisted of two distinct intrusive burial areas. Eight separate bundle 
burials (Burials A-H) were excavated and scattered individual bones 
were also found in the burial pit. Skeletal analysis determined that 
the remains represent 11 adult males, one adult female, three adults of 
indeterminate sex, six subadults, one fetus, and one individual of 
indeterminate age and sex. Similar to Mound 4, five of the subadults 
were buried with at least one adult. No known individuals were 
identified. The 48 associated funerary objects are 14 stone blades, one 
chert core, four ceramic vessels, one clay plug, two copper tubes, one 
sheet of copper, ten groups of stone flakes, one chert biface fragment, 
nine groups of ceramic sherds, one group of charcoal, one group of wood 
fragments, one group of animal bone, and two groups of stone fragments.
    In 2003, human remains representing, at minimum, one individual 
were removed from the Mosquito Island Sandbar Discovery (47-BF-0233) in 
Buffalo County, WI. The human remains from this site consist of a 
single femur found by a family playing on a sandbar near Mosquito 
Island in the Mississippi River. The family took the femur to Dr. 
William McNeil of the Winona, Minnesota Community Memorial Hospital, 
who identified the femur as human. Dr. McNeil then contacted Dr. Thomas 
Retzinger of the Winona County Coroner's Office who contacted the 
Minnesota State Archeologist, Mark Dudzik. Dudzik determined that the 
site of recovery was within Wisconsin and sent the human remains for 
deposition and analysis to the Wisconsin Historical Society Burial 
Sites Preservation Office (BSPO). Skeletal analysis by BSPO staff 
determined the femur exhibited morphological features consistent with 
Native American ancestry. Due to the nature of the discovery, the time 
period to which the human remains date and whether their place of 
recovery was their primary burial location is not known. Additionally, 
there are no known burial sites along the Mississippi River in Buffalo 
County. 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 57 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 48 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.
     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 associated funerary objects and any present-day 
Indian Tribe.
     Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Executive Orders, indicate 
that the land from which the Native American human remains and 
associated funerary objects were removed is the aboriginal land of the 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 
Montana; Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, 
South Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, 
South Dakota; Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Lower Brule 
Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Lower Sioux 
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe 
(previously listed as the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge 
Reservation, South Dakota); Prairie Island Indian Community in the 
State of Minnesota; Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian 
Reservation, South Dakota; Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Shakopee 
Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of 
the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake Tribe, North 
Dakota; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota; Upper Sioux 
Community, Minnesota; and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota 
(hereafter referred to as ``The Aboriginal Land Tribes'').
     Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects may be to The Aboriginal 
Land Tribes.

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 and associated funerary objects should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Jennifer 
Kolb, Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street, Madison, WI 
53706, telephone (608) 264-6434, email 
[email protected] by May 21, 2018. After that date, if 
no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to The Aboriginal Land 
Tribes may proceed.
    The Wisconsin Historical Society is responsible for notifying The 
Aboriginal Land Tribes; 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; and 
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin that this notice has been 
published.

    Dated: March 22, 2018.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2018-08175 Filed 4-18-18; 8:45 am]
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associated funerary objects and any wisconsinhistory.org, by May 21, 2018. Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608)
present-day Indian Tribe. After that date, if no additional 264–6434, email Jennifer.Kolb@
• According to final judgments of the requestors have come forward, transfer wisconsinhistory.org.
Indian Claims Commission or the Court of control of the human remains and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
of Federal Claims, the land from which associated funerary objects to The here given in accordance with the
the Native American human remains Aboriginal Land Tribes may proceed. Native American Graves Protection and
and associated funerary objects were The Wisconsin Historical Society is
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
removed is the aboriginal land of the responsible for notifying The Aboriginal
3003, of the completion of an inventory
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Land Tribes; Forest County Potawatomi
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. of human remains and associated
Community, Wisconsin; Menominee
• Treaties, Acts of Congress, or funerary objects under the control of the
Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; and Upper
Executive Orders, indicate that the land Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison,
Sioux Community, Minnesota, that this
from which the Native American human WI. The human remains and associated
notice has been published.
remains and associated funerary objects funerary objects were removed from the
Dated: March 22, 2018. Mosquito Island Sandbar Discovery,
were removed is the aboriginal land of
the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Melanie O’Brien, Buffalo County, and the Schwert Mound
Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Group, Trempealeau County, WI.
River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills [FR Doc. 2018–08176 Filed 4–18–18; 8:45 am] This notice is published as part of the
Indian Community, Michigan; BILLING CODE 4312–52–P National Park Service’s administrative
Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d).
listed as the Chippewa-Cree Indians of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR The determinations in this notice are
the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); the sole responsibility of the museum,
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and National Park Service institution, or Federal agency that has
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Ho-Chunk [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025287, control of the Native American human
Nation of Wisconsin; Keweenaw Bay PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] remains and associated funerary objects.
Indian Community, Michigan; Lac The National Park Service is not
Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Notice of Inventory Completion: responsible for the determinations in
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Wisconsin Historical Society, this notice.
Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Madison, WI
Consultation
Chippewa Indians of the Lac du AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac A detailed assessment of the human
ACTION: Notice. remains was made by the Wisconsin
Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Michigan; SUMMARY: The Wisconsin Historical Historical Society professional staff in
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota Society has completed an inventory of consultation with representatives of the
(Six component reservations: Bois Forte human remains and associated funerary Forest County Potawatomi Community,
Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; objects in consultation with the Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk Nation of
Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of
Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Hawaiian organizations, and has Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Red Cliff determined that there is no cultural Lac du Flambeau Reservation of
Band of Lake Superior Chippewa affiliation between the human remains Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of
Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of and associated funerary objects and any Wisconsin; and Upper Sioux
Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw present-day Indian Tribes or Native Community, Minnesota.
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Hawaiian organizations. Representatives History and Description of the Remains
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon Chippewa In 1966, human remains representing,
organization not identified in this notice
Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix at minimum, 56 individuals were
that wish to request transfer of control
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Turtle removed from Schwert Mound Group
of these human remains and associated
Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of (47–TR–0031) in Trempealeau County,
funerary objects should submit a written
North Dakota; and the Winnebago Tribe WI. The Wisconsin Historical Society
request to the Wisconsin Historical
of Nebraska (hereafter referred to as (WHS), in a joint project with the
Society. If no additional requestors
‘‘The Aboriginal Land Tribes’’). University of Wisconsin-Madison’s
come forward, transfer of control of the
• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the human remains and associated funerary
Department of Anthropology and Center
disposition of the human remains and for Climatic Research, excavated two
objects to the Indian Tribes or Native
associated funerary objects may be to mounds (Mounds 4 and 26) at the site
Hawaiian organizations stated in this
The Aboriginal Land Tribes. in 1966. All of the human remains in
notice may proceed.
Mound 4 were found in a single sub-
Additional Requestors and Disposition DATES: Representatives of any Indian floor burial pit with 24 distinct burial
Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization areas within the pit (Burials 1–15, 17–
Native Hawaiian organization not not identified in this notice that wish to 25). Internment patterns included fully
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these extended individuals and bundle
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary burials. Skeletal analysis determined
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES

human remains and associated funerary objects should submit a written request that these remains represent four adult
objects should submit a written request with information in support of the males, five adult females, thirteen adults
with information in support of the request to the Wisconsin Historical of indeterminate sex, six juveniles, and
request to Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin Society at the address in this notice by five individuals of indeterminate age
Historical Society, 816 State Street, May 21, 2018. and sex. Five out of the six subadults
Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) ADDRESSES: Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin were interred with an adult. Remains
264–6434, email Jennifer.Kolb@ Historical Society, 816 State Street, were found in two separate locations

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within Mound 26. The earliest burials Wisconsin Historical Society records, 264–6434, email Jennifer.Kolb@
were interred in a single sub-floor burial burial location, archeological context, wisconsinhistory.org by May 21, 2018.
pit below the mound, and a second oral histories, and skeletal analysis. After that date, if no additional
internment phase consisted of two • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the requestors have come forward, transfer
distinct intrusive burial areas. Eight human remains described in this notice of control of the human remains and
separate bundle burials (Burials A–H) represent the physical remains of 57 associated funerary objects to The
were excavated and scattered individual individuals of Native American Aboriginal Land Tribes may proceed.
bones were also found in the burial pit. ancestry. The Wisconsin Historical Society is
Skeletal analysis determined that the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), responsible for notifying The Aboriginal
remains represent 11 adult males, one the 48 objects described in this notice Land Tribes; Forest County Potawatomi
adult female, three adults of are reasonably believed to have been Community, Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk
indeterminate sex, six subadults, one placed with or near individual human Nation of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau
fetus, and one individual of remains at the time of death or later as Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
indeterminate age and sex. Similar to part of the death rite or ceremony. Indians of the Lac du Flambeau
Mound 4, five of the subadults were • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Reservation of Wisconsin; and
buried with at least one adult. No relationship of shared group identity Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
known individuals were identified. The cannot be reasonably traced between the that this notice has been published.
48 associated funerary objects are 14 Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects and any Dated: March 22, 2018.
stone blades, one chert core, four
present-day Indian Tribe. Melanie O’Brien,
ceramic vessels, one clay plug, two
copper tubes, one sheet of copper, ten • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
groups of stone flakes, one chert biface Executive Orders, indicate that the land [FR Doc. 2018–08175 Filed 4–18–18; 8:45 am]
fragment, nine groups of ceramic sherds, from which the Native American human BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
one group of charcoal, one group of remains and associated funerary objects
wood fragments, one group of animal were removed is the aboriginal land of
bone, and two groups of stone the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
fragments. Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana;
In 2003, human remains representing, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the National Park Service
at minimum, one individual were Cheyenne River Reservation, South [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025296,
removed from the Mosquito Island Dakota; Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
Sandbar Discovery (47–BF–0233) in Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota;
Buffalo County, WI. The human remains Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Notice of Inventory Completion:
from this site consist of a single femur Dakota; Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
found by a family playing on a sandbar Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota; Madison, WI
near Mosquito Island in the Mississippi Lower Sioux Indian Community in the
State of Minnesota; Oglala Sioux Tribe AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
River. The family took the femur to Dr.
William McNeil of the Winona, (previously listed as the Oglala Sioux ACTION: Notice.
Minnesota Community Memorial Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation,
SUMMARY: The Wisconsin Historical
Hospital, who identified the femur as South Dakota); Prairie Island Indian
Society has completed an inventory of
human. Dr. McNeil then contacted Dr. Community in the State of Minnesota;
human remains and associated funerary
Thomas Retzinger of the Winona County Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud
objects, in consultation with the
Coroner’s Office who contacted the Indian Reservation, South Dakota;
appropriate Indian Tribes or Native
Minnesota State Archeologist, Mark Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska;
Hawaiian organizations, and has
Dudzik. Dudzik determined that the site Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
determined that there is no cultural
of recovery was within Wisconsin and Community of Minnesota; Sisseton-
affiliation between the human remains
sent the human remains for deposition Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse
and associated funerary objects and any
and analysis to the Wisconsin Historical Reservation, South Dakota; Spirit Lake
present-day Indian Tribes or Native
Society Burial Sites Preservation Office Tribe, North Dakota; Standing Rock
Hawaiian organizations. Representatives
(BSPO). Skeletal analysis by BSPO staff Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota;
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
determined the femur exhibited Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota;
organization not identified in this notice
morphological features consistent with and the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South
that wish to request transfer of control
Native American ancestry. Due to the Dakota (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The
of these human remains and associated
nature of the discovery, the time period Aboriginal Land Tribes’’).
• Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the funerary objects should submit a written
to which the human remains date and
disposition of the human remains and request to the Wisconsin Historical
whether their place of recovery was
associated funerary objects may be to Society. If no additional requestors
their primary burial location is not
The Aboriginal Land Tribes. come forward, transfer of control of the
known. Additionally, there are no
human remains and associated funerary
known burial sites along the Mississippi Additional Requestors and Disposition objects to the Indian Tribes or Native
River in Buffalo County. No known
Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Hawaiian organizations stated in this
individuals were identified. No
Native Hawaiian organization not notice may proceed.
associated funerary objects are present.
identified in this notice that wish to DATES: Representatives of any Indian
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES

Determinations Made by the Wisconsin request transfer of control of these Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization
Historical Society human remains and associated funerary not identified in this notice that wish to
Officials of the Wisconsin Historical objects should submit a written request request transfer of control of these
Society have determined that: with information in support of the human remains and associated funerary
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the request to Jennifer Kolb, Wisconsin objects should submit a written request
human remains described in this notice Historical Society, 816 State Street, with information in support of the
are Native American based on Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) request to the Wisconsin Historical

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83 FR 17435 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

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