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the human remains of one individual 

from South Hadley, in Hampshire 

County, MA, where excavations were 

being conducted for a large factory. 

Whitwell donated the human remains to 

the BSMI through Dr. Henry Jacob 

Bigelow on October 9, 1848. In 1889, the 

Harvard Medical School faculty voted to 

accept the cabinet of the BSMI and 

incorporated the human remains into 

the WAM’s collection. In 1956, the 

WAM transferred the human remains to 

the PMAE as a permanent loan. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: The following 

types of information were used to 

reasonably trace the relationship: 

archeological, geographical, historical, 

kinship, linguistic, and oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 20 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the 

Stockbridge Munsee Community, 

Wisconsin. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in 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 in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after November 24, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the PMAE must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23555 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036824; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Anchorage, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM Alaska) 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. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from near the Native 

Village of Ambler in the Northwest 

Arctic Borough, AK. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Robert E. King, Bureau of 

Land Management, 222 W 7th Avenue, 

#13, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone 

(907) 271–5510, email r2king@blm.gov. 

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 BLM Alaska. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by BLM Alaska. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 11 individuals were removed 

from the Northwest Arctic Borough near 

the Native Village of Ambler, AK. In the 

1950s or 1960s, the human remains 

were removed from three site locations 

along the Kobuk River—‘‘Ambler 1,’’ 

‘‘Ivisahpat,’’ and ‘‘Onion Portage’’— 

during a series of expeditions sponsored 

by the Haffenreffer Museum of 

Anthropology at Brown University in 

Providence, RI, and conducted under 

the direction of Douglas Anderson. 

Following their removal, the human 

remains, which are over 150 years old, 

were placed in the custody of the 

Haffenreffer Museum, where they are 

currently held. The seven associated 

funerary objects are three caribou bone 

fragments, two stone flakes, and two 

stone or bone items. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: archeological and 

oral traditional. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, BLM Alaska has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 11 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The seven objects described in this 

notice that 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. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the Native Village of 

Ambler. 


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Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

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 November 24, 2023. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

BLM Alaska 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. BLM Alaska is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

(Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 

3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 

CFR 10.9, 10.10, and 10.14.) 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23539 Filed 10–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036804; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 

Oshkosh, 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 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. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Green Lake County, 

WI. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

November 24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Adrienne Frie, University of 

Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma 

Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901, 

telephone (920) 424–1365, email friea@

uwosh.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 the University of 

Wisconsin Oshkosh. The National Park 

Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the University of Wisconsin 

Oshkosh. 

Description 

In 1954, human remains representing, 

at minimum, two individuals were 

removed from the Progressive Rod and 

Gun Club Site (47–GL–0186) in Green 

Lake County, WI, by John (Jack) 

Steinbring during a surface survey. After 

removing the remains of these 

individuals, Steinbring kept them and 

did not report them to Wisconsin 

Historical Society. In the 1960s, when 

he began working at the University of 

Winnipeg in Canada, Steinbring took 

the individuals with him, and in the 

early 1990s, when he retired, he 

shipped the individuals back to 

Wisconsin. In 1994, Steinbring donated 

the remains of these individuals to the 

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and 

in 2022, employees at the University of 

Wisconsin Oshkosh identified them 

while inventorying the finds from the 

site. The 72 associated funerary objects 

are one lot consisting of likely 

domesticated dog cranial fragments; one 

medium-sized canid axis vertebra; one 

medium-sized canid left femur; one 

medium-sized canid left ulna; one 

medium-sized canid left humerus; one 

medium-sized canid fifth metacarpal; 

one medium-sized canid left temporal 

bone; one medium-sized canid left tibia; 

one medium-sized canid left zygomatic 

bone; one medium-sized canid lumbar 

vertebrae; one medium-sized canid 

metatarsal or metacarpal; one mediumsized canid right ulna; one mediumsized canid right humerus; one mediumsized canid second metacarpal; one 

medium-sized canid fourth metatarsal; 

one medium-sized canid right radius; 

one medium-sized canid right temporal 

bone; one medium-sized canid right 

tibia; three medium-sized canid thoracic 

vertebrae; one lot consisting of mediumsized mammal rib fragments; one lot 

consisting of unidentified mammal bone 

fragments; one unidentified mammal 

cranial fragment; one lot consisting of 

unidentified medium/large mammal 

long bone fragments; one biface 

preform; one lot consisting of 

unidentifiable unifacial tools; one lot 

consisting of burins; one lot consisting 

of scrapers; two lots consisting of 

unidentifiable bifaces; two lots 

consisting of Madison projectile points; 

one lot consisting of Kramer projectile 

points; one Honey Creek corner-notched 

projectile point; one Midland projectile 

point; one lot consisting of Raddatz 

projectile points; one lot consisting of 

unidentifiable cores; three lots 

consisting of lithic debitage; one firecracked rock; one lot consisting of 

bifaces; two unidentifiable bifaces; one 

lithic drill; one lot consisting of biface/ 

uniface scrapers; one hammerstone; one 

handstone; one white-colored natural 

rock; one geologic mineral sample; one 

unidentifiable white glass fragment; two 

unidentifiable copper fragments; one lot 

consisting of soil matrix with potential 

crushed pottery and unidentifiable bone 

fragments; three lots consisting of 

diagnostic Madison ware grit-tempered 

ceramic rim sherds; five lots consisting 

of diagnostic grit-tempered ceramic 

body sherds; four diagnostic Madison 

ware grit-tempered ceramic body 

sherds; three undiagnostic grit-tempered 

ceramic body sherds; one diagnostic 

grit-tempered ceramic rim sherd; and 

one lot consisting of diagnostic Point 

Sauble grit-tempered ceramic rim 

sherds. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following type of 

information was used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: geographical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the University of 

Wisconsin Oshkosh has determined 

that: 


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