[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 83049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23722]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038881; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Intended Repatriation: State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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 State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 
otherwise known as the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) intends to 
repatriate a certain cultural item that meets the definition of a 
sacred object and object of cultural patrimony 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 November 14, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Jacqueline Pozza Reisner, Wisconsin Historical Society, 204 
S Thornton Avenue, Madison, WI 53703, telephone (608) 263-3537, email 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bdd7dcdeccc8d8d1d4d3d893cdd2c7c7dcfdcad4ceded2d3ced4d3d5d4cec9d2cfc493d2cfda"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="127873716367777e7b7c773c627d68687352657b61717d7c617b7c7a7b61667d606b3c7d6075">[email protected]</span></a>.

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 
Wisconsin 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

    A total of one cultural item has been requested for repatriation. 
The item is described in WHS' documentation as a ``Chilkat blanket, 
44'' x 24'', plus fringe. Yellow, black, blue and white design. Native 
dyes. Made at Klukwan, Alaska. Mountain goat wool.'' Through 
consultation, the design on the blanket has been identified as one 
owned by the Tlingit. This blanket was donated to WHS by Mrs. P.A. 
Strommen of Aniwa, Wisconsin. Mrs. Strommen indicated in correspondence 
that the blanket was ``made by the [Chilkoot] Indians at Klukwan, 
Alaska.'' WHS has no record of this blanket being treated with any 
potentially hazardous substances in the past. The one sacred item and 
object of cultural patrimony is one blanket.

Determinations

    The Wisconsin Historical Society has determined that:
    <bullet> The one object described in this notice is, according to 
the Native American traditional knowledge of an Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization, specific ceremonial objects needed by a 
traditional Native American religious leader for present-day adherents 
to practice traditional Native American religion, and has ongoing 
historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Native 
American group, including any constituent sub-group (such as a band, 
clan, lineage, ceremonial society, or other subdivision).
    <bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the cultural item 
described in this notice and the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida 
Indian Tribes.

Requests for Repatriation

    Additional, written requests for repatriation of the cultural item 
in this notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
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 November 14, 2024. If competing requests for 
repatriation are received, the Wisconsin Historical Society must 
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 Wisconsin 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: October 4, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-23722 Filed 10-11-24; 8:45 am]
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