Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 249 / Monday, December 30, 2024 / Notices 106571 

U.S.C. 3002, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.7. 

Dated: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31286 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039244; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, 

WI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Milwaukee Public Museum 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 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Dawn Scher Thomae, 

Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W 

Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233 

telephone (414) 278–6157, email 

thomae@mpm.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 Milwaukee 

Public Museum, and additional 

information on the determinations in 

this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in its 

inventory or related records. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Abstract of Information Available 

Human remains representing, at least, 

67 individuals have been identified. The 

3,967 associated funerary objects are 

hornstone blades, bifaces, chert blades, 

flakes; charcoal; copper artifacts 

including awls, crescents, points, beads; 

wood fragments; quartzite flakes; stone 

fragments; soil samples; stone points 

and cores; birchbark fragments; shell 

beads, red sandstone/catlinite 

fragments; worked stone or whetstones; 

limonite; seeds, bark, deer premolar, 

and a shell. 

The Riverside Site was excavated 

jointly by the Oshkosh Public Museum 

(OPM) and MPM between 1961 and 

1963. The excavation was led by Robert 

Hrushka of OPM and Robert 

Ritzenthaler of MPM. Most of the site 

collections were donated to the MPM by 

the Oshkosh Public Museum on 9/26/ 

1968. The Riverside Site is considered 

a multicomponent site representing Late 

Archaic to the Mississippian time 

periods, with the main component being 

a Late Archaic/Early Woodland 

Transition/Red Ochre Culture cemetery 

dating between 1000 and 100 BC. 

The MPM is unaware of the presence 

of any potentially hazardous substances 

used to treat any of the human remains 

or associated funerary objects. 

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 

The Milwaukee Public Museum has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of at least 67 individuals of 

Native American ancestry. 

• The 3,967 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 connection between the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects described in this notice and the 

Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. 

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 

an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization with cultural affiliation. 

Repatriation of the human remains 

and associated funerary objects 

described in this notice to a requestor 

may occur on or after January 29, 2025. 

If competing requests for repatriation 

are received, the Milwaukee Public 

Museum 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. The Milwaukee 

Public Museum 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: December 19, 2024. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31281 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0039248; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intended Repatriation: 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 

Brooklyn, NY 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Brooklyn Children’s Museum intends to 

repatriate certain cultural items that 

meet the definition of sacred objects and 

objects of cultural patrimony and that 

have a cultural affiliation with the 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 29, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Kiani Kodama and Kate 

Mirand Calleri, Brooklyn Children’s 

Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, 

Brooklyn, NY 11213, telephone (718) 

735–4400, email kkodama@

brooklynkids.org and kcalleri@

brooklynkids.org. 

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 Brooklyn 

Children’s Museum, and additional 

information on the determinations in 

this notice, including the results of 

consultation, can be found in the 

summary or related records. The 


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