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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 249 (Monday, December 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 106571]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31281]

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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.

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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 
[email protected].

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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