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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4792-4793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01009]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0039316; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]

Notice of Inventory Completion: Northwestern University, 
Evanston, IL

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Northwestern University 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 February 18, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Dr. Eli Suzukovich III, Northwestern University, 633 Clark 
Street, Evanston, IL 60208, telephone (847) 491-4133, email 
[email protected] (preferred contact).

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 
Northwestern University, 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 in Northwestern University's custody include 238 
individual bones and fragments and represent a MNI of 44 individuals 
from the Fisher Mounds Site (11WI5) located in Will County Illinois. 
This determination is based on the number of sacrum and os coxa, 
scapulae, clavicles, atlas bones, complete/partial spinal columns, 
facial bones, and sternums. Along with human remains, there is one 
associated funerary object (ceramic pot rim) marked as ``Fisher Trail 
ed 11Wi5, 10RZ-L9, 4-2-1.'' The human remains and associated funerary 
object were excavated from Will County, IL by George Langford and by 
the University of Chicago between 1912 and 1941. The collection dates 
to approximately A.D. 800-1400 and the late 17th century. No hazardous 
substances are known to have been 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

    Northwestern University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 44 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     The one associated funerary object described in this 
notice is 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 object described in this notice and the Absentee-
Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 
Oklahoma; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi 
Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk 
Nation of Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of 
Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota 
(Fond du Lac Band; Mille Lacs Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the 
Potawatomi, Michigan; Omaha Tribe of Nebraska; Otoe-Missouria Tribe of 
Indians, Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi 
Nation; Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox 
Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Shawnee 
Tribe; and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

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 February 
18, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 University 
of

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Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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: January 6, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-01009 Filed 1-15-25; 8:45 am]
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