[Federal Register: September 11, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 175)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects from LaCrosse, Wisconsin, in the
Possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;
Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
(also known as Wisconsin Historical Society), Burial Sites Office,
Madison, WI. The human remains and cultural items were removed from
LaCrosse County, WI.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3).
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native
American human remains and associated funerary objects. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
This notice corrects a previously published notice by increasing
the number of human remains from 46 to 48 and the number of associated
funerary objects from 38 to 39.
In the Federal Register of March 26, 1999, FR Doc. 99-7502 (pages
14757 and 14758), paragraph number three is corrected by substituting
the following paragraph:
During 1989-1991, human remains representing a minimum of 48
individuals were recovered from the Gunderson Clinic site (47-Lc-0394)
by field crews of the Mississippi Valley Archeological Center during
parking lot expansion of the Gunderson Clinic, LaCrosse, WI. No known
individuals were identified. The 39 associated funerary objects are 8
ceramic pots and sherds; 10 projectile points; 13 tools, including
knives, scrapers, awls, and modified flakes; 3 shells; 2 copper
fragments; 1 mammal bone; and 2 burned wood fragments.
Paragraph number five is corrected by substituting the following
paragraph:
Officials of the Wisconsin Historical Society have determined that,
pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9-10), the human remains described above
represent the physical remains of 48 individuals of Native American
ancestry. Officials of the Wisconsin Historical Society also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 39 objects
described above 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. Lastly, officials of the Wisconsin
Historical Society have determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001
(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the Native American human remains and
associated funerary objects and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and
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associated funerary objects should contact Jennifer Kolb, Deputy
Director, Museum Division, Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State
Street, Madison, WI 53706-1482, telephone (608) 264-2461, before
October 11, 2006. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Wisconsin Historical Society is responsible for notifying the
Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma that this
notice has been published.
Dated: August 21, 2006
C. Timothy McKeown,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. E6-14930 Filed 9-8-06; 8:45 am]
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