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27474 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 96 / Thursday, May 20, 2021 / Notices

of the Cedars State Park Museum, 660 ADDRESSES: Sissel Schroeder, University University of Wisconsin-Madison, W 400 N, Blanding, UT 84511–4000, of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Department of Anthropology is unclear telephone (435) 678–2238, email Anthropology, 1180 Observatory Drive, (University faculty were not directly [email protected], by June 21, 2021. 5240 Social Sciences Building, involved with the excavations). The After that date, if no additional Madison, WI 53706, telephone (608) human remains belong to a young adult, requestors have come forward, transfer 262–0317, email [email protected]. possibly female. No known individual of control of the human remains and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is was identified. No associated funerary associated funerary objects to Navajo here given in accordance with the objects are present. Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah Native American Graves Protection and Sometime prior to 1967, human may proceed. Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. remains representing, at minimum, one The Edge of the Cedars State Park 3003, of the completion of an inventory individual were removed from the Big Museum is responsible for notifying The of human remains under the control of Bend site (47GL262) in Green Lake Consulted Tribes that this notice has the University of Wisconsin-Madison, County, WI. The site is located on the been published. Department of Anthropology, Madison, east bank of the Fox River. In 1922, Towne Miller reported the site, and at Dated: May 6, 2021. WI. The human remains were removed from Dane, Green Lake, Monroe, and some undetermined point, excavations Melanie O’Brien, Sauk Counties, WI. were carried out there. At least one bird Manager, National NAGPRA Program. This notice is published as part of the effigy mound and one panther effigy [FR Doc. 2021–10651 Filed 5–19–21; 8:45 am] ’s administrative mound were originally identified at the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Big Bend site. A number written on the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). human remains matches the number The determinations in this notice are assigned to a clavicle reported in a 1967 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the sole responsibility of the museum, Department of Anthropology inventory. institution, or Federal agency that has How the human remains came to be National Park Service control of the Native American human curated at the University of Wisconsin- remains. The National Park Service is Madison, Department of Anthropology [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031921; not responsible for the determinations is unknown. (They might have been a PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] in this notice. loan from the Milwaukee Public Museum, but as that institution has no Notice of Inventory Completion: Consultation record of such a loan, the University of University of Wisconsin-Madison, A detailed assessment of the human Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Department of Anthropology, Madison, remains was made by the University of Anthropology has asserted control of WI Wisconsin-Madison, Department of them.) The partial skeletal remains AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Anthropology professional staff in belong to an elderly adult male. No consultation with representatives of the known individual was identified. No ACTION: Notice. Forest County Community, associated funerary objects are present. Wisconsin; Ho-Chunk Nation of Sometime prior to 1968, human SUMMARY: The University of Wisconsin- remains representing, at minimum, one Madison, Department of Anthropology Wisconsin; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of individual were removed from the has completed an inventory of human Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Mound Prairie East site (47MO6) in remains, in consultation with the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Monroe County, WI. The site is in the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Lac du Flambeau Reservation of of Adrian, near Smith Creek, Hawaiian organizations, and has Wisconsin; Menominee Indian Tribe of which is part of the upper La Crosse determined that there is no cultural Wisconsin; Sokaogon Chippewa River drainage in western Wisconsin. affiliation between the human remains Community, Wisconsin; and the The Mound Prairie East site, of and any present-day Indian Tribes or Stockbridge Munsee Community, Woodland cultural affiliation, was Native Hawaiian organizations. Wisconsin. The Winnebago Tribe of visited by H.E. Cole and A.S. Flint ca. Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Nebraska was invited to consult but did 1912, as part of a statewide Native Hawaiian organization not not participate. Hereafter, the above archeological survey conducted under identified in this notice that wish to listed Indian Tribes are referred to as the aegis of the Wisconsin Archeological request transfer of control of these ‘‘The Consulted and Invited Tribes.’’ Society. Cole and Flint observed human human remains should submit a written bone fragments on the disturbed tops of History and Description of the Remains request to the University of Wisconsin- several mounds, and they excavated Madison, Department of Anthropology. In 1937, human remains representing, human remains in the mound nearest to If no additional requestors come at minimum, one individual were the Roberts house. The human remains forward, transfer of control of the removed from the Willow Drive Mound have been housed at the University of human remains to the Indian Tribes or Group (47DA119) in Dane County, WI. Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Native Hawaiian organizations stated in The site is located on the south shore of Anthropology since at least 1968, as this notice may proceed. Lake Mendota, and it is one of several documented in an inventory from that DATES: Representatives of any Indian mound groups on the campus of the same year. (They might have been a loan Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization University of Wisconsin-Madison. In from the Wisconsin Historical Society, not identified in this notice that wish to 1937, Charles E. Brown, of the but as that institution has no record of request transfer of control of these Wisconsin Historical Society, excavated such a loan, the University of human remains should submit a written the two linear mounds in this group. Wisconsin-Madison, Department of request with information in support of Based on a 1966 publication by David Anthropology has asserted control of the request to the University of Baerreis, these human remains—a them.) The fragmentary remains belong Wisconsin-Madison, Department of nearly complete cranium—are believed to an adult male. No known individual Anthropology at the address in this to have been removed from ‘‘Mound 3.’’ was identified. No associated funerary notice by June 21, 2021. How they came to be curated at the objects are present.

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At an unknown date, human remains request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written representing, at minimum, one human remains should submit a written request with information in support of individual were removed from Sauk request with information in support of the request to the Department of County, WI. They are believed to have the request to Sissel Schroeder, Anthropology, University of South been removed from the Langdon University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida at the address in this notice by Mounds site (47SK57), an Effigy Mound Department of Anthropology, 1180 June 21, 2021. group consisting of three bear effigy Observatory Drive, 5240 Social Sciences ADDRESSES: Thomas J. Pluckhahn, mounds and one linear mound (as there Building, Madison, WI 53706, telephone Department of Anthropology, University is no known record of excavations at (608) 262–0317, email sschroeder2@ of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler this mound group by the University of wisc.edu, by June 21, 2021. After that Avenue, SOC 107, Tampa, FL 33620– Wisconsin-Madison, the SK57 date, if no additional requestors have 8100, telephone (813) 549–9742, email designation might be a field number for come forward, transfer of control of the [email protected]. a different site in Sauk County where human remains to the Ho-Chunk Nation SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is UW archeologists did carry out of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe here given in accordance with the excavations). The site, situated on the of Nebraska may proceed. Native American Graves Protection and south side of the Baraboo River and on The University of Wisconsin- Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. a toe slope along the northern side of Madison, Department of Anthropology 3003, of the completion of an inventory the South Range of the Baraboo Hills, is responsible for notifying The of human remains under the control of was reported in 1906, by A.B. Stout. At Consulted and Invited Tribes that this the Department of Anthropology, that time, the mounds had been notice has been published. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. disturbed by road construction and Dated: May 6, 2021. The human remains were removed from timber cutting. Most of the referenced Melanie O’Brien, the southern . surveys at this site describe attempts to Manager, National NAGPRA Program. This notice is published as part of the relocate the mounds; none mention National Park Service’s administrative human remains or burials. The [FR Doc. 2021–10658 Filed 5–19–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312–52–P responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 fragmentary remains belong to a 16–20- U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in year-old female. No known individual this notice are the sole responsibility of was identified. No funerary objects are DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the museum, institution, or Federal present. agency that has control of the Native Determinations Made by the University National Park Service American human remains. The National of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0031917; Park Service is not responsible for the Anthropology PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] determinations in this notice. Officials of the Wisconsin-Madison, Consultation Department of Anthropology have Notice of Inventory Completion: A detailed assessment of the human determined that: Department of Anthropology, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL remains was made by the Department of Anthropology, University of South human remains described in this notice AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. are Native American based on an Florida professional staff in consultation ACTION: examination by a physical Notice. with representatives of the Nation [previously listed as The anthropologist and the recovery of these SUMMARY: The Department of remains from a known archeological site Quapaw Tribe of Indians]; Anthropology, University of South Tribe; and The Osage Nation [previously that has a Late Woodland affiliation. Florida has completed an inventory of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the listed as Osage Tribe]. human remains, in consultation with The Absentee- of human remains described in this notice the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native represent the physical remains of four Indians of ; Alabama- Hawaiian organizations, and has Quassarte Tribal Town; Tribe of individuals of Native American determined that there is a cultural ancestry. Oklahoma; Nation of Oklahoma; • affiliation between the human remains Tribe of Louisiana; Delaware Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a and present-day Indian Tribes or Native relationship of shared group identity Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern Band of Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Indians; Eastern Shawnee cannot be reasonably traced between the descendants or representatives of any Native American human remains and Tribe of Oklahoma; Jena Band of Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Indians; Mississippi Band of any present-day Indian Tribe. organization not identified in this notice • According to final judgments of the Choctaw Indians; Santee Sioux Nation, that wish to request transfer of control Indian Claims Commission or the Court Nebraska; The Nation; The of these human remains should submit of Federal Claims, the land from which Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The a written request to the Department of the Native American human remains (Creek) Nation; and the Anthropology, University of South were removed is the aboriginal land of United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Florida. If no additional requestors the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Indians in Oklahoma were invited to come forward, transfer of control of the the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. consult but did not participate • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the human remains to the lineal (hereafter, these non-participating disposition of the human remains may descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Indian Tribes are referred to as ‘‘The be to the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin Hawaiian organizations stated in this Invited Tribes’’). and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. notice may proceed. DATES: Lineal descendants or History and Description of the Remains Additional Requestors and Disposition representatives of any Indian Tribe or At an unknown date, human remains Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not representing, at minimum, one Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to individual were removed from an identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these unknown site in southern Arkansas.

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