[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 181 (Tuesday, September 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57513-57514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20300]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0034566; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of 
Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State 
University, has completed an inventory of human remains and associated 
funerary objects, in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary 
objects and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 
Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request to the Gordon L. 
Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State University. If no 
additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human 
remains and associated funerary objects to the lineal descendants, 
Indian Tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice 
may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of 
Anthropology, Wayne State University at the address in this notice by 
October 20, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Megan McCullen, Gordon L. Grosscup 
Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State University, 4841 Cass Avenue, Suite 
2155, Detroit, MI 48201, telephone (313) 577-6455, email 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of the Gordon L. Grosscup 
Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. The human 
remains and associated funerary objects were removed from the Gibraltar 
Site (20WN10) in Wayne County, MI.
    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.

Consultation

    A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Gordon 
L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State University professional 
staff in consultation with representatives of the Bay Mills Indian 
Community, Michigan; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa 
Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay 
Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, 
Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-
e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; 
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed 
as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, 
Michigan and Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; and 
the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan (hereafter 
referred to as ``The Consulted Tribes'').

History and Description of the Remains

    Between 1970 and 1972, and again in 1978, human remains 
representing, at minimum, 35 individuals were removed from the 
Gibraltar Site (20WN10) in Wayne County, MI. Salvage excavations were 
undertaken at the site by S. Demeter and C. Martinez between 1970 and 
1972, and a Wayne State University Field School was conducted at the 
site in 1971 and 1978. There is no report on the total number of 
burials excavated

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during 1970-1972; the highest number assigned to a burial is No. 37. 
The majority of the individuals are represented only by fragmentary and 
incomplete remains. No known individuals were identified. The 21 
associated funerary objects are seven wood fragments, two iron 
fragments, two silver brooches, two ribbon brooches, two white seed 
beads, two copper springs, two square nails, one belt buckle, and one 
silver coin.
    While the Gibraltar Site was occupied as early as the Woodland 
period, the human remains and associated funerary objects listed in 
this notice all derive from a historic period Native American cemetery 
that was once located near the intersection of West Jefferson and 
Gibraltar Roads, in Gibraltar, Michigan. In 1968, this burial ground 
was bulldozed for development of the Kingsbridge Apartment Complex.
    The Wayne State University archeologists who excavated the 
Gibraltar Site did not compile written reports, but their historical 
research led them to believe that it was Wyandot. More recent 
archeological work in the region has also documented the Gibraltar Site 
and possibly additional nearby sites as Wyandot (see Demeter, C.S. 
``Phase I Archaeological Survey and Literature Search of the Proposed 
Woodland Meadows Van Buren Expansion Wetland Mitigation Site, Parcel 
III D. Gibraltar, Wayne County, Michigan''). Also, historical records 
document Wyandot settlements near Gibraltar during the early 18th 
century, as well as the establishment of the village of Brownstown in 
present day Gibraltar, in 1742. Today, the local Wyandot of Anderdon 
Nation recognize the area around Gibraltar as a significant cultural 
landscape.

Determinations Made by the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, 
Wayne State University

    Officials of the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, Wayne 
State University have determined that:
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described 
in this notice represent the physical remains of 35 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.
     Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 21 objects described 
in this notice 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.
     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 
Wyandotte Nation.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian Tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains and associated 
funerary objects should submit a written request with information in 
support of the request to Dr. Megan McCullen, Gordon L. Grosscup Museum 
of Anthropology, Wayne State University, 4841 Cass Avenue, Suite 2155, 
Detroit, MI 48201, telephone (313) 577-6455, email 
[email protected], by October 20, 2022. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains and associated funerary objects to the Wyandotte Nation 
may proceed.
    The Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology, Wayne State 
University, is responsible for notifying the Wyandotte Nation and The 
Consulted Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: September 14, 2022.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2022-20300 Filed 9-19-22; 8:45 am]
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