[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 96 (Thursday, May 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31822-31823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10556]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035861; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan State University, East 
Lansing, MI

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 Michigan State University has completed 
an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is no 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and any Indian Tribe. 
The human remains were removed from Kalamazoo County and unknown 
locations in MI.

DATES: Disposition of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after June 20, 2023.

ADDRESSES: Judith Stoddart, Associate Provost, University Arts and 
Collections, Michigan State University, 287 Delta Court, East Lansing, 
MI 48824, telephone (517) 432-2524, 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 
Michigan State University. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice. Additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records held by Michigan State 
University.

Description

    Human remains representing, at minimum, 16 individuals were removed 
from unknown locations in Michigan. These ancestors arrived at the 
Forensic Anthropology Laboratory (FAL) from police authorities and 
private citizens who had found human remains on their property. At some 
point, likely in the 1960s and 1970s, these ancestors were included in 
(former) teaching collections and disassociated from case and donation 
paperwork. As the FAL only accepts cases from within Michigan, these 
ancestors were most likely removed from Michigan. No associated 
funerary objects are present.
    Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals (catalog 
numbers 2007.77.4; 2007.77.5) were removed from Kalamazoo County, MI. 
On an unknown date, these individuals were acquired by Kalamazoo County 
resident, Donald Boudeman, who collected Native American material 
culture in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1961, Boudeman's 
wife, Donna Boudeman, donated the human remains together with Mr. 
Boudeman's collection to the Michigan State University Museum. Database 
records indicate these individuals were recovered from a mound near 
Vicksburg. No associated funerary objects are present.

Aboriginal Land

    The human remains in this notice were removed from a known 
geographic location (Michigan). This location is the aboriginal land of 
one or more Indian Tribes. The following information was used to 
identify the aboriginal land: treaties and a final judgment of the 
Indian Claims Commission or the United States Court of Claims.

Determinations

    Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after 
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, Michigan State 
University has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of 18 individuals of Native American ancestry.
     No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably 
traced between the human remains and any Indian Tribe.
     The human remains described in this notice were removed 
from the aboriginal land of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 
Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians 
of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, 
Michigan; Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, 
Montana; Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, 
Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; 
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of 
Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, 
Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Traditional 
Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation 
in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake 
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake 
Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of 
Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Shell 
Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little Traverse Bay Bands of 
Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi 
Indians of Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin; Miami Tribe 
of Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (Six component 
reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grand 
Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Milles Lacs Band; White Earth Band); 
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Ottawa Tribe of 
Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 
Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi

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Nation; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; 
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of 
Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox 
Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 
Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca 
Nation of Indians; Seneca-Cayuga Nation; Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon 
Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; 
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca; 
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; and the 
Wyandotte Nation.

Requests for Disposition

    Written requests for disposition of the human remains in this 
notice must be sent to the Responsible Official identified in 
ADDRESSES. Requests for disposition may be submitted by:
    1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization, or who shows that the requestor is an aboriginal land 
Indian Tribe.
    Disposition of the human remains described in this notice to a 
requestor may occur on or after June 20, 2023. If competing requests 
for disposition are received, Michigan State University must determine 
the most appropriate requestor prior to disposition. Requests for joint 
disposition of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. Michigan State University is responsible for 
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this 
notice.
    Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.9 and 
10.11.

    Dated: May 10, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-10556 Filed 5-17-23; 8:45 am]
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