[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 124 (Thursday, June 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 53640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14106]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038165; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand 
Rapids, 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 Grand Rapids Public Museum has completed 
an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a 
cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or 
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.

DATES: Repatriation of the human remains in this notice may occur on or 
after July 29, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Alex Forist, Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl Street 
NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504, telephone (616) 929-1809, 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 the 
Grand Rapids Public Museum and additional information on the 
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation, 
can be found in the inventory or related records. The National Park 
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.

Abstract of Information Available

    Based on the information available, human remains representing, at 
least, one individual have been reasonably identified. No associated 
funerary objects are present. At an unknown date, an individual named 
Mrs. Stahl discovered ancestral remains representing a minimum of one 
individual in her garden in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. At an unknown 
date, Dr. Ruth Herrick acquired the remains from Stahl. Museum records 
indicate Stahl resided on Weeks Road. However, no exact location has 
been identified. Herrick (1895-1974) was an amateur archaeologist and 
an avid collector of ancestral remains, funerary objects and cultural 
objects. In 1974 the Grand Rapids Public Museum acquired these remains 
from Dr. Ruth Herrick by bequest.

Cultural Affiliation

    Based on the information available and the results of consultation, 
cultural affiliation is reasonably identified by the geographical 
location or acquisition history of the human remains described in this 
notice.

Determinations

    The Grand Rapids Public Museum has determined that:
     The human remains described in this notice represent the 
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
     There is a reasonable connection between the human remains 
described in this notice and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; 
Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 
Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin; Match-e-be-nash-she-
wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of 
Wisconsin; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Pokagon 
Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band 
Potawatomi Nation; Quechan Tribe of Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, 
California & Arizona; and the Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin.

Requests for Repatriation

    Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 
organization.
    Repatriation of the human remains in this notice to a requestor may 
occur on or after July 29, 2024. If competing requests for repatriation 
are received, the Grand Rapids Public Museum must determine the most 
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint 
repatriation of the human remains are considered a single request and 
not competing requests. The Grand Rapids Public Museum 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: June 14, 2024.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-14106 Filed 6-26-24; 8:45 am]
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