Notice2023-12279
Notice of Inventory Completion: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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Published
June 8, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Detroit Institute of Arts has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human remains and associated funerary objects were most likely removed from the upper peninsula of Michigan.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37572-37573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-12279]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035974; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, 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 Detroit Institute of Arts has completed
an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is no cultural affiliation between the human
remains and associated funerary objects and any Indian Tribe. The human
remains and associated funerary objects were most likely removed from
the upper peninsula of Michigan.
DATES: Disposition of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after July 10, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Denene De Quintal, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward
Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202, telephone (313) 578-1067, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2866696f787a69684c414906475a4f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6a242b2d3a382b2a0e030b4405180d">[email protected]</span></a>.
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
Detroit Institute of Arts. 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 the Detroit
Institute of Arts.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
removed from a location most likely in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
On May 19, 2021, Detroit Institute of Arts staff encountered these
human remains (X1989.3768) during a comprehensive review of the
Indigenous America collection. No known individuals were identified.
The two associated funerary objects (X1989.3768) are one rim sherd and
one rodent rib fragment.
Aboriginal Land
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
were removed from a known geographic location. This location is the
aboriginal land of one or more Indian Tribes. The following information
was used to identify the aboriginal land: a final judgment of the
Indian Claims Commission, the United States Court of Claims, a treaty,
an Act of Congress, and an Executive Order.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Detroit Institute
of Arts has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The two 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.
<bullet> No relationship of shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects and
any Indian Tribe.
<bullet> The human remains and associated funerary objects
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; 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;
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Mille 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 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; 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 and
associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after July 10,
2023. If competing requests for disposition are received, the Detroit
Institute of Arts must determine the most appropriate requestor prior
to disposition. Requests for joint disposition of the human remains and
associated funerary objects are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Detroit Institute of Arts 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 31, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-12279 Filed 6-7-23; 8:45 am]
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