Notice2023-27788
Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
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Published
December 19, 2023
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Michigan has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from San Joaquin County, CA.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87798-87799]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27788]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037075; 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, Michigan has
completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or
Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were removed from San Joaquin County, CA.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after January 18, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Alex Forist, Chief Curator, Grand Rapids Public Museum. 272
Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504, telephone (616) 929-1809,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#afcec9c0ddc6dcdbefc8dddfc281c0ddc8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0c1c6cfd2c9d3d4e0c7d2d0cd8ecfd2c7">[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
Grand Rapids Public Museum. 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 Grand Rapids Public Museum.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, two individuals were
removed from San Joaquin County, CA. In the early 1880s, Mr. E. D.
Zimmerman, an amateur archeologist, excavated a burial mound at the
Leon Ranch in Stockton. At an unknown date, these human remains (and
associated funerary objects) were purchased by Herman J. Rush (b.
1902--d. 1965), a collector from Belvidere, New Jersey from a sale of
Zimmerman's collection. In the 1960s, Dr. Ruth Herrick, a collector in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, purchased these human remains (and associated
funerary objects) from Rush, and in 1974, the Grand Rapids Public
Museum acquired them from Herrick by bequest. The human remains consist
of one glass vial containing cremated human hair and one vial
containing cremated cerebral matter. The 18 associated funerary objects
are one burned shell, one lot consisting of cremated seeds, one lot
consisting of burned pinon nuts, two lots consisting of wampum, one
vial containing vermillion, one lot consisting of red paint, one lot
consisting of burned beads, one bone gouge, one awl, one shell pendant,
one Medicine Man's hollow bone tube, one hollow bone tube, one spear,
three bone fish skewers, and one bone fish gorge.
Cultural Affiliation
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to one or more identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures. There is a relationship of shared group identity
between the identifiable earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or cultures
and one or more Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: archeological, geographical, historical, and oral
traditional.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the Grand Rapids Public Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 18 objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have
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been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death
or later as part of the death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably traced between the human remains and associated funerary
objects described in this notice and the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-
Wuk Indians of California; California Valley Miwok Tribe, California;
Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, California;
Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of California; Federated
Indians of Graton Rancheria, California; Guidiville Rancheria of
California; Ione Band of Miwok Indians of California; Middletown
Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California; Picayune Rancheria of the
Chukchansi Indians of California; Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California; Shingle Springs Band of Miwok
Indians, Shingle Springs Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; Table
Mountain Rancheria; Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River
Reservation, California; Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the
Tuolumne Rancheria of California; United Auburn Indian Community of the
Auburn Rancheria, California; and the Wilton Rancheria, California.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects in this notice must be sent to the
Responsible Official identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation
may be submitted by:
1. Any one or more of the Indian Tribes identified in this notice
and, if joined to a request from one or more of the Indian Tribes, the
Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe of the SF Bay Area, California; Nashville
Enterprise Miwok-Maidu-Nishinam Tribe, California; North Valley Yokuts
Tribe, California; Wuksache Indian Tribe/Eshom Valley Band, California;
and the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation.
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 and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after January 18, 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 and
associated funerary objects 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 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, 10.10,
and 10.14.
Dated: December 8, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2023-27788 Filed 12-18-23; 8:45 am]
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