Notice2024-04667
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan History Center, Lansing, MI
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Published
March 6, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Michigan History Center 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 in this notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Allen County, IN.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16011-16012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04667]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0037537; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan History Center, 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 History Center 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 in this
notice. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed
from Allen County, IN.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after April 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Tobi Voigt, Director of Museums, Michigan History Center,
702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48915, telephone (517) 243-4041,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c593aaaca2b1918588aca6adaca2a4abeba2aab3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0d5b62646a79594d40646e65646a6c63236a627b">[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
Michigan History Center. 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 Michigan
History Center.
Description
Human remains representing, at minimum, one individual were removed
from Allen County, IN. On an unknown date in 1912, Joseph Edinger was
said to have excavated the burial site of the Miami leader, Little
Turtle. A braid of hair with silver buckles was donated to the Michigan
History Center. According to the Michigan History Center's records,
most of what Edinger excavated from the burial site was said to have
been donated to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, but this is
unconfirmed, and no further details are known. The one associated
funerary object is one lot of silver buckles.
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. The following types of information were
used to reasonably trace the relationship: historical information,
other relevant information, or expert opinion.
Lineal Descent
The human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice
are connected to an identifiable individual whose descendants can be
traced directly and without interruption by means of a traditional
kinship system or by the common law system of descendance. The
following types of information were used to reasonably trace the
relationship: historical information, other relevant information, or
expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes, the Michigan History
Center has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The one lot of 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> There is a relationship of shared group identity that can
be reasonably
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traced between the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to Daryl Baldwin (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma) and
Scott Willard (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma).
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.
2. Any lineal descendant or Indian Tribe 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.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after April 5, 2024. If
competing requests for repatriation are received, the Michigan History
Center must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to
repatriation. Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary object are considered a single request and not
competing requests. The Michigan History Center is responsible for
sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes identified in this
notice.
This notice was submitted before the effective date of the revised
regulations (88 FR 86452, December 13, 2023, effective January 12,
2024). As the notice conforms to the mandatory format of the Federal
Register and includes the required information, the National Park
Service is publishing this notice as submitted.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: February 27, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-04667 Filed 3-5-24; 8:45 am]
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