Notice2024-16714
Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
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Published
July 30, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
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 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61143-61144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16714]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0038356; 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 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.
DATES: Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice may occur on or after August 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Alex Forist, Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl Street
NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 telephone (616) 929-1809, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8aebece5f8e3f9fecaedf8fae7a4e5f8ed"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5332353c213a2027133421233e7d3c2134">[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 and additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including the results of consultation,
can be found in its inventory or related records. The National Park
Service is not responsible for the determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, one individual have been
identified. No associated funerary objects are present. The ancestral
remains were acquired in or before 1875 from a burial mound at Aurora,
Kane County, Illinois excavated by E.H. Crane (1840-1917).
Human remains representing, at least, nine individuals have been
identified. The eight associated funerary objects are two bear jaws,
one rodent tooth, one lot of mammal teeth, one lot of shell beads, one
stone pendant, one pearl bead, and one arrowhead. The ancestral remains
and associated funerary objects were acquired in or before 1877 from a
burial mound at Portage Mounds (11JD1), Jo Daviess County, Illinois
excavated by E.H. Crane (1840-1917).
Human remains representing at least, three individuals have been
identified. The one associated funerary object is a busycon shell. The
ancestral remains and associated funerary object were acquired in or
before 1875 from a burial mound at Jo Daviess County, Illinois
excavated by E.H. Crane (1840-1917). Museum records indicate they were
removed from a site called ``Battle Bluff Edgerton Farm Group.'' An
1870 and 1880 census listed an Edgerton family of farmers in Hanover,
Jo Daviess County.
On July 10, 1917, the Grand Rapids Public Museum purchased a
substantial number of objects from the E. H. Crane Estate that included
ancestral remains and associated funerary objects from these three
sites. Crane was a collector and proprietor of Crane's Museum in Grand
Rapids who excavated mounds in the Midwest in the late 1800s.
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 and associated
funerary objects described in this notice.
Determinations
The Grand Rapids Public Museum has determined that:
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<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 13 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The nine objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally 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 connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the 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; Crow Creek
Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota; Flandreau
Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; Forest County Potawatomi Community,
Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Ho-Chunk Nation of
Wisconsin; Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma;
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan; 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; Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of
Minnesota; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of
Michigan; 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; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth
Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan; Otoe-
Missouria Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma; Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria
Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians,
Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Prairie Island
Indian Community in the State of Minnesota; Red Cliff Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Santee
Sioux Nation, Nebraska; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians,
Michigan; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota; St. Croix
Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
of North Dakota; Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; and the Yankton Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains and
associated funerary objects 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 an Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation.
Repatriation of the human remains and associated funerary objects
described in this notice to a requestor may occur on or after August
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 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 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: July 17, 2024.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2024-16714 Filed 7-29-24; 8:45 am]
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