Notice2025-08477
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan State Police, Dimondale, MI
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Published
May 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Michigan State Police has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20498-20500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08477]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040123; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan State Police, Dimondale,
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 State Police has completed an
inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has
determined that there is no lineal descendant and no Indian Tribe or
Native Hawaiian organization with cultural affiliation.
DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects in this notice may occur on or after June 13, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Hanna Friedlander, Forensic Anthropologist, Michigan State
Police, Intelligence Operations Division--Missing Persons Coordination
Unit, 7150 Harris Drive, Dimondale, MI 48821, telephone (517) 242-5731,
email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3553475c505159545b5150475d75585c565d5c52545b1b525a43"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7315011a16171f121d1716011b331e1a101b1a14121d5d141c05">[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 State Police, 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.
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Abstract of Information Available
Human remains representing, at least, 10 individuals have been
identified. The 194 possible associated funerary objects include stone/
flint fragments, pottery fragments, wood pieces, and one non-human
bone. On April 10, 2007, human remains, and other grave objects were
found in an apartment in Warren, MI, by the tenant's ex-wife. The box
was labelled ``Native American skulls,'' and turned over to the Warren
Police Department (Case Number 07-18811), and then the Macomb County
Medical Examiner in 2007 (Case Number 07-21845). The remains and
associated artifacts were sent to the Michigan State University, where
they were assessed by Dr. Norm Sauer, and determined to be Native
American (Case Numbers assigned and listed are FA-017-07, FA-018-07,
FA-019-07). FORDISC and cranial assessments were used to make this
determination. It was noted some of the remains had been glued together
by the apartment tenant. Other remains had tags with catalogue or item
numbers on them, and some remains were written on with ink, including
one skull with the words ``Indian Mound Tenn.'' There is a minimum
number of 10 individuals noted, with one subadult (the rest, adults).
The box was sent back to the Macomb County Medical Examiner, where it
sat until February 10, 2025, when the Michigan State Police (MSP)
Forensic Anthropologist was notified to assist with the repatriation.
Subsequently, Ms. Hanna Friedlander collected the human remains and
transferred them to temporary holding at the Michigan State Police
Headquarters in Dimondale, MI. No known individuals were identified.
There are an additional 14 items, which include one lot of concrete
pieces, one lot of toothpicks/matchsticks, a screw, and one lot of ID
tags (``Scott's Store'') located with the remains and objects. Some of
the skeletal elements were written on with ink or pencil; some have
been glued together by the individual who ``collected'' the remains
initially. The Michigan State Police are unaware of any hazardous
substances being used to treat the human remains or associated funeral
objects.
Consultation
Invitations to consult were sent to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of
Indians, 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; Delaware
Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; 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 Traverse Bay Band of
Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Potawatomi
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;
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon
Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; Prairie Band
Potawatomi Nation; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation,
California & Arizona; 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.
The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; and the Wyandotte Nation requested
consultation.
Cultural Affiliation
The following types of information about the cultural affiliation
of the human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice are
available: geographical.
The information, including the results of consultation, identified:
1. No earlier group connected to the human remains or associated
funerary object.
2. The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan as an Indian Tribe
connected to the human remains and associated funerary objects.
3. No relationship of shared group identity between the earlier
group and the Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization that can be
reasonably traced through time.
Determinations
The Michigan State University has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of 10 individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> The 194 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> No known lineal descendant who can trace ancestry to the
human remains and associated funerary objects in this notice has been
identified.
<bullet> No Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization with
cultural affiliation to the human remains and associated funerary
objects in this notice has been clearly or reasonably identified.
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 any lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 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.
Upon request, repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects described in this notice may occur on or after June
13, 2025. If competing requests for repatriation are received, the
Michigan State Police 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 Michigan State Police is responsible
for sending a copy of this notice to any consulting lineal descendant,
Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
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U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: April 30, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-08477 Filed 5-13-25; 8:45 am]
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