Notice2025-15407
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, MI
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Published
August 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kalamazoo Valley Museum has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39221-39222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15407]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6416; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040822; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Kalamazoo Valley Museum,
Kalamazoo, 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 Kalamazoo Valley Museum has completed an
inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural
affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Native
Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
DATES: Upon request, repatriation of the human remains in this notice
may occur on or after September 15, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the human remains
in this notice to Regina Gorham, Collections Manager for the Kalamazoo
Valley Museum, 230 N Rose Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49007, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4331242c312b222e03283520206d262736"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c2b0a5adb0aaa3af82a9b4a1a1eca7a6b7">[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
Kalamazoo Valley 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 two individuals have been
identified from Flathead County, Montana. No associated funerary
objects are present. The donor is Donald Boudeman. Boudeman who was an
avid collector with wide-ranging interests, including musical
instruments, medieval armor, firearms, and artifacts from Alaska,
Egypt, Africa, the Americas, and the Philippines. He frequently
advertised for acquisitions and displayed items from his collection at
the Kalamazoo Public Museum (now the Kalamazoo Valley Museum), where he
was named Curator of Archaeology around 1930. He was active in the
Michigan-Indiana Museums Association, serving as Vice-President.
Following his death in 1949,
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portions of his extensive collection entered the holdings of
institutions such as the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Michigan State
University, Western Michigan University, and the National Museum of the
American Indian.
Per Robert Sundick, forensic anthropologist and professor at
Western Michigan University (April 1988), ``The artificial deformation
of the skull may be due to wrapping the skull as an infant. The skull
and mandible do not work together so are from two different
individuals.'' Originally it was thought that two remains belonged to
the same person.
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.
Determinations
The Kalamazoo Valley Museum has determined that:
<bullet> The human remains described in this notice represent the
physical remains of two individuals of Native American ancestry.
<bullet> There is a connection between the human remains described
in this notice and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the
Flathead Reservation.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the human remains 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 described in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after September 15, 2025. If competing
requests for repatriation are received, the Kalamazoo Valley Museum
must determine the most appropriate requestor prior to repatriation.
Requests for joint repatriation of the human remains are considered a
single request and not competing requests. The Kalamazoo Valley Museum
is responsible for sending a copy of this notice to the Indian Tribes
and Native Hawaiian organizations identified in this notice and any
other consulting parties.
Authority: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
25 U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing regulations, 43 CFR 10.10.
Dated: August 5, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-15407 Filed 8-13-25; 8:45 am]
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