Notice2025-23375
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, Lansing, MI
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Published
December 19, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 242 (Friday, December 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59554-59555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-23375]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[N6796; NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0041567; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: Michigan State Historic
Preservation Office, 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 State Historic Preservation
Office (SHPO) has completed an inventory of associated funerary objects
and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the
associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice.
DATES: Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice
may occur on or after January 20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Send written requests for repatriation of the associated
funerary objects in this notice to Sarah Surface-Evans, State Historic
Preservation Office, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, 300 N
Washington Square, Lansing, MI 48913, email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f6a5838490979593b380979885a5c7b69b9f959e9f919798d8919980"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cf9cbabda9aeacaa8ab9aea1bc9cfe8fa2a6aca7a6a8aea1e1a8a0b9">[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
SHPO, and additional information on the determinations in this notice,
including the results of consultation, can be found in the inventory or
related records. The National Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
Abstract of Information Available
Based on the information available, three associated funerary
objects were removed from the Fourteen Mile Point site (20ON84) in
Ontonagon County, Michigan. The associated funerary objects were
inadvertently discovered along with Ancestral human remains at the site
in 1983; the Ancestral remains were transferred to the Keweenaw Bay
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Indian Community Tribal Police in 1985. The site is dated to the Post-
Contact Period A.D. 1800-1830 based on diagnostic artefacts at the
site. The three associated funerary objects are one lot iron axe head,
one lot glass beads, and one lot ferrous knife fragment.
The SHPO has no record of, nor do its officials have any knowledge
of, any treatment of the items with pesticides, preservatives, or other
substances that represent a potential hazard to the collection(s) or to
persons handling the collection(s).
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 associated funerary objects
described in this notice.
Determinations
The SHPO has determined that:
<bullet> The three objects described in this notice are reasonably
believed to have been placed intentionally with or near individual
Ancestral human remains at the time of death or later as part of the
death rite or ceremony.
<bullet> There is a reasonable connection between the associated
funerary objects described in this notice and the Keweenaw Bay Indian
Community, Michigan and the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians of Michigan.
Requests for Repatriation
Written requests for repatriation of the 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 a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
organization.
Repatriation of the associated funerary objects in this notice to a
requestor may occur on or after January 20, 2026. If competing requests
for repatriation are received, the SHPO must determine the most
appropriate requestor prior to repatriation. Requests for joint
repatriation of the associated funerary objects are considered a single
request and not competing requests. The SHPO 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: December 8, 2025.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
[FR Doc. 2025-23375 Filed 12-18-25; 8:45 am]
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