42096 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 160 / Thursday, August 20, 2009 / Notices 

and for the reburial to occur contingent 

on the publication of a Notice of 

Inventory Completion in the Federal 

Register. This notice fulfills that 

requirement. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact the Forest Archaeologist, 

Daniel Boone National Forest, 

Winchester, KY 40391, telephone (859) 

745–3138, before September 21, 2009. 

Disposition of the human remains to the 

Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of 

Oklahoma; Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; 

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of 

North Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe 

of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, 

Oklahoma; and United Keetoowah Band 

of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The Daniel Boone National Forest is 

responsible for notifying the AbsenteeShawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; 

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma; Eastern 

Band of Cherokee Indians of North 

Carolina; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of 

Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe, Oklahoma; 

and United Keetoowah Band of 

Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: July 20, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–19971 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the possession of The Public 

Museum, Grand Rapids, MI. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from an unknown site in 

or near Bay City, Bay County, MI. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

was made by The Public Museum’s 

professional staff in consultation with 

the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa 

Indians, Michigan and Saginaw 

Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. 

At an unknown date, human remains 

representing a minimum of three 

individuals were removed from a burial 

mound at an unknown location in or 

near Bay City, Bay County, MI. In 1917, 

the human remains were purchased by 

The Public Museum from E.C. Crane. No 

known individuals were identified. The 

19 associated funerary objects are 2 

copper kettles, 14 stone flakes, 2 

scrapers, and 1 hammerstone. 

Museum records indicate the material 

is from ‘‘mound b2,’’ an unknown site 

that is not recorded in the Michigan 

State Historic Preservation Office 

records. Museum records indicate that 

the human remains were removed from 

burial mounds, but do not indicate 

where the removal was for the objects. 

However, since the objects were found 

stored with the human remains and are 

consistent with other associated 

funerary objects removed from the Bay 

City area from burial mounds, the 

cultural items have been determined to 

be funerary objects associated with 

these individuals. The remains of one 

individual are associated with copper 

kettles suggesting a historic date, and 

the remaining two individuals were 

associated with the lithic artifacts, 

suggesting an unknown earlier context. 

The associated funerary objects indicate 

this was a multicomponent mound, and 

that an historic burial was intrusive to 

an earlier mound context. 

Based on archeological expert 

opinion, the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are from a 

site located within the Saginaw River 

watershed which has been inhabited by 

both the Ottawa and Chippewa people, 

with the Chippewa becoming the 

dominant group in the Saginaw River 

Valley by the end of the 17th century. 

Based on consultation with both the 

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 

Michigan and Little Traverse Bay Bands 

of Odawa Indians, Michigan, as well as 

historical, geographical, and 

archeological evidence, The Public 

Museum’s professional staff reasonably 

believe the human remains and 

associated funerary objects are affiliated 

with the Saginaw Chippewa Indian 

Tribe of Michigan. 

Officials of The Public Museum have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of three individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of The 

Public Museum also have determined 

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), 

the 19 cultural items described above 

are reasonably believed to have been 

placed with or near individual remains 

at the time of death or later as part of 

the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, 

officials of The Public Museum have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (2), there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary objects and the 

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 

Michigan. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary objects should 

contact Marilyn Merdzinski, Director of 

Collections and Preservation, The 

Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. NW., 

Grand Rapids, MI 49504, telephone 

(616) 456–3521, before September 21, 

2009. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe 

of Michigan may proceed after that date 

if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

The Public Museum is responsible for 

notifying the Little Traverse Bay Bands 

of Odawa Indians, Michigan and 

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 

Michigan that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: July 9, 2009. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E9–19978 Filed 8–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: State 

of Alaska, Alaska State Office of 

History and Archaeology, Anchorage, 

AK and Alutiiq Museum and 

Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in the control of the State of 

Alaska, Alaska Office of History and 

Archaeology, Anchorage, AK, and in the 

possession of the Alutiiq Museum and 

Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK. 


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