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dance are traditionally considered to be 

sacred in origin they are for Native 

Americans a form of prayer . . . and 

because most song is accompanied by 

percussion of some sort—drums more 

often than not—the instruments 

themselves become sacred through their 

associations.’’ This feeling was 

reaffirmed by the White Earth Band of 

the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe during 

consultation with the Berkshire 

Museum. In a letter dated April 5, 2017, 

the White Earth Band of the Minnesota 

Chippewa Tribe requested the return of 

the Big Drum due to its substantial 

cultural and religious significance. 

Determinations Made by the Berkshire 

Museum 

Officials of the Berkshire Museum 

have determined that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), 

the one cultural item described above is 

a specific ceremonial object needed by 

traditional Native American religious 

leaders for the practice of traditional 

Native American religions by their 

present-day adherents. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), 

the one cultural item described above 

has ongoing historical, traditional, or 

cultural importance central to the 

Native American group or culture itself, 

rather than property owned by an 

individual. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the sacred object and object of 

cultural patrimony and the White Earth 

Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to claim these cultural items 

should submit a written request with 

information in support of the claim to 

Jason Vivori, Collections Experience 

Manager, Berkshire Museum, 39 South 

Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, telephone 

(413) 443–7171 ext. 341, email jvivori@

berkshiremuseum.org, by August 13, 

2018. After that date, if no additional 

claimants have come forward, transfer 

of control of the sacred object and object 

of cultural patrimony to the White Earth 

Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe 

may proceed. 

The Berkshire Museum is responsible 

for notifying the White Earth Band of 

the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: June 1, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025846; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: State 

Historic Preservation Office, Lansing, 

MI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The State Historic 

Preservation Office (SHPO), Michigan 

State Housing Development Authority, 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and has determined that 

there is a cultural affiliation between the 

human remains and present-day Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request to the Michigan State Historic 

Preservation Office. If no additional 

requestors come forward, transfer of 

control of the human remains and 

associated funerary objects to the lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native 

Hawaiian organizations stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 

request transfer of control of these 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects should submit a written request 

with information in support of the 

request to the State Historic 

Preservation Office at the address in this 

notice by August 13, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Dean L. Anderson, State 

Historic Preservation Office, Michigan 

State Housing Development Authority, 

735 East Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI 

48909, telephone: (517) 373–1618, email 

andersond15@michigan.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 under the control of the 

State Historic Preservation Office, 

Lansing, MI. The human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

removed from a highway construction 

project on US–12, Lenawee 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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Consultation 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made during 1993–1995 by 

the former Office of the State 

Archaeologist (OSA) professional staff 

and by a physical anthropologist. 

According to documents held by the 

SHPO, in 1995 the OSA initiated 

consultation on the human remains and 

funerary objects with the Citizen 

Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation (previously listed as the Prairie 

Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas). 

History and Description of the Remains 

In the 1920s, human remains 

representing nine individuals were 

removed from a highway construction 

project in Lenawee County, MI. In 1925, 

the remains were re-interred on the 

grounds of the Walker Tavern historic 

site, located a few miles from the 

highway construction project. The 

Walker Tavern structure was built 

around 1832, as a farmhouse, and then 

became a tavern and inn along the 

Detroit to Chicago stagecoach route. In 

1921, Frederic Hewitt converted the 

tavern into a museum, and in 1965, the 

structure was sold to the Michigan 

Department of Natural Resources. The 

Parks and Recreation Division of the 

Michigan Department of Conservation 

operated the historic site until 1975, 

when the Michigan Historical Museum, 

which was part of the Michigan 

Historical Center (MHC), took 

responsibility for the Walker Tavern 

museum and its collections. 

In the mid-1990s, Barbara Mead, 

Assistant State Archaeologist, did the 

NAGPRA reporting for the Office of the 

State Archaeologist (OSA) and for the 

state museum. At that time, the state 

museum turned over to Ms. Mead a 

single cranium and associated funerary 

objects that she determined had been 


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part of the group of human remains that 

was re-interred on the grounds of the 

Walker Tavern site in 1925. 

In 2009, the Department of History, 

Arts, and Libraries, which included 

both the OSA and the state museum, 

was eliminated. The state museum was 

moved into the Department of Natural 

Resources, and the OSA was moved into 

the Michigan State Housing 

Development Authority. Soon after that, 

the OSA was eliminated, and the 

archaeology staff were moved into the 

SHPO. Consequently, the archaeological 

collections, including the Walker 

Tavern materials, are now held by the 

SHPO. 

The human remains in the Walker 

Tavern collection include a single 

cranium with no teeth present and 

lacking the mandible. The cranium was 

examined by a physical anthropologist 

who stated that the individual was 

approximately 10–15 years of age, and 

that no determination of sex or ethnic 

identity of the individual could be 

made. No known individuals were 

identified. 

When the state museum assumed 

responsibility for the Walker Tavern 

collection in 1975, the cranium was 

recorded under Michigan Department of 

Conservation accession number A1253. 

The state museum assigned catalog 

number FA–155–75 to the cranium. 

The state museum also cataloged a 

group of 18 funerary objects associated 

with the human remains disinterred 

during road construction in the 1920s. 

The 18 associated funerary objects are: 

One pewter spoon, one bottle, one oval 

stone, one deer mandible, three loose 

teeth, one lot of fur pieces with tassels 

wrapped in porcupine quill, one silver 

armband, one wooden bowl or toy 

canoe, one lot of wool scraps, one lot of 

linen scraps, one silver armband, one 

copper or brass kettle fragment, one iron 

knife blade, one lot of very small bone 

chips, one lot of shell and glass beads 

and one pewter bowl. 

Based on the funerary objects, it is 

estimated that the original interment of 

the objects and the human remains took 

place between approximately 1760 and 

1810. A typescript in the MHC Walker 

Tavern files identified as an article in 

the Lenawee County Exponent dated 

November 22, 1923, describes the 

discovery of Indian graves and artifacts 

during road construction work in the 

Irish Hills area. The article mentions 

some of the same funerary objects 

described above and associated with the 

cranium. This assemblage of funerary 

objects, including trade silver and 

beads, together with the cranium, 

represent a Native American interment. 

The inventory that Assistant State 

Archaeologist Barbara Mead compiled 

in 1995 included the following 

information on cultural affiliation: 

Probably Potawatomi. Early in the 

eighteenth century, the Potawatomi, 

Miami, Ottawa, Huron/Wyandotte and 

Kickapoo were present in southern 

Michigan. Most of the reports for tribes 

other than the Potawatomi are from the 

pre-1720 era. By the 1760s, the 

Potawatomi territory included Lenawee 

County; no other tribes seemed to be 

present, except perhaps as travelers or 

temporary residents. (Cleland, Charles 

E., 1992, Rites of Conquest, the 

University of Michigan Press; Tanner, 

Helen Hornbeck (ed.), 1987, Atlas of 

Great Lakes Indian History, University 

of Oklahoma Press; Trigger, Bruce G. 

(ed.), 1978, Handbook of North 

American Indians, Vol. 15: Northeast, 

Smithsonian Institution). 

Determinations Made by the State 

Historic Preservation Office 

Officials of the State Historic 

Preservation Office have determined 

that: 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the 

human remains described in this notice 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), 

the 18 objects described in this notice 

are reasonably believed to have been 

placed with or near individual human 

remains at the time of death or later as 

part of the death rite or ceremony. 

• 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 Citizen Potawatomi Nation, 

Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi 

Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville 

Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon 

Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan 

and Indiana; and Prairie Band 

Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as 

the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, 

Kansas). 

Additional Requestors and Disposition 

Lineal descendants or representatives 

of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to Dean L. Anderson, State 

Historic Preservation Office, Michigan 

State Housing Development Authority, 

735 East Michigan Avenue, P.O. Box 

30044, Lansing, MI 48909, telephone 

(517) 373–1618, email andersond15@

michigan.gov, by August 13, 2018. After 

that date, if no additional requestors 

have come forward, transfer of control 

of the human remains and associated 

funerary objects to the Citizen 

Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation (previously listed as the Prairie 

Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas) 

may proceed. 

The State Historic Preservation Office 

is responsible for notifying the Citizen 

Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest 

County Potawatomi Community, 

Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian 

Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of 

Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 

Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi 

Nation (previously listed as the Prairie 

Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas) 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: June 21, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14905 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025769; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: St. 

Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The St. Joseph Museum has 

completed an inventory of human 

remains, in consultation with the 

appropriate Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations, and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and present-day Indian Tribes or Native 

Hawaiian organizations. Lineal 

descendants or representatives of any 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

that wish to request transfer of control 

of these human remains should submit 

a written request to the St. Joseph 

Museum. If no additional requestors 

come forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native 

Hawaiian organizations stated in this 

notice may proceed. 

DATES: Lineal descendants or 

representatives of any Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization not 

identified in this notice that wish to 


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