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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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request transfer of control of these 

human remains should submit a written 

request with information in support of 

the request to the St. Joseph Museum at 

the address in this notice by August 13, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Trevor Tutt, Collections 

Manager, St. Joseph Museums, Inc., 

St. Joseph, MO 64506, telephone (816) 

232–8471, email trevor@

stjosephmuseum.org. 

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 under the control of 

the St. Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, 

MO. The human remains were removed 

from Kake, AK. 

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 by the St. Joseph 

Museum professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Organized Village of Kake. 

History and Description of the Remains 

Prior to 1910, human remains 

representing, at minimum, one 

individual were removed from Kake, 

AK. Subsequently, William H. Case 

transferred these human remains to 

Harry L. George, who, in turn donated 

them to the St. Joseph Museum. The 

human remains—a jaw bone—belonged 

to a Medicine Man who had died and 

was buried in a grave house, in 

accordance with Native custom. When a 

sickness, attributed to evil spirits, fell 

upon the village the Medicine Man’s 

bones were thrown in salt water. A 

white missionary from Kake was said to 

have retrieved the jaw bone from the 

Pacific Ocean several years later, 

accounting for the barnacles found on 

the teeth. As Russian missionaries first 

arrived in Kake in the 1790s, the 

retrieval of the jaw by a white 

missionary would have occurred 

between the 1790s and early 1910, when 

Case photographed it and sent the 

images to George. George had purchased 

the jawbone along with a series of ivory 

buttons and a jade axe head for $30.00 

no later than July 14, 1911. 

The Harry George collection was 

originally meant to be donated to the St. 

Joseph Museum prior to George’s death 

in 1923, but due to lack of storage space, 

it was on loan to the Missouri State 

Museum in Jefferson City until it 

transferred to the St. Joseph Museum in 

October 1944. The bulk of the collection 

was stored in the basement of the St. 

Joseph City Hall while select items were 

displayed at the AJ August House, the 

second location of the St. Joseph 

Museum. After the St. Joseph Museum 

received the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion as 

their main display site in 1946, the vast 

majority of the items went on display 

there. That same year, funds were 

provided for the St. Joseph Museum to 

purchase the George Collection outright. 

The human remains in the collection 

have remained in storage since at least 

the 1970s. When the St. Joseph 

Museum, now the St. Joseph Museums, 

Inc., moved to the Glore Psychiatric 

Museum in 2004, much of the George 

Collection was moved as well, including 

the jaw bone. In 2017, it, and other 

human remains were returned to storage 

at the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion for 

processing under NAGPRA. 

Research into the Harry George 

Collection, specifically the William H. 

Case photographs, began around 2017. 

Zachary Jones, Archivist at the Alaska 

State Archives, assisted in identifying 

objects in the collection and initiated 

consultation with the Organized Village 

of Kake. Frank Hughes, the NAGPRA 

Coordinator for the Organized Village of 

Kake, contacted Trevor Tutt, the 

Collections Manager for the St. Joseph 

Museums, Inc., and began 

correspondence related to items of 

cultural patrimony and remains related 

to Kake, Alaska. Through 

correspondence, the oral tradition of 

human remains being thrown in salt 

water in retaliation against a sickness in 

the village was confirmed. As research 

indicates that missionary activity in 

Kake peaked during the 1890s–1910 

period, the jaw might have been 

removed during that two decade span. 

Determinations Made by the St. Joseph 

Museum 

Officials of the St. Joseph Museum 

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(2), there 

is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Organized Village of 

Kake. 

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 should submit 

a written request with information in 

support of the request to Trevor Tutt, 

Collections Manager, St. Joseph 

Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 64506, 

telephone (816) 232–8471, email 

trevor@stjosephmuseum.org, by August 

13, 2018. After that date, if no 

additional requestors have come 

forward, transfer of control of the 

human remains to the Organized Village 

of Kake may proceed. 

The St. Joseph Museum is responsible 

for notifying the Organized Village of 

Kake that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: June 12, 2018. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2018–14901 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025692; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Tongass 

National Forest, Juneau Ranger 

District, Juneau, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Tongass National Forest, 

Juneau Ranger District, (Tongass 

National Forest) 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 associated funerary 

objects 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 the human remains and associated 

funerary objects should submit a written 

request to the Tongass National Forest. 

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 


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