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of Federal Claims, the land from which Red Cliff Band of State University is the Native American human remains Chippewa Indians of ; Red responsible for notifying The Tribes, were removed is the aboriginal land of Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, The Consulted Tribes and Groups, and the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior ; Saginaw Chippewa Indian The Invited Tribes that this notice has Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie been published. River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Dated: August 14, 2020. Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Indian Community, Michigan; Melanie O’Brien, Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously of Wisconsin; and the Turtle Mountain listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Band of Chippewa Indians of North [FR Doc. 2020–20295 Filed 9–14–20; 8:45 am] Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Dakota. BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the disposition of the human remains may Chippewa Indians, Michigan; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, be to the Bad River Band of the Lake Michigan; Band of Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of National Park Service Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030669; Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Notice of Inventory Completion: Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Michigan State University, East Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Lansing, MI Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Montana; Chippewa Indians, Michigan; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, ACTION: Notice. (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of SUMMARY: Michigan State University has Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of completed an inventory of human Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the remains and associated funerary objects, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Lac du Flambeau Reservation of in consultation with the appropriate Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of organizations and has determined that Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of there is no cultural affiliation between Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Indians of Montana; the human remains and associated Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota funerary objects and any present-day Sokaogon Chippewa Community, (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; organizations. Representatives of any of Wisconsin; and the Turtle Mountain Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Band of Chippewa Indians of North Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); organization not identified in this notice Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Dakota. that wish to request transfer of control • Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red of these human remains and associated Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, funerary objects should submit a written Executive Orders indicate that the land Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian request to Michigan State University. If from which the Native American human Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie no additional requestors come forward, remains were removed is the aboriginal Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; transfer of control of the human remains land of the Bad River Band of the Lake Sokaogon Chippewa Community, and associated funerary objects to the Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; of Wisconsin; and the Turtle Mountain organizations stated in this notice may Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Band of Chippewa Indians of North proceed. Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Dakota (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The DATES: Representatives of any Indian Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously Tribes’’). listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Tribes or Native Hawaiian organization Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Additional Requestors and Disposition not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Representatives of any Indian Tribes human remains and associated funerary Chippewa Indians, Michigan; or Native Hawaiian organization not objects should submit a written request Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, identified in this notice that wish to Michigan; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of request transfer of control of these with information in support of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of human remains should submit a written request to Michigan State University at Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of request with information in support of the address in this notice by October 15, Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the the request to Judith Stoddart, Associate 2020. Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Provost for University Collections and ADDRESSES: Judith Stoddart, Associate Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of Arts Initiatives, Michigan State Provost for University Collections and Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of University, 466 W Circle Drive, East Arts Initiatives, Michigan State Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone University, 466 W Circle Drive, East Chippewa Indians of Montana; (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota msu.edu, by October 15, 2020. After that (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ (Six component reservations: Bois Forte date, if no additional requestors have msu.edu. Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; come forward, transfer of control of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; human remains to The Tribes may here given in accordance with the Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); proceed. Native American Graves Protection and

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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Wisconsin; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe site (20IN2), Ingham County, MI. The 3003, of the completion of an inventory of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of human remains (567.10(A1.10), of human remains and associated the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; 567.11(A1.11), 567.13(A1.13), funerary objects under the control of Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lac 567.14(A1.14)) and associated funerary Michigan State University, East Lansing, Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior objects were originally disturbed by a MI. The human remains and associated Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du group of Girl Scouts while playing on a funerary objects were removed from Flambeau Band of Lake Superior sandy knoll near the south Huron-Sanilac, Ingham, Lapeer, Chippewa Indians of the Lac du of Lansing, MI. Michigan State Livingston, Saginaw, Sanilac, Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; University Museum was alerted to this Shiawassee, St. Clair, and Tuscola Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians discovery, and excavated the human Counties, MI. of Montana; Menominee Indian Tribe of remains under the direction of Professor This notice is published as part of the Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; of Anthropology Dr. Moreau S. Maxwell National Park Service’s administrative Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota and Director of Michigan State responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 (Six component reservations: Bois Forte University Museum Rollin Baker. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Additional help came from Birt Darling The determinations in this notice are Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; and other members of the Upper Grand the sole responsibility of the museum, Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Valley Chapter of the Michigan institution, or Federal agency that has Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe Archeological Society. Dr. Maxwell is control of the Native American human of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band documented as having collected the remains and associated funerary objects. Nation (previously listed as human remains. No known individuals The National Park Service is not Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, were identified. The 25 associated responsible for the determinations in Kansas); Red Cliff Band of Lake funerary objects are four lots of this notice. Superior Chippewa Indians of unidentified animal bone (A1.13/ Consultation Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa 567.13, A1.14/567.14, 567.10, A1.27/ Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of 567), three lots of charcoal (A1.13/ A detailed assessment of the human Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & 567.13, A1.14/567.14, A1.11/567.11), remains and associated funerary objects Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe one lot of stone flakes and worked stone was made by Michigan State University of the Mississippi in Iowa; Seneca (567), two lots of pottery sherds (567, professional staff in consultation with Nation of Indians (previously listed as 567.10), one tooth (567), one lot of representatives of the Bay Mills Indian Seneca Nation of New York); Seneca- worked bones (567), one unidentified Community, Michigan; Grand Traverse Cayuga Nation (previously listed as animal bone (567), one unidentified Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); animal bone (A1.13/567.13), one nut Michigan; Hannahville Indian Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa shell (567), and 10 unworked rocks Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix (A1.11/567.11). Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; In 1976, human remains representing, Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Stockbridge Munsee Community, at minimum, one individual were Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca removed from the Scott Mound site River Band of Ottawa Indians, (previously listed as Tonawanda Band (20LP349), Lapeer County, MI. The Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of of Seneca Indians of New York); Turtle human remains (4559) were discovered Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be- Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of by Glen J. Martin of Davison, MI, on nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi North Dakota; and the Wyandotte private land owned by a Mr. Scott of Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi Nation (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Washburn Road. After Mr. Martin had Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Invited Tribes’’). partially excavated the human remains, Michigan (previously listed as Huron he contacted Michigan State University Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band of History and Description of the Remains Museum Curator of Anthropology Dr. Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and In 1920, human remains representing, William Lovis who, at the time, was Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian at minimum, seven individuals were excavating the Childers site. On Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie removed from the shore of December 4, 1976, Mr. Martin donated Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; in Huron-Sanilac County, MI, after they the human remains to Michigan State and two non-federally recognized were discovered eroding out of the University Museum. No known Indian groups, the Burt Lake Band of north side of a creek that used to run individuals were identified. No Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the into the Lake. On August 1, 2006, the associated funerary objects are present. Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians human remains (FA 039–06, 661–06) In 1977, human remains representing, (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted became the subject of a complaint filed at minimum, 29 individuals were Tribes and Groups’’). with the Howard City Police removed from the Childers site An invitation to consult was extended Department. Until the complainant (20LP98), Lapeer County, MI. The to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of alerted the police, the human remains human remains (4589, 4589.4A, 4589.5, Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of had been kept in an attic, where they 4589.5B) and associated funerary objects the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa had been placed by the complainant’s were disturbed during the construction Indians of the Bad River Reservation, father. The father, who had removed the of a house basement. On March 24, Wisconsin; Chippewa Cree Indians of human remains, believed the remains 1977, Michigan State University the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana were part of a burial ground associated Museum conducted a salvage (previously listed as Chippewa-Cree with an American Indian camp located excavation to recover the human Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, on the south side of the creek. No remains and associated funerary objects Montana); Citizen Potawatomi Nation, known individuals were identified. No for the Museum. No known individuals Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; associated funerary objects are present. were identified. The 122 associated Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern Between 1957–1961, human remains funerary objects are one abrader Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest representing, at minimum, two (4589.0), one bone (white-tailed) County Potawatomi Community, individuals were removed from the Root (4589.0), five lots of chipped stone

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(4589.0), one lot of copper (4589.0), two MI. The Michigan State Police County, MI. The human remains (6888– fire-cracked rocks (4589.0), one lot of transferred the human remains (3513– 01, 6888–02, 6888–03, 6888–04, 6888– fossils (4589.0), one lot of grave fill 73) to Michigan State University’s 05) and associated funerary objects were (4589.0), four lots of sherds (4589.0), Forensic Anthropology Laboratory, discovered during road construction by one sherd (4589.0), one lot of soil where they were analyzed. No known the landowner (possibly Mr. Frazer), samples (4589.0), one lot of beads individuals were identified. No who alerted Michigan State Police (4589.4), one lot of bone (unidentified associated funerary objects are present. (either Bridgeport or Saginaw Post). The animal) (4589.4), three bones On June 21, 1962, human remains State Police, in turn, contacted (unidentified animal) (4589.4), four representing, at minimum, one Michigan State Archaeologist John chipped stones (4589.4), one lot of fire- individual were removed from the Halsey, who confirmed that the human cracked rock (4589.4), one harpoon Horizon Hills Lot 17 site (no. 2221; remains were ancient. Although the (4589.4), six lithics (4589.4), one 20LV371) in Green Oak Township, State Police claimed that they collected projectile point (4589.4), one lot of Livingston County, MI. The human all the human remains from the site, Mr. pigment stained sand samples (4589.4), remains (2221) were brought to the Halsey directed consultant James Payne three lots of sherds (4589.4), one pipe Michigan State Police Crime Lab. On to excavate the site with a group of bowl fill (4589.41), one awl (turkey) July 13, 1962, the Crime Lab’s Detective volunteers. In 1988, the human remains (4589.5), one lot of bones (black bear) Sgt. Arthur Kivela transferred the and funerary objects were transferred to (4589.5), one bone (bullfrog) (4589.5), human remains to Michigan State Michigan State University. No known one bone (red shouldered hawk) University Museum. No known individuals were identified. The 34 (4589.5), one bone (unidentified animal) individual was identified. No associated associated funerary objects are one axe (4589.5), one lot of bones (unidentified funerary objects are present. head and handle (6888–01), one blue animal) (4589.5), one bone (white-tailed Between August 14, 1991 and October tube bead (6888–01), one gun flint spall deer) (4589.5), one drill tip (4589.5), one 10, 1991, human remains representing, (6888–01), one lead ball (6888–01), six lot of fire-cracked rocks (4589.5), seven at minimum, eight individuals were nails or spikes (6888–01), one brooch fire-cracked rocks (4589.5), two lots of removed from the Casassa site fragment (6888–02), one bead (6888–03), flakes and rocks (4589.5), one bone pin (20SA1021), Saginaw County, MI. The one painted sherd (6888–03), one or needle (4589.5), one lot of sherds human remains were excavated by Great stoneware sherd (6888–04), one lot of (4589.5), one lot of skull fragments Lakes Research of Williamston, bone (unidentified animal) (6888–05), (bear) (4589.5), one lot of slate fragments Michigan (later reorganized as Great 14 flakes (6888–05), one nail or spike (4589.5), one lot of ossified tendons Lakes Research Associates, Inc.) as part (6888–05), one projectile point ear (bird) (4589.5), one tool (black bear) of a pipeline project undertaken by (6888–05), one historic sherd (6888–05), (4589.5), one lot of incisor teeth (beaver) Great Lakes Gas Transmission Ltd. one lot of sherds (6888–05), and one (4589.5), one elbow pipe (4589.4.1), one Upon discovery of the human remains, wood fragment (6888–05). lot of antler drift, one lot of bones (black the Michigan State Police and the During the fall and winter of 1994, bear), one lot of bones (deer), one lot of Saginaw County coroner were human remains representing, at bones (gar), two lots of bones contacted. After obtaining disinterment minimum, nine individuals were (unidentified animal), one lot of lithics, permits from the Saginaw County removed from the McLaughlin site one lot of slate pieces, one lot of incisor Department of Public Health, the (20SL2), Sanilac County, MI. The teeth (beaver), one adze, one antler remains were transferred to Michigan human remains were disturbed during (white-tailed deer), one antler pressure State University, where they were construction of a house basement. The flaker, three axe preforms, one biface analyzed by Anthropology Professor Dr. property owner, Frederick Mclaughlin, tip, one bone (black bear), one bone Norman Sauer. No known individuals the police, and a team from the Office (canis species), one bone (grebe radius), were identified. No associated funerary of the State Archaeologist collected the one bone (grebe ulna), one bone (large objects are present. partially preserved human remains. mammal), two bones (turkey), one bone In October/November 1966, human Only one individual was excavated in (wapiti), one bone (white-tailed deer), remains representing, at minimum, four situ; the other individuals were one bone (wild turkey), two celts, five individuals were removed from the represented by bone fragments scattered discs, one end scraper, one quartzite Mount Lion site (20SA202), Saginaw around the worksite. The human flake, six flakes, one gorget preform, six County, MI. The human remains remains were brought to Michigan State lithics, one point, one triangular bone (3277.1), which had been discovered University for analysis by Anthropology projectile point, three notched projectile during field plowing, were collected by Professor Dr. Norman Sauer. On April points, one vessel, and one whetstone. Donald W. Foster with the permission of 26, 2019, the human remains were On November 22, 1986, human the landowner. On November 30, 1966, found in Michigan State University’s remains representing, at minimum, the human remains and associated Forensic Anthropology Laboratory. In three individuals were removed from an funerary object were brought to Donald November 2019, the State Archaeologist unidentified location in Lapeer County, R. Hagge, M.D., of Northville, MI, for confirmed Michigan State University’s MI. The Michigan State Police were analysis, and in October of 1968, Mr. possession of the remains. No known alerted, assigned the discovery a case Foster donated the human remains and individuals were identified. No number (38–2792–86), and transferred funerary object to Michigan State associated funerary objects are present. the human remains to Michigan State University Museum. No known In 1965, human remains representing, University, where they were analyzed individuals were identified. The one at minimum, three individuals were by Anthropology Professor Dr. Norman associated funerary object is a mountain removed from the Jarrard site (20SE125), Sauer. No known individuals were lion skull (3277). Antrim Township, Section 16, identified. No associated funerary In the 1980s, human remains Shiawassee County, MI. At an unknown objects are present. representing, at minimum, two date, the human remains and associated On an unknown date, human remains individuals were removed from the funerary objects were transferred to representing, at minimum, two Frazer-Tyra site (20SA9), also known as Michigan State University by Frank individuals were removed from an the Watson Caches, Armstrong Cache, Mortimer. The associated funerary unidentified location in Lapeer County, Frazer I and II Caches, in Saginaw objects went to the Michigan State

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University Museum, and the human of Federal Claims, the land from which Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of remains went to Michigan State the Native American human remains Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and University’s Forensic Anthropology and associated funerary objects were Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Laboratory. No known individuals were removed is the aboriginal land of the Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band identified. The 34 associated funerary Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red objects (3911) are one lot of bones Michigan. Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (unidentified animal), one lot of flakes, • According to final judgments of the Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of two balls, one biface perform tip, one Indian Claims Commission or the Court Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw burin, seven chips, one concretion, one of Federal Claims, the land (Livingston Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; retouched flake, four utilized flakes, County) from which the Native Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa four worked flakes, one hammerstone, American human remains and Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon Chippewa one point base, one scraper, two end associated funerary objects were Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix scrapers, one shell, one sherd, one piece removed is the aboriginal land of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Turtle of worked granite, one piece of worked Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of quartz, and two worked stones. Forest County Potawatomi Community, North Dakota; and the Wyandotte Sometime prior to October 4, 2017, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Nation. human remains representing, at Community, Michigan; Match-e-be- • According to other authoritative minimum, one individual were removed nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi government sources, the land from from Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI, Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi which the Native American human and transferred to Michigan State Huron Band of the Potawatomi, remains and associated funerary objects University. On October 4, 2017, the Michigan (previously listed as Huron were removed is the aboriginal land of human remains (F.3.72, C72–4625) were Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Sac & found in Michigan State University’s Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Forensic Anthropology Laboratory. No Indiana; and the Prairie Band Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; known individual was identified. No Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as and the Sac & Fox Tribe of the associated funerary objects are present. Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Mississippi in Iowa. On November 13, 1978, human Kansas). • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the remains representing, at minimum, one • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or disposition of the human remains and individual were removed from Cass Executive Orders indicate that the land associated funerary objects may be to City, Tuscola County, MI. The human from which the Native American human the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior remains were discovered by property remains and associated funerary objects Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad owner James Tuckey while digging and were removed is the aboriginal land of River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills setting a water line near his house. Mr. the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Indian Community, Michigan; Tuckey contacted the Cass City Police, Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky which transferred them to Michigan River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously State University’s Forensic Indian Community, Michigan; listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Anthropology Laboratory, where they Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); were analyzed. No known individual Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; was identified. No associated funerary listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Forest County Potawatomi Community, objects are present. Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Determinations Made by Michigan Forest County Potawatomi Community, Michigan; Hannahville Indian State University Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Officials of Michigan State University Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Indian Community, Michigan; Lac have determined that: Michigan; Hannahville Indian Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du human remains described in this notice Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Flambeau Band of Lake Superior are Native American based on Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Lac du archeological context, biological Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac evidence, museum and lab records. Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little human remains described in this notice Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac River Band of Ottawa Indians, represent the physical remains of 73 Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of individuals of Native American Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little ancestry. River Band of Ottawa Indians, Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish the 216 objects described in this notice Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little Band of Pottawatomi Indians of are reasonably believed to have been Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; placed with or near individual human Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota remains at the time of death or later as Band of Pottawatomi Indians of (Six component reservations: Bois Forte part of the death rite or ceremony. Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Minnesota (Six component reservations: Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; relationship of shared group identity Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); cannot be reasonably traced between the Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Native American human remains and Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed associated funerary objects and any Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa present-day Indian Tribe. of the Potawatomi, Michigan Tribe of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of • According to final judgments of the (previously listed as the Huron Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indian Claims Commission or the Court Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa Tribe of Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi

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Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band and any present-day Indian Tribes or the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red Native Hawaiian organizations. listed as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Representatives of any Indian Tribes or Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Native Hawaiian organization not Michigan and Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & identified in this notice that wish to Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and request transfer of control of these Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; human remains should submit a written Indians, Michigan; and two non- Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in request to Michigan State University. If federally recognized Indian groups, the Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe no additional requestors come forward, Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of transfer of control of the human remains Chippewa Indians, and the Grand River Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon to the Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Band of Ottawa Indians (hereafter Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. organizations stated in this notice may referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; proceed. and Groups’’). Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa DATES: Representatives of any Indian An invitation to consult was extended Indians of North Dakota; and the Tribes or Native Hawaiian organization to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Wyandotte Nation (hereafter referred to not identified in this notice that wish to Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of as ‘‘The Tribes’’). request transfer of control of these the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Additional Requestors and Disposition human remains should submit a written Indians of the Bad River Reservation, request with information in support of Wisconsin; Chippewa Cree Indians of Representatives of any Indian Tribes the request to Michigan State University the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana or Native Hawaiian organization not at the address in this notice by October (previously listed as Chippewa-Cree identified in this notice that wish to 15, 2020. Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, request transfer of control of these ADDRESSES: Judith Stoddart, Associate Montana); Citizen Potawatomi Nation, human remains and associated funerary Provost for University Collections and Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; objects should submit a written request Arts Initiatives, Michigan State Delaware Tribe of Indians; Eastern with information in support of the University, 466 W Circle Drive, East Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Forest request to Judith Stoddart, Associate Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone County Potawatomi Community, Provost for University Collections and (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ Wisconsin; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe Arts Initiatives, Michigan State msu.edu. of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of University, 466 W Circle Drive, East the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma; Lac (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ here given in accordance with the Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior msu.edu, by October 15, 2020. After that Native American Graves Protection and Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du date, if no additional requestors have Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Flambeau Band of Lake Superior come forward, transfer of control of the 3003, of the completion of an inventory Chippewa Indians of the Lac du human remains and associated funerary of human remains under the control of Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; objects to The Tribes may proceed. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan State University is MI. The human remains were removed Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians responsible for notifying The Tribes, from Mackinac County, MI. of Montana; Menominee Indian Tribe of The Consulted Tribes and Groups, and This notice is published as part of the Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; The Invited Tribes that this notice has National Park Service’s administrative Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota been published. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 (Six component reservations: Bois Forte U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Dated: August 14, 2020. The determinations in this notice are Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Melanie O’Brien, the sole responsibility of the museum, Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Manager, National NAGPRA Program. institution, or Federal agency that has Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe [FR Doc. 2020–20293 Filed 9–14–20; 8:45 am] control of the Native American human of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band BILLING CODE 4312–52–P remains. The National Park Service is Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as not responsible for the determinations Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, in this notice. Kansas); Red Cliff Band of Lake DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Superior Chippewa Indians of Consultation Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa National Park Service A detailed assessment of the human Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox Nation of [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030674; remains was made by Michigan State Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] University professional staff in Fox Nation, Oklahoma; Sac & Fox Tribe consultation with representatives of the of the Mississippi in Iowa; Seneca Notice of Inventory Completion: Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; Nation of Indians (previously listed as Michigan State University, East Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Seneca Nation of New York); Seneca- Lansing, MI Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Cayuga Nation (previously listed as AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Hannahville Indian Community, Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); ACTION: Notice. Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix SUMMARY: Michigan State University has Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; completed an inventory of human Indians of Michigan; Little River Band Stockbridge Munsee Community, remains, in consultation with the of Ottawa Indians, Michigan; Little Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, (previously listed as Tonawanda Band Hawaiian organizations and has Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish of Seneca Indians of New York); Turtle determined that there is no cultural Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of affiliation between the human remains Michigan; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of North Dakota; and the Wyandotte

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