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Band of Nation, Kansas); organizations and has determined that Community, ; Keweenaw Bay Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior there is no cultural affiliation between Indian Community, Michigan; Lac Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Red the human remains and associated Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, funerary objects and any present-day Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little Minnesota; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian River Band of Indians, of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie organizations. Representatives of any Michigan; Bands of Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be- Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa organization not identified in this notice nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix that wish to request transfer of control Indians of Michigan; Nottawaseppi Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; of these human remains and associated Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Stockbridge Munsee Community, funerary objects should submit a written Michigan (previously listed as Huron Wisconsin; Turtle Mountain Band of request to Michigan State University. If Potawatomi, Inc.); Pokagon Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; and no additional requestors come forward, Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and the (hereafter referred transfer of control of the human remains Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). and associated funerary objects to the Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Additional Requestors and Disposition Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; organizations stated in this notice may and two non-federally recognized Representatives of any Indian Tribes proceed. Indian groups, the Burt Lake Band of or Native Hawaiian organization not DATES: Representatives of any Indian Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and the identified in this notice that wish to Tribes or Native Hawaiian organization Band of Ottawa Indians request transfer of control of these not identified in this notice that wish to (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Consulted human remains should submit a written request transfer of control of these Tribes and Groups’’). request with information in support of human remains and associated funerary An invitation to consult was extended the request to Judith Stoddart, Associate objects should submit a written request to the Absentee- of Provost for University Collections and with information in support of the Indians of ; Bad River Band of Arts Initiatives, Michigan State request to Michigan State University at the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa University, 466 W Circle Drive, East the address in this notice by October 15, Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone 2020. Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ ADDRESSES: Judith Stoddart, Associate Community, Michigan; Chippewa msu.edu, by October 15, 2020. After that Provost for University Collections and Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, date, if no additional requestors have Arts Initiatives, Michigan State Montana (previously listed as come forward, transfer of control of the University, 466 W Circle Drive, East Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky human remains objects to The Tribes Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Citizen may proceed. If joined to a request from (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; one or more of The Tribes, the Burt Lake msu.edu. Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe a non-federally recognized Indian SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi group, may receive transfer of control of here given in accordance with the Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse the human remains. Native American Graves Protection and Michigan State University is Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, responsible for notifying The Consulted 3003, of the completion of an inventory Michigan; Hannahville Indian Tribes and Groups, The Invited Tribes, of human remains and associated Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay and The Tribes that this notice has been funerary objects under the control of Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo published. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Dated: August 14, 2020. MI. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe Melanie O’Brien, unknown locations in Michigan. of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band Manager, National NAGPRA Program. This notice is published as part of the of Indians of [FR Doc. 2020–20294 Filed 9–14–20; 8:45 am] National Park Service’s administrative Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of BILLING CODE 4312–52–P responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Lac du Flambeau Reservation of The determinations in this notice are Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the sole responsibility of the museum, Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa National Park Service institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native American human Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030673; remains and associated funerary objects. Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] The National Park Service is not Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, responsible for the determinations in Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Notice of Inventory Completion: this notice. Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan State University, East Michigan; Indian Tribe of Lansing, MI Consultation Wisconsin; ; AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. A detailed assessment of the human Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota ACTION: Notice. remains and associated funerary objects (Six component reservations: Bois Forte was made by Michigan State University Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; SUMMARY: Michigan State University has professional staff in consultation with Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; completed an inventory of human representatives of the Bay Mills Indian Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); remains and associated funerary objects, Community, Michigan; Grand Traverse Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the in consultation with the appropriate Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Michigan; Hannahville Indian as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa

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Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of State University, and on October 4, remains at the time of death or later as Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of 2017, they were found in Michigan State part of the death rite or ceremony. Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and University Forensic Anthropology • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Laboratory. No known individual was relationship of shared group identity Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band identified. No associated funerary cannot be reasonably traced between the of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red objects are present. Native American human remains and Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa In 1971, human remains representing, associated funerary objects and any Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of at minimum, one individual were present-day Indian Tribe. • Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & removed from an unknown site in According to final judgments of the Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Michigan. The human remains (F.3.71) Indian Claims Commission or the Court Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; were transferred to Michigan State of Federal Claims, the land from which Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in University’s Forensic Anthropology the Native American human remains Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Laboratory. No known individual was and associated funerary objects were of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of identified. No associated funerary removed is the aboriginal land of the Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca objects are present. Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Nation of Indians (previously listed as Sometime prior to June 4, 2008, Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad Seneca Nation of New York); Seneca- human remains representing, at River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Cayuga Nation (previously listed as minimum, one individual were removed Indian Community, Michigan; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); from an unknown location in Michigan. Indians of the Rocky Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa On June 4, 2008, Michigan State Police Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix transferred the human remains (FA 019– listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; 08) to Michigan State University’s Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Stockbridge Munsee Community, Forensic Anthropology Laboratory. No Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca known individual was identified. No Wisconsin; Grand River Band of Ottawa (previously listed as the Tonawanda associated funerary objects are present. Indians; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Band of Seneca Indians of New York); On an unknown date, human remains and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa representing, at minimum, one Hannahville Indian Community, Indians of North Dakota; and the individual were removed from an Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian Wyandotte Nation, hereafter referred to unknown site in Michigan. On an as ‘‘The Invited Tribes.’’ Community, Michigan; Lac Courte unknown date, the human remains (FA Oreilles Band of Lake Superior History and Description of the Remains 058–83) were transferred to Michigan Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du On an unknown date, human remains State University, and on October 4, Flambeau Band of Lake Superior representing, at minimum, six 2017, they were found in Michigan State Chippewa Indians of the Lac du individuals were removed from the University’s Forensic Anthropology Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Wildner Site in Michigan (the county Laboratory. No known individual was Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior location is presently unknown). The identified. No associated funerary Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little human remains were discovered by an objects are present. River Band of Ottawa Indians, unknown individual in a bundle burial On an unknown date, human remains Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of that had become exposed as a result of representing, at minimum, one Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little plowing. On an unknown date, the individual were removed from an Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, human remains and associated funerary unknown site in Michigan. On an Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish objects were transferred to Michigan unknown date, the human remains Band of Pottawatomi Indians of State University. No known individuals (7471) were transferred to Michigan Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, were identified. The two associated State University, and in July of 2019, Minnesota (Six component reservations: funerary objects are one ground stone they were found in Michigan State Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du and one lot of lithic tools and debitage. University’s Forensic Anthropology Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech On an unknown date, human remains Laboratory. No known individual was Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White representing, at minimum, one identified. No associated funerary Earth Band); Nottawaseppi Huron Band individual were removed from an objects are present. of the Potawatomi, Michigan unknown location in Michigan. The Determinations Made by Michigan (previously listed as the Huron human remains (2004.45.255) were State University Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa Tribe of acquired by Kalamazoo resident Donald Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Boudeman, who collected Southwest Officials of Michigan State University Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Native American material culture in the have determined that: Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi first half of the twentieth century. In • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band July of 1961, years after her husband’s human remains described in this notice of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red death, Donna Boudeman donated the are Native American based on biological Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa human remains (and parts of Mr. evidence, museum records, and Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Boudeman’s collection) to Michigan geographic location. Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw State University Museum. No known • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; individual was identified. No associated human remains described in this notice Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa funerary objects are present. represent the physical remains of 12 Indians, Michigan; Sokaogon Chippewa On an unknown date, human remains individuals of Native American Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix representing, at minimum, one ancestry. Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; and the individual were removed from an • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa unknown site in Michigan. On an the two objects described in this notice Indians of North Dakota. unknown date, the human remains are reasonably believed to have been • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or (F.1.0) were transferred to Michigan placed with or near individual human Executive Orders indicate that the land

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from which the Native American human Band of Seneca (previously listed as Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of remains and associated funerary objects Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & were removed is the aboriginal land of New York); Turtle Mountain Band of Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the the Wyandotte Nation. Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa • According to other authoritative Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Indians of the Bad River Reservation, government sources, the land from of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian which the Native American human Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Seneca Community, Michigan; Chippewa Cree remains and associated funerary objects Nation of Indians (previously listed as Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, were removed is the aboriginal land of Seneca Nation of New York); Seneca- Montana (previously listed as the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Cayuga Nation (previously listed as Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Citizen Oklahoma; and the Sac & Fox Tribe of Shawnee Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa the Mississippi in Iowa. Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; • Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe disposition of the human remains and Stockbridge Munsee Community, associated funerary objects may be to of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse (previously listed as Tonawanda Band of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, of Seneca Indians of New York); Turtle Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Michigan; Hannahville Indian Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of Indians of the Bad River Reservation, North Dakota; and the Wyandotte Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Nation (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Community, Michigan; Chippewa Cree Tribes’’). Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Montana (previously listed as Additional Requestors and Disposition Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Representatives of any Indian Tribes of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Citizen of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of or Native Hawaiian organization not Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; identified in this notice that wish to Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the request transfer of control of these Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe human remains and associated funerary Lac du Flambeau Reservation of of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of objects should submit a written request Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse with information in support of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa request to Judith Stoddart, Associate Michigan; Hannahville Indian Provost for University Collections and Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little Arts Initiatives, Michigan State Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo University, 466 W. Circle Drive, East Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Lansing, MI 48824–1044, telephone Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo (517) 432–2524, email stoddart@ Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of msu.edu, by October 15, 2020. After that of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band date, if no additional requestors have Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota come forward, transfer of control of the Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of human remains and associated funerary (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the objects to The Tribes may proceed. Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Michigan State University is Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of responsible for notifying The Tribes, Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of The Consulted Tribes and Groups, and Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Michigan; Little River Band of Ottawa The Invited Tribes that this notice has Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed Indians, Michigan; Little Shell Tribe of been published. as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa Chippewa Indians of Montana; Little Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Dated: August 14, 2020. Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Melanie O’Brien, Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Michigan; Menominee Indian Tribe of [FR Doc. 2020–20296 Filed 9–14–20; 8:45 am] Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; BILLING CODE 4312–52–P of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); National Park Service Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0030670; Indians (previously listed as Seneca as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Nation of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Nation (previously listed as Seneca- Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of Notice of Inventory Completion: Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Shawnee Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Michigan State University, East Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi Lansing, MI Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. of Wisconsin; Stockbridge Munsee of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red ACTION: Notice. Community, Wisconsin; Tonawanda Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

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