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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 179 / Tuesday, September 15, 2020 / Notices 57237 Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); organizations and has determined that Community, Michigan; 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 Ottawa Indians, Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie organizations. Representatives of any Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be- Shawnee 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 Wyandotte Nation (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 Grand River 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-Shawnee Tribe of Provost for University Collections and with information in support of the Indians of Oklahoma; 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 Cree 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. Delaware 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 Lake Superior Chippewa 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; Menominee Indian Tribe of Lansing, MI Consultation Wisconsin; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Sep 14, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\15SEN1.SGM 15SEN1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES 57238 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 179 / Tuesday, September 15, 2020 / Notices 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. Chippewa Cree 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