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Mexico were invited to consult but did Process upon receipt of formal the request to Sheila Goff, NAGPRA not participate. Hereafter all tribes listed responses from the Jicarilla Apache Liaison, History , 1200 above are referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Nation, New Mexico, and the Kiowa Broadway, Denver, CO 80203, telephone and Invited Tribes.’’ Indian Tribe of , subject to (303) 866–4531, email sheila.goff@ forthcoming conditions imposed by the state.co.us by June 10, 2016. After that History and Description of the Remains Secretary of the Interior. On May 15–16, date, if no additional requestors have On November 12, 2015, the Fremont 2008, the responses from the Jicarilla come forward, transfer of control of the County Coroner took possession of one Apache Nation, New Mexico, and the human remains to the Southern Ute set of human remains from a private Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma were Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute citizen who indicated they had been submitted to the Review Committee. On Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute removed by her in about 1980 from a September 23, 2008, the Assistant Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain river bank on the Arkansas River near Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Coaldale, CO. After ruling out forensic Parks, as the designee for the Secretary Utah may proceed. interest the Coroner notified the Office of the Interior, transmitted the History Colorado is responsible for of the State Archaeologist (OSAC), who authorization for the disposition of notifying The Consulted and Invited took possession of the human remains culturally unidentifiable human Tribes that this notice has been in January 2016. The individual is an remains according to the Process and published. adult represented by a mandible and a NAGPRA, pending publication of a Dated: April 27, 2016. small number of post-cranial elements Notice of Inventory Completion in the Melanie O’Brien, and is identified as OAHP 312. Federal Register. This notice fulfills Osteological analysis determined that that requirement. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. the human remains are of Native 43 CFR 10.11 was promulgated on [FR Doc. 2016–11091 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am] American ancestry. No known March 15, 2010, to provide a process for BILLING CODE 4312–50–P individuals were identified. No the disposition of culturally associated funerary objects are present. unidentifiable Native American human History Colorado, in partnership with remains recovered from tribal or DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the Colorado Commission of Indian aboriginal lands as established by the National Park Service Affairs, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the final judgment of the Indian Claims Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, Commission or U.S. Court of Claims, a and the Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute treaty, Act of Congress, or Executive [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–20967; Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Order, or other authoritative Mexico & Utah, conducted tribal governmental sources. As there is no consultations among the tribes with Notice of Inventory Completion: evidence indicating that the human ancestral ties to the State of Colorado to Michigan State Police, Jackson Post, remains reported in this notice develop the process for disposition of Jackson, MI originated from tribal or aboriginal culturally unidentifiable Native lands, they are eligible for disposition AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. American human remains and under the Process. associated funerary objects originating ACTION: Notice. from inadvertent discoveries on Determinations Made by History SUMMARY: Colorado State and private lands. As a Colorado The Michigan State Police, Jackson Post MSP13 has completed an result of the consultation, a process was Officials of History Colorado have developed, Process for Consultation, inventory of human remains, in determined that: consultation with the appropriate Transfer, and Reburial of Culturally • Based on osteological analysis, the Unidentifiable Native American Human Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian human remains are Native American. organizations, and has determined that Remains and Associated Funerary • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Objects Originating From Inadvertent there is no cultural affiliation between human remains described in this notice the human remains and any present-day Discoveries on Colorado State and represent the physical remains of one Private Lands, (2008, unpublished, on Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian individual of Native American ancestry. organizations. Representatives of any file with the Colorado Office of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Archaeology and Historic Preservation). relationship of shared group identity organization not identified in this notice The Consulted and Invited Tribes are cannot be reasonably traced between the that wish to request transfer of control those who have expressed their wishes Native American human remains and of these human remains should submit to be notified of discoveries in the Great any present-day Indian tribe. Basin Consultation Region as • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(2)(ii) a written request to the Michigan State established by the Process, where these and the Process, the disposition of the Police, Jackson Post. If no additional individuals originated. human remains may be to the Southern requestors come forward, transfer of The Native American Graves Ute Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute control of the human remains to the Protection and Repatriation Review Reservation, Colorado, and the Ute Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian Committee (Review Committee) is Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain organizations stated in this notice may responsible for recommending specific Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & proceed. actions for disposition of culturally Utah. DATES: Representatives of any Indian unidentifiable human remains. On tribe or Native Hawaiian organization November 3–4, 2006, the Process was Additional Requestors and Disposition not identified in this notice that wish to presented to the Review Committee for Representatives of any Indian tribe or request transfer of control of these consideration. A January 8, 2007, letter Native Hawaiian organization not human remains should submit a written on behalf of the Review Committee from identified in this notice that wish to request with information in support of the Designated Federal Officer request transfer of control of these the request to the Michigan State Police, transmitted the provisional human remains should submit a written Jackson Post at the address in this notice authorization to proceed with the request with information in support of by June 10, 2016.

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ADDRESSES: D/Sgt. Cyndee Gochanour, Band of Pottawatomi Indians of half of a right femur, the distal half of Michigan State Police, Jackson Post #13, Michigan; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, a right femur (both elements are 3401 Cooper Street, Jackson, MI 49201, Minnesota (Six component reservations: consistent and may have fit together telephone (517) 780–4580, email Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du prior to taphonomic changes), a distal [email protected]. Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech half of the left humerus, two left fibular SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White fragments, T6 through T12, and several here given in accordance with the Earth Band); Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma; small cranial fragments. Native American Graves Protection and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Determinations Made by the Michigan 3003, of the completion of an inventory Potawatomi Nation, ); Quechan State Police, Jackson Post Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian of human remains under the control of Officials of the Michigan State Police, Reservation, California & Arizona; Red the Michigan State Police, Jackson Post. Jackson post have determined that: The human remains were removed from Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa • South Meridian Road, Pittsford Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Township, Hillsdale County, MI. Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw human remains described in this notice This notice is published as part of the Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; St. are Native American based on the report National Park Service’s administrative Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; received from Michigan State University responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Anthropology Department. U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). Indians, Michigan; Seneca Nation of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the The determinations in this notice are Indians (previously listed as the Seneca human remains described in this notice the sole responsibility of the museum, Nation of ); Seneca-Cayuga represent the physical remains of one institution, or Federal agency that has Nation (previously listed as the Seneca- individual of Native American ancestry. control of the Native American human Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma); Shawnee • remains. The National Park Service is Tribe; Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a not responsible for the determinations Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca relationship of shared group identity in this notice. (previously listed as the Tonawanda cannot be reasonably traced between the Band of Seneca Indians of New York); Native American human remains and Consultation Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa any present-day Indian tribe. A detailed assessment of the human Indians of North Dakota; and the • According to final judgement of remains was made by the Michigan Wyandotte Nation (all tribes listed in Indian Claims Commission or the Court State University Anthropology this section are hereafter referred to as of Federal Claims, or Treaties, Acts of Department on behalf of the Michigan ‘‘The Consulted and Invited Tribes’’). Congress, or Executive Orders the land State Police, Jackson Post, in from which the Native American human consultation with the Citizen History and Description of the Remains remains were removed is the aboriginal Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Little On November 19, 2015, human land of The Consulted and Invited Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, remains representing, at minimum, one Tribes. Michigan; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of individual were removed from a quarry the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously located on South Meridian Road, • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc); Pittsford Township, Hillsdale County, disposition of the human remains may and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi MI, while a quarry worker was be to The Consulted and Invited Tribes. Indians, Michigan and Indiana. excavating gravel. The quarry worker Additional Requestors and Disposition The following tribes were invited to contacted his boss and the landowner, consult, but did not participate: who in turn contacted the Michigan Representatives of any Indian tribe or Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of State Police, Jackson Post (complaint Native Hawaiian organization not Oklahoma; Bad River Band of Lake 13–7550–15). The Michigan State identified in this notice that wish to Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of University, Anthropology Department request transfer of control of these the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin; completed a preliminary analysis of the human remains should submit a written Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; human remains through photographs request with information in support of Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky sent by cell phone. The human remains the request to: D/Sgt. Cyndee Boy’s Reservation, Montana (previously were believed to be Native American. Gochanour, Michigan State Police, listed as the Chippewa-Cree Indians of Michigan State University, Jackson Post #13, 3401 Cooper Street, the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Anthropology Department arrived at the Jackson, MI 49201, telephone (517) 780– Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware venue and assisted in the recovery of 4580, email [email protected], Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe additional skeletal remains. Michigan by June 10, 2016. After that date, if no of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi State University, Anthropology additional requestors have come Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Department took possession of the forward, transfer of control of the Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, human remains for further analysis and human remains may be to The Michigan; Hannahville Indian confirmed the human remains were one Consulted and Invited Tribes. Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Native American male. No known Indian Community, Michigan; Lac individuals were identified. No The Michigan State Police, Jackson Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior associated funerary objects are present. Post is responsible for notifying The Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du The human remains are consistent Consulted and Invited Tribes that this Flambeau Band of Lake Superior with that of a prehistoric Great Lake notice has published. Chippewa Indians of the Lac du Native American, gracile male, Dated: April 27, 2016. Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac suggested age range of 14–23. No lines Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior of evidence for present-day cultural Melanie O’Brien, Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Little affiliation where identifiable. The Manager, National NAGPRA Program. River Band of Ottawa Indians, skeletal elements present include: A [FR Doc. 2016–11086 Filed 5–10–16; 8:45 am] Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish mostly complete cranium, the proximal BILLING CODE 4312–50–P

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