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The human remains consist of two Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR teeth—a lower left molar and right first Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish molar. The roots were gone Band of Pottawatomi Indians of National Park Service taphonomically. The wear patterns Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0032048; indicate that teeth belong to an adult. Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] Determinations of sex, pathology or (Six component reservations: Bois Forte other traits were not possible. No known Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Notice of Inventory Completion: individuals were identified. No Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Metropolitan Park District of the associated funerary objects are present. Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); Toledo Area, Toledo, OH At the ISMHS, staff from the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the University of Indianapolis assessed the AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. human remains and determined that Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed ACTION: Notice. they could be Native American. Taking as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa into account the archeological history of Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of SUMMARY: The Metropolitan Park the area, the ISMHS has determined that Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of District of the Toledo Area (Metroparks the human remains are more likely than Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Toledo) has completed an inventory of not Native American. Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi human remains and associated funerary Nation (previously listed as Prairie Band objects, in consultation with the Determinations Made by the Indiana of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas); Red appropriate Indian Tribes or Native State Museum and Historic Sites Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Hawaiian organizations, and has Corporation, State of Indiana Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of determined that there is no cultural Officials of the Indiana State Museum Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw affiliation between the human remains and Historic Sites Corporation, State of Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; and associated funerary objects and any Indiana have determined that: Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa present-day Indian Tribes or Native • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Indians, Michigan; Shawnee Tribe; Hawaiian organizations. Representatives human remains described in this notice of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Sokaogon Chippewa Community, are Native American based on analysis organization not identified in this notice Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of the teeth and the archeological that wish to request transfer of control history of the find locality. of Wisconsin; Turtle Mountain Band of of these human remains and associated • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; and funerary objects should submit a written human remains described in this notice the Wyandotte Nation (hereafter referred request to Metroparks Toledo. If no represent the physical remains of one to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). additional requestors come forward, individual of Native American ancestry. • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the transfer of control of the human remains • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a disposition of the human remains may and associated funerary objects to the relationship of shared group identity be to The Tribes. Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian cannot be reasonably traced between the organizations stated in this notice may Native American human remains and Additional Requestors and Disposition proceed. any present-day Indian Tribe. DATES: Representatives of any Indian • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Representatives of any Indian Tribe or Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization Executive Orders, indicate that the land Native Hawaiian organization not not identified in this notice that wish to from which the Native American human identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these remains were removed is the aboriginal request transfer of control of these human remains and associated funerary land of the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of human remains should submit a written objects should submit a written request Indians of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of request with information in support of with information in support of the the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa the request to Michele Greenan, Indiana request to Metroparks Toledo at the Indians of the Bad River Reservation, State Museum and Historic Sites, address in this notice by July 8, 2021. Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Corporation, 650 West Washington St., Community, Michigan; Chippewa Cree Indianapolis, IN 46204, telephone (317) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, 473–0836, email mgreenan@ Joseph Fausnaugh, Metroparks of the Toledo Area, 5100 West Central Montana (previously listed as indianamuseum.org, by July 8, 2021. Avenue, Toledo, OH 43615, telephone Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky After that date, if no additional Boy’s Reservation, Montana); Citizen (419) 407–9700, email joe.fausnaugh@ requestors have come forward, transfer metroparkstoledo.com. Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; of control of the human remains to The Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Forest Tribes may proceed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is County Potawatomi Community, here given in accordance with the Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of The Indiana State Museum and Native American Graves Protection and Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Historic Sites Corporation, State of Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Michigan; Hannahville Indian Indiana is responsible for notifying The 3003, of the completion of an inventory Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Consulted Tribes that this notice has of human remains and associated Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo been published. funerary objects under the control of the Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Dated: May 25, 2021. Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Melanie O’Brien, Area, Toledo, OH. The human remains Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe and associated funerary objects were Manager, National NAGPRA Program. of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band removed from the Fore Site (33LU0133) of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of [FR Doc. 2021–11941 Filed 6–7–21; 8:45 am] in the City of Maumee, Lucas County, Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of BILLING CODE 4312–52–P OH. Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the This notice is published as part of the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of National Park Service’s administrative Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25

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U.S.C. 3003(d)(3) and 43 CFR 10.11(d). tools made of Dundee/Stoney Creek, human remains at the time of death or The determinations in this notice are Ten Mile Creek, Bayport, Cedarville/ later as part of the death rite or the sole responsibility of the museum, Guelph, Delaware, Upper Mercer, Upper ceremony. institution, or Federal agency that has Mercer Nellie Variety, Greywacke, • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), a control of the Native American human Onondaga, Quartzite, Local Devonian relationship of shared group identity remains and associated funerary objects. Limestone, Flint Ridge, and Pipe Creek cannot be reasonably traced between the The National Park Service is not cherts, one ground stone tool made of Native American human remains and responsible for the determinations in igneous rock, three projectile points associated funerary objects and any this notice. made of Flint Ridge and Bayport cherts, present-day Indian Tribe. four fire-cracked rocks made of igneous • According to final judgments of the Consultation rock and limestone, 62 unmodified Indian Claims Commission or the Court A detailed assessment of the human natural rocks, 408 fired and unfired clay of Federal Claims, the land from which remains was made for Metroparks sherds, four pottery temper fragments, the Native American human remains Toledo by The Mannik Smith Group, 1,408 faunal remains representing deer, were removed is the aboriginal land of Inc. professional staff in consultation cow, rabbit, raccoon, squirrel, turtle, the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma. with representatives of the Absentee- unidentified rodents, unidentified birds, • Treaties, Acts of Congress, or Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; unidentified reptiles, and shell Executive Orders, indicate that the land Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; fragments, two burned nut fragments, from which the Native American human Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware 276 charcoal fragments, one bag of soil remains and associated funerary objects Tribe of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe with numerous small charcoal were removed is the aboriginal land of of Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi fragments, five slag pieces, one nail the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians Community, Wisconsin; Grand Traverse fragment, three unidentified ferrous of Oklahoma; Bad River Band of the Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, metal fragments, 53 brick fragments, and Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Michigan; Lac Vieux Desert Band of two whiteware sherds. Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Following the excavations, all the Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of materials removed from the Fore Site Community, Michigan; Chippewa Cree Odawa Indians, Michigan; Match-e-be- were taken to the Heidelberg College Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Archaeology Laboratory in Tiffin, Ohio. Montana [previously listed as Indians of Michigan; Miami Tribe of A report of investigations for the 1987 Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Oklahoma; Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, field season at the Fore Site was Boy’s Reservation, Montana]; Citizen Minnesota (Mille Lacs Band); completed by Dr. G. Michael Pratt in the Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the spring of 1988. The Fore Site collection Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Forest Potawatomi, Michigan [previously listed remained at Heidelberg College (now County Potawatomi Community, as Huron Potawaomi, Inc.]; Pokagon Heidelberg University) until the summer Wisconsin; Grand Traverse Band of Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan of 2017, when the university eliminated Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and Indiana; Saginaw Chippewa Indian its anthropology program. At that time, Michigan; Hannahville Indian Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie all archeological collections from Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan; Metroparks Toledo-owned property Indian Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Shawnee Tribe, Tonawanda Band of were returned to Metroparks Toledo. Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo Seneca [previously listed as Tonawanda Metroparks Toledo then negotiated an Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Band of Seneca Indians of New York]; agreement with the Ohio History Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe and the Wyandotte Nation (hereafter Connection (OHC) in Columbus to have of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band referred to as ‘‘The Consulted Tribes’’). the OHC permanently store Metroparks of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of History and Description of the Remains Toledo’s archeological collections in its archeological curation facility (which Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of the Between May 18 and June 19, 1987, meets the Secretary of the Interior’s Lac du Flambeau Reservation of human remains representing, at standards [36 CFR 79] for such Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of minimum, two individuals were facilities). Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of removed from the Fore Site (33LU0133) Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish in Lucas County, OH. The Fore Site was Determinations Made by the Band of Pottawatomi Indians of excavated by archeologists from Metropolitan Park District of the Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Heidelberg College in 1986 and 1987. Toledo Area Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota During the 1987 field season, a burial Officials of the Metropolitan Park (Six component reservations: Bois Forte feature was excavated. The burial District of the Toledo Area have Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; contained one individual. Based on determined that: Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; artifacts contained in the feature, the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band); burial was dated to the Younge Phase of human remains described in this notice Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the the Late Woodland period (ca. 1050–800 are Native American based on Potawatomi, Michigan [previously listed B.P.), part of the Western Basin archeological context, biological as Huron Potawatomi, Inc.]; Ottawa Tradition culture as described by evidence, museum, and lab records. Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of archeologists. No radiometric dating of • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the Indians of Oklahoma; Pokagon Band of any materials from the feature was human remains described in this notice Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and undertaken. In addition to the burial, represent the physical remains of two Indiana; Prairie Band Potawatomi the human remains of one individual individuals of Native American Nation [previously listed as Prairie Band were recovered from another stratum. ancestry. of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas]; Red No known individuals were identified. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa The 2,828 associated funerary objects the 2,828 objects described in this Indians of Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of include: One fossilized crinoid bead, notice are reasonably believed to have Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Saginaw 594 pieces of lithic debitage, cores, and been placed with or near individual Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan;

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Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian History and Description of the Remains Indians, Michigan; Shawnee Tribe; organization not identified in this notice Sokaogon Chippewa Community, that wish to request transfer of control In November 1890, human remains Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of these human remains and associated representing, at minimum, two of Wisconsin; Turtle Mountain Band of funerary object should submit a written individuals (record numbers 8286 and Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; and request to the University of 8292) were removed from ‘‘ash pits’’ the Wyandotte Nation (hereafter referred Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology near Trenton, Mercer County, NJ, by to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). and Anthropology. If no additional Ernest Volk (b. 1845–d. 1919), according • Pursuant to 43 CFR 10.11(c)(1), the requestors come forward, transfer of to the Museum’s records. At the time, disposition of the human remains and control of the human remains and Volk was an archeologist working under associated funerary objects may be to associated funerary object to the lineal the aegis of the Harvard Peabody The Tribes. descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Based on what is known about Volk’s Additional Requestors and Disposition Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed. fieldwork activities (as gleaned from his Representatives of any Indian Tribe or notes of November 1890 and other, DATES: Lineal descendants or Native Hawaiian organization not representatives of any Indian Tribe or published information), these human identified in this notice that wish to Native Hawaiian organization not remains most likely were removed from request transfer of control of these identified in this notice that wish to Lalor and Wrights Field site (28ME10). human remains and associated funerary request transfer of control of these According to Volk’s records, he dug two objects should submit a written request human remains and associated funerary trenches at Lalor Field during November with information in support of the object should submit a written request 3–8, 1890. In one, he found features that request to Joseph Fausnaugh, with information in support of the he labeled ‘‘Potholes.’’ Volk described Metroparks of the Toledo Area, 5100 request to the University of the presence of bone, ash or charcoal (or West Central Avenue, Toledo, OH Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology both), lithics, pottery, and faunal 42615, telephone (419) 407–9700, email and Anthropology at the address in this remains. Based on this description, the [email protected], notice by July 8, 2021. Museum’s records, and consultation by July 8, 2021. After that date, if no information, the above listed human FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: additional requestors have come Dr. remains most likely were removed from forward, transfer of control of the Christopher Woods, Williams Director, these ‘‘Potholes’’ or from other features human remains and associated funerary University of Pennsylvania Museum of located during the Lalor Field objects to The Tribes may proceed. Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 excavations. That same month, these The Metropolitan Park District of the South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104– human remains were gifted to the Toledo Area is responsible for notifying 6324, telephone (215) 898–4050, email University of Pennsylvania Museum of The Tribes that this notice has been [email protected]. Archaeology and Anthropology by Carl published. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Edelheim and Clarence S. Bement, both here given in accordance with the Dated: May 25, 2021. of whom were associated with the Native American Graves Protection and University of Pennsylvania and its Melanie O’Brien, Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. Manager, National NAGPRA Program. museum. How the human remains came 3003, of the completion of an inventory to be in the possession of Edelheim and [FR Doc. 2021–11942 Filed 6–7–21; 8:45 am] of human remains and associated Bement is unclear. The human BILLING CODE 4312–52–P funerary object under the control of the remains—cranial elements—belong to University of Pennsylvania Museum of two adults of undetermined sex. No Archaeology and Anthropology, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR known individuals were identified. The Philadelphia, PA. The human remains one associated funerary object is an National Park Service and associated funerary object were unidentified animal bone (record removed from Lalor and Wright Fields number 8290). [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0032045; site (28ME10), Mercer County, NJ. PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] This notice is published as part of the The archeological evidence from Lalor National Park Service’s administrative Field indicates this site dates to the Notice of Inventory Completion: responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 Middle and Late Woodland Period. University of Pennsylvania Museum of U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in These human remains were determined Archaeology and Anthropology, this notice are the sole responsibility of to be Native American based on their Philadelphia, PA the museum, institution, or Federal archeological context and collection history. Archeological, consultation, AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. agency that has control of the Native historical, and linguistic information, ACTION: Notice. American human remains and associated funerary object. The National and oral tradition support a cultural SUMMARY: The University of Park Service is not responsible for the affiliation of this Woodland site with Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology determinations in this notice. the Delaware (Lenape). Today, the and Anthropology has completed an Lenape are represented by three Indian inventory of human remains and Consultation Tribes—the Delaware Nation, associated funerary object, in A detailed assessment of the human Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe of Indians; consultation with the appropriate remains was made by the University of and the Stockbridge Munsee Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology Community, Wisconsin. organizations, and has determined that and Anthropology professional staff in Determinations Made by the University there is a cultural affiliation between the consultation with representatives of the of Pennsylvania Museum of human remains and associated funerary Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Archaeology and Anthropology object and present-day Indian Tribes or Tribe of Indians; and the Stockbridge Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Munsee Community, Wisconsin Officials of the University of descendants or representatives of any (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The Tribes’’). Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology

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