80 FR 29735 - Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 99 (May 22, 2015)

Grand Valley State University has corrected an inventory of human remains published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register on February 2, 2015. This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals listed in that notice. Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a written request to Grand Valley State University. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29735-29736]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12529]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-18039; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP15.R50000]


Notice of Inventory Completion: Grand Valley State University, 
Allendale, MI; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: Grand Valley State University has corrected an inventory of 
human remains published in a Notice of Inventory Completion in the 
Federal Register on February 2, 2015. This notice corrects the minimum 
number of individuals listed in that notice. Lineal descendants or 
representatives of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian organization not 
identified in this notice that wish to request transfer of control of 
these human remains should submit a written request to Grand Valley 
State University. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of 
control of the human remains to the lineal descendants, Indian tribes, 
or Native Hawaiian organizations stated in this notice may proceed.

DATES: Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or 
Native Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Grand 
Valley State University at the address in this notice by June 22, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Janet G. Brashler, Professor and Curator of Anthropology, 
Grand Valley State University, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401, 
telephone (616) 331-3694, email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is here given in accordance with the 
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 
U.S.C. 3003, of the correction of an inventory of human remains under 
the control of Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI. The human 
remains were removed from near Muir, Ionia County, MI.
    This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's 
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The 
determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the 
museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the Native 
American human remains. The National Park Service is not responsible 
for the determinations in this notice.
    This notice corrects the minimum number of individuals published in 
a Notice of Inventory Completion in the Federal Register (80 FR 6014, 
February 4, 2015). Re-inventory of a collection donated to Grand Valley 
State University by an avocational archeologist in 2001 revealed the 
presence of several cranial elements from a minimum number of one 
individual. No other human remains were identified in the collection. 
Transfer of control of the items in this correction notice has not 
occurred.

Correction

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6018, February 4, 2015), paragraph 3 
is corrected by inserting the following paragraph:

    On an unknown date between 1950 and 1990, human remains 
representing, at minimum, one individual were removed from an 
archeological site in the vicinity of Muir Michigan in Ionia County 
by avocational archeologist Buerl Guernsey. Guernsey subsequently 
donated his collection in 2001 to the Grand Valley State University 
Department of Anthropology Laboratory. The remains are those of an 
adult of undetermined sex and were recovered during surface 
collection from one of a series of sites in the vicinity. The date 
and time period for the remains is unknown because sites from the 
Woodland to Late Prehistoric (600 B.C.-A.D. 1640) are present in the 
area. No known individuals were identified. No associated funerary 
objects are present.

    In the Federal Register (80 FR 6018, February 4, 2015), paragraph 4 
is corrected by substituting the following paragraph:

    Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in 
this notice represent the physical remains of 112 individuals of 
Native American ancestry.

Additional Requestors and Disposition

    Lineal descendants or representatives of any Indian tribe or Native 
Hawaiian organization not identified in this notice that wish to 
request transfer of control of these human remains should submit a 
written request with information in support of the request to Janet G. 
Brashler, Professor and Curator of Anthropology, Grand Valley State 
University, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401, telephone (616) 331-
3694, email [email protected], by June 22, 2015. After that date, if no 
additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the 
human remains to the Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Bad 
River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad 
River Reservation, Wisconsin; Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan; 
Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake) of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; 
Chippewa-Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana; Citizen 
Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Nation, Oklahoma; Delaware Tribe 
of Indians; Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma; Fond du Lac Band of the 
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Forest County Potawatomi 
Community, Wisconsin; Grand Portage Band of the Minnesota Chippewa 
Tribe, Minnesota; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 
Michigan; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Keweenaw Bay Indian 
Community, Michigan; Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas; Kickapoo 
Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas; Kickapoo Tribe 
of Oklahoma; Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians 
of Wisconsin; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
the Lac du Flambeau Reservation of Wisconsin; Lac Vieux Desert Band of 
Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan; Leech Lake Band of the 
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Little River Band of Ottawa 
Indians, Michigan; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 
Michigan; Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of 
Michigan; Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Mille Lacs Band of the Minnesota 
Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, 
Michigan (previously listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.); Ottawa 
Tribe of Oklahoma; Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma; Prairie Band 
Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi 
Nation, Kansas); Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and 
Indiana; Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California 
& Arizona; Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of 
Wisconsin; Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota; Sac & Fox 
Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma; 
Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian 
Tribe of Michigan; Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, 
Michigan; Seneca Nation of Indians (previously listed as the Seneca 
Nation of New York); Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma; Shawnee Tribe; 
Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin; St. Croix Chippewa Indians of 
Wisconsin; Tonawanda Band of Seneca (previously

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listed as the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York); Turtle 
Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota; White Earth Band of 
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota; and the Wyandotte Nation may 
proceed. Hereafter, all tribes listed in this section are referred to 
as ``The Tribes.''
    Grand Valley State University is responsible for notifying The 
Tribes that this notice has been published.

    Dated: April 16, 2015.
Mariah Soriano,
Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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