83 FR 32315 - Notice of Inventory Completion: State Historic Preservation Office, Lansing, MI
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 134 (July 12, 2018)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 134 (July 12, 2018)
| Page Range | 32315-32316 | |
| FR Document | 2018-14905 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 134 (Thursday, July 12, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 32315-32316] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-14905] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0025846; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000] Notice of Inventory Completion: State Historic Preservation Office, Lansing, MI AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Michigan State Housing Development Authority, has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects in consultation with the appropriate Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and present-day Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations. 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 the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. If no additional requestors come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to the State Historic Preservation Office at the address in this notice by August 13, 2018. ADDRESSES: Dean L. Anderson, State Historic Preservation Office, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, 735 East Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI 48909, telephone: (517) 373-1618, 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 completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects under the control of the State Historic Preservation Office, Lansing, MI. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from a highway construction project on US-12, Lenawee 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. Consultation A detailed assessment of the human remains was made during 1993- 1995 by the former Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) professional staff and by a physical anthropologist. According to documents held by the SHPO, in 1995 the OSA initiated consultation on the human remains and funerary objects with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas). History and Description of the Remains In the 1920s, human remains representing nine individuals were removed from a highway construction project in Lenawee County, MI. In 1925, the remains were re-interred on the grounds of the Walker Tavern historic site, located a few miles from the highway construction project. The Walker Tavern structure was built around 1832, as a farmhouse, and then became a tavern and inn along the Detroit to Chicago stagecoach route. In 1921, Frederic Hewitt converted the tavern into a museum, and in 1965, the structure was sold to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The Parks and Recreation Division of the Michigan Department of Conservation operated the historic site until 1975, when the Michigan Historical Museum, which was part of the Michigan Historical Center (MHC), took responsibility for the Walker Tavern museum and its collections. In the mid-1990s, Barbara Mead, Assistant State Archaeologist, did the NAGPRA reporting for the Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) and for the state museum. At that time, the state museum turned over to Ms. Mead a single cranium and associated funerary objects that she determined had been [[Page 32316]] part of the group of human remains that was re-interred on the grounds of the Walker Tavern site in 1925. In 2009, the Department of History, Arts, and Libraries, which included both the OSA and the state museum, was eliminated. The state museum was moved into the Department of Natural Resources, and the OSA was moved into the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Soon after that, the OSA was eliminated, and the archaeology staff were moved into the SHPO. Consequently, the archaeological collections, including the Walker Tavern materials, are now held by the SHPO. The human remains in the Walker Tavern collection include a single cranium with no teeth present and lacking the mandible. The cranium was examined by a physical anthropologist who stated that the individual was approximately 10-15 years of age, and that no determination of sex or ethnic identity of the individual could be made. No known individuals were identified. When the state museum assumed responsibility for the Walker Tavern collection in 1975, the cranium was recorded under Michigan Department of Conservation accession number A1253. The state museum assigned catalog number FA-155-75 to the cranium. The state museum also cataloged a group of 18 funerary objects associated with the human remains disinterred during road construction in the 1920s. The 18 associated funerary objects are: One pewter spoon, one bottle, one oval stone, one deer mandible, three loose teeth, one lot of fur pieces with tassels wrapped in porcupine quill, one silver armband, one wooden bowl or toy canoe, one lot of wool scraps, one lot of linen scraps, one silver armband, one copper or brass kettle fragment, one iron knife blade, one lot of very small bone chips, one lot of shell and glass beads and one pewter bowl. Based on the funerary objects, it is estimated that the original interment of the objects and the human remains took place between approximately 1760 and 1810. A typescript in the MHC Walker Tavern files identified as an article in the Lenawee County Exponent dated November 22, 1923, describes the discovery of Indian graves and artifacts during road construction work in the Irish Hills area. The article mentions some of the same funerary objects described above and associated with the cranium. This assemblage of funerary objects, including trade silver and beads, together with the cranium, represent a Native American interment. The inventory that Assistant State Archaeologist Barbara Mead compiled in 1995 included the following information on cultural affiliation: Probably Potawatomi. Early in the eighteenth century, the Potawatomi, Miami, Ottawa, Huron/Wyandotte and Kickapoo were present in southern Michigan. Most of the reports for tribes other than the Potawatomi are from the pre-1720 era. By the 1760s, the Potawatomi territory included Lenawee County; no other tribes seemed to be present, except perhaps as travelers or temporary residents. (Cleland, Charles E., 1992, Rites of Conquest, the University of Michigan Press; Tanner, Helen Hornbeck (ed.), 1987, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, University of Oklahoma Press; Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.), 1978, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15: Northeast, Smithsonian Institution). Determinations Made by the State Historic Preservation Office Officials of the State Historic Preservation Office have determined that:Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the human remains described in this notice represent the physical remains of one individual of Native American ancestry. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), the 18 objects described in this notice are reasonably believed to have been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony. Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native American human remains and associated funerary objects and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas). 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 and associated funerary objects should submit a written request with information in support of the request to Dean L. Anderson, State Historic Preservation Office, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, 735 East Michigan Avenue, P.O. Box 30044, Lansing, MI 48909, telephone (517) 373-1618, email [email protected], by August 13, 2018. After that date, if no additional requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains and associated funerary objects to the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas) may proceed. The State Historic Preservation Office is responsible for notifying the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas) that this notice has been published. Dated: June 21, 2018. Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. [FR Doc. 2018-14905 Filed 7-11-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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dance are traditionally considered to be Dated: June 1, 2018. funerary objects under the control of the
sacred in origin they are for Native Melanie O’Brien, State Historic Preservation Office,
Americans a form of prayer . . . and Manager, National NAGPRA Program. Lansing, MI. The human remains and
because most song is accompanied by [FR Doc. 2018–14896 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am] associated funerary objects were
percussion of some sort—drums more BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
removed from a highway construction
often than not—the instruments project on US–12, Lenawee County, MI.
themselves become sacred through their This notice is published as part of the
associations.’’ This feeling was DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
reaffirmed by the White Earth Band of
National Park Service U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe during
this notice are the sole responsibility of
consultation with the Berkshire [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025846;
the museum, institution, or Federal
Museum. In a letter dated April 5, 2017, PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
agency that has control of the Native
the White Earth Band of the Minnesota American human remains. The National
Notice of Inventory Completion: State
Chippewa Tribe requested the return of Park Service is not responsible for the
Historic Preservation Office, Lansing,
the Big Drum due to its substantial determinations in this notice.
MI
cultural and religious significance.
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Consultation
Determinations Made by the Berkshire A detailed assessment of the human
Museum ACTION: Notice.
remains was made during 1993–1995 by
Officials of the Berkshire Museum SUMMARY: The State Historic the former Office of the State
have determined that: Preservation Office (SHPO), Michigan Archaeologist (OSA) professional staff
State Housing Development Authority, and by a physical anthropologist.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), has completed an inventory of human According to documents held by the
the one cultural item described above is remains and associated funerary objects SHPO, in 1995 the OSA initiated
a specific ceremonial object needed by in consultation with the appropriate consultation on the human remains and
traditional Native American religious Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian funerary objects with the Citizen
leaders for the practice of traditional organizations, and has determined that Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest
Native American religions by their there is a cultural affiliation between the County Potawatomi Community,
present-day adherents. human remains and present-day Indian Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(D), Tribes or Native Hawaiian Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of
the one cultural item described above organizations. Lineal descendants or Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
representatives of any Indian Tribe or Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi
has ongoing historical, traditional, or
Native Hawaiian organization not Nation (previously listed as the Prairie
cultural importance central to the
identified in this notice that wish to Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas).
Native American group or culture itself,
request transfer of control of these History and Description of the Remains
rather than property owned by an
human remains should submit a written
individual. In the 1920s, human remains
request to the Michigan State Historic
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Preservation Office. If no additional representing nine individuals were
is a relationship of shared group requestors come forward, transfer of removed from a highway construction
identity that can be reasonably traced control of the human remains and project in Lenawee County, MI. In 1925,
between the sacred object and object of associated funerary objects to the lineal the remains were re-interred on the
cultural patrimony and the White Earth descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native grounds of the Walker Tavern historic
Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Hawaiian organizations stated in this site, located a few miles from the
notice may proceed. highway construction project. The
Additional Requestors and Disposition Walker Tavern structure was built
DATES: Lineal descendants or
around 1832, as a farmhouse, and then
Lineal descendants or representatives representatives of any Indian Tribe or
became a tavern and inn along the
of any Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian Native Hawaiian organization not
Detroit to Chicago stagecoach route. In
organization not identified in this notice identified in this notice that wish to
1921, Frederic Hewitt converted the
that wish to claim these cultural items request transfer of control of these
tavern into a museum, and in 1965, the
should submit a written request with human remains and associated funerary
structure was sold to the Michigan
information in support of the claim to objects should submit a written request
Department of Natural Resources. The
Jason Vivori, Collections Experience with information in support of the
Parks and Recreation Division of the
Manager, Berkshire Museum, 39 South request to the State Historic
Michigan Department of Conservation
Preservation Office at the address in this
Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201, telephone operated the historic site until 1975,
notice by August 13, 2018.
(413) 443–7171 ext. 341, email jvivori@ when the Michigan Historical Museum,
berkshiremuseum.org, by August 13, ADDRESSES: Dean L. Anderson, State which was part of the Michigan
2018. After that date, if no additional Historic Preservation Office, Michigan Historical Center (MHC), took
claimants have come forward, transfer State Housing Development Authority, responsibility for the Walker Tavern
735 East Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI museum and its collections.
of control of the sacred object and object
48909, telephone: (517) 373–1618, email In the mid-1990s, Barbara Mead,
of cultural patrimony to the White Earth
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
andersond15@michigan.gov. Assistant State Archaeologist, did the
Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
may proceed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is NAGPRA reporting for the Office of the
here given in accordance with the State Archaeologist (OSA) and for the
The Berkshire Museum is responsible Native American Graves Protection and state museum. At that time, the state
for notifying the White Earth Band of Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. museum turned over to Ms. Mead a
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe that this 3003, of the completion of an inventory single cranium and associated funerary
notice has been published. of human remains and associated objects that she determined had been
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part of the group of human remains that The inventory that Assistant State that date, if no additional requestors
was re-interred on the grounds of the Archaeologist Barbara Mead compiled have come forward, transfer of control
Walker Tavern site in 1925. in 1995 included the following of the human remains and associated
In 2009, the Department of History, information on cultural affiliation: funerary objects to the Citizen
Arts, and Libraries, which included Probably Potawatomi. Early in the Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest
both the OSA and the state museum, eighteenth century, the Potawatomi, County Potawatomi Community,
was eliminated. The state museum was Miami, Ottawa, Huron/Wyandotte and Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian
moved into the Department of Natural Kickapoo were present in southern Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of
Resources, and the OSA was moved into Michigan. Most of the reports for tribes Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
the Michigan State Housing other than the Potawatomi are from the Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi
Development Authority. Soon after that, pre-1720 era. By the 1760s, the Nation (previously listed as the Prairie
the OSA was eliminated, and the Potawatomi territory included Lenawee Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas)
archaeology staff were moved into the County; no other tribes seemed to be may proceed.
SHPO. Consequently, the archaeological present, except perhaps as travelers or The State Historic Preservation Office
collections, including the Walker temporary residents. (Cleland, Charles is responsible for notifying the Citizen
Tavern materials, are now held by the E., 1992, Rites of Conquest, the Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma; Forest
SHPO. University of Michigan Press; Tanner, County Potawatomi Community,
The human remains in the Walker Helen Hornbeck (ed.), 1987, Atlas of Wisconsin; Hannahville Indian
Tavern collection include a single Great Lakes Indian History, University Community, Michigan; Pokagon Band of
cranium with no teeth present and of Oklahoma Press; Trigger, Bruce G. Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
lacking the mandible. The cranium was (ed.), 1978, Handbook of North Indiana; and Prairie Band Potawatomi
examined by a physical anthropologist American Indians, Vol. 15: Northeast, Nation (previously listed as the Prairie
who stated that the individual was Smithsonian Institution). Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas)
approximately 10–15 years of age, and Determinations Made by the State that this notice has been published.
that no determination of sex or ethnic Historic Preservation Office Dated: June 21, 2018.
identity of the individual could be Melanie O’Brien,
made. No known individuals were Officials of the State Historic
Preservation Office have determined Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
identified.
that: [FR Doc. 2018–14905 Filed 7–11–18; 8:45 am]
When the state museum assumed • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the BILLING CODE 4312–52–P
responsibility for the Walker Tavern human remains described in this notice
collection in 1975, the cranium was represent the physical remains of one
recorded under Michigan Department of individual of Native American ancestry. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Conservation accession number A1253. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A),
The state museum assigned catalog the 18 objects described in this notice National Park Service
number FA–155–75 to the cranium. are reasonably believed to have been
The state museum also cataloged a [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0025769;
placed with or near individual human PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
group of 18 funerary objects associated remains at the time of death or later as
with the human remains disinterred part of the death rite or ceremony. Notice of Inventory Completion: St.
during road construction in the 1920s. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Joseph Museums, Inc., St. Joseph, MO
The 18 associated funerary objects are: is a relationship of shared group
One pewter spoon, one bottle, one oval identity that can be reasonably traced AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
stone, one deer mandible, three loose between the Native American human ACTION: Notice.
teeth, one lot of fur pieces with tassels remains and associated funerary objects
wrapped in porcupine quill, one silver and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, SUMMARY: The St. Joseph Museum has
armband, one wooden bowl or toy Oklahoma; Forest County Potawatomi completed an inventory of human
canoe, one lot of wool scraps, one lot of Community, Wisconsin; Hannahville remains, in consultation with the
linen scraps, one silver armband, one Indian Community, Michigan; Pokagon appropriate Indian Tribes or Native
copper or brass kettle fragment, one iron Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan Hawaiian organizations, and has
knife blade, one lot of very small bone and Indiana; and Prairie Band determined that there is a cultural
chips, one lot of shell and glass beads Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as affiliation between the human remains
and one pewter bowl. the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, and present-day Indian Tribes or Native
Based on the funerary objects, it is Kansas). Hawaiian organizations. Lineal
estimated that the original interment of descendants or representatives of any
the objects and the human remains took Additional Requestors and Disposition Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian
place between approximately 1760 and Lineal descendants or representatives organization not identified in this notice
1810. A typescript in the MHC Walker of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian that wish to request transfer of control
Tavern files identified as an article in organization not identified in this notice of these human remains should submit
the Lenawee County Exponent dated that wish to request transfer of control a written request to the St. Joseph
November 22, 1923, describes the of these human remains and associated Museum. If no additional requestors
discovery of Indian graves and artifacts funerary objects should submit a written come forward, transfer of control of the
during road construction work in the request with information in support of human remains to the lineal
amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1
Irish Hills area. The article mentions the request to Dean L. Anderson, State descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native
some of the same funerary objects Historic Preservation Office, Michigan Hawaiian organizations stated in this
described above and associated with the State Housing Development Authority, notice may proceed.
cranium. This assemblage of funerary 735 East Michigan Avenue, P.O. Box DATES: Lineal descendants or
objects, including trade silver and 30044, Lansing, MI 48909, telephone representatives of any Indian Tribe or
beads, together with the cranium, (517) 373–1618, email andersond15@ Native Hawaiian organization not
represent a Native American interment. michigan.gov, by August 13, 2018. After identified in this notice that wish to
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