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20IN2, Root Site

Published to the Federal Register on September 15, 2020

These ancestors were returned to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan on August 25, 2022.

In September of 1956, human remains and funerary items were disturbed by a group of Girl Scouts who were playing on a sandy knoll near the Grand River south of Lansing, MI. In the summer of 1957, human remains and funerary objects were excavated by Michigan State University Museum under the direction of Dr. Moreau S. Maxwell, Professor of Anthropology, and Rollin Baker, Director of the MSU Museum. Additional help came from Birt Darling and other members of the Upper Grand Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archeological Society. Dr. Maxwell is credited, in documentation, as the collector of the human remains and cultural items.

MNI = 2

AFO = 25

This listing was originally on the NAGPRA inventory as being in Clinton County, Michigan with an MNI = 1.  There were also no associated funerary objects. The 2019/2020 inventory update is amending this listing with the correct county and site number, and an MNI = 2, AFO = 25.

Documentation (available upon request):

  • Archaeological site form
  • Skeletal inventory sheet
  • Catalog cards
  • Letter from Darling to Maxwell summarizing work in 1958
  • Excerpt from Davis 1975 summarizing early work at the site
  • Griffin 1962 article

 These ancestors were included in the Federal Register publication (link to published notice) for September 15, 2020.

Transfer of Legal Control

Legal control for these ancestors was transferred to the following Tribes on October 20, 2020:

  • Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan
  • Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Michigan
  • Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan
  • Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan
  • Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Michigan
  • Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan
  • Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan
  • Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
  • Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan
  • Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana
  • Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
  • Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan

Tribes Consulted with and Invited to Consult:

  • 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
  • Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana (previously listed as the 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
  • Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
  • 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
  • Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Michigan
  • Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana
  • Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, Michigan
  • Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin
  • Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota (Six component reservations: Bois Forte Band (Nett Lake); Fond du Lac Band; Grand Portage Band; Leech Lake Band; Mille Lacs Band; White Earth Band)
  • Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, Michigan
  • Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
  • Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana
  • Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation
  • 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
  • Seneca-Cayuga Nation
  • Shawnee Tribe
  • Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin
  • St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
  • Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin
  • Tonawanda Band of Seneca
  • Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
  • Wyandotte Nation

 

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