Unknown provenience

  • Chamberlain Museum

    Several individuals were identified within the larger Chamberlain Museum collection, including those associated with catalog numbers 6510CW, 6508CW, 6509CW, 6504CW, 6497CW, 6511CW, 6587CW, 2693.12, 20323, and 6499CW.

    MNI = 10

    AFO = 0

    Some documentation exists for these individuals, including catalog cards and skeletal inventories.

  • Unprovenienced

    Several individuals have no identifying information with them.

    MNI = 32

    AFO = 11

  • 2004.46.21

    2004.46.21

    MNI = 1

    AFO = 0

    This individual was listed on the original NAGPRA inventory. There are no changes with the 2019/2020 inventory update.

    Documentation: We have the original object catalog card available upon request.

Physical return completed on August 11, 2022

We requested disposition to the following Tribes at the July 7 meeting of the NAGPR Review Committee:

  • Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
  • Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan

The Notice of Inventory Completion (link to notice) for these ancestors was published on November 8, 2021.

Transfer of Control for these ancestors to the above Tribes was completed on December 9, 2021.

These ancestors were physically returned to the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians on August 11, 2022.

Tribes with Aboriginal Land in Michigan

This list is tentative and indicates groups contacted for consultation; please contact us if your tribe has an interest in any of these collections and you are not listed below.

  • 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
  • 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 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 Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan
  • Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan
  • 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 the Potawatomi, Michigan (previously listed as the Huron Potawatomi, Inc.)
  • Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
  • Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indians
  • Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (previously listed as the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, Kansas)
  • Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
  • Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota
  • Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
  • Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan
  • Seneca Nation of Indians
  • Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
  • Sokaogon Chippewa Community, Wisconsin
  • St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin
  • Shawnee Tribe
  • Stockbridge Munsee Community
  • Tonawanda Seneca Nation
  • Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota
  • Wyandotte Nation

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