Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 25421-25422 [2023-08813]
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Town of Vienna (22–
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The University of Michigan
has completed an inventory of human
remains, 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 a 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 University of
Michigan. 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 the University of
Michigan at the address in this notice by
May 26, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Ben Secunda, NAGPRA Project
Manager, University of Michigan, Office
of Research, 3003 South State St., First
Floor, Wolverine Tower, Ann Arbor, MI
48109–1274, telephone (734) 615–8936,
email bsecunda@umich.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
here given in accordance with the
Native American Graves Protection and
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Consultation
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by the University of
Michigan professional staff in
consultation with representatives of the
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas;
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town;
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band
of Choctaw Indians; Miccosukee Tribe
of Indians; Mississippi Band of Choctaw
Indians; Poarch Band of Creek Indians;
Seminole Tribe of Florida; The
Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation
of Oklahoma; The Muscogee (Creek)
Nation; The Seminole Nation of
Oklahoma; and the Thlopthlocco Tribal
Town (hereafter referred to as ‘‘The
Tribes’’).
History and Description of the Human
Remains
On an unknown date, human remains
representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from the
Moundville site (1TU500) in Hale and
Tuscaloosa Counties, AL. The
Moundville site is located near the
Black Warrior River. The site consists of
multiple mounds surrounding a central
plaza, and includes both burial and
habitation areas. It is owned and
managed by the University of Alabama.
First excavated in 1840, the site has
been excavated numerous times by
multiple individuals. While
publications report that thousands of
burials were disinterred and objects
removed during these excavations, the
University of Michigan Museum of
Anthropological Archaeology
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Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
3003, of the completion of an inventory
of human remains under the control of
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI. The human remains were removed
from the Moundville site in Hale and
Tuscaloosa Counties, AL.
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.
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(UMMAA) only possesses the ancestral
human remains of a single individual.
Not much is known regarding these
ancestral human remains at the
UMMAA. They were found in the
osteological teaching collections during
NAGPRA compliance work conducted
in the early-1990s, at which time they
were accessioned. To date, no records
have been found describing when the
ancestral human remains were
disinterred or how they came into the
possession of the UMMAA. The
Museum’s catalog book describes the
ancestral human remains as from a
‘‘field near Mound M, Moundville, Hale
Co, ALA 1HA48’’ and ‘‘burial 53.’’ The
ancestral human remains are also
labeled ‘‘Moundville, Ala. Field near
Md M Burial 53.’’ The human remains
belong to one adult of indeterminate
sex. Based on general dating for the site,
this individual was buried between A.D.
1050 and 1550. No known individual
was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
The human remains have been
determined to be Native American
based on accession documentation and
archaeological context. A relationship of
shared group identity can be reasonably
traced between the Native American
human remains from this site and the
Muskogean peoples based on historical
sources.
Determinations Made by the University
of Michigan
Officials of the University of Michigan
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(2), there
is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced
between the Native American human
remains and The Tribes.
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 Dr. Ben
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Secunda, NAGPRA Project Manager,
University of Michigan, Office of
Research, 3003 South State St., First
Floor, Wolverine Tower, Ann Arbor, MI
48109–1274, telephone (734) 615–8936,
email bsecunda@umich.edu, by May 26,
2023. After that date, if no additional
requestors have come forward, transfer
of control of the human remains to The
Tribes may proceed.
The University of Michigan is
responsible for notifying The Tribes that
this notice has been published.
Dated: April 19, 2023.
Melanie O’Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural
Items: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District, Mobile, AL
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, intends to repatriate certain
cultural items that meet the definition of
unassociated funerary objects and that
have a cultural affiliation with the
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations in this notice. The
cultural items were removed from
Itawamba and Tishomingo Counties,
MS.
DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items
in this notice may occur on or after May
26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Ms. Alexandria Smith, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District, 109 St. Joseph Street, P.O. Box
2288, Mobile, AL 36628–0001,
telephone (251) 690–2728, email
Alexandria.N.Smith@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the summary or related records held
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by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Mobile District.
Description
Nineteen cultural items were removed
from Itawamba County, MS. The White
Springs site (22IT537) was originally
recorded by Joseph Caldwell and S.D.
Lewis in 1971, during a survey of the
Canal Section of the TennesseeTombigbee Waterway. The site was
identified as a 15-to-20-acre village site
located in a field on the east side.
Archeological phases identified at the
site include Early Archaic, Gulf
Formational, Middle and Late
Woodland, and Mississippian. Testing
excavations were conducted in April of
1971, and full-scale excavation was
conducted between July and August of
the same year by the University of
Southern Mississippi. The 19
unassociated funerary objects consist of
four lots of ceramics, six lots of lithics,
three lots of faunal remains, one lot of
shells, one lot of soil samples, one lot
of projectile points, one lot of
sandstone, one lot of petrified wood,
and one lot of charcoal.
Fifteen cultural items were removed
from Itawamba County, MS. Joseph
Caldwell and S.D. Lewis identified the
Walnut site (22IT539) in November of
1971 in a floodplain near the confluence
of Mackeys and Big Brown Creeks. The
site is located within the operational
boundaries of the Canal Section of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. It was
described as a village site measuring 100
feet by 150 feet located on a rise in
swamp and low forest. According to the
site form, the site had been looted and
partly cleared for a powerline.
Archeological phases associated with
the site include Middle Archaic, Late
Archaic, Middle Gulf Formational, and
Woodland. The 15 unassociated
funerary objects consist of nine lots of
perpetuity samples, one lot of
macrobotanicals, one preform, one anvil
stone, one lot of hammerstones, one lot
of projectile points, and one lot of
chipped stone fragments.
Seven cultural items were removed
from Itawamba County, MS. The Poplar
site (22IT576) was recorded in 1975 by
J.R. Atkinson in the Canal Section of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
Atkinson described the site as a circular
Woodland midden mound with black
soil approximately one half acre in size.
The University of Alabama conducted
archeological testing at the site in 1979
and full-scale excavations in 1980.
Poplar is a multi-component site with
Paleoindian, Archaic, and Woodland
components. The seven unassociated
funerary objects consist of two lots of
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debris, two lots of faunal remains, one
lot of hematite, and two lots of flakes.
Fourteen cultural items were removed
from Tishomingo County, MS. The F.L.
Brinkley Midden site (22TS729) is
located in the Divide Cut Section of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The
site was documented as a stratified
accretional midden dating from the
Early Archaic through the Middle
Woodland periods. The site was
excavated by the Office of
Archaeological Research, University of
Alabama, between December 5, 1977,
and July 7, 1978. The cultural items
from this site presently reside at the
Cobb Institute, Mississippi State
University. Due to preservation
concerns, most likely, no human
remains were ever removed from the
site. The 14 unassociated funerary
objects consist of one lot of ceramics,
four lots of lithics, one lot of sandstone,
one lot of clay, five lots of float samples,
and two lots of soil samples.
Cultural Affiliation
The cultural items in this notice are
connected to one or more identifiable
earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or
cultures. There is a relationship of
shared group identity between the
identifiable earlier groups, tribes,
peoples, or cultures and one or more
Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian
organizations. The following types of
information were used to reasonably
trace the relationship: archeological,
geographical, historical, other
information, and expert opinion.
Determinations
Pursuant to NAGPRA and its
implementing regulations, and after
consultation with the appropriate
Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian
organizations, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Mobile District, has
determined that:
• The 55 cultural items described
above 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 and are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of a Native American individual.
• There is a relationship of shared
group identity that can be reasonably
traced between the cultural items and
the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas;
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town;
Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; and The
Chickasaw Nation.
Requests for Repatriation
Additional, written requests for
repatriation of the cultural items in this
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0035716; PPWOCRADN0-PCU00RP14.R50000]
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The University of Michigan has completed an inventory of human
remains, 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 a 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 University of Michigan.
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 the
University of Michigan at the address in this notice by May 26, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ben Secunda, NAGPRA Project
Manager, University of Michigan, Office of Research, 3003 South State
St., First Floor, Wolverine Tower, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1274, telephone
(734) 615-8936, 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 under
the control of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. The human
remains were removed from the Moundville site in Hale and Tuscaloosa
Counties, AL.
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 by the
University of Michigan professional staff in consultation with
representatives of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas; Alabama-
Quassarte Tribal Town; Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana; Jena Band of
Choctaw Indians; Miccosukee Tribe of Indians; Mississippi Band of
Choctaw Indians; Poarch Band of Creek Indians; Seminole Tribe of
Florida; The Chickasaw Nation; The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; The
Muscogee (Creek) Nation; The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and the
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town (hereafter referred to as ``The Tribes'').
History and Description of the Human Remains
On an unknown date, human remains representing, at minimum, one
individual were removed from the Moundville site (1TU500) in Hale and
Tuscaloosa Counties, AL. The Moundville site is located near the Black
Warrior River. The site consists of multiple mounds surrounding a
central plaza, and includes both burial and habitation areas. It is
owned and managed by the University of Alabama. First excavated in
1840, the site has been excavated numerous times by multiple
individuals. While publications report that thousands of burials were
disinterred and objects removed during these excavations, the
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA)
only possesses the ancestral human remains of a single individual. Not
much is known regarding these ancestral human remains at the UMMAA.
They were found in the osteological teaching collections during NAGPRA
compliance work conducted in the early-1990s, at which time they were
accessioned. To date, no records have been found describing when the
ancestral human remains were disinterred or how they came into the
possession of the UMMAA. The Museum's catalog book describes the
ancestral human remains as from a ``field near Mound M, Moundville,
Hale Co, ALA 1HA48'' and ``burial 53.'' The ancestral human remains are
also labeled ``Moundville, Ala. Field near Md M Burial 53.'' The human
remains belong to one adult of indeterminate sex. Based on general
dating for the site, this individual was buried between A.D. 1050 and
1550. No known individual was identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
The human remains have been determined to be Native American based
on accession documentation and archaeological context. A relationship
of shared group identity can be reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains from this site and the Muskogean peoples based
on historical sources.
Determinations Made by the University of Michigan
Officials of the University of Michigan 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(2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and The Tribes.
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 Dr. Ben
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Secunda, NAGPRA Project Manager, University of Michigan, Office of
Research, 3003 South State St., First Floor, Wolverine Tower, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1274, telephone (734) 615-8936, email
[email protected], by May 26, 2023. After that date, if no additional
requestors have come forward, transfer of control of the human remains
to The Tribes may proceed.
The University of Michigan is responsible for notifying The Tribes
that this notice has been published.
Dated: April 19, 2023.
Melanie O'Brien,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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