The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and the
Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways announced this week that
they are the recipients of a federal grant in the amount of $13,593 for the
repatriation of ancestral remains and funeral artifacts currently at the
University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropology.
The grant was issued by the National Park
Service under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The
National Park Service Director and Secretary of the Interior announced more
than $1.6 million in grants.
The remains of 120 Native American
individuals and 219 funerary objects were excavated in 1973 during the Fisher
Site project near Lapeer, Michigan. The reburial will be at the Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe’s Nibokaan Cemetery on the Tribe’s Isabella Indian
Reservation.