Cultural items transferred

The remains of a minimum of 13 individuals and associated funerary objects belonging to the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians will be transferred from the Lake County Forest Preserve District's Discovery Museum's collections to the tribe under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The act requires the remains and objects be returned to lineal descendants or culturally affiliated tribes. The district received the remains in 1989 from Lake County, which had acquired the collections from the privately-owned Lake County Museum of History in 1965. The transfer was authorized Tuesday by the forest board. The district's other set of remains previously was transferred to the Michigan-based Pokagon Band of Potawatomi.