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1835   Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves. This is only one example of New England museums accessioning grave goods, bones, and hair from burial sites deliberately or accidentally disturbed. museums, bones, Indians
1841   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Skeleton in Armor"   bones, Indians
1846   Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse Hawthorne's story built on an already existing romance about Lovewell's Defeat at Pigwacket in 1725. Lovewell, Maine, bones
1990   Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act   Indian, bones
2001   Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains Check the Harvard website for additional stories on NAGPRA bones Indians

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