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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 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 |