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Closed burial grounds could also be reopened as part of the plans.

There had previously been a ban on dogs entering Edinburgh’s 43 burial grounds, but this was lifted during the Covid lockdown.

A spate of 1980s horror flicks — “Pet Sematary,” for one — generated scares by disturbing the sacred space of Indian burial grounds, a trope generally applied with no Indigenous input.

African American burial grounds across the United States have been erased or forgotten, and others are at risk of disappearing.

Scientists and others are known to have stolen these remains from the burial grounds, which could explain how the Blackfoot ancestors came to the Smithsonian.