Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery

Lyda Conley, the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, defended the burials of her Wyandot family and ancestors in Kansas City’s Huron Indian Cemetery. A new biography and source reader is the definitive work on this trailblazing woman and her sisters, Ida and Helena. Join us for a book reading and panel discussion with Dr. Tai Edwards of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College about the sisters' fight to preserve the sacred burial ground. At 2:00, Monumenta curator Neysa Page-Lieberman will give tours of Trespassers Beware!, a mobile monument recreating historic "Fort Conley" where the sisters lived while protecting the cemetery from development. The afternoon ends with a 3:00 tour of the cemetery with Wyandot Nation of Kansas Chief Judith Manthe.