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Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery: With Sources and Oral Histories

By Stephanie Bennett (Editor), Samantha Gill (Editor), Tai S. Edwards (Editor)
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By Stephanie Bennett (Editor), Samantha Gill (Editor), Tai S. Edwards (Editor)
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The inspiring story of Lyda Conley, the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court and a trailblazing lawyer and activist who defended the burials of her Wyandot family and ancestors in Kansas City’s Huron Indian Cemetery. Driven by primary sources and oral histories, this biography and source reader is the definitive work on this remarkable woman.

For fifty years, Eliza (“Lyda”) Conley and her two older sisters, Helena and Ida, protected the Huron Indian C...