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In 1907, Lyda Conley, a descent of a Wyandot member, sued to prevent the sale of the Huron Indian Cemetery, a case which reached the Supreme Court.While Conley lost this case, and other cases brought by the members of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas to prevent the sale of the cemetery were unsuccessful, U.S. Congress, led by Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Prairie Potawatomi), repealed the law ...
In the 1840s, most of the surviving Wyandot people were displaced to Kansas Indigenous territory through the US federal policy of forced Indian removal. Using the funds they received for their lands in Ohio, the Wyandot purchased 23,000 acres (93 km 2) of land for $46,080 in what is now Wyandotte County, Kansas from the Lenape. The Lenape had ...
The Wyandotte Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in northeastern Oklahoma. ... together with the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, ...
Over the years as Kansas City developed, the cemetery repeatedly was the center of controversy between preservation interests versus development interests. The struggle has also been between the unrecognized Wyandot Nation of Kansas and the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation. Since the late 19th century, the latter group was the only one ...
Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley (c. 1869 – May 28, 1946) was a Wyandot Native American and an American lawyer. She was the first woman admitted to the Kansas Bar Association.She was notable for her campaign to prevent the sale and development of the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground.
The Wyandotte Nation reservation still exists in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, the state’s highest criminal court has found. The decision comes nearly four years after the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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Matthew Mudeater was born on February 23, 1812, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the then home of the Wyandotte Nation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was married to Nancy Mudeater, and together they had several children. [ citation needed ] On July 9, 1843, the Wyandottes emigrated from Ohio to land in Kansas which had been purchased from the Delaware Nation . [ 2 ]