For fifty years, Eliza (βLydaβ) Conley and her two older sisters, Helena and Ida, protected the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. A member of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Lyda Conley is the first Indigenous woman to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court, where she established legal precedents used to protect Indigenous sovereignty today. This is a deeply rooted regional story that reshapes national narratives of sovereignty, preservation, and womenβs rights.
At a moment when conversations about Indigenous and womenβs rights are especially urgent, this book offers fresh insight, rigorous scholarship, and a narrative accessible to both scholars and general readers.
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