# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Also available via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xsayNkiPQMuCu05Mwxlu0Q

Authors Stephanie Bennett, Samantha Gill, and Tai S. Edwards will discuss their new book, which examines the life of activist Lyda Conley. For fifty years, Eliza (“Lyda”) 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. (from book jacket) 

This event is free to attend and open to the public.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ottawa/lyda-conley-and-the-fight-to-preserve-huron-indian-cemetery/200030556407250
- **Event Categories**: Workshops, Art, literary-art, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 58

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Ottawa
- **state**: KS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: FCHS Archives & Research Center, 2011 E Logan St, Ottawa, KS 66067
- **lat**: 38.62391
- **long**: -95.24136
- **full address**: FCHS Archives & Research Center, 2011 E Logan St, Ottawa, KS 66067, United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/f8917f397b77ade045fe99e3c09d82b3b05578e58806df279d479fe8b335e6aa-rimg-w1200-h675-dce8d8c8-gmir?v=1787350112

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery being held?
  - **A:** Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery takes place on Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:00 pm at FCHS Archives & Research Center, 2011 E Logan St, Ottawa, KS 66067, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery?
  - **A:** Lyda Conley and the Fight To Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery is organized by Old Depot Museum.

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