Eliza Burton “Lyda” Conley (abt. 1869 – 1946) was an American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar. 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. She challenged the government in court, and in 1909 she was the first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  • Eliza Burton “Lyda” Conley (abt. 1869 – 1946) was an American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar. 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. She challenged the government in court, and in 1909 she was the first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Her case appears to be the first in which "a plaintiff argued that the burying grounds of Native Americans were entitled to federal protection. " Conley gained the support of Kansas Senator Charles Curtis, who proposed and led passage of legislation in 1916 to prevent the sale and establish the Huron Cemetery as a federal park. In 1971 the Huron Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From the late 1800s, the cemetery was at the heart of a struggle between the present-day Wyandot Nation of Kansas and the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. In 1998 the two groups finally came to agreement to preserve the Wyandot National Burying Ground only for religious, cultural and related purposes in keeping with its sacred history.
  • Eliza Burton „Lyda“ Conley war eine US-amerikanische Juristin. Unter ihren Vorfahren waren Europäer wie auch Indianer. Sie war die erste Frau, die in Kansas als Anwältin zugelassen wurde. Insbesondere durch ihre Kampagne und ihr Plädoyer für die Erhaltung des huronischen Friedhofs in Kansas City wurde sie landesweit bekannt. Sie stand etliche Prozesse gegen die Regierung durch und war 1909 die erste indianischstämmige US-Amerikanerin, die beim Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten vortrug.
  • Lyda Conley (Kansas, fou una advocada wyandot –hurons dels EUA–, que va enfrontar-se al govern dels EUA per tal de preservar el cementiri indi dels hurons de Kansas el 1909, i el 1913 li donaren la raó.
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  • In this cemetery are buried one-hundred of our ancestors ... Why should we not be proud of our ancestors and protect their graves? We shall do it, and woe be to the man that first attempts to steal a body. We are part owners of the ground and have the right under the law to keep off trespassers, the right a man has to shoot a burglar who enters his home.
  • J.B. Durant, Chairman of the Government commission that is trying to sell the cemetery
  • Miss Lyda Conley
  • We shall keep right on asking bids for the property.
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  • Eliza Burton “Lyda” Conley (abt. 1869 – 1946) was an American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas bar. 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. She challenged the government in court, and in 1909 she was the first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • Eliza Burton „Lyda“ Conley war eine US-amerikanische Juristin. Unter ihren Vorfahren waren Europäer wie auch Indianer. Sie war die erste Frau, die in Kansas als Anwältin zugelassen wurde. Insbesondere durch ihre Kampagne und ihr Plädoyer für die Erhaltung des huronischen Friedhofs in Kansas City wurde sie landesweit bekannt.
  • Lyda Conley (Kansas, fou una advocada wyandot –hurons dels EUA–, que va enfrontar-se al govern dels EUA per tal de preservar el cementiri indi dels hurons de Kansas el 1909, i el 1913 li donaren la raó.
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  • Lyda Conley
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