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'Trespassers, Beware': Lyda Burton Conley And The Battle For The Huron Place Cemetery, A. Kimberley Dayton
'Trespassers, Beware': Lyda Burton Conley And The Battle For The Huron Place Cemetery, A. Kimberley Dayton
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Lyda Burton Conley, Kansas attorney and direct descendant of the great Wyandot Chief Tarhe, appeared before the Supreme Court in January, 1910 to appeal a dismissal of a lawsuit she had filed against Secretary of the Interior James Garfield in 1907. She was seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the sale of a parcel of land in which her ancestors were buried, by the federal government to private developers. This case appears to be the first on record in which a plaintiff argued that the burying grounds and cemeteries of Native American peoples are entitled to federal protection. This lawsuit …