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EPISODE · Feb 6, 2020 · 24 MIN

The occupation that saved a Wyandot cemetery

from A People's History of Kansas City · host Suzanne Hogan

Three sisters barricaded themselves in a Wyandot cemetery in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, in the early 1900s, in order to save it from destruction. Hear how the Wyandot came to settle in Kansas, and how one of those sisters, Lyda Conley, took the battle over the cemetery all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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