Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley ( – 1946) was a Wyandot-American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas Bar Association. 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 the passage of legislation in 1916 to prevent the sale of the Huron Cemetery and establish the land as a federal park. In 1971, the Huron Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and in 2016 it was designated a National Historic Landmark. From the late 19th century, the cemetery was at the heart of a struggle between the unrecognized Wyandot Nation of Kansas and the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. In 1998, the two groups finally agreed to preserve the Wyandot National Burying Ground only for religious, cultural, and related purposes in keeping with its sacred history. Early life Lyda Conley was the youngest of four daughters born to Elizabeth Burton Zane (1838–1879), a multiracial member of the Wyandot Nation, and Andrew Syrenus Conley (-1885), a Yankee of Scots-Irish and English descent who had migrated from New Canaan, Connecticut, to Ohio and Kansas. Her family history was fairly common within the Wyandot Nation at the time, as increasing numbers of Wyandot married and had children with European Americans, resulting in increasing numbers of multiracial tribal members. The Conley family's move West was also part of a larger Wyandot migration as white encroachment of their ancestral land increased. Elizabeth Zane was the granddaughter of Isaac Zane, who had been captured as a child in Virginia by the Wyandots and adopted into the tribe. Isaac Zane lived with the Wyandot nation for 17 years and married White Crane, daughter of Chief Tarhe. They moved with the tribe to Ohio and founded the town of Zanesfield. Some of their children were born there, including Elizabeth's mother Hannah, as well as grandchildren. In 1843, under United States government pressure, the