and the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma floated many proposals for development of the cemetery. Preservation groups succeeded in 1971 in having the Huron Cemetery listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its significant historical and cultural value. That only made new proposals more complicated to implement, but groups continued to put them forward. The development of gaming as revenue generators for Native Americans added new pressure. In the 1990s the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma evaluated the Huron Cemetery for redevelopment as a gaming casino. New protections under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act would have required agreement by lineal descendants of people interred at the cemetery. Those in Kansas City were strongly set against any development. Finally in 1998 the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma came to agreement to preserve the cemetery only for purposes that were religious, cultural and in keeping with its sacred use. In December 2016 the cemetery was named as a National Historic Landmark. Citations See also List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States References "Vincent J. Lane Obituary", Wyandott Herald, 4 January 1872, on Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Website Kim Dayton, "'Trespassers, Beware!' Lyda Burton Conley and the Battle for Huron Place Cemetery", Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, vol. 8: 1, 1996, pp. 1–30. Henry Van Brunt, "Three Sisters Defense of Cemetery Lasts Nearly Forty Years: Recent Death of Miss Lyda Conley Recalls Long Series of Outbreaks and Defiance of Law by Women Who Built Shack on Indian Burial Ground in Heart of Kansas City, Kansas and Lived beside Graves of Ancestors", Kansas City Times, June 7, 1946, on Wyandot Nation of Kansas Website Further reading External links "The Inns of UNKC: Lyda Conley (1874-1946)", University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law (web.archive.org) "The Conley Sisters", People Collection, Kansas City, Kansas Public Library 1869 births 1946 deaths 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century Native Americans Activists from Kansas American people of English descent American people of Wyandot descent American people of Scotch-Irish descent Kansas lawyers Native American activists Native American lawyers People from Wyandotte County, Kansas 20th-century American women lawyers 20th-century Native American women