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Title: Indians: Ambush
Description: Article about the possible reclaimed ownership of land in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, (centered around Huron Cemetery next to the public library) by the national tribe of Wyandotte Indians.
Date: 1956-09-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Wyandotte Indians Moved Into Kansas More Than A Century Ago
Description: Reprint from The Kansas City Star, September 8, 1956. Tells how the Wyandotte tribe came into possession of the area and the buildings built by them, including the council house that opened the first free school in Kansas. They began Quindaro cemetery and purchased the Huron cemetery from the Delawares.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Place
Description: Historical overview of the churches, schools, businesses, and other important sites within the boundaries of the old Huron Place cemetery in Wyandotte County. The orginal cemetery boundaries were located between 6th and 7th streets, from Minnesota Avenue to Anne Avenue, in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The land was orginally designated a burial ground by the Wynadot Indians in 1843.
Date: 2008
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas: 'As Long as . . .'
Description: Short article about how the Wyandotte Indians of Oklahoma (part of the Huron tribe) reclaimed the two-acre tract of land in Kansas City, Kansas, used as a burial ground. The Huron Cemetery land was ceded to the U.S. government by the Wyandottes when they were forced to move to Oklahoma. A stipulation of the treaty guaranteed the land would be a cemetery for �??as long as the rivers flow and the grasses grow.�?�
Date: 1956-09-17
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Cemetery--National Burying Ground of the Wyandotte Indians
Description: Article about genealogical information gathered at Huron Cemetery, "located in the 600 block on Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas--west of and adjacent to the Public Library in Huron Park."
Date: 1963-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Huron Indian Cemetery
Description: Article describes the history of the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas, located at North 7th Street and Minnesota Avenue. The cemetery served the Wyandot Nation from the time of their removal to Kansas in 1843 until the tribe was reorganized in ''Indian Territory'' in the early 1870s.
Date: 2001
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Parking Lots--and 30-Minute Meters to Encourage Their Use
Description: Illustrated map and article about the parking lot plan in the downtown or retail business section of Kansas City, Kansas. The main branch of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library adjacent to the Huron Cemetery park shown in the map, with description of safety factors, landscaping, and intentions to bring more shoppers back to the area.
Date: 1940-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

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