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Title
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Wyandotte Indians Moved Into Kansas More Than A Century Ago
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Huron: Also Known as the Wyandotte
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Description
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Article about the ethnic history of the Wyandotte Indians, a group of the larger Huron tribe in the Saint Lawrence Valley and Great Lakes area in the 1600s. They were allies of the French explorers and fur traders and enemies of the Iroquois tribe.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Huron Indian Cemetery
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC30-8 DAR Elizabeth Benton Chapter Scrapbook Finding Aid
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Description
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A Kansas City Times article dated Nov. 12, 1979, stated that the Elizabeth Benton DAR chapter, located in Kansas City, Mo., was the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution formed west of the Mississippi River. It was organized in 1894 and named after Elizabeth Benton, wife of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton. The scrapbook was assembled in 1921 by the chapter's Committee on Preservation of Historic Points. The scrapbook contains 177 photocopied pages with 70 black and white historical photographs of the Kansas City area. Located at the front of the scrapbook is a contents page listing the local subjects included which pertain to historical points of interest in the area such as area businesses and buildings, disasters, events, churches, cemeteries, local personalities, etc.
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Date
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1921
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
