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Title
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Huron Cemetery
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Description
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View of George I. Clark tombstone in Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas. Clark is identified as "Head Chief of the Wyandotte Nation, Born June 10, 1802, Died Jan. 25, 1858". Identified on photo as "Huron Cemetery."
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Indians: Ambush
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1956-09-17
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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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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Kansas: 'As Long as . . .'
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Description
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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.�?�
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Date
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1956-09-17
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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 Cemetery--National Burying Ground of the Wyandotte Indians
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1963-07
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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
