A new art installation at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum commemorates three Native American sisters who barricaded themselves in a tribal burial ground in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. “Trespassers Beware” gives visitors a chance to experience the Conley sisters’ story. [Read more]
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Kansas City will get public art honoring Conley sisters, who saved Native American cemetery
From KCUR Arts Reporter Julie Denesha: A new art project commemorating the Conley sisters will be unveiled in Kansas City, Kansas, this summer. The exhibit will help tell how the siblings and Wyandot Nation activists banded together to protect a burial ground in the early 1900s. [Read more]