To Those Who Molest Their Graves

Welcome back to my blog. Today I have an action project that has allowed me to dive deep into a story that I had never heard before, this story comes from the class Equality that I have been taking these last few weeks. By studying different social concepts like class, gender, and race, I took a story that was enticing and created a mini magazine, or, zine, to showcase the story. Some other topics we learned about include social stratification, intersectionality, equality vs equity, social mobility, and more. All of these topics are useful tools to help understand society and injustices. I used these topics in my zine in an attempt to apply my knowledge. 

Below, you will see the story of Eliza Conley, the first Indigenous woman to go before the Supreme Court.

Works Cited:

California, Author: Women's Museum of. “First in Their Field: Lyda Conley.” Women's Museum of California, Women's Museum of California, 15 Nov. 2017, https://womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/first-in-their-field-lyda-conley/.

Clabough, Kate. “The Conley Sisters vs. Kansas City.” Prairie Raconteur, 14 Feb. 2014, https://kateclabough.weebly.com/more-tales/the-conley-sisters-vs-kansas-city.

“A Defender of Huron Cemetery Dies at 72 - KCKPL.” A Defender of Huron Cemetery Dies at 72, 1946, https://www.kckpl.org/kansas/articles/conley-family/19460528-lyda-conley-obit.pdf.

Humanities, National Endowment for the. “The Topeka State Journal. [Volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, July 21, 1910, Last Edition, Page 3, Image 3.” News about Chronicling America RSS, None, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1910-07-21/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1909&index=0&date2=1913&words=ARRESTED+CONLEY&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Kansas&rows=20&proxtext=Conley+arrested&y=11&x=16&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1.

Humanities, National Endowment for the. “The Topeka State Journal. [Volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, July 21, 1910, Last Edition, Page 3, Image 3.” News about Chronicling America RSS, None, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1910-07-21/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1909&index=0&date2=1913&words=ARRESTED+CONLEY&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Kansas&rows=20&proxtext=Conley+arrested&y=11&x=16&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1.

Magazine, Smithsonian. “Who Was Charles Curtis, the First Vice President of Color?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 13 Jan. 2021, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-charles-curtis-first-non-white-vice-president-180976742/.

“Research Guides: Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History: Introduction.” Introduction - Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress, https://guides.loc.gov/indian-removal-act#:~:text=The%20Indian%20Removal%20Act%20was,many%20resisted%20the%20relocation%20policy.

Rothberg, Emma. “Biography: Lyda Conley.” National Women's History Museum, 2020, https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/lyda-conley.

Sheryl, Author: “Know Your KCK History: Lyda Conley.” Online Programs @ KCKPL, 14 July 2022, https://kckplprograms.org/2020/08/27/know-your-kck-history-lyda-conley/.

“Treaty with the Wyandot, 1855.” Treaty with the Wyandot, 1855 - Tribal Treaties Database, https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-wyandot-1855-0677.

Van Brunt, Henry. “THREE SISTERS' DEFENSE OF CEMETERY CONTINUED FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS.” Three Sisters' Defense of Cemetery Continued for Nearly Forty Years, http://www.wyandot.org/sisters.htm.