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Trespassers Beware Exhibit

September 9 @ 10:00 am - November 14 @ 5:00 pm

Trespassers Beware Monument– on Display NOW through November 14th

 

Don’t miss this limited-time opportunity to experience Trespassers Beware!

 

About the Monument

Trespassers Beware! illuminates the story of the Wyandot Conley sisters who occupied the historic
Wyandot National Burying Ground in Kansas City, Kansas, saving it from urban development and
erasure. The 2-acre cemetery exists today because of the efforts of Lyda, Ida and Helena Conley’s
decades-long activism and legal arguments to defend and protect their family’s sacred land. The art
project is a multi-site, multidisciplinary and community-embedded public art work that re-imagines
Fort Conley through the re-creation of the fort with multi-media storytelling and engagement. The
installation will travel to multiple communities, beginning in the Kansas City region. The project is
co-directed by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas and Monumenta, who have commissioned the
Omakyehstih Collective – We Are Gathered Together to create the monument.

Details

Venue

  • Shawnee Indian Mission
  • 3403 W 53rd St.
    Fairway, KS 66205 United States     + Google Map