A new art installation at the Wyandotte County 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.

Chief Judith Manthe, of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas, has spent a lifetime collecting family stories, books, and newspaper articles about Lyda, Helena, and Ida Conley, and their battle to protect a tribal burial ground threatened by development in the early 1900s.

“The Conley sisters were amazing,” Manthe said. “They didn't put up with anything — and my husband says I'm a strong Wyandot woman, just like them.”

Manthe is co-director of “Trespassers Beware: Fort Conley and Wyandot Women Warriors,” a new art instal

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