A contingent of these members was given land in an 1867 treaty with the United States government, which now forms the federally recognized Wyandotte Nation, but a smaller contingent of members of the Wyandot Tribe remained in Kansas and attempted to remain eligible for membership in the tribe.

In 1907, Lyda Conley, a descent of a Wyandot member, sued to prevent the sale of the Huron Indian Cemetery, a case which reached the Supreme Court.

While Conley lost this case, and other cases brought by the members of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas to prevent the sale of the cemetery were unsuccessful, U.S. Congress, led by Charles Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Prairie Potawatomi), repealed the law authorizing the sale of the cemetery.

In 1994, Leaford Bearskin, chief of the Wyandotte Nation, proposed the idea of using the disputed cemetery land for a casino.

[4] In 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the argument by the Wyandot Nation of Kansas' argument that they already were a federally recognized tribe in the lawsuit Wyandot Nation of Kansas v. United States.