The Kaw people are choosing a site for a sacred boulder returned to the tribe
LAWRENCE, Kansas — The huge red boulder standing bolt upright in a downtown park doesn't belong here.
And after almost a century, the Kaw tribe is reclaiming the rock that, for generation after generation, its people held as a sacred altar.
That 20-plus ton quartzite boulder is now bound for tribal land with the hope that it can strengthen the frayed bond between the Kaw, or Kanza, people and the state that took their land and their sacred stone — even their name.
"There's a little bit of a melancholy feeling that I have when I see it," said James Pepper Henry, vice chairman of the Kaw Nation. "It's a reminder to us as Kaw people of what has been taken from us."
The saga of the stone has come to represent the rough history of what's now known as Kansas. In some ways it symbolizes what native tribes see as invasion and genocide.
The Kaw people are choosing a site for a sacred boulder returned to the tribe
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