Shokhí: A Kanza Relative, a Monument, and Rematriation

c. huffman (Curatore)

Tai S. Edwards (Curatore)

University Press of Kansas, 2026

An enduring story of how Kanza people (Kaw Nation citizens) and other collaborators worked together to bring a grandfather rock home, told through essay, poetry, oral history, and art. For almost a century, the city of Lawrence, Kansas displayed a 28-ton red quartzite boulder as a memorial to the town’s founders. However, this boulder, In‘zhÚje‘waxÓbe (EE(n)) ZHOO-jay wah-HO-bay), had a centuries-long relationship with Kanza people (Kaw Nation citizens). In this powerful collection of imagery, analysis, and reflection, Land is telling the story and the contributors explore narratives of place, how a grandfather rock became a monument, and how Kaw Nation citizens reunited with their relative, facilitating In‘zhÚje‘waxÓbe shokhÍbe (return of he/she/it home, to Kanza people/Land). In ShokhÍ, scholars, poets, activists, and artists explore the organizing and collaboration that brought In‘zhÚje‘waxÓbe home to Kaw Nation-owned Allegawaho Memorial Heritage Park in 2024. Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors chronicle the winding path a group of people took to dismantle a monument, understand intersecting forgotten histories, rematriate a grandfather rock, and confront our ongoing colonial history.

• Curatore: c. huffman, Tai S. Edwards
• Editore: University Press of Kansas
• Collana: Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 384 p.
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• EAN: 9780700641994

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