Shokhí
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- ISBN 9780700641994
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2026
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
c. huffman is a Kaw Nation Citizen with an MFA and an MDiv who sits at the intersection of privilege, dis/ability and Indigeneity; a place where poetry and theology dance. Her writing has appeared in The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, a poetry anthology edited by Hannah Soyer.
Tai S. Edwards is professor of history and director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College. She is the author of Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power and co-editor of Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery, also published by Kansas.
Jay T. Johnson is University Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas and director of the Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology. His work has appeared in GeoHumanities, Geographical Research, Nature Sustainability, Sustainability Science, and other publications.
