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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The Lawrence City Council has unanimously approved a measure to return a Native American tribe’s prayer rock that was transformed more than 90 years ago into a monument honoring Kansas settlers. … ....
Kamala Harris follows Kaw Nation’s Charles Curtis as the second person of color to become vice president Updated Jan 21, 2021; Posted Jan 21, 2021 Charles Curtis, left, raises his hat in a photo taken in either 1932 or 1933. (Harris & Ewing Collection/ Library of Congress) Facebook Share For all of Kamala Harris’ impressive firsts, she’s not the first person of color elected vice president of the United States. That was achieved by Charles Curtis, a Native American lawmaker and member of the Kaw Nation, who served under President Herbert Hoover some 90 years ago. Curtis, a conservative Kansas Republican, reveled in the prestige of the vice presidency. Despite widespread discrimination against Native Americans, he celebrated his ethnicity, often boasting of his rise “from Kaw tepee to Capitol,” decorating his office with artifacts, and posing for photos in a feathered headdress. ....
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The Lawrence City Council has unanimously approved a measure to return a Native American tribe's prayer rock that was transformed more than 90 years ago into a monument. ....
photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World The Shunganunga boulder, pictured Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, is a 23-ton red quartzite rock that sits in Robinson Park in downtown Lawrence across from City Hall. In 1929, a group of Lawrence officials arranged to take the boulder from the Shunganunga Creek near Tecumseh, where the creek joins with the Kansas River â a site that was sacred to the Kanza tribe. Decades after the City of Lawrence removed a sacred prayer rock from the Kaw Nation’s homelands and made it into a monument honoring settlers, city leaders will begin working to return the rock and issue a formal apology to the tribe. ....