Kansas monolith will be returned to Native American tribe

KCUR | By Frank Morris

Published May 4, 2022 at 5:09 AM EDT

A huge piece of quartzite in Lawrence, which has long stood as a memorial to the town's abolitionist founders, is being moved. It belongs to a Native American tribe.

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