Petroglyphs restored after spending decades at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse

What happens when a church discovers it has a sacred Native American relic?

A 1,200-year-old petroglyph rock sat outside a Latter-day Saint church meetinghouse for decades. Now it’s been returned to the Shoshone Nation.

Petroglyphs restored after spending decades at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse

TREMONTON, Utah (ABC4) — A sacred rock with petroglyphs important to the Northwestern Band (NWB) of the Shoshone Nation has been restored and returned to its original location after it spent decades at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse. The petroglyphs are around 1,200 years old, and they were created by the Fremont people, who were ancestors of the NWB of the Shoshone Nation. The effort to restore the petroglyphs and re…