Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

Pat and Rally are animated storytellers, with good recollection of the lands, people, and events in the
history of Parker Ranch and the ‘äina mauna. In the series of interviews cited in this collection, Rally
and Pat graciously shared detailed documentation pertaining to family history, land use, and ranching
operations at many locations on the island. They too, give voice to those who have come before us,
and speak the names of the people and lands with great aloha.
Of particular interest to a study of Mauna Kea and the ‘äina mauna, are Rally’s recollections of his
first trip to Mauna Kea’s summit in 1937-1938, and detailed descriptions of land use and ranching
activities across the ‘äina mauna, from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Speaking about Pu‘u Hïna‘i—generally pronounced Pu‘u Hïne‘i.
KM:
RG:
KM:
RG:
KM:
…What you see is, it looks like someone’s been quarrying. I’m just going to start it’s
September 22, 2000. I’m here at Waimea with Rally and Patricia Greenwell. We’re talking
story, we’re going to look at a series of maps and talk story about your recollections of
working these lands. It goes back to, if I recall, to about 1936. You have a history
throughout this region including the Parker Ranch operations. Towards Mauna Kea,
Humu‘ula, Kalai‘eha, Hänaipoe, on around. And for a while you left Parker and went to
Kahuä. So we’ve got a series of maps that will take us across the land. We’re just going
to be talking story, and I just say mahalo, thank you again.
You’re very welcome.
For your folks willingness to talk story.
Yes. Anyway, that’s the story I wanted to tell you about that.
Thank you, you looked at this map, this is Register Map 2786, it was surveyed, put
together for Parker Ranch in 1917. You were looking up here and said, “This is Pu‘u”
Hïne‘i.
RG:
KM: ‘Ae, Hïne‘i. Would you repeat that again please, what it is about that pu‘u
RG: Looking at it from the mauka Government Road, there’s a spot there where it looks like
they’ve been taking gravel. People have said that that was caused by humans taking
gravel. That’s not right, the Pöpö [Po‘opo‘o] Stream goes down there and the water
washed that away, that’s why that’s hollow.
KM: You have that hollow in there. You know it’s quite interesting, we did discuss this last
time, because you said that Po‘opo‘o Stream would wash through there.
RG: Yes.
KM: I mean, you look at the land today. When do you think, the last time that stream even
flowed out there Do you have a…
RG: I really don’t know, Kepä. But the old days when we had rain at Ke‘ämoku, that stream
would run probably two or three times a year.
KM: This is the ‘30s, ‘40s like that you think
RG: In the early ‘40s.
KM: In the early ‘40s too
Po‘opo‘o Stream head near Ahumoa (Ahuamoa):
RG: Yes, and that stream would start way up above the Girl Scout Camp up by Ahuamoa, it
goes down.
KM:
Yes.
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:10