Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Now you look. Here’s the old stone wall.
Yes.
Come up, come up the old stone wall. Here’s Humu‘ula Sheep Station, Kalai‘eha, here’s
Pu‘u Kalai‘eha, Huikau you come along the old trail. Here’s Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö.
Yes.
From Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö to Pu‘uloa, this area.
Pu‘uloa.
Yes, Pu‘uloa. So choke, thick!
Nah, pa‘a
Pa‘a with gorse.
Aloha no!
‘Ae. Now, like Robby Hind them and he’s pau you know End of the month, he’s pau.
The ranch, Sonny Keäkealani, pau, no more job, Sonny pau already.
What! How come they do that
Loli! Robby, pau. But one of the things they got to do is, they have to, you know the lease
from the Territory, now the State said, “When you pau using this land, the ranch is
supposed to turn it back to as good or better condition than when you got it.” The gorse is
so thick through here, you can’t do anything. No animals can get in to there.
Yes.
And you know when the kükü come big, no can eat right
No can.
They got to figure out how to deal with that. You don’t remember by chance, were there
any old stone walls or Hawaiian places that you remember on this section between these
pu‘u areas like that
No, I don’t remember.
You folks would go along the old trail
Yes.
Then they made the road improve like that. Here’s, if you come again [looking at map]
here’s Humu‘ula, okay. You come the old trail Pu‘u ‘Ö‘ö but that was Shipman
Yes, that’s Shipman.
Then Laumai‘a
Yes, Laumai‘a.
That was you folks yeah
Yes.
Then Pua‘äkala, Shipman again, yeah
Yes, Shipman.
But then you folks would come over here, here’s Hopuwai, that was one of your places
All our places.
Then you would go over what, Keanakolu
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:195