Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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And the new people coming in, going to still keep calling it pu instead of pu‘u.
Then if you change that, the meaning of the location is completely distorted.
Different.
Yes. Now you see like Waiköloa or Waimea. Like you said, all of these places. You know
you go out along, before had old alanui, not where it is now, but it went up to Waiki‘i you
pass Holoholokü, Pu‘u Heihei.
Uh-hmm.
You go up mauka, Waiki‘i.
Uh-hmm.
Each name, if you only say Waikï…
Nothing.
Different
Yes. You have to say Waiki‘i.
‘Ae. To me, it’s so important that we
just talk story. Now you brought your
uncle’s…
[looking at a photo] This is Uncle
Ka‘aluea with his long Hawaiian name.
Aloha. This was an article that was
That was published by our Parker
Ranch newspaper.
Yes, wonderful! I see Emma Lyons
Doyle.
She interviewed him. I was trying to
show you their Hawaiian names, so
long.
‘Ae. That’s what you were saying,
when you were young or when you
were hänau, mama didn’t give you
folks a Hawaiian name
James “Ka‘aluea” Kahalelaumämane Lindsey.
No. The only one I know is Kaluna. Photo Courtesy of E. “Tita” Kimura. (Copy
Kaluna is named after my Photo No. KPA-3221)
grandmother, I have a sister named
Kaluna and Kimo, well, his name is
James, automatically it’s Kimo.
That was Kimo for Kimo Hale, but really for your Kükü Purdy
Yes.
Now, I guess your papa, Lindsey, his mother was Ka‘inapau
[thinking] His mother was Kükü Kaluna. And Kükü Kaluna’s mother was Ka‘inapau.
Okay.
My dad is just, John Kawänanakoa Lindsey.
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