Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

Hisao Kimura
Recollections of the ‘Äina Mauna:
Field Interview–Waimea to Ka‘ohe Site Visit
June 18, 2002, with Kepä Maly (personal release of interview on January 16, 2003)
Hisa Kimura in the Field (Photo No. KPA-3782)
On road, driving from the Kimura home towards the Saddle Road intersection:
HK : ...One thing you see, Waiki‘i was considered to be an outpost of the Parker Ranch
operation. Transportation so poor in the days of the past.
KM: Yes.
HK: Waiki‘i was another community, we hardly knew those people. They’d come down to
Waimea perhaps maybe once or twice a year.
KM: Wow!
HK: That’s about as close as we can get to them. Now and then if you’re working for the
ranch you pass Waiki‘i go up to Humu‘ula, you know.
KM: Yes.
HK: Take the cowboys up or whatever. So, to know Waiki‘i well, you got to get someone who
used to live up there.
KM: Yes. Like you’d said, we’ve really contacted some of the right people, old-timers.
HK: Yes, they were living there.
KM: Like we were saying, each of your recollections, when you bring all these different Oral
Histories together, you really get to understand better, how the land was used, and the
relationships. When you folks traveled out to Waiki‘i, did you go along this, the newer
highway, or did you folks go out past Holoholokü, on the old trail
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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