Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

HH: His wife is still working in some organization for… I see her, Lynn Maunakea, once in a
while.
KM: Because it would be interesting to see what was the take, even on those issues.
HH: Yes. And Nahua is Hawaiian, he certainly would have been aware if there was any
Hawaiian issues.
KM: Yes. I knew his grandmother fairly well, Katherine Maunakea, and in fact their name,
they’re actually Puna people.
HH: Yes, it’s Maunakea.
KM: Because of Mauna Kea. Kamaka‘imoku is actually their old name, but a child was born
and from the Oneloa section, by Isaac Hale park
HH: Yes.
KM: You can look mauka and see Mauna Kea even from there. So that’s how the name came
about. It would be interesting to see.
So the 1982 Master Plan basically came about as a result of the work that you folks
under the Mauna Kea Foundation were doing with the State. And again, had the State
implemented and managed, monitored the programs, it’s likely that many of the problems
we have today…
HH: They would have surfaced gradually and we could have dealt with them.
KM: That’s correct. And you see today, and this is the point, even in the initial interview
program that I did with elder Hawaiian and other kama‘äina of the mountain lands… And
do you have thoughts perhaps on this, or if it’s inappropriate of me to ask, just ignore it.
Many of the people have said, “You know use what you have up there wisely, don’t ask
for any more.”
HH: Yes. They should have had much more oversight in the way they were sited and built.
But you see, there were more people concerned about the wëkiu bug than about the
cultural things.
KM: Yes, in those days.
HH: In those days, yes.
KM: In other cultural landscape issues, traditional cultural properties. A number of the older
people now have said, “Don’t ask for more. Take care of what you’ve got up there. Use it
wisely, let it rest.” And that’s why we’re in such conflict I think today, on the issue
because the plan that you folks worked so hard to get through, Francis Oda, Group 70
working, it just sat there on a shelf.
It will be interesting to see if Nahua or somebody kept notes from the Community
comments like that. That would be very interesting.
HH: You might ask Mary Matayoshi.
KM: Okay. Thank you so much. 6
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Efforts were made by phone and email to contact Mary Matayoshi and John Dobovan, and also to locate files
which might have been kept in the Hilo Community College (HCC) Collection. Unfortunately no replies to
inquiries were received, and the records could not be located by Corinne Tamashiro of the HCC staff, and who
also worked with Mary Matayoshi on the Mauna Kea Foundation Programs. See summary notes from published
accounts of meetings leading up to the 1982 plan in Volume I of this study (Maly & Maly, 2005).
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