Rosalyn LaPier:
Well, I think that there’s still, in my mind, significant coverage of — when people talk about the history of Lahaina and Maui, of focusing more on the settler colonial history.
For example, there’s been a significant loss of historic buildings and churches. And, again, that’s more settler colonial history. One of the things that has gotten some coverage, but not as much as it could, is the Native Hawaiian, the Native history of that region.
It is a place that the Native Hawaiians have viewed for a very long time as a sacred place, a sacred area. It is a place where they have divine entities live there. And it is also a place that’s important to their history, because it is a place where their royal family chose to live and made their first capital as part of the Hawaiian kingdom.
