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VIDEO: Aloha, Aunty Pele Hanoa
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by Big Island Video News
on May 4, 2016 at 12:15 pm

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KA‘U - Treasured kupuna Winifred Pele Hanoa passed away in early April. “Aunty Pele” stood for preserving the rural character and open space of her home district on Hawaii Island.




An excerpt from an August 2008 video interview with Aunty Pele, filmed at the Malama Punalu’u festival in Na’alehu by Dave Corrigan. Music in the background is from the performance that day by Aunty Diana Aki.

KA‘U, Hawaii – Hawaii Island is mourning the loss of a beloved Ka‘u kupuna.

Winifred Pele Hanoa – “Aunty Pele” to many – died in Waiohinu at the age of 92 on April 6, reports the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

Big Island Video News interviewed Hanoa on the Memorial Day weekend of 2008 during the second Malama Punalu’u festival. Hanoa was representing Ka‘u Preservation, the organization she co-founded with her late daughter Keolalani. Her words at the time summarized her life’s work and passion.

Pele Hanoa

Ka‘u is what it is, and I hope we can keep it that way… We cant afford to have it destroyed by developers. They been doing that in Kona, I can see that. But not in Ka‘u. We are farmers in Ka‘u. We have history of Ka‘u. We can’t be losing what kupunas – our ancestors – left for us. So I like to keep it that way. I hope to get all the developers that come here and get (them) out of here. So we can keep our island the way it is. Hawai‘i.”Pele Hanoa, August 2008

The Ka‘u Calendar reports services for Hanoa are at Dodo Mortuary in Hilo at 11 a.m. this Saturday, May 7.


Filed Under: Breaking Tagged With: Kau Preservation, Pele Hanoa, Punaluu

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