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By Anwei Skinsnes Law

among 1866 and 1969, an anticipated 8,000 individuals—at least ninety percentage of whom have been local Hawaiians—were despatched to Molokai’s distant Kalaupapa peninsula simply because they have been believed to have leprosy. Unwilling to just accept the lack of their households, houses, and citizenship, those members ensured they'd be accorded their rightful position in background. They left a strong testimony in their lives within the kind of letters, petitions, track, memoirs, and oral historical past interviews. Kalaupapa combines greater than 2 hundred hours of interviews with archival files, together with over three hundred letters and petitions written via the earliest citizens translated from Hawaiian.

It has lengthy been assumed that these despatched to Kalaupapa have been unconcerned with the realm they have been compelled to go away at the back of. the current paintings indicates that citizens remained actively and taken with existence past Kalaupapa. They petitioned the Hawaii Legislative meeting in 1874, looking justice. They fervently supported Queen Liliuokalani and the Hawaiian country ahead of annexation and contributed to the relaxation attempt in Europe following international battle I. In 1997 Kalaupapa citizens endorsed on the United countries including humans laid low with leprosy from round the world.

This booklet offers in the end the tale of Kalaupapa as advised by means of its people.

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