For almost 10 years, I've been wanting to get an article about my great grandaunt translated and just recently someone did it for us. It's a long article and it's one of two articles, so she only did a translation for the 1st one, which I'm very grateful for. The story is about Emma Lahela Kaakaualiilani Hookano and her husband Lui Hookano who shot and killed her in 1924. The story is told by her mother Emma Fern about the events leading to her death. It takes place in Koolaupoko, but there's some place names I'm unfamilar with like Wailau. I know of Wailau valley on Molokai, but Oahu...never heard of it. There's Kaalaea which is the ahupuaa next to Waiahole, but it's not used today that I've ever heard. She also says "Mahuahale, the place Lui Hookano lived, not far from where we lived", have no clue where that is and it's no where to be had on the internet. I wonder if that's just what Lui called it?Hawaiian language article:http://homepage.mac.com/gencea/Nui/ps01/ps01_448.htm
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