Aloha, My Aunt Louisa Pang was married to Kala Waiwai'ole of Kaua'i but I'm sure his life spanned early 1900's to 1970's. His children were Abigail. Jacqueline, Aaron, Ammon, Lorene, and Eloise. They lived most of their lives in the Kalihi district of O'ahu.
Aloha Yvette,
Leaning of your skills & talents relating to the entertainment industry, I'd like to share the synopsis of the screenplay Beyond Wailea.
Currently there is a major Hollywood Producer who has expressed an interest in this project and the coverage has been positive.
If you'd like to share any thoughts/ideas/suggestions, please do.
Aloha Ke Akua,
j.
Genre: Hawai'ian/Legal Drama/Adveture/Fantasy
Logline: A 19th Century Naval Chaplain, who resisted the US takeover of Hawai'i, is reincarnated as a contemporary attorney who is confronted with the same dark energies that originally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i, as he fights against unscrupulous developers to preserve a Hawai'ian family's ownership of land .
Beyond Wailea
Based On A True Story From The Island Of Maui.
By J. D'Alba
814.270.1977
jpulehu@hotmail.com
Knowing of the plight of the Hawaiian culture and the impeding challenge her people are facing with the continued loss of their land that is vital to their existence, a elderly Hawaiian Kapuna summons her family's amakua, the shark, to compel the return of a nineteenth century American Naval Chaplain to aid her people. The naval Chaplain, who has been reincarnated as a contemporary attorney in the midst of a blossoming legal career, finds his life turned upside down when his fiancée finds him in a compromising interlude with his secretary. In his emotionally distraught state he seeks comfort in a French Canadian paramour only to find his plans thwarted by a winter blizzard that strikes Montreal. At the airport he learns that Montreal is inaccessible and the announcement of the final boarding call of a flight to Maui instills in him a sense of déjà vu that compels him to the island of Maui.
Upon landing in Maui he checks into a posh hotel in Wailea, Maui's most upscale resort area when he expresses a desire to the hotel concierge for a memorable experience of the island. The concierge arranges a hang gliding expedition for him from the summit of Haleakala volcano and along the scenically spectacular north shore of Maui's coast. His awareness of this island's incredible beauty compels him to explore Maui's north shore. As he is photographing the coastline a rogue wave sweeps him into the ocean sending him into a panic to survive. During this struggle he experiences inexplicable thoughts of his past life as the Chaplain, as the Chaplain is bound and gagged on a naval freighter. During his near drowning he is approached by the shark who, unbeknownst to the attorney, thrusts him onto the safety of the reef only after the shark bequeaths upon his neck the revered Hawaiian malie lei. The attorney's struggle against near downing, his encounter with the shark, and his being thrust from the water is witnessed by a Hawaiian elder and his grandson who come to his aid and assist him back to health in the company of their ohana (family). The attorney finds himself living in their incredible valley and becomes enamored not only with these beautiful people, their culture, and their way of life, but also with the elder Hawaiian's niece, Moana, with whom he begins a wondrous love affair. Their affair only heightens his appreciation of the beautiful essence of the Hawaiian culture, their social graces, spiritualism, love, gratitude, knowledge, unique philosophical perspectives, and their essential, inextricable bond with the land.
During breakfast one morning Moana reads that an Auntie, deceased decades earlier, is being sued in an action to quiet title to land of which neither Moana nor anyone else in the ohana has any knowledge. The attorney investigates the basis of this legal action, intercedes on behalf of the family, and learns of the tragic history of Hawaii and how the United States of America illegally acquired the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i. He is lost however to explain the connection between the land that is the subject of the lawsuit and the family that has rescued him until he meets the matriarch of the family, Tutu Helen, who unequivocally informs him: "Smythe stole the land!" Knowing the veracity of Tutu Helen's statement he is left with the daunting task of proving this fact in a court of law only to learn firsthand of the unjust treatment of Hawaiians in the American system of justice, and the incredible lengths the powers that be will go to suppress anyone who attempts to help them rectify this injustice. This challenge presents the attorney with utter, hopeless frustration until he is mystically returned to nineteenth century Hawaii that is in the midst of being overthrown by a conspiracy initiated by the American government with the aid of the US naval and marine forces. There, as the naval Chaplain, he witnesses the planned efforts to acquire this paradise from its rightful owners only to find himself bound and gagged on a ship, being keelhauled for his refusal to aid in the unscrupulous conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii, and steal the land.
With the knowledge he gains from reliving his prior life experience he again is back in court only to find he is without concrete evidence to sustain what he knows to be true. Tutu Helen then directs him to the graves of her ancestors that are situated on property now 'owned' by the aging officer of Hawaii's largest corporate entity, a Hawaiian Sugar Company, and whose son, knowing of this outside Attorney's efforts to expose the century old fraud that enabled his father's corporation to rise to its status as Hawaii's premiere corporate entity, is determined to stop the attorney by any means.
Despite the grave threat to their lives, the Attorney and his lover, Moana, sneak unto the lands of the corporation's leader where they discover the bodily remains of Moana's ancestors exposed on the eroding cliff along the ocean. Removing a tooth from the skull of one the ancestors, the attorney uses it to prove the family's ownership of the land. The Judge is dumbfounded by the Catch-22 he now finds himself in. His dilemma, either refuse to accept the inescapable conclusion that this land is indeed still rightfully owned by this Hawaiian family, and allow these lands to remain held by the sugar company and permit the developers to acquire the land which they seek to quiet title to, or deny the developers lawsuit and return all the land, some two thousand plus acres, to the heirs of the nineteenth century Hawaiians from which it was fraudulently acquired.
In the end Tutu Helen appears near death as the attorney tells her of the Judges decision. The Judge refused to jeopardize his career by perpetuating a fraud that has existed for over a century and he not only denied the attempt by the developers to take the parcels of land they seek but also he returned the two thousand acres of land to this Hawaiian family. The attorney is overcome with distress, as Tutu Helen seems to gasp her last breath of life after learning of the decision. Surrounded by members of her ohana whose emotions over her loss are evident, Tutu Helen stuns them all as she opens her eyes and proclaims. "They said I was dead, but I still live."
The final scene of the movie depicts the mansion once owned by the head of the Sugar Company being bulldozed to the ground and dozens of Hawaiians working to restore the land by planting trees, flowers, and gardens where the mansion once stood.
As this scene concludes the movie fades along with the hauntingly beautiful voice of Hawaiian legendary musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole:
Cry for the gods,
Cry for the people.
Cry for the land that was taken away.
And then yet you'll find.Hawai'i.
Ua mau Ke Ea Oka Aina Ika Pono O Hawai'i.
(The life of the land of Hawaii is preserved in righteousness.)
Aloha Kakahiaka! My fiance and I have a distribution company on Oahu called Aloha Nui Distributors. We distribute books, and dvd's on topics and issues that directly affect all of the Hawaiian Archipelago and all of the people who live and reside in it. Our current book, Hawaii-The FAKE State, is currently desired and wanted by everyone who is exposed to it, whether via our website, word of mouth, or seeing it at one of many community outreach festivals and events, that my wife and I attend. Would like to get together with you, to kukakuka about revealing, and exposing this book to the masses of people who live throughout the Ko Hawaii Pae Aina. You can contact Aloha Nui Distributors at 808.489.7065 or 808.393.8678. You can also check out our website at www.hawaiifakestate.com, look forward to hearing from you. Mahalo Ke Akua!!!
MAHALOS 4 YOUR POEM ABOUT YOUR EKOLU NIU.MADE ME THINK HOW MUCH I MISS MY TUTU DEM.THATS WEIRD BECAUSE THREE NITES AGO SOMEONE BUTCHERD DA LEAVES OFF A BABY NIU RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE I PARK MY CAR.DA NIU NOT MAKE YET BECAUSE I GOING GIVEEM MALAMA AND OLA. =E KU=
Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Pua Ishibashi.
I read your short bio. I would like to initiate a dialogue and communications with you. I have a few projects that I would like to get your mana'o on.
Projects envolving serveral Hawaiian organizations including the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Mamala Hoa.
it is so wonderful to hear from you after all these years (12+). Just be reading on this site about you I can see that you have matured into the beautiful woman that your kupuna knew you could be.
i am so greatful for this site and i hope to be using more as time will allow.
until the next visit, be well, God be with you and yours and never forget that you are standing on ther shoulders of your kupuna.
Hi, Yvette! Did you know this was the first time I ever downloaded photos from my digital camera? I'm such a dinosaur! HA! Glad you liked them! On the North Shore 2-3 days a week - would love to comapare geneology notes re: Bannister & Waiwaiole clans! BTW, Ipo is home from North Carolina with her two boys so I have 2 new bosses in the hale! Come by & visit us! :)
Aloha Kealoha'anolani, mahalo for da acceptance I love this site, its soooo, Hawaiian yeah!! I wish I could speak (or read and write) but its very cool. Hope you and the fambam are doing good, I sent a request to Kaipo too and she accepted me so I'm going to write to her too now.
If you or any one you know needs to book travel please refer them to my website at:
E Yvette Noelani e,
Ae, hoomanao aela au ia oe i ko wa haumana hupekole, a eia kā -- ua lilo oe i wahine u‘i! Itʻs nice to hear from you after 25-plus years, and Iʻm glad to see that youʻre still writing. Iʻm waiting for one of you -- my honors 9 kids -- to write the great Hawaiian novel. Ahea lā?
Me ke aloha nui,
Kihei
oh wow cuz.. over 3 dozen networks? Hmm, ever since u asked me the other week ago, I've been afraid to actually sit down & count but now, I'm wondering if maybe MY list won't be that ...many...??? Great, now I'm feeling compelled to figure it out, LOL!! Over 3x12 equals, wow 36 sites? Are there any types of sites that you didn't count? ie. Snapfish, Photobucket, PictureTrail, ImageShack ... Do you have any guidelines as to what's classified as a "social network" site? LOL, maybe I oughta blog about all this, hehehe.... ;-P
Aloha e Yvette, GREAT to hear from you! My friend Kuulei sent me the link on this and encouraged me to join. Glad I did, it's given me a chance to reconnect with YOU! I get a chance to speak to Nalani Fujimori and she gives me the latest on you. Your babu is getting so big and cute, cute, well not baby anymore toddler now! How old? Okay so you know I am at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation as Mahea's secretary. Things are good and I love the work we do here. Here is the latest on the family:
Ku`ualoha is 25 graduated from UH in 2005 in Hawaiian Language and Ethnic Studies. He is working as a waiter at Outrigger Canoe Club and I am pissed that he is not working in his degree area. Lives with his girlfriend - nice girl and they live in Waipahu.
Kekoa is 21 a senior at UH (grad KS 2004) he is scheduled to graduate with honors next spring. He will take the LSAP this October.
Kainoa is 19 a Freshman at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma Washington (grad Punahou 2007). He is not sure what career choice he wants but is leaning towards Education.
Ka`iulani is 17 a senior at Sacred Hearts Academy she just got into Whitter College (in Burbank California) and waiting to hear from San Jose State (her 1st choice). She would like to major in broadcast media and communications.
Boo-d is 57, still a letter carrier with the post office and can't wait to retire.
Sugi is 55, enjoys her job and also can't wait to retire.
Okay, so now your caught up with me. What's going on with you?
cool. i have an aunt, kris kama (her maiden name), who lives on the big island/waimea. my grandmothers brother in law is a kama and he's originally from papakolea. joseph kama is his name. but i know the kama's from the big island and papakolea are related. it's a really big family. oh well, if you know of any other kama's, please let me know. like you said, it's possible, even through hanai. have a great day sis. take it easy. aloha no-lEi
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Leaning of your skills & talents relating to the entertainment industry, I'd like to share the synopsis of the screenplay Beyond Wailea.
Currently there is a major Hollywood Producer who has expressed an interest in this project and the coverage has been positive.
If you'd like to share any thoughts/ideas/suggestions, please do.
Aloha Ke Akua,
j.
Genre: Hawai'ian/Legal Drama/Adveture/Fantasy
Logline: A 19th Century Naval Chaplain, who resisted the US takeover of Hawai'i, is reincarnated as a contemporary attorney who is confronted with the same dark energies that originally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i, as he fights against unscrupulous developers to preserve a Hawai'ian family's ownership of land .
Beyond Wailea
Based On A True Story From The Island Of Maui.
By J. D'Alba
814.270.1977
jpulehu@hotmail.com
Knowing of the plight of the Hawaiian culture and the impeding challenge her people are facing with the continued loss of their land that is vital to their existence, a elderly Hawaiian Kapuna summons her family's amakua, the shark, to compel the return of a nineteenth century American Naval Chaplain to aid her people. The naval Chaplain, who has been reincarnated as a contemporary attorney in the midst of a blossoming legal career, finds his life turned upside down when his fiancée finds him in a compromising interlude with his secretary. In his emotionally distraught state he seeks comfort in a French Canadian paramour only to find his plans thwarted by a winter blizzard that strikes Montreal. At the airport he learns that Montreal is inaccessible and the announcement of the final boarding call of a flight to Maui instills in him a sense of déjà vu that compels him to the island of Maui.
Upon landing in Maui he checks into a posh hotel in Wailea, Maui's most upscale resort area when he expresses a desire to the hotel concierge for a memorable experience of the island. The concierge arranges a hang gliding expedition for him from the summit of Haleakala volcano and along the scenically spectacular north shore of Maui's coast. His awareness of this island's incredible beauty compels him to explore Maui's north shore. As he is photographing the coastline a rogue wave sweeps him into the ocean sending him into a panic to survive. During this struggle he experiences inexplicable thoughts of his past life as the Chaplain, as the Chaplain is bound and gagged on a naval freighter. During his near drowning he is approached by the shark who, unbeknownst to the attorney, thrusts him onto the safety of the reef only after the shark bequeaths upon his neck the revered Hawaiian malie lei. The attorney's struggle against near downing, his encounter with the shark, and his being thrust from the water is witnessed by a Hawaiian elder and his grandson who come to his aid and assist him back to health in the company of their ohana (family). The attorney finds himself living in their incredible valley and becomes enamored not only with these beautiful people, their culture, and their way of life, but also with the elder Hawaiian's niece, Moana, with whom he begins a wondrous love affair. Their affair only heightens his appreciation of the beautiful essence of the Hawaiian culture, their social graces, spiritualism, love, gratitude, knowledge, unique philosophical perspectives, and their essential, inextricable bond with the land.
During breakfast one morning Moana reads that an Auntie, deceased decades earlier, is being sued in an action to quiet title to land of which neither Moana nor anyone else in the ohana has any knowledge. The attorney investigates the basis of this legal action, intercedes on behalf of the family, and learns of the tragic history of Hawaii and how the United States of America illegally acquired the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i. He is lost however to explain the connection between the land that is the subject of the lawsuit and the family that has rescued him until he meets the matriarch of the family, Tutu Helen, who unequivocally informs him: "Smythe stole the land!" Knowing the veracity of Tutu Helen's statement he is left with the daunting task of proving this fact in a court of law only to learn firsthand of the unjust treatment of Hawaiians in the American system of justice, and the incredible lengths the powers that be will go to suppress anyone who attempts to help them rectify this injustice. This challenge presents the attorney with utter, hopeless frustration until he is mystically returned to nineteenth century Hawaii that is in the midst of being overthrown by a conspiracy initiated by the American government with the aid of the US naval and marine forces. There, as the naval Chaplain, he witnesses the planned efforts to acquire this paradise from its rightful owners only to find himself bound and gagged on a ship, being keelhauled for his refusal to aid in the unscrupulous conspiracy to overthrow the Kingdom of Hawaii, and steal the land.
With the knowledge he gains from reliving his prior life experience he again is back in court only to find he is without concrete evidence to sustain what he knows to be true. Tutu Helen then directs him to the graves of her ancestors that are situated on property now 'owned' by the aging officer of Hawaii's largest corporate entity, a Hawaiian Sugar Company, and whose son, knowing of this outside Attorney's efforts to expose the century old fraud that enabled his father's corporation to rise to its status as Hawaii's premiere corporate entity, is determined to stop the attorney by any means.
Despite the grave threat to their lives, the Attorney and his lover, Moana, sneak unto the lands of the corporation's leader where they discover the bodily remains of Moana's ancestors exposed on the eroding cliff along the ocean. Removing a tooth from the skull of one the ancestors, the attorney uses it to prove the family's ownership of the land. The Judge is dumbfounded by the Catch-22 he now finds himself in. His dilemma, either refuse to accept the inescapable conclusion that this land is indeed still rightfully owned by this Hawaiian family, and allow these lands to remain held by the sugar company and permit the developers to acquire the land which they seek to quiet title to, or deny the developers lawsuit and return all the land, some two thousand plus acres, to the heirs of the nineteenth century Hawaiians from which it was fraudulently acquired.
In the end Tutu Helen appears near death as the attorney tells her of the Judges decision. The Judge refused to jeopardize his career by perpetuating a fraud that has existed for over a century and he not only denied the attempt by the developers to take the parcels of land they seek but also he returned the two thousand acres of land to this Hawaiian family. The attorney is overcome with distress, as Tutu Helen seems to gasp her last breath of life after learning of the decision. Surrounded by members of her ohana whose emotions over her loss are evident, Tutu Helen stuns them all as she opens her eyes and proclaims. "They said I was dead, but I still live."
The final scene of the movie depicts the mansion once owned by the head of the Sugar Company being bulldozed to the ground and dozens of Hawaiians working to restore the land by planting trees, flowers, and gardens where the mansion once stood.
As this scene concludes the movie fades along with the hauntingly beautiful voice of Hawaiian legendary musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole:
Cry for the gods,
Cry for the people.
Cry for the land that was taken away.
And then yet you'll find.Hawai'i.
Ua mau Ke Ea Oka Aina Ika Pono O Hawai'i.
(The life of the land of Hawaii is preserved in righteousness.)
Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Pua Ishibashi.
I read your short bio. I would like to initiate a dialogue and communications with you. I have a few projects that I would like to get your mana'o on.
Projects envolving serveral Hawaiian organizations including the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Mamala Hoa.
A hui hou,
Pua
ps, feel free to email me at Pua@MamalaHoa.org
Haven't had time to figure out how to upload a photo here yet -- gotta get Uncle to help me. It's great to have a techno-geek in the hale. :)
So...when are you coming to visit us here on Kaua`i???
Hugs,
auntie maria
it is so wonderful to hear from you after all these years (12+). Just be reading on this site about you I can see that you have matured into the beautiful woman that your kupuna knew you could be.
i am so greatful for this site and i hope to be using more as time will allow.
until the next visit, be well, God be with you and yours and never forget that you are standing on ther shoulders of your kupuna.
aloha
tasha kama
ps. who did you marry?
love you!
If you or any one you know needs to book travel please refer them to my website at:
http://www.elemutravel.hemitc.com/
Aloha, Kalani
Sorry so long to reply. Kimo's number is 392-3000.
Ke aloha no,
Halealoha
love you too cousin,
Sharlette
Ae, hoomanao aela au ia oe i ko wa haumana hupekole, a eia kā -- ua lilo oe i wahine u‘i! Itʻs nice to hear from you after 25-plus years, and Iʻm glad to see that youʻre still writing. Iʻm waiting for one of you -- my honors 9 kids -- to write the great Hawaiian novel. Ahea lā?
Me ke aloha nui,
Kihei
Luv ya, k
Ku`ualoha is 25 graduated from UH in 2005 in Hawaiian Language and Ethnic Studies. He is working as a waiter at Outrigger Canoe Club and I am pissed that he is not working in his degree area. Lives with his girlfriend - nice girl and they live in Waipahu.
Kekoa is 21 a senior at UH (grad KS 2004) he is scheduled to graduate with honors next spring. He will take the LSAP this October.
Kainoa is 19 a Freshman at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma Washington (grad Punahou 2007). He is not sure what career choice he wants but is leaning towards Education.
Ka`iulani is 17 a senior at Sacred Hearts Academy she just got into Whitter College (in Burbank California) and waiting to hear from San Jose State (her 1st choice). She would like to major in broadcast media and communications.
Boo-d is 57, still a letter carrier with the post office and can't wait to retire.
Sugi is 55, enjoys her job and also can't wait to retire.
Okay, so now your caught up with me. What's going on with you?
I received your reply to my blog, mahalo. I would like to invite you as a friend to my profile.
By the way, we might be related. I'm related to all the Kama's on the Big Island and I went to school with Robert Kama.
You take care and God's be,
~Nalani~
mahalo nui for the comment sis. quick question: i seen that your last name is Kama; are you related to the Kama's from Papakolea?
Lei
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