Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 16, Number 2, 1 February 1999 — Kaulana nā Pua cont. [ARTICLE]

Kaulana nā Pua cont.

Kalauokalani, Edwin Auld and Toni Auld Yardley, and Ka'oi Ka'imikaua, all related to the men who delivered the 1897 Petition Against Annexation, were on hand during the ceremony to return the original petition to representatives from the United States Naūonal Archives. The Bishop Museum, with the assistance of Sen. Daniel lnouye and Gov. Ben Cayetano, had the petition on temporary loan from the archives since August. Almost from the day it opened in !uly, the " Kaulana nā Pua"exhibit received great attention. Guy Kaulukukui, chairman of the museum's education department, remembers an older Hawaiian man from Wai'anae he met within the first two days of the exhibif s opening. "He was pointing up to his family names that he found," Kaulukukui said, "and he, in tears, was telling me how proud he was to see his great-grandfather's name here." Kaulukukui said that many others were proud to find the names of their 'ohana on the petition. 'To know that when people were trying to determine the future of Hawai'i a 100 years ago their family took a stand. They didn't just let it happen, they didn't just do nothing." Pages of the petition ean be photocopied at the Bishop Museum's Archives. The exhibit travels to the Keauhou Shopping Center for a three-month run beginning Feb. 6. ■