Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 17, Number 5, 1 May 2000 — Response to Maxwell [ARTICLE]

Response to Maxwell

Ho'opunipuni, Charlie Maxwell. In 1976, Charlie Maxwell got me and other Hawaiians to sail to Kaho'olawe. We made a flotilla to support George Helm. We never reached the island because Maxwell had planned with the Coast Guard and poliee to stop the flotilla. We were stopped and forced to go back to Mā'alaea. When we returned, the pohee searched our boats and took our fishing ukana. When we tried to stop them, we were arrested for "obstructing government operations." We never got our ukana back. Keoki George Akana Kapa'a, Kaua'i