Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 29, Number 2, 1 February 2012 — TRANSLATION OF ARTICLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRANSLATION OF ARTICLE

By Puakea Nogelmeier

BEFORE THE RAIN FALLS, THE MULCH IS READIED O Green-backed Hawai'i, Heed the Calling Voice. MAINĪAIN PEACE AND UNITY Hiat is the Foundation for Victory and Good Fortune. The Makali'i season has passed and we approach the days of winter, when the farmer has already prepared his fields in hopes

I that the rain will fall. NothI ing need be said, for all was set in advance, prepared from the start, and he takes pleasure in knowing that all is in readiness. How appropriate these philosophies are that our ancestors have taught from the beginning, since Papa and Wākea's time down to us, the latest generations of Hawaiians, urging the minor, the great, and the lesser persons to rise up in unity and to aird ourselves securelv

with the three-strand cord of true Patriotism in eaeh of your hearts. Do not heed, be fooled by, or pay mind to the burgeoning sparkle of silver before your eyes as some source for our good fortune. No! Not at all! For therein awaits our demise, and should you digress, you'll be as ruined as one who has fallen into the boiling vats of the sugar mill, with no hope for survival left in him. Thus we remind Great Hawai'i, Land of Keawe, isle of the sunrise, to contain the full extent of patriotism in the hearts of men, women and children, and when something comes about where the people are to share that, then embrace it all together as one, and may it be recalled that there, in your unity, lies our victory. Great Hawai'i, Isle of Keawe has passed on behind us. We had checked them, tapping at their chests, and they affirmed that "we are always on your side, and your loving voice is what we cherish, may it truly be the voice of salvation and victory." We visited those friends, Maui of Kamalālāwalu, Lāna'i of 'A'ea and Hina's Isle, Moloka'i, and we entered the homes, spent nights with the locals, and asked their thoughts. Their response was always the same: the 'āhihi lehua garland that adorns Keawe's island (patriotism,) is what bedecks the islands joined under Kamalālāwalu's sway, from large to small. We left amid the roar of the Kaua'ula wind, and the rustling of the Ma'a'a breeze, reaching Kākuhihewa's island to see the kōnane board of the Annexation League being shopped around on the sidewalks, calling out for tinder to send off to America, and if that is approved, the California quail and its cohorts will laugh aloud. But, listening carefully to the boom

of 'Ewa's seas, it remains steadfast, with the pangs of piercing cold causing no one to rush and engage in such actions. The Patriotic Leauue and the Poliheal Leauue are main-

taining their activities, making progress for eaeh of their associations, and steeling themselves to fend off all deceitful actions. We peeked in on Kaua'i, island of Mano, and all is well at Nu'alolo, that trestled path on the cliffs. Highland and shore are secure, with no upstarts or rascals to unsettle its foundation, for it is basic and ancestral, continuing on to and through the descendants. We stress that because we maintain peaee, resolve and unity among men, women and ehil-

dren, we have no doubts about publicly and fearlessly expressing that it is what has toppled the greedy and cheating intentions of our enemies up through today, and we must continue to persevere in that same manner until the sovereignty of our land is restored to our own hands, about whieh we declare that such a day shall eome, with great victory indeed. This is the prayer of Ke Aloha Aina, offered before the sacred altar of the Trinitv. ■

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This 1 897 article uses Hawaiian metaphors and kaona, or hidden meanings, to shroud the descriptions of efforts against annexation. - lmage: Courtesy ofBishop Museum