We Had a Life: My Years at Kalaupapa

We Had a Life: My Years at Kalaupapa117 pp. We Had a Life: My Years at Kalaupapa tells of Cathrine Puahalas life at Kalaupapa Settlement for Hansens disease patientsfrom 1942 when she was sent there until her death in 2008. Cathrines story was tape recorded over many nights and edited into this memoir. In her own vivid words, she tells of the pain of being taken from her family and sent into isolation to prevent others getting her disease, first at Kalihi Hospital on Oahu and then at

‘Ōlelo Hawaiʻi Editor Dr

Perry Seibert

where a traditional Polynesian culture still flourished

taking into account the many individuals nearly forgotten by history who wrestled with each new political and social change

'Iwa did have unique knowledge of the island

used to make sauce

Hanafuda Nā Pua Hawaiʻi is hybrid game of the traditional Japanese game of hanafuda played with Hawaiian native plants

where the supernatural is natural and darkness provides safety…”

fold in rich volcano Hawaiian honey & Macadamia nuts

but the title of this bar "Haupia

With adorable illustrations

plus three maps published in the rare folio Atlas that accompanies the British government’s official journal