For The Love of The Mauna, Part 1

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Society & Culture, Relationships, Indigenous, Native American, Society, Contemporary Native American Culture

5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This special three part series is a story about land, culture, and connections to place—it's the story to protect Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii. Kanaka Maoli people have been fighting to stop the construction of the thirty meter telescope (TMT) since it's inception in 2009, and in the summer of 2019 a resistance camp at Pu’u huluhulu was established on the Mauna.

Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth from the sea floor to its summit. For Native Hawaiians, it is considered the most sacred, deeply honored in their creation story and time honored traditions. The destruction and ongoing desecration from tourism and the existing 13 telescopes on the Mauna has been devastating to the mountain’s fragile and unique ecosystem, and is a blatant disrespect to Kanaka cultural beliefs.

In this series we’ll listen to leaders in the movement to stop TMT and protect Mauna Kea, hear the history of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, about the sacredness of the land, the personal power of being in the movement, and bring us up to speed on what is happening now.

Central in the series are kapuna and scholar Dr. Auntie Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, scholar, poet, and activist; Jamaica Osorio, activist, educator, and cultural practitioner; and Lanakila Mangauil who discuss the health of the natural environment and its connection to fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples.

This first episode gives us the background and story of the beginning of the TMT fight and the cultural foundations of Mauna Kea.

“We take care of the land because without the land we have no culture. Our culture cannot exist without these places.” - Lanakila Mangauil

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Music and Ole’s

"E HŌ MAI"

https://www.puuhuluhulu.com/learn/protocol

“Kū Haʻaheo e Kuʻu Hawaiʻi”

Composed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

from “Kūhaʻo Maunakea” (Kanaeokana)”

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Interludes by

Masa Kobayashi

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Episode artwork inspired by the four maidens, the goddesses of the snow-covered mountains, Poliʻahu, Waiau, Kahoupokane, and Lilinoe, drawn by Ciara Sana.

Special Thanks to Josh Mori for advising us on this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Adrienne. I'm a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, a writer, a blogger, and scholar,
0:05.4	anti living in what is currently known as Rhode Island. And I'm Matika. I'm from the
0:10.9	swimmish in Tlaila peoples, and I'm a photographer, and a doer of many, many things.
0:17.0	There's a lot happening in the world right now. We're still in a global pandemic, and winter
0:22.0	is coming. But today, and for the next three episodes, we want to take you back to January of 2020,
0:28.8	and tell you a story that we think is really important. This is a story about land, about culture,
0:34.8	and about connections to place. And it's a good story. Last January, our whole team got on the plane.
0:42.5	I got on the plane with Alma B. She was just eight weeks old. It was her first plane trip.
0:47.1	And we went to Hawaii. And Hawaii was like you, just like you imagined it to be. It was sunny and
0:56.3	warm, and it smelled good, and it felt good. And we did all the Hawaii things that you do when
1:02.5	you go to Hawaii, you know, like eating spam misooby from the ABC store, where we got our slippers.
1:09.4	And you know, we went to the beach, and we were just, you know, having a fun little time
1:16.3	together, like in real life, in person. And the truth is though, that's not why we were there.
1:24.6	And that's not what the story is about. This is the story of the movement to protect
1:30.8	Mona Al-Waqeha. And Hawaii is not our vacation land. Hawaii is the homeland of the Kanaka-Mali
1:38.6	people. Right now, they are fighting to protect one of their most sacred sites. And that's why we
1:46.1	flew all the way across the ocean. Because we felt like it was essential to make the trip, to talk
1:52.3	one-on-one with the activists and elders who are dedicating their lives to the movement.
1:58.7	So, let me set the scene for you. You know, you were like, we're in Hawaii, we're on this really
2:04.9	warm tropical place, and then we drove up to the mountain to Puhulu-Hulu, the resistance camp.
2:11.3	And as we were driving up, the weather started to change. It was suddenly cold, the mist was thick,
2:17.2	and we arrived during evening protocol to see folks doing their olean jackets and bare feet.
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