Kalaupapa

America’s National Parks Podcast

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4.9 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1800s, Hansen’s disease (also known as leprosy) was reaching epidemic proportions in the Hawaiian islands. Bacteria cause nerve damage in patients and can lead to crippling of the hands and feet, paralysis, and blindness. At the time, there was no cure and no known effective treatment, and health officials had no idea how the disease was spreading. This frightened officials in Hawaii, and in a desperate act to save their native populations, isolation seemed to be the only answer. On this episode of the America's National Parks Podcast - Kalaupapa National Historical Park.

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0:28.0	L.L.Bine, be an outsider. It's been a rough year, right? Just over 12 months ago, we were all beginning some sort of phase somewhere of stay at home orders or shelter and place orders,
0:45.0	not knowing what it all meant, lots of different changes happened over the course of several months.
0:50.4	And now here we are. In no way do I want to belittle the collective
0:55.7	difficulty we all went through, but it could have been way worse.
1:00.7	In the late 1800 worse.
1:04.0	In the late 1800s, an island in the Pacific became the home of quarantine
1:09.0	exile, and it was not temporary.
1:12.0	All told 1,200 men, women, and children were exiled to the island of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands.
1:18.0	It was a last-ditch effort to save thousands more from a terrible fate.
1:24.0	I'm Jason Epperson and this week on America's National Parks,
1:27.0	Kalo Papa National Historical Park.
1:31.0	People have lived on the island of Molokai for more than 900 years.
1:35.0	Around the Kalaupapa Peninsula, archaeologists have discovered house sites, fields,
1:40.0	and irrigation systems, stone walls and temples.
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