Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male, Part-Hawaiian Blind, Disfigured, Married Age: 48 34 years at Kalaupapa How did I get this disease? Well, I had eight other relatives in Kalaupapa. [...]
Hawaii History: (from "Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism" by Noenoe K. Silva, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2004) Conservative estimates of Hawaii's population in 1778 range from 400,000 to 1,000,000; just forty five years later, in 1823, that number was reduced to about 135,000 due to disease. The first epidemic, called ma'i'oku'u [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale - Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa Settlement, Molokai, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male, Hawaiian Widowed Age: 81 67 years at Kalaupapa Why Did It Happen To Us Hawaiians? They sent me to this place when I [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Excerpts from Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa Settlement, Molokai, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Female, Hawaiian Married Age: 70 46 years at Kalaupapa Leave Your Bones at Kalaupapa I was born on Maui, in the little community [...]
Molokai History: (from " History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., Honolulu, U.S. Territory of Hawaii, 1927) The last years of Father Damien's life were considerably embittered by his ecclesiastical superiors, who appear to have been jealous of the popularity of their inferior. Their correspondence [...]
Molokai History: (from " History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., Honolulu, U.S. Territory of Hawaii, 1927) The last years of Father Damien's life were considerably embittered by his ecclesiastical superiors, who appear to have been jealous of the popularity of their inferior. Their correspondence [...]
Molokai History: (from "Pioneers of the Faith: History of the Catholic Mission in Hawaii, 1827-1940" by Robert Schoofs, SS.CC., Published by Louis Boeynaems, SS.CC., Honolulu, HI, 1978) In the course of the 19th century up to 1930, Molokai was designated by names that translated its economic status, such as "The Lonely Island", or "The Forgotten [...]
Molokai History: (from "History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands" by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Limited, Honolulu, U.S. Territory of Hawaii, 1927) There were but few Catholics on the island of Molokai outside of the leper settlement on the peninsula; their number may have amounted to about two hundred, disseminated over [...]