{"id":156448,"date":"2022-03-14T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=156448"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:40:51","slug":"lei-making-honor-kalaupapa-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/lei-making-honor-kalaupapa-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei making honor Kalaupapa leprosy patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_40878\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kftljmDgon4?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Honoring the Past Lei Making Event\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> students gathered recently to weave lei and learn about thousands of leprosy patients who lived and died in Kalaupapa. From 1866 to 1969, more than 8,000 people who contracted Hansen\u2019s disease were exiled to the remote area along the north shore of <span aria-label=\"Molokai\">Moloka&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerri Inglis<\/strong>, a history professor at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo and student peer mentor <strong>Sheldon Rosa<\/strong> spearheaded a presentation at the school\u2019s Campus Center about what patients endured.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We wanted to present to the students in attendance, not only some basic background about the history of Hansen\u2019s disease (leprosy) in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, but also to be able to reflect on some of the parallels and lessons about resilience and perseverance that we can apply to our circumstances today,&rdquo; Inglis said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa highlighted parallels between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the wave of leprosy that swept through <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in the 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Even though we are going through these hard times, it\u2019s very similar to the issues that the k\u016bpuna had to face,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;Just honoring them for their resiliency as well as how they persevered, stuck together, that &#699;ohana unit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Lei <span aria-label=\"Halia\">Hali&#699;a<\/span> O Kalaupapa, Lei in Remembrance of Kalaupapa<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156478\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-2.jpg\" alt=\"People making lei using their feet\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-2.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-2-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit: Kirsten Aoyagi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Students learned to make lei <span aria-label=\"lai\">l&#257;&#699;&#299;<\/span> or ti-leaf lei to be laid on patients\u2019 graves in Kalaupapa. Countless strands of <span aria-label=\"lai\">l&#257;&#699;&#299;<\/span> were twisted and tightly woven into a braid-like lei.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees were encouraged to converse with each other while remembering the nature of their task and keeping thoughts pono.<\/p>\n<p>The February 24 event was hosted by the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/campuscenter\/leadership\/\">Ka Lama Ku Development Leadership Program<\/a>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"http:\/\/kipuka.uhh.hawaii.edu\/\">K\u012bpuka Native Hawaiian Student Center<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huimalamamakanalua.org\/what-we-do\">Hui M\u0101lama Makanalua<\/a>, a non-profit community group dedicated to paying homage to leprosy patients. Inglis and Rosa are hui members.<\/p>\n<p>Lei were frozen and will be stored until June to be placed on gravesites by members of the hui.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/chancellor\/stories\/2022\/03\/04\/ti-leaf-lei-making-event\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/a><\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8212;by <strong>Kirsten Aoyagi<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156479\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lei lai\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hilo-lei-lai-1-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lei <span aria-label=\"lai\">l&#257;&#699;&#299;<\/span> (Photo credit: Kirsten Aoyagi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenters highlighted parallels between the current pandemic and the wave of leprosy that swept through <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> in the 1800s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[33,14,907,56],"class_list":["post-156448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-hawaiian","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156448"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156488,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156448\/revisions\/156488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}