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“...if just a fraction of the millions of annual [Hawai'i] visitors read Kuleana and get a more subtle, more accurate understanding of these singular islands, it will be a cause for celebration. A serious book by a Hawaiian journalist, from a major publishing house, is a most welcome arrival.”

—Washington Post Book Review

In KULEANA, journalist, news executive, and storyteller Sara Kehaulani Goo chronicles the history of her family lands in a rainforest jungle on Maui.

Given to her ancestors by King Kamehameha III, these lands—home to a sacred heiau—once stretched "from the mountain to the sea." Now, after the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian government and the actions of acquisitive foreigners, more than 90% of that land is no longer in her family’s hands. This story is that of the Hawaiian people, now displaced from their homeland and fighting to keep their culture alive.

"Kuleana is a story about land, but it is equally about identity, inheritance, genealogy and the continuity of survival. But it is also about what it means to hold the kuleana of memory and ‘āina...

I would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand not just the history of Hawaiian land loss, but the lived experience of those still carrying its weight today including those who continue to be displaced.”

—Historian Adam Keawe Manolo-Camp