Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 9, 1 September 2013 — Kalaupapa in print [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kalaupapa in print

Throughout the years, authors, historians and photographers have been drawn to Kalaupapa by both its history and its people. Here are additional books of interest, including one by a former patient.

Released in February, this book seeks to tell the story of Native Hawaiians who were exiled to north Moloka'i during the Hansen's disease outbreak between 1865 and 1900. Author Kerry A. Inglis uses the voices of "patients" - 90 percent of whom were Native Hawaiian - to present a social history of disease and medicine. Using published and unpublished sources, Inglis seeks to demonstrate how

leprosy and its treatment changed the | way Native ' Hawaiians viewed them-

selves, and how biomedical practices and disease were used as tools of colonization.

The winner for illustration and photography at the 2013 Ka Palapala Po'okela Awards, this book features scores of images taken in Kalaupapa in the 1980s and 2000s. The photography is enhanced by interviews with both residents and individuals whose ancestors were sent to the settlement as far backas 1879.

A first-hand account of growing up in Kalaupapa by storyteller and poet Makia Malo, who at 12 was diagnosed with leprosy, a disease that also afflicted his mother, two brothers and a sister. "The first time I heard the word 'leprosy' was at church," the memoir begins. "We were taught that only sinners got leprosy. Maybe that's why we never talked about it, even after my brother Bill was sent away."

Ma'i Lepera: Disease and Dispiacement in NineteenthCentury Hawai'i By Kerry A. Inglis 288 pages. University ofHcmaVi Press. $24.

Hi Nā Ho'omana'o o Kalaupapa: Casting Remembrances of Kalaupapa By Anwei Skinsnes Law anel Valerie Monson Photos by Wayne Levin 144 pages. Pacific Historic Parks. $24.95.

My Name is Makia: A Memoir of Kalaupapa By Makia Malo with Pamela Young 172 pages. Watermark Publishing. $17.95.

This photo of Emma Kamahana Dickerson sifting at the grave of her father, Kalaupapa businessman David Kamahana, appears on the cover of "lli Nō Ho'omana'o o Kalaupapa: Casting Remembrances of Kalaupapa." - Courtesy: Wayne Levin