WE SHOULD START 

I NEVER USE A SCRIPT BECAUSE I

DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR THAT I

SHOULD KNOW WHAT

I'M GOING TO SAY BEFORE YOU

KNOW.

BUT IT'S VERY EASY TO BE

ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT INTRODUCING

DR. BRADY.

I'M ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE

EXHIBITION AND WE'RE GRATEFUL TO

HIM FOR HIS HELP ON THE HAWAII

SIDE P AND ADVICE ON THE WHOLE

MATTER.

IT WAS A LOT OF FUN TO DO AND

PARTICULAR FUN IN HAWAII, I HAD

NEVER BEEN THERE IN MY LIFE.

I THOUGHT I KNEW AMERICAN

INDIANS REASONABLY WELL AND I

HAVE NEVER BEEN TO HAWAII EXCEPT

TO REFUEL ON THE WAY TO JAPAN SO

THAT WAS AN INTERESTING AFFAIR.

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ACTUALLY I THINK GET ON THE

RIGHT WAVELENGTH WITH THESE

FOLKS BUT AS I SAID, DR. BRADY

WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF THAT TRIP.

THE ISLAND, THE PENINSULA OF THE

MALACHI ISLAND, WHEN YOU'RE

THERE, RATHER BEAUTIFUL.

IT'S STRANGE BECAUSE IT HAS A

VERY SAD HISTORY.

THEY'LL TELL YOU ABOUT IT I'M

SURE BUT AS AN OUTSIDER YOU'RE

CERTAIN NOT TO EXPECT.

FIRST WE SHOULD TELL YOU AS

OUTSIDERS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO

GET THERE BASICALLY IS TO FLY.

OR SWIM IF YOU'RE AN AWFULLY

GOOD SWIMMER.

AND SO IT'S RATHER ISOLATED.

THE CLIFFS THAT LOOK PRETTY IN

PICTURE IS GUESS ARE THE HIGHEST

-- I GUESS ARE THE HIGHEST

OCEAN-SIDE CLIFFS IN THE WORLD.

2,000 FEET.

SO ESSENTIALLY THE PLACE WAS

PICKED BECAUSE THAT ISOLATES

INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SENT THERE.

THEY DIDN'T CHOOSE TO GO, THEY

WERE SENT THERE AND OFTEN

TREATED RATHER ROUGHLY, UNLOADED

IN THE SURF, TOLD TO GO GROW

SOME TEAR ROW WHICH YOU CAN'T DO

IN THE WINNER.

SO AS I SAID, VERY SAD HISTORY.

I HOPE TODAY WILL FOCUS ON NICER

THINGS.

THE CANONIZATION OF (INAUDIBLE)

I DO HAVE ONE NOTE THAT I WANTED

TO SAY CORRECTLY.

HE WAS (INDISCERNIBLE) ACCORDING

TO BOOK THAT WE HAVE BUT HE WAS

CANONIZED AT A LATER DATE AND

THAT WAS OCTOBER 11, 2009.

SO THAT WAS AFTER WE HAD

VISITED.

AND AT LEAST A DOZEN PEOPLE FROM

PATIENTS FROM THE HOSPITAL WERE

ABLE TO FLY TO ROME FOR THE

CANONIZATION, CERTAINLY A BIG

DEAL.

I WAS VERY HAPPY TO READ ABOUT

THAT IN THE PAPERS.

BUT YOU HAVE TO NOTE 12 OR 14

WENT FROM THE HOSPITAL TO ROME

TO SEE THE CANONIZATION OF THIS

MAN SAINTED FOR WORK IN THE

HOSPITAL.

BUT THEY ALL CAME HOME, THEY ALL

CAME BACK BECAUSE TO THEM,

CALPAPA, MALACHI EYE LAND IS

HOME.

AND THE COMPANIONSHIP OF OTHERS

WITH THAT DISEASE.

SO IT'S AN INTERESTING

OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US IN NLM

TO SEE THAT PLACE, HISTORY AND

THE WONDERFUL WORK OF DR. KALANI

BRADY, WHO I NOW INTRODUCE.

[APPLAUSE]

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) A

ALOHA.

>> THAT WAS MY HAWAIIAN VERSION

OF THE TALK.

THAT'S CALLED AN OLI OR A CHANT.

AND BASICALLY OLI IS USED

THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC TO

ESTABLISH YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK.

I THINK WE'LL USE THE MOUSE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT

COLOPAPA AND AS DR. LINDEBERG

SAID, DAMIAN WHO MULTIPLE TIMES

SAID HEREK$p I AM, SEND ME.

HAHNSON'S DISEASE AS

DR. LIPIDBERG SAID IS THE

SCIENTIFIC -- LINDEBERG SAID IS

THE SCIENTIFIC NAME OF A STIGMA

THAT HAS BEEN AROUND THOUSANDS

OF YEARS RECORDED IN THE CHINESE

CULTURE, RECORDED IN THE ANCIENT

BIBLE, THE OLD TESTAMENT.

AND THEN HAS BEEN SCOURGED FOR

THE ENTIRE 2 MILLENNIA SINCE THE

OLD TESTAMENT TIMES.

AND WE HAVE CHANGED THE NAME TO

HAHNSON'S DISEASE TO BASICALLY

REMOVE THE STIGMA OF LEPROCY.

HANSON'S DISEASE HAS A MEDIAN

ONSET TODAY AT THE AGE BETWEEN

20 AND 30 YEARS OLD.

NOT SO WAS H THE CASE IN ANCIENT

HAWAII WHERE THE ONSET WAS AT

AGE 5 OR 6 OR 7.

WHEN MY MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO ME

I WAS PUT IN A BASSINET.

SHE COULD SEE ME BUT OH, SHE

SHOULDN'T TOUCH ME.

AND THE -- BACK IN THE OOH

'50s THE PHYSICAL CONTACT GAVE

WAY TO A BRIEF UNDERSTANDING

THATSER RILT WAS SO IMPORTANT.

UNLIKE THAT WESTERN MEDICAL

CONCEPT, IN HAWAIIAN CULTURE

BEFORE AND SHORTLY AFTER CONTACT

WITH THE WEST, THE HAWAIIANS

WERE VERY PHYSICALLY INTIMATE

PEOPLE.

SO WHEN THERE WAS A BIRTH, THE

ENTIRE FAMILY WOULD CUDDLE AND

COO THE BABY.

THEY WOULD HOLD THE BABY, TICKLE

THE BABY, THEY WOULD PASS IT ON

AUNT WOULD HAVE A HANS TO HOLE

THE BABY, UNCLE WOULD HAVE A

CHANCE TO HOLD THE BABY.

IN SOCIETY AS WE HAD THE

EPIDEMIC OF HAHNSON'S DISEASE

THE WAY IT'S TRANSMITTED AS YOU

CAN SEE HERE, IS PRESS PRATORY

TRANSMISSION SO UNCLE WOULD HOLD

THE BABY.

AND COUGH INTO THE BABY'S FACE

AND THE BABY WOULD INHALE

HANSON'S DISEASE BACTERIUM.

IN SO DOING AFTER A FIVE OR SIX

YEAR INCUBATION PERIOD WOULD

MANIFEST HAHNSON'S -- HANSON'S

AT A MUCH YOUNGER AGE THAN SEEN

TODAY.

THE NASAL SECRETIONS ARE LOADED

WITH HAHNSON'S DISEASE BACTERIA

IN UNTREATED PATIENTS.

FATHER DAMIAN WAS ACCUSED OF

HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HIS

FEMALE HANSON'S PATIENTS.

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY

EVIDENCE THAT IT'S AN STD, IT

WAS A CRUEL RUMOR.

THE INCAN COW BAITION PERIOD IS

3 TO 5 YEARS, ONLY 3 TO 5% OF

THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD

SUSCEPTIBLE.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT ETHNICITIES

LIKE POLL KNEE SHAH, MICRONESIA,

THE FILL PEENS, CHINESE,

SOUTHEAST ASIANS, INDIANS, THEY

HAVE A MUCH HIGHER RISK FOR

SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HANSON'S.

CAW CASES DON'T HAVE A VERY HIGH

RISK.

WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT OF

COURSE WITH JOSEPH DAMIAN

(INDISCERNIBLE) WHO WAS PURE

CAUCASIAN.

THEY LOOK FAMILIAR.

SO THE FIRST NAME FOR HANSON'S

DISEASE IN HAWAII WAS

(INDISCERNIBLE).

(INDISCERNIBLE) MEANT THE

CHINESE ILLNESS.

BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED WAS

CONTACT OCCURRED WITH COOK AND

THEN WHALERS AND MERCHANT SEAMEN

STARTED POURING THROUGH HAWAII.

BEFORE THE MISSIONARIES EVEN.

AND THE (INDISCERNIBLE) WHO HAD

MEANS WOULD TAKE TRIPS WITH

THESE SHIPS.

THEY WOULD GO TO AUSTRALIA, TO O

THE BRITISH AISLES, TO THE

UNITED STATES AND CHAI -- AND

CHINA AND GOING TO CHINA BECAUSE

THERE WAS INTIMACY WITH THE

(INDISCERNIBLE) THEY WOULD COME

BACK AND AFTER A CERTAIN NUMBER

OF YEARS THEY MANIFESTED THE

SYMPTOMS OF HANSON'S DISEASE,

CALLED THE CHINESE ILLNESS.

IN THE 1840S THE DISEASE BECAME

EPIDEMIC IN HAWAII AND

THEREFORE, THERE BECAME A FEAR

NOT KNOWING HOW IT WAS

TRANSMITTED THAT PERHAPS HAWAII

WOULD BECOME THIS BASTION OF

LEPROCY.

SO THE DING DOCUMENT OF HAWAII

HAD A BOARD OF HEALTH AND THOSE

PHYSICIANS GOT TOGETHER AND

DISCUSSED AND RECOMMENDED TO

KING (INDISCERNIBLE) THAT HE

ESTABLISH AN ACT TO PREVENT THE

SPREAD OF LEPROCY AND FIND A

SETTLEMENT SOMETIMES CALLED A

COLONY.

SO THEY LOOKED IN HAWAII FOR

WHERE THAT COLONY WAS GOING TO

BE.

(INDISCERNIBLE), A REMOTE ISLAND

WAS CONSIDERED BRIEFLY BUT WAS

FELT TO BE TOO AIRED FOR

DEPOSITING PEOPLE FOR LIFE

SENTENCE AND THEREFORE, IT WAS

ABANDONED.

(INDISCERNIBLE) ON THE OTHER

HAND A PENINSULA ON THE ISLAND

OF (INDISCERNIBLE) WAS CHOSEN

NOT FOR GEOGRAPHIC REMOTENESS

BUT FOR THE BARRIERS WHICH

PREVENTED EXIT FROM

(INDISCERNIBLE).

IT ALSO HAD MORE RAIN ON THE

WINDWARD SIDE OF AN ISLAND IS IF

THERE WERE ADEQUATE RAIN, IT WAS

FELT LIKE DR. LINDEBERG

MENTIONED THE PATIENTS MIGHT BE

ABLE TO CREATE THIS NEW

COMMUNITY IN AND FARM TEAR ROW

AND HAVE A TAPE L FOOD AND

BECOME

SO IN 1865 (INDISCERNIBLE) WAS

CHOSEN IN 1866 THE FIRST 12

PATIENTS, NINE MEN, THREE WOMEN

WERE DROPPED OFF AND WERE ON THE

EAST SIDE OF THE PENINSULA.

BETWEEN 1866 AND 1873 NEARLY A

THOUSAND PATIENTS WERE SENT TO

CALO OPAPA.

HERE IS COLOPAPA PENINSULA, IT'S

A COUNTY UNTO ITSELF CALLED

(INDISCERNIBLE) COUNTY.

IT'S THE EAST SIDE OF THIS

PENINSULA AND IN FACT THAT WAS

WHERE THE HAHNSON'S DISEASE SET

M WAS FOR THE FIRST 35 YEARS.

40 YEARS.

THE WEST SIDE IS A PEACEFUL

FISHING VILLAGE THAT HAD BEEN

THERE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND

THAT ACTUALLY HOLES THE NAME

CALOPAPA.

THE MAYOR FOR THIS COUNTY OF

HAWAII IS THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH

BECAUSE OF COURSE IT'S HANSON'S

SETTLEMENT AND THE ESTABLISHMENT

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

THIS IS THE PENINSULA.

YOU CAN SEE THIS CLIFF

DR. LINDEBERG REFERRED TO AS

QUITE AN EFFECTIVE BARRIER FOR

PATIENTS SENTENCED TO LIFE

IMPRISONMENT.

I KEEP SAYING THIS.

AS I BEING DRAMATIC?

NO.

THERE WAS NO QUARANTINE LAW IN

THE KINGDOM OF HAWAII OR FOR

THAT MATTER PRETTY MUCH

ANYWHERE.

SO THEY HAD TO BORROW THE PENAL

CODE WHICH WAS BASED ON BRITISH

PENAL CODE AND AMERICAN PENAL

CODE SO IF SUSPECTED OF HAVING

HANSON'S DISEASE, YOU WERE

ARRESTED.

THEN YOU WENT TO TRIAL.

YOUR JUDGES WERE DIRECTOR OF THE

BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS

PHYSICIANS.

IF YOU WENT TO TRIAL AND

CONVICTED, THESE WORDS WERE

LITERALLY USED, INCLUDING WITH

THE PATIENTS THAT I TAKE CARE OF

TODAY, AND THEY WERE CONVICTED

AND SENTENCED TO LIFE

IMPRISONMENT IN KALOPAPA.

THIS IS THE CLIFF UP CLOSE AND

WHAT YOU MAY NOT SEE IS RIGHT UP

HERE ON THIS SIDE OF THE CLIFF

IS THE SWITCH BACK TRAIL THAT

ASCENDS IF COMING FROM THE

BOTTOM TRYING TO ESCAPE OR

DESCENDS IF COMING FROM THE TOP,

ALMOST 1800 FEET VERTICALLY.

THE CLIFFS ACTUALLY TO THE EAST

OF CALOPAPA ARE NEARLY

4,000 FEET IN HEIGHT, TRUE

BARRIER TO ANY ESCAPE SO AT THE

TIME THE HANSON'S PATIENTS WERE

THERE, THEY CAN CLIMB THAT CLIFF

BUT IF YOU CAN SEE FROM THAT

CLIFF, IT IS ALMOST VERTICAL.

AT THE TOP, ONE SIDE OF THE O

TRAIL WAS STRAIGHT DOWN T OTHER

SIDE WAS STRAIGHT UP AND THERE

WAS A GATE PLACE THERE.

YOU COULDN'T GO AROUND THE GATE.

YOU COULDN'T CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN.

AND THAT THE GATE WAS A AT THE

GATE WAS A GUARD WITH A GUN.

IF YOU HAD HIKED UP THAT TRAIL

THE GUARD WOULD SAY NICE JOB,

TURN AROUND LE PER, GO HOME.

YOU COULD TRY SWIMMING, IT WAS

ABOUT EIGHT MILES ACROSS THIS

ROCKY SHORE TO A PLACE WHERE

THIS CLIFF DIMINISHED TO A

BEACH.

IF YOU MADE THE 8-MILES

THEORETICALLY YOU MIGHT BE FREE.

THE PROBLEM WAS MY COUSINS, THE

SHARKS, THIS IS OPEN OCEAN, NO

ONE IN HISTORY NO ONE IS KNOWN

IN THE HISTORY OF CALOPAPA TO

HAVE SUCCESSFULLY ESCAPED BY

SWIMMING.

THIS IS THE EAST SIDE AND I'M

GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE

ABOUT THIS BEACH, THIS IS WHERE

THE PATIENTS WERE TAKEN AND OFF

LOADED ON LONG BOATS.

BUT IF YOU WERE UNLUCKY, THE

LOYALTY OF A CAPTAIN IS TO THE

SAFETY OF HIS VESSEL AND TO THE

SAFETY OF HIS CREW AND

PASSENGERS.

UNFORTUNATELY THE HANSON

PATIENTS WERE NOT TREATED AS

PASSENGERS, THEY WERE DUMPED AS

I WILL TELL YOU LATER, INTO THE

HOLDS OF THE VESSEL.

AND TREATED MORE LIKE CATTLE.

OR PIGS.

IF THEY MADE A CROSSING AND IT

WAS A RELATIVELY CALM DAY YOU

MIGHT SAY THAT'S CALM, IF IT WAS

NOT A CALM DAY, WHICH HAPPENED

NOT INFREQUENTLY, THE PATIENTS

WOULD BE DUMPED OVER THE SIDE6Sv OF

THE SHIP AND MADE TO SWIM

ASHORE.

YOU MIGHT THINK, WELL, YOU'RE

FROM HAWAII.

ALL YOU HAWAIIANS, DON'T YOU

SWIM?

THE ANSWER IS NO.

SO SOME DIED.

AND THEN UNLESS YOU WERE A

REALLY GOOD WATERMAN AND COULD

OBSERVE AREAS LIKE THAT WHERE

THERE ARE SHOALS AND KNOW FROM

THE SEA THAT THAT WAS A SHOAL,

YOU SWAM IN ON THE ROUGH DAY AND

OPENED YOUR BELLY ON THE CORAL

AND LAVA, ROCK.

AND IF YOU WERE LUCKY YOU

SURVIVED THAT INJURY.

I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A STORY

ABOUT MOLKI.

THIS IS A SIMPLE SLIDE, SOME OF

YOU THAT ARE FEMALE, MIGHT FIND

THIS A BIT OF A STRETCH BUT I'M

GOING TO ASK YOU TO CLOSE YOUR

EYES AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU

THAT YOU'RE IMAGINING YOURSELF

TO BE A HEALTHY, STRONG YOUNG

HAWAII, 24, 25 YEARS OF AGE.

M ULCHAI WAS RAISED BY HIS

FATHER AND MOTHER IN A GRASS

HUT.

ON THE WINDWARD SIDE AND THEY

WERE TEAR ROW FARMERS.

YOU SAW IN THE TARROW FARMS ALL

OVER AND HIS PARENTS WORKED FROM

BEFORE DAWN TO AFTER DUSK.

RAISING AND SELLING TARROW

LIVING IN THEIR GRASS SHACK.

YOU DECIDED SEEING THE WORLD

EXPANDING AROUND YOU IN THE

1860s THAT YOU WERE GOING TO

HAVE A BETTER LIFE.

SO YOU, A STRONG, YOUNG HAWAIIAN

FAITHFUL TO THE PRECEPTS OF YOUR

GOD, YOU CAME TO HONOLULU AND

VOLUNTEERED FOR A JOB AS A LONG

SHOREMAN ON THE DOCKS OF

HONOLULU HARBOR.

THE WORK WAS HARD BUT YOU WERE

6, 3, 6, 4 AND WEIGHED 225-POUND

AND NOT AN OUNCE OF THAT WAS

FAT.

YOU WERE ABLE TO DO THAT

BACK-BREAKING WORK AND YOU MADE

LOADS MORE THAN YOUR PARENTS

EVER MADE RAISING TARROW.

AND WHEN YOU HAD SOME SUBSTANCE,

YOU BROUGHT YOUR WIFE TO BECOME

YOUR WIFE FROM KALUA AS WELL,

HER NAME WAS NANI.

SHE JOINED YOU IN HONOLULU AND

YOU EVEN HAD A PLACE OF YOUR

OWN, NOT A THATCHED HUT BUT A

REAL APARTMENT MADE OF WOOD LIKE

THE HOLY LIVEDCH ONE DAY YOU'RE

WORKING OUT ON THE HARBOR AND A

CONSTABLE COMES UP TO YOU.

AND THE CONSTABLE ASKS YOU TO

RAISE THE SLEEVE OF YOUR SHIRT,

EVERY LONG SHOREMAN WORE LONG

SLEEVES BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT

TO DAMAGE THEIR SKIN FROM THE

HEAVY WORK THEY HAD.

AND YOU TOWERED OVER THIS

MINUSCULE CONSTABLE AND ARGUED

WITH HIM WHY SHOULD YOU REMOVE

YOUR SHIRT?

DID HE THINK THAT YOU HAD STOLEN

SOMETHING?

THE CONSTABLE THREATENED YOU

WITH ARREST.

YOU ROLLED UP YOUR SHIRT AND THE

CONSTABLE WAS VERY INTERESTED IN

A SORE THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY

FEELING, THAT HAD BEEN THERE FOR

MANY MONTHS NOW, SORT OF WHITE

COMPARED TO THE SKIN AROUND IT

WHICH WAS DARK BUT IT CAUSED NO

PAIN, YOU NEVER PAID IT ANY

MIND.

ON THE SPOT THE CONSTABLE

ARRESTED YOU AND TOOK YOU TO A

PLACE CALLED CALIHI HOSPITAL.

CALIHI HOSPITAL WASN'T A

HOSPITAL LIKE QUEENS HOSPITAL

HAS JUST BEEN FORMED BY

(INDISCERNIBLE) CALIHI HOSPITAL

WAS MORE LIKE WARDS OF BEDS IN A

ROOM MAYBE 16 TO 20.

AND OUTSIDE THERE WAS A FENCE.

A DAY OR TWO LATER YOU NOTICE

MEMBERS OF COMMUNITY CAME TO THE

GATE OF THE HOSPITAL AND

CONVERSED WITH PEOPLE ON YOUR

SIDE OF THE HOSPITAL, AND THEY'D

WALK OUT TO TALK TO PEOPLE AT

THE GATE AND YOU BEGAN TO THINK

THAT NUNI WOULD COME.

YOUR WIFE, SHE HAD JUST GIVEN

YOU A BABY BUY BUOY AND YOU

HOPED THAT N UNI AND SON WOULD

VISIT.

DAY AFTER DAY YOU WAITED IN VEIN

THE DAY CAME AND THE NURSE SAID

TODAY IS YOUR TRIAL.

AND YOU ARE ASKED TO REMOVE YOUR

CLOTHES AND PUT A SMOCK ON AND

FOLLOW HER INTO A LARGE ROOM

WITH A CENTRAL PEDESTAL THAT

COULD ROTATE LIKE A LAZY

SUZANNE.

AROUND THE PEDESTAL SITTING IN

CHAIRS WERE A LOT OF MEN WHO

WERE DOCTORS WITH LONG WHITE

COATS.

YOU WERE PUT ON THE PEDESTAL AND

THEY DIDN'T REACH YOU, THEY

HARDLY ACKNOWLEDGED YOU, THEY

TALKED ABOUT YOU AS IF YOU WERE

AN ANIMAL.

THEN THE NURSE SAID MULKI, DROP

THE SMOCK.

AND YOU STOOD THERE IN YOUR

NAKEDNESS.

ASHAMED.

AND THEN ONE OFS

UP AND STARTED PAWING AT YOUR

EAR LOBES AND AT YOUR NOSE AN AT

YOUR LIPS.

LOOKS AT YOUR HANDS, CHECKED

YOUR NERVES FOR WHAT HE WAS

LOOKING FOR IS ENLARGEMENT OF

THE NERVES.

DIDN'T TALK TO YOU, DIDN'T

ACKNOWLEDGE YOU AND THE OTHERS

CAME UP AND SIMILARLY EXAMINED

YOU ONE REACHED DOWN AND FELT

YOUR PRIVATE PARTS.

BECAUSE HANSON'S DISEASE IN

MALES GOES TO THE COOLER AREAS

INCLUDING THE SCO OTOM.

AND YOU WERE ASHAMED.

YOU FELT SICK TO YOUR STOMACH

WITH THE SHAME.

THEY DISCUSSED YOU FOR A WHILE

AND THE NURSE THEN SAID YOU CAN

REPLACE THE SMOCK AND YOU'RE LED

FROM THE ROOM.

A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER YOU

INFORMED HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF

LEPROCY AND SENTENCED TO

CAWAPAPA FOR LIFE.

THAT EVENING, AS IF IT WAS WITH

EMBARRASSMENT OR SHAME THAT THEY

SHOULD EVEN TAKE YOU, YOU WENT

BACK DOWN UNDER GUARD THE

HARBOR.

THE VERY PLACE THAT YOU WORKED

AS A LONG SHOREMAN.

YOU WERE LOADED ON TO A SHIP BUT

NOT INTO CABINS.

YOU WERE PUT DOWN IN AN OPEN

HOLES WHERE THEY HAD TAKEN

CATTLE AND PIGS OUT BUT NOT THE

MANEUVER, IT HADN'T BEEN

CLEANED.

AND YOU AND 10 OR 12 OTHER

PATIENTS AND AND HOUR LATER SHIP

SETS SAIL.

AND THE CHANNEL WAS ROUGH AND

THE SMELL OF THE DUNG WAS

HORRIBLE.

SOON THE SMELL OF THE DUNG WAS

MIXED WITH THE SMELL OF YOUR

VOMIT BECAUSE MOST OF YOU GOT

SEASICK.

IN THE MORNING YOU COULD SEE THE

GRAY LIGHT IN THE OPEN HOLES AND

THE SEA BECAME A LITTLE CALM.

AND THE ANCHOR WAS SET OUT AND

FORTUNATELY THE SEA WAS CALM

ENOUGH THAT THEY COULD LOWER THE

LONG BOATS.

YOU GOT INTO A LONG BOAT AS DID

THE OTHER PATIENTS AND THE

SEAMEN STARTED ROWING TO SHORE.

AS THEY ROWED TO SHORE, YOU

LOOKED ON THE SHORE THIS ROCK

SHORE AND THESE MONSTERS WERE

SLOWLY WALKING DOWN AMONG THE

ROCKS THE MEET YOU.

THEY WEREN'T HUMAN.

THE FACIAL FEATURES LOOKED LIKE

THEY HAD BEEN MAULED BY THE CLAW

OF THE DEVIL.

MANY WERE MISSING FINGERS AN

EVEN HANDS.

ONE OR TWO HAD A STICK BY WHICH

THEY COULD WALK BECAUSE ONE OF

THEIR FEET WAS MISSING.

AND WITH HORROR YOU REALIZED

THAT THAT WOULD BE YOU.

NANI HAD NOT COME TO SAY

GOODBYE.

YOU HAD SEEN SOMEONE FROM YOUR

COMMUNITY BEFORE YOU WERE

SHIPPED OFF, THEY SHAMEDLY

LOOKED DOWN AT THE FLOOR, WHEN

YOU SAW THEM AND WAVED TO THEM.

AND THEY TOLD YOU THAT NANI HAD

LEFT THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

NO ONE KNEW WHERE SHE WENT,

BECAUSE THE FEAR AND REVOL SHUN

AND SHAME OF HAVING A HUSBAND

WHO WAS A LEPER COULD NOT BE

DEALT WITH AND THE FEAR WAS SHE

WOULD BY ASSOCIATION SIMILARLY

BE ARRESTED.

SO YOU WERE ALL ALONE, YOU HAD

CERTAIN DEATH.

AS THE BOAT ARRIVED ON SHORE YOU

JUMPED OUT EVEN BEFORE HITTING

STONES AND YOU STARTED RUNNING

UP THE SHORE AWAY FROM THE

MONSTERS.

YOU REALIZED YOU HAD BEEN A

GOD-FEARING MAN, YOU HAD NEVER

STOLEN, YOU DIDN'T DRINK

ALCOHOL, YOU HADN'T REALLY

SINNED IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE.

YOU HAD PURSUED A DREAM TO MAKE

BETTER OF YOURSELF AND PROVIDE

FOR YOUR FAMILY AND THIS WAS THE

WAY GOD TREATED YOU?

AND YOU GLANCED HEAVEN WARD AND

RAISED YOUR FIST AND SAID DAMN

YOU, GOD.

AND YOU CRACKED AND YOU WHO HAD

BEEN SUCH A RIGHTEOUS MAN

TRANSFORMED CAN ANYONE BLAME

YOU?

OLKI BECAME ONE OF THE ROUGHIANS

OF CALOPAPA.

THAT MEANS BECAUSE HE STILL HAD

HIS STRENGTH AND BECAUSE GOD HAD

ABANDONED HIM, THE NEXT BOAT

LOAD HAD WOMEN, HE GRABBED ONE.

SHE BECAME HIS SEXUAL SLAVE.

AND THE NEXT BOAT HAD CHILDREN

AND HE GRABBED ONE OF EACH, 10,

12-YEAR-OLDS AND THEY BECAME

SEXUAL SLAVES, SLAVES TO CARRY

WATER, SOMETIMES ACTUALLY IN

THAT ERA THE CHILDREN WOULD

WILLINGLY BECOME THE SLAVE OF A

STRONG MAN, BECAUSE ONLY ABOUT A

THIRD OF THE PATIENTS HAD

HOUSES.

AND AFTER LIVING FOR A MONTH OR

TWO IN THE WIND THAT WAS

DESCRIBED EARLIER, 30-MILE AN

HOUR WINDS, RELENTLESS, DAY

AFTER DAY, NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, NO

TREES TO BLOCK THE WIND, AFTER A

WHILE A LITTLE BOY OR A LITTLE

GIRL WOULD DECIDE IT WAS WORTH

TRADING THEIR BACKSIDE FOR BEING

IN A HOUSE.

WITH A BED, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE

MIGHT HAPPEN.

AND THAT WAS THE HOPELESSNESS,

DO DESPAIR, THE DEBAUCHERY, THE

ORJIS, THE DRUNKENNESS, OF

CALOPAPA OF THE EARLY 1870s.

SOME YEARS BEFORE IN THE

1840s, A MAN HAD BEEN BORN IN

BELGIUM, THIS MAN, JOSEPH DI

VERSER WAS HIS NAME, HE WAS BORN

TO A FAMILY OF LANDED FARMERS.

THEY WEREN'T JUST SURFS, THEY

OWNED THEIR LAND, QUITE

SUCCESSFUL.

JOSEPH HAD AN OLDER BROTHER

PAMPHIL A SLENDER BOOK-LEARNING

TYPE THAT COULD BE PRESENTED

PERHAPS AS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE

WHO WOULD ARGUE HOW MANY ANGELS

FIT ON THE HEAD OF A PIN.

BUT JOSEPH WAS DIFFERENT, HE WAS

STOCKY, SHORTER THAN HIS

BROTHER.

IN FACT, AS HE GREW UP HIS

FAMILY BEGAN TO THINK JOSEPH IS

GOING TO BE THE HEAD OF THIS

FARMLY THE NEXT GENERATION --

FARM FAMILY THE NEXT

GENERATIONCH HE WILL CONTINUE

THE FINE TRADITION, ANIMAL

HUSBANDDRY, CARP RPTRY ALL THE

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BE IN

THE COUNTRY.

WHEN PAMPHIL CAME TO HIS PARENTS

AND SAID I FEEL CALLINGED TO THE

PRIESTHOOD -- CALLED TO THE

PRIESTHOOD, THEY A DEVOUT FAMILY

REJOICED.

BECAUSE HERE WAS A MEMBER OF

THEIR FAMILY WHO RECEIVED A

CALLING TO THE PRIESTHOOD A

SISTER OF JOSEPH SIMILARLY HAD A

CALL TO THE CONVENT AND THE

FAMILY REJOICED.

NOT SO WHEN JOSEPH CAME TO THE

FAMILY.

AND HIS BROTHER HAVING HAD SUCH

A GOOD EXPERIENCE IN THE EARLY

TIME OF THIS SEMINARY IN PAIRN

FRANCE OF THE ORDER OF SACRED

HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY, HE

CAME TO HIS FAMILY AND HE SAID I

FEEL CALLED.

AND THEY DESPAIRED A BIT.

BUT THEY WERE NOT GOING TO STAND

IN THE WAY OF GOD SO OFF HE WENT

TO THE SAME SEMINARY AS HIS

OLDER BROTHER.

HE GOT THERE AND PAMPHIL SPOKE

GERMAN, PHLEGMISH, FRENCH AND HE

KNEW LATIN SO AS THE PRIESTS

TEACHING IN THIS SEMINARY TO

BECOME A PRIEST, THOUGHT THAT

PAMPHIL WAS THE BEST THAT THEY

COULD HAVE AND IT WAS BY

CONTRAST JOSEPH CAME AND HIS

INTELLIGENCE WAS MORE A

PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

HE WASN'T A THEORIST.

HE COULD BUILD BUT HE ONLY KNEW

FLEMISH.

HE KNEW A LITTLE LATIN.

BACK IN THOSE DAYS OF COURSE YOU

DIDN'T LEARN LATIN BECAUSE THE

MASS WAS ALL FORWARD AND AWAY

FROM THE CONGREGATION.

HE KNEW KNOW FRENCH OR GERMAN.

SO THEY WATCHED HIM A COUPLE OF

WEEKS AND SAID YOU KNOW, JOSEPH,

YOU SHOULD BECOME A CHOIR

BROTHER.

WE DON'T FEEL YOU'RE CALLED TO

BECOME A PRIEST.

WE FEEL YOU'RE CALLED TO BECOME

A CHOIR BROTHER.

OKAY.

A CHOIR BROTHER WAS OBVIOUSLY

MEMBER OF THE CHOIR AND SANG,

THAT PUTS ME IN THAT CATEGORY.

NOT VERY SMART.

BUT THE CHOIR BROTHER ALSO

EMPTIED THE NIGHT POTTS AND THEY

PEEL THE POTATOES.

AND THEY CLEANED UP THE KITCHEN

AFTER THE MEAL WAS DONE.

THEY HAD A LOT OF MENIAL DUTIES.

IS SO HE HUM NLED -- HUMBLED

HIMSELF AND DID THAT.

THEN CAME TIME FOR HIS BROTHER'S

ORDINATION AS A PRIEST AND

PAMPHIL WAS ASSIGNED TO THE

MISSION FIELD IN THIS PLACE

CALLED THE SANDWICH AISLES.

BUT HE CAME DOWN WITH TYPHUS AND

NEARLY DIED.

THEY HAD A REAL PROBLEM.

JOSEPH STEPPED FORWARD AND SAID

HERE I AM, SEND ME.

THEY TALKED ABOUT IT.

THEY DEBATEDDED.

BUT THEY DECIDED TO SEND HIM.

IN OCTOBER OF 1863 HE BOUGHT A

SHIP, FIVE MONTHS LATER HE WENT

AROUND CAPE HORN AN ARRIVED IN

HONOLULU.

HE WENT TO A SCHOOL CALLED

(INDISCERNIBLE).

IT'S NOW ST. LOUIS HIGH SCHOOL

WHERE I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL.

HE WAS THERE A COUPLE OF MONTHS,

ORDAINED A PRIEST, AND WHEN

YOU'RE ORDAINED A PRIEST OR

BECOME A SISTER YOU'RE ALLOWED

TO TAKE A NAME, USUALLY OF A

SAINT.

HE CHOSE DAMIAN.

SO NOW JOSEPH WAS DAMIAN

DIVERSTER AND FOR SEVEN YEARS HE

WORKED THE MISSION FIELD ON

HAWAII ISLAND.

FIRST IN (INDISCERNIBLE) AND

THEN IN COALA AND HE USED TO

RACE THE PROTESTANT

(INDISCERNIBLE) TO BAPTIZE THE

MOST PEOPLE.

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT MAY KNOW

HAWAII ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI THE

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL IS

ST. ANTHONYS.

IT WAS A CHURCH ASSOCIATED WITH

THE HIGH SCHOOL FIRSTEN IT WAS

BUILT IN 1872.

AND IN 1872, BISHOP MIKE GRAY

AND MISSIONARY BISHOP OF THE

DIOCESE OF HONOLULU GATHERED AS

MANY PRIESTS AS ABLE TO COME,

WENT TO MAUI AND CELEBRATED THIS

NEW CHURCH.

ST. ANTHONY'S MAUI.

HE TOLD THE PRIEST A VERY

HORRIFIC TALE.

ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN A

DECEMBER LATE PLACE CALLED

KALAUPAPA, IN WHICH THERE WAS NO

HOPE AND NO PEACE.

NO LEAD TORE CALL THEM BACK TO

THE LORD.

THERE WAS ONLY DRUNKENNESS AND

ORJIS AND SEXUAL SLAVERY.

SO HE ASKED WILL SOMEONE PLEASE

VOLUNTEER AND I NEED FOUR

VOLUNTEERS.

WILL SOMEONE VOLUNTEER TO BECOME

THE PRIEST FOR THREE MONTHS AND

WE'LL PUT YOU ON A ROUND ROBIN.

YOU ONLY HAVE THREE MONTHS OF

HARD DUTY AND NINE MONTHS BACK

IN YOUR CHURCH OR PARISH OR ON

MISSION FIELD.

THEN WE ROTATE YOU ONCE A YEAR.

AGAIN, DAMIAN WAS THE FIRST TO

STAND AND SAY HERE I AM.

SEND ME.

THREE OTHERS VOLUNTEERED AS

WELL.

I WORK IN A NEWS STATION FOR 16

1/2 YEARS IN HONOLULU ON A

MORNING NEWS TEAM.

WE DON'T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT.

DAMIAN WENT TO KALAUPAPA.

THE NEWS HIT THE PAPERS.

HAWAII AT THAT TIME WAS THE

SECOND MOST LITERATE PLACE ON

EARTH, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

HIGHER LITERACY THAN THE UNITED

STATES AND ENGLAND.

SCOTLAND IRONICALLY WAS THE MOST

LITERATE PLACE ON EARTH PER

CAPITA AND HAWAII WAS SECOND.

THE NEWS HIT, DAMIAN, THE

CATHOLIC PRIEST SACRIFICES HIS

LIFE FOR THE PEOPLE OF KALAUPAPA

IT IT WENT ON TO DESCRIBE THE

DESOLATION, THE SIN CITY, AND

HOW DAMIAN WAS VOLUNTEERING.

ONCE YOU WERE THERE IT WAS LIFE

IMPRISONMENT BECAUSE NO ONE KNEW

HOW IT WAS TRANSMITTED AND YOU

COULDN'T BE SURE THAT DAMIAN

WASN'T INCUBATING HANSON'S

DISEASE.

WELL, THE NEWS HIT AND THE

BISHOP WAS BESIDE HIMSELF.

HOW COULD HE -- ANYTHING HE DID

AT THAT POINT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS

GOING BACK ON A COMMITMENT TO

THESE POOR PEOPLE.

WHAT HAPPENED?

DID DAMIAN DECIDE HE DIDN'T LIKE

IT ENOUGH?

SO HE WENT TO DAMIAN AND DAMIAN

WENT TO HIM AND DAMIAN

VOLUNTEERED TO BE THE PERMANENT

PRIEST OF KALAUPAPA.

DAMIAN BECAME THE DEFENDER WHEN

HE GOT THERE.

HE IMMEDIATELY BECAME THE

PROTECTOR OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

HE WENT IN TO PRIVATE HOUSES OF

THESE BULLIES LIKE MULKI.

HE SNATCHED THE CHILDREN OUT OF

THE HOUSE.

DAMIAN WAS THIS TALL.

THE HAWAIIANS WERE THIS TALL,

TWICE HIS WEIGHT.

I'M AMAZED THEY DIDN'T KILL HIM.

BUT MAYBE IT WAS THE COLOR.

COLOR.

IN ANY CASE HE HAD A RAG TAG

GROUP OF ORPHANS WITH HANSON'S

DISEASE THAT BECAME HIS WARDS.

HE GAVE THE WOMEN ADULTS THE

FREEDOM TO FOLLOW HIM AND

PROTECT THEM AS WELL.

SOME OF THEM DID, SOME OF THEM

DID NOT.

HE BEGAN MINISTERING ESPECIALLY

TO THE SICK AN DYING

IMMEDIATELY.

HE HELD THEM, BANDAGED THEIR

WOUND, HE TOOK UP A PIPE TO THE

SMOKE FROM THE PIPE WOULD DROWN

OUT THE PUTRID SMELL OF THE

ULCERS AND THE ABSCESSES THESE

PATIENTS HAD.

BEING A CARPENTER HE DUG THE

GRAVES, BUILT THE COFFINS AND

BURIED THE DEAD.

HADN'T HAPPENED BEFORE THEN.

SO WHEN HE DID THIS, I'M KALANI

THE BARBARIAN, SOME MAY KNOW THE

CATHOLIC CHURCH REQUIRES TWO

MIRACLES FOR CANONIZATION AS A

SAINT.

MY TWO MIRACLES ARE THESE.

DAMIAN CAME TO THIS PLACE AND

MEMBERS OF MY PROTESTANT CHURCH

READ THE NEWS AND IN A DAY WHEN

CATHOLICS AN PROS STANTS WERE AT

EACH OTHER'S THROATS, ON A

SUNDAY, THE ELDERS AND DEACONS

OF CENTRAL UNION CHURCH WHICH

WAS WHERE THE CAPITAL OF THE

STATE OF HAWAII IS NOW, THREE

BLOCKS AWAY FROM OUR LADY OF

PEACE CATHEDRAL, MARRED DOWN

(INAUDIBLE) STREET NAMED FOR

ENGLAND AND MASHED TO THE

CATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE

PEACE.

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE BISHOP

LOOKING UP AND SEEING WHAT HE

KNEW WERE THE PROS STANT LEADERS

OF THAT TOWN -- PROTESTANT

LEADERS OF THAT TOWN AND

WONDERING WHY THEY'RE AT MASS.

WHAT HAPPENED THAT WAS SO WRONG?

WAS THERE GOING TO BE A

CONFLICT?

THE PROTESTANTS SAT DOWN AT

FRONT AND WHEN THE OFFERING TIME

CAME THEY GAVE WHAT ONE HISTORY

BOOK DESCRIBES AS THE LARGEST

OFFERING THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FOR

A WHILE.

THERE WAS PEACE BECAUSE OF

DAMIAN AND HIS ECUMENASICM.

THAT'S OKAY BUT MOST OF

KALAUPAPA SAW THIS PERSON AS AN

OUTSIDER.

HE'S NOT ONE OF US.

HE'S ONE OF THEM.

HOW CAN HE PREACH TO US SEEKING

FORGIVENESS?

HOW CAN HE PREACH TO US AB BEING

MEEK?

HE DOESN'T HAVE THIS DISEASE

THAT WILL KILL HIM FIVE YEARS

FROM NOW AFTER IT HAS MADE A

MONSTER OUT OF ME.

THE SECOND MIRACLE OF DAMIAN

OCCURRED AND WAS NOTICED AFTER

DAMIAN HAD SNUCK UP THE TRAIL.

SOMEHOW AGAIN MAYBE IT WAS HIS

COLLER BUT HE REGULARLY SNUCK UP

THE TRAIL TO TOPSIDE AND BUILT

THREE CHURCHES ON TOPSIDE AND

MOLOKAI AND SOMEHOW THE GUARD

JUST LET HIM BUY.

HE CAME DOWN ONE TIME, HE WENT

TO HIS MEAGER HOUSE, HE POORED A

BUCK OF HOT WATER BECAUSE HIS

FEET WERE SORE.

THAT TRAIL IS VER VERY ROUGH.

I HAVE BEEN DOWN A DOZEN TIMES

AND UP 20, 30 TIMES AND IT'S

VERY ROUGH.

HE PUT HIS FOOT INTO THE BEART

WATER.

PUT HIS OTHER#iT FOOT INTO THE

WATER.

HE LIFTED HIS FOOT IMMEDIATELY

BECAUSE OF THE PAIN OF THE

SCALDING WATER.

IT TOOK HIM A SECOND TO REALIZE

AS HE LIFTED THE OTHER FOOT OUT

THAT HAD BEEN IN THERE A WHILE

AND LOOKED DOWN AT THE SKIN THAT

WAS FALLING OFF THE FLESH THAT

HE HAD SECOND DEGREE BURNS OF

HIS OTHER FOOT.

THE NEXT SUNDAY IN THE CHURCH

THAT YOU'LL SEE IN A SECOND, HE

PREACHEDDED A UNIQUE SERMON.

HE STARTED AND SHORTLY AFTER HE

STARTED HE SAID WE LEPERS.

A FEW WOMEN WERE PAYING

ATTENTION, THE KIDS WEREN'T BUT

THE FEW WOMEN PAYING ATTENTION

SAID WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

WHAT GAL DOES HE HAVE TO CALL

HIMSELF ONE OF US?

HE DOESN'T WALK OUR WALK.

HE'S NOT ONE OF US.

TWICE MORE IN THE SERMON HE

TALKED ABOUT WE LEPERS.

LEN HE LIFTED UP HIS TROUSERS

AND SHOWED THEM THE LEG WITH THE

SKIN FALLING OFF THE FLESH THEY

KNEW.

IT WAS AT THAT POINT IN 1883

THAT THERE WAS A CHANGE IN

KALAUPAPA.

DAME I DON'T KNOW WAS TRANSFORM

-- DAMION WAS TRANSFORMED FROM

THE PROTECTOR OF A FEW RAG TAG

KIDS AND WOMEN AND COMFORTER OF

THE DEATH OF THE DYING, ALL OF A

SUDDEN, HE WAS ONE OF US.

AND BEING US INSTEAD OF THEM A

NEW RESPECT OCCURRED FOR DAMIAN.

INCREASING NUMBER OF KALAUPAPA

PATIENTS FELL BEHIND DAMIAN IN A

WALK TOWARD FORGIVENESS, TOWARDS

HUMILITY, TOWARD GRACE AND

ACCEPTANCE.

I WON'T DIGNIFY IT AND SAY THAT

KALAUPAPA LIVED HAPPILY EVER

AFTER, I HAVE LIVING PATIENTS

WHO TOLD ME THEY WERE MOLESTED

AS CHILDREN COMING IN THE

1930s AND 40s.

I KNOW PATIENTS THAT ARE DRUNK

EVERY NIGHT.

BUT MIGHT NO LONGER MIX RIGHT

AND KALAUPAPA IS A VERY FAITHFUL

PLACE AND EVERY SUNDAY ALMOST

EVERY IS IN CHURCH AND THEY LIVE

THAT THROUGHOUT THE WEEK.

THE SECOND MIRACLE OF DAMIAN WAS

GOD GAVE HIM THE DUBIOUS GIFT OF

BECOMING LIKE THOSE TO WHOM HE

MINISTERED.

THE PEOPLE TODAY IN KALAUPAPA

SEE HIM AS A SPIRITUAL FATHER,

SOME OF THEM BELIEVE THAT THEY

HAVE COMMUNED WITH HIM, THAT HE

HAS COME BACK AND SPENT TIME

WITH THEM.

SO OF COURSE WHEN HE WAS

BEATIFIED AS DR. LINDEBERG SAID

FIRST AND CANONIZED LATER, THERE

WAS NO QUESTION ABOUT OUR SAINT

DAMIAN.

THERE IS THE CHURCH ST. FILAMINA

AT THAT TIME BUILT BY BROTHER

BERTRAND IN 1872.

DAMIAN AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE

LEFT SIDE OF THE TO TOE, THERE

IS ANOTHER -- PHOTO, THIS HUGE

CHURCH CAME AFTER DAMIAN'S TIME

BUT IT WAS A LITTLE CHAPEL IN

THIS COB FIGURATION --

CONFIGURATION AND DAMIAN CAME

AND BUILT OUT ON THIS SIDE SO IT

BECAME, THIS IS THE CHURCH BY

THE TIME DAMIAN CAME BECAUSE HE

BILL THIS PART.

THIS IS WHERE HE WAS BURIED IN

1889 AND WHERE PART OF HIM IS

STILL BURIED I USED TO GIVE A

TALK SIMILAR TO THIS TO MANY

DIFFERENT GROUPS INCLUDING THE

HAWAIIAN CIVIC CLUBS AND I GOT A

GOOD SCOLDING FROM THE HAWAIIAN

CIVIC CLUB OF HONOLULU.

THEY SAID KALANI, YOU HAVE NO

PICTURES OF THE GRAVES,

KALAUPAPA IS ABOUT THE 8,000.

WHERE ARE THE GRAVES?

SO I WENT OUT AND TOOK A BUNCH

OF PICTURES.

BUT YOU HAVE BETTER PICTURES

HERE AT NLM THAN I HAVE.

SO THEY CAME TO ME IN 2008, THEY

SAME KALANI, THREA OF THEM,

WE'RE GOING TO -- THREE OF THEM,

WE'RE GOING TO ROME.

ARE YOU GOING TO ROME?

I SAID NO, NO I THINK I'LL STAY

HERE AND WATCH IT ON TV.

I'M REALLY A BARBARIAN.

AND Ia

INSULTED THEIR MOTHER.

THEY RECOILED AND THEY HUDDLED

LIKE A FOOTBALL TEAM AND I

THOUGHT OH, NO, I'M IN TROUBLE.

ONE WAS APPOINTED AND STOOD IN

FRONT AND HE SAID KALANI, YOU'RE

OUR COCA.

WE'RE GOING TO ROME BECAUSE

DAMIAN IS BEING CANONIZED.

YOU ARE GOING TO ROAM.

BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF

US.>O–

HERE IS THE GROUP DR. LINDEBERG

REFERRED TO.

THESE ARE MOST OF THE REMAINING

HANSON'S PATIENTS IN 1999 IN

KALAUPAPA.

ALL BUT TWO REQUIRED

WHEELCHAIRS.

THIS IS IN FRONT OF THE ALTER OF

THE BASILICA ST. PETER IN THE

VATICAN.

THE WOMAN HERE IS THE LIVING

MIRACLE ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH.

THIS IS THE REASON HE WAS

CANONIZED.

THIS WOMAN I DON'T KNOW IF YOU

KNOW HOW THE PROCESS GOES, I DO

HAVE A MINUTE OR TWO MORE.

THE CANONIZED SAINT MUST HAVE

TWO HONEST TO GOD MIRACLES.

THIS IS AUDRI (INDISCERNIBLE) A

GRADUATE OF THE SISTER SCHOOL OF

MY HIGH SCHOOL AND SHE WAS A

TEACHER HER WHOLE LIFE.

AND SHE HAD A CHEST X-RAY AND

THE CHEST X-RAY SHOWED A MASS.

HER DOCTOR SENT HER TO A

PULMONOLOGIST AND THE CAT SCAN

SHOWED A WELL-DEFINED CANCER OF

THE LUNG.

THEY DID A BRONCHOSCOPY AND GOT

BRUSHINGS AND SURE ENOUGH, IT

WAS A CANCER.

SO THIS CANCER THE PROTOCOL WAS

THE REMOVE ALL THE CANCER IF YOU

COULD, AND THEN START RADIATION

AN CHEMOTHERAPY.

THE PRE-OP CHEST X-RAY, WAS

TAKEN.

THEY THOUGHT IT WAS THE WRONG

PATIENT.

THEY CHECKED IT AND TOOK ANOTHER

ONE.

THERE WAS NO MASS.

SHE HAD GONE TO KALOPAPA, PRAYED

TO DAMIAN AND THE MASS WAS GONE.

NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS.

IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT 3 TO 4

SONOMETER MASS.

THAT'S THE REASON HE WAS

CANONIZED RIGHT THERE.

SO AFTER BEING IN VATICAN CITY,

ROME, WE CAME BACK HOME, THIS IS

JUST TO MAKE YOU JEALOUS, THIS

IS WHERE I GET TO GO EVERY WEEK

AND LIVE A COUPLE OF DAYS.

THIS IS THE WATER AT KALAUPAPA,

BETTER IN TERMS OF DIVERSITY AND

VOLUME OF FISH.

MAHALU MEANS THANK YOU IN OUR

LANGUAGE.

THIS IS AN AERIAL OF THE

SETTLEMENT OF KALAUPAPA.

I WOULD BE GLAD TO TAKE YOUR

QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY.

AND IF YOU DON'T, I HAVE A

ENCORE.

[APPLAUSE]

IF YOU DON'T ASK A QUESTION I'LL

HAVE TO GO ON TO THE OTHER

STUFF.

(OFF MIC)

>> THE MEDICATIONS USED -- THERE

WERE MANY TREATMENTS THAT WERE

UNSUCCESSFUL AS YOU PROBABLY

KNOW, THE QUESTION WAS, WHAT IS

THE TREATMENT FOR HANSON'S?

THERE WERE MANY TREATMENTS THAT

WERE USED, ONE OF THE MOST

COLORFUL WAS (INDISCERNIBLE) OIL

WHICH WAS AN OIL EXTRACTED FROM

THE CHALMUGRA TREE INJECTED

SUBCUTANEOUSLY AND USED TO ITCH

AND BURN LIKE FIRE.

BUT BECAUSE HANSON'S HAD

REMISSIONS AND EXACERBATIONS,

ENOUGH PATIENTS SOMEHOW WENT

INTO REMISSION WITH THAT THAT

THEY MISUNDERSTOOD THAT IT WAS

EFFECTIVE WHICH IT WAS NOT.

THE ACTUAL DRUGS, STARTED BEING

USED IN 1948 OPT CONTINENTAL

U.S., THEY DIDN'T COME TO

KALAUPAPA UNTIL ABOUT 1950.

THERE WAS A GREAT DISTRUST AT

FIRST AS TO WHETHER THEY WERE

GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE.

WE HAD NO MAGIC POTION.

IT WAS VERY HARD TO GROW

HANSON'S DISEASE BACTERIA IN THE

LAB, YOU HAVE TO USE ARM DILL

LOW AS THE HOST OR HUMANS AND

THE HUMAN GROWTH ACTUALLY BACK

-- THERE OOH'S A -- THERE'S A

TRUE STORY ABOUT THE KINGS OF

HAWAII THAT ALLOWED A KILLER A

CONVICTED KILLER TO BE

EXPERIMENTED ON SO THEY INJECTED

HANSON'S DISEASE FLESH INTO THIS

PERSON TO SEE IF THEY WOULD

CONTRACT HANSON'S.

OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T BECAUSE WE

DIDN'T KNOW AT THE TIME BUT

THERE WAS THIS THREE TO FIVE

YEAR INCUBATION PERIOD.

SO 1950s IS THE SHORT ANSWER.

(OFF MIC)

>> THE STIGMATA OF HANSON'S,

ONCE THEY'RE THERE, THEY'RE

THERE.

IT'S VERY.&„ INTERESTING, YOU CAN

PUT INTO REMISSION LIKE

TUBERCULOSIS AND OCCASIONALLY

YOU'LL GET REACTIVATION.

IN THE LAST 8 AND A HALF YEARS I

HAVE BEEN THERE THERE'S BEEN

THREE REACTIVATIONS.

THOSE PATIENTS ARE NOW DEAD BUT

NOT FROM HANSON'S.

THE STIGMATA INCLUDES THE THINGS

THAT I TALKED ABOUT WITH MULKI

WHICH ACTUALLY HAS HAPPENS TO BE

MY BROTHER'S NAME.

IT INCLUDES LOSS OF EAR LOBES

AND EYE BROWS AND NOSE AN MOUTH

BECOME A SINGLE HOLE AND

SOMETIME THERE'S AN

AUTOTRACHEOSTOMY, BECAUSE THE

PATIENT COULDN'T MOBILIZE THE

SECRETION SUCCESSFULLY ENOUGH

NOT TO BE IN RESPIRATORY

DISTRESS.

SO A NUMBER OF MY PATIENTS

GETTING THERE AS CHILDREN TOLD

ME THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING

TO THE WILD WEST BECAUSE THEY

HAD SEEN THE BLACK AND WHITE

MOVIES OF THE WHY WOULD WEST OR

A BANDANNA AND SO THEY WENT TO

THERE AND WORE A BANDANNA

BECAUSE THEY HAD TRACHEOSTOMIES

AND THE WORST WERE THE AUTOAM

TIEW PAITIONS OF -- AMPUTATIONS

OF FINGERS AND TOES AND HANDS.

I HAVE A PATIENT THAT'S STILL

ALIVE THAT PLAYS THE PIANO

BETTER THAN I DO.

I DON'T PLAY VERY MUCH BUT THE

COMBINATION OF THE NEUROPATHY

WHICH IS A COMPLETE NUMBNESS OF

THE DIGITS AND TOES AND

THEREFORE OCCURRENCE OF

INFECTION AND DECREASED IMMUNE

RESPONSE THEY HAVE BECAUSE OF

HANSON'S AND HANSON'S

VASCULOPOTHY LED TO ABSESSES

GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.

AND AMPUTATIONS CERTAINLY BEFORE

THE AGE OF ANTIBIOTICS.

BUT I HAVE A PATIENT IN THE

HOSPITAL FOR OSTEO MYLITIS RIGHT

NOW BECAUSE OF A SERIOUS

INFECTION.

THAT DEVELOPED WITHOUT THE

PATIENT'S KNOWLEDGE.

>> WE HAVE CASES THAT COME INTO

HAWAII NOT ON A DAILY BASIS BUT

CERTAINLY ON A WEEKLY BASIS.

THEY'RE SUCCESSFULLY TREATED AS

OUTPATIENTS AND THEY NEVER SEE

KALAUPAPA, IT'S OF HISTORICAL

SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE 8,000 THAT

WERE THERE AND FOR THE FACT THAT

THEY WERE SENTENCED TO LIFE IN

PRISON THERE.

NEW PATIENTS ARE TREATED JUST

LIKE WE HAVE IMMIGRANTS THAT

HAVE TUBERCULOSIS.

THEY LIVE AS OUTPATIENTS IN THE

COMMUNITY.

THE OVERALL POPULATION IS ABOUT

100.

THERE ARE 19 HANSON'S PATIENTS

AT ANY GIVEN TIME HALF I'M

MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR HONOLULU

AND KALAUPAPA SO AT ANY GIVEN

TIME WE MAY HAVE 8 TO 10 IN

HONOLULU OR MAY HAVE TWO TO

THREE IN HONOLULU AND MAJORITY

IN KALAUPAPA.

THEY ALL HAVE HOMES THERE.

SO THEY BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH.

OF THE REMAINING 80, ABOUT 30

ARE HEALTHCARE WORKERS AND OTHER

STATE EMPLOYEES LIKE MYSELF.

I ACTUALLY PROVIDE THE CARE WITH

A -- OF DOCTORS ONE WHOM IS

COVERING ME NOW, AS A FACULTY

MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF

HAWAII SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, I

FASHIONED A CONTRACT BETWEEN

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

THE STATE OF HAWAII JOHNNY BURN

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SO THEY PAY

THE SCHOOL FOR OUR TIME.

THEN REMAINING 50 ARE EMPLOYEES

OF THE KALAUPAPA HISTORIC

NATIONAL PARK.

THEY DO RES STORE RATION OF

BUILDINGS SO MAYBE IN 20 YEARS

IT WILL BE LIKE THE PRESIDIO IN

SAN FRANCISCO.

>> I'M (INDISCERNIBLE) FROM THE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINOR ITY

-- MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH

DISPARITIES.

THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL

PRESENTATION.

THERE ARE TWO OTHER SITES IN THE

WORLD THAT I KNOW OF THAT

SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU DESCRIBE.

AND ONE OF THEM IS IN

(INDISCERNIBLE), A NATIONAL

HANSON'S DISEASE HERE IN THE

MAINLAND.

WHEN I VISITED THAT TEN YEARS

AGO THERE'S STILL A FEW LIVING

LEPROCY PATIENTS THERE IN THAT

AREA.

AND ACTUALLY IN THE MAIN

HOSPITAL WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN

HALF OF IT IS WHERE THEY LIVE

BUT THE OTHER HALF IS WHERE THE

WHITE CRIMINALS PLACE.

THE OTHER PHILIPPINE WHERE IS

I'M FROM THERE'S AN ISLAND

CALLED SABU ISLAND WHERE THERE'S

LEPROCY PATIENTS BUT THEY'RE NOT

AS BEAUTIFUL AS THIS ISLAND YOU

DESCRIBE.

>> ACTUALLY THERE ARE LEPRASARIA

IN MANY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

AS YOU MENTIONED, NATIONAL

HANSON'S DISEASE BRANCH HOLD AS

MONTHLY AUDIO TELECONFERENCE AND

I FREQUENTLY CALL IN BECAUSE I'M

IN THE A SPECIALIST IN HANSON'S,

I'M A GENERAL INTERNIST.

SO I TAKE CARE OF THESE HANSON

PATIENTS FOR THEIR DIABETES,

RENAL FAILURE, DIALYSIS IF THEY

NEED IT, HEART FAILURE,

HYPERTENSION, DISLIPIDEMIA AND

THAT KIND OF THING WHICH I HAVE

HAD TRAINING BUT THE HANSON'S

DISEASE BRANCH HOSTS EDUCATIONAL

FORUM EVERY MONTH.

I HAVE PERSONALLY VISITED LAST

NOVEMBER I VISITED THE TAHITI

LEPROSARIUM, A VILLAGE LIKE OURS

IN A VALLEY AND IT'S UNASSUMING

SO IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE TO

LOOK YOU'LL PASS IT ON THE

ISLAND BUT I DROVE UP IN THERE

AND SAW THE CEMETERY, IT LOOKS

MORE LIKE OURS THAN THE ONES YOU

SAW, THE PEOPLE LOOKING OUT AS I

SLOWLY BACKED DOWN FROM HOUSES

ON EACH SIDE OF THE STREET WHERE

CLEARLY HANSON'S PATIENTS.

AND SOME ALSO HAS A A COUPLE OF

OUR PATIENTS WERE ORIGINALLY IN

SAMOA.

SO THEY'RE SCATTERED ALL AROUND

THE WORLD.

SOME OF OUR HANSON'S PATIENTS

BECAUSE THEY WERE AMERICAN WERE

ACTIVISTS, AND THEY FORMED

SELF-HELP GROUPS AN ACTIVIST

GROUPS FOR HANSON'S PATIENTS OF

THE WORLD.

BERNARD (INAUDIBLE) COMES TO

MIND.

HENRY (INDISCERNIBLE) WHO HAS A

BOOK COMES TO MIND AND BOTH OF

THEM HAVE BOOKS ACTUALLY.

THESE PEOPLE MOVED THE CAUSE OF

PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM HANSON'S

FORWARD.

AND SO THEY WRITE ABOUT VISITING

LEPRASARIUMS IN INDIA, AFRICA,

SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, IN ADDITION

TO THE PHILIPPINES.

>> THE IDEA OF LEPROCY MOVING

INTO THE MEDICAL SCENARIO AS

OPPOSED TO A CURSE OUT OF THE

MIDDLE AGES OF THE OLD TESTMENT

IS PRETTY RECENT.

KALANI ASKED ABOUT TREATMENT, AS

I WAS TAUGHT -- THAT WONDERFUL

KNOWLEDGE THROUGH THE

(INAUDIBLE) OIL.

IT'S ALL PRETTY RECENT.

AND THE GROWING OF THE BACILLUS

WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO ANY

REASONABLE TREATMENT, I REALLY

THINK FIRST BE CREDITED TO

CHARLIE SHEPHERD AT CDC WHO GREW

IT IN THE MOUSE PADS OF MICE.

IT LIKES COLD PLACES AS YOU

POINT OUT AND I DON'T THINK IT

OCCURRED IN CDC TO TRY -- MAYBE

LATER TRIED THE ARMADILLOS BUT I

KNOW NOW THAT ICE THE WAY IT'S

USED BUT IT WAS A DESPERATION

MOVE TO TRY TO DO ANYTHING.

OF COURSE IT DOESN'T GROW WELL

IN THE FOOT PADS OF MICE BUT A

LITTLE.

I THINK IT WAS THE FIRST REAL

BREAK THROUGH.

WE WANT THE HEAR YOUR FOLLOW ON.

>> OH, OKAY.

I HOPE YOU DON'T REGRET THIS.

PART OF WHAT WE CAN LEARN TODAY

FROM KALAUPAPA IS A LESSON IN

CULTURAL COMPETENCE.

IT'S ONE OF THE CORE MEASURES

THESE DAYS, EVERY RESIDENCY

TEACHES IT, MEDICAL SCHOOLS

TEACH IT, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE AN

ENTIRE DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE

HAWAIIAN HEALTH WITH WHICH

DR. LINDEBERG IS WELL FAMILIAR

AT THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF

MEDICINE.

FIRST OF THE 130 SOME ODD

MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED

STATES THE FIRST TO HAVE A

DEPARTMENT THAT ADDRESSES

ABORIGINAL HEALTH OF A HOST

COLTURE.

WHAT ARE THESE?

YOU HAVE HEARD OF STONE HINGE?

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH

STONE HINGE.

THESE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF THE

FEDERAL INVESTIGATION STATION.

THIS WAS A WELL MEANING

INITIATIVE THAT WENT HORRIBLY

AWRY.

IN 1893, QUEEN (INDISCERNIBLE)

OF THE SOVEREIGN KINGDOM OF

HAWAII WAS LEGALLY OVERTHROWN BY

AMERICAN TROOPS WITH A MOCK

REVOLUTION.

I SAY THAT, AREN'T YOU AMERICAN?

I'M A DESCENDENT OF THE SECOND

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

JOHN ADAMSON, FOUR OF MY AN

ZESTERS FOUNDED HARVARD COLLEGE

SO I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN

AND I WANT TO SAY THAT RIGHT UP

FRONT.

WE ALL KNOW THE HISTORICAL

MISTAKES THAT WE AS AMERICAN

PEOPLE HAVE MADE AT TIMES.

THE MERCHANTS TWO OF WHICH WERE

PROMINENT MEMBERS OF MY CHURCH,

WHO LED THE OVERTHROW OF THE

GOVERNMENTS, THURSDAY STON AND

DOLE, SANFORD DOLE IMMEDIATELY

STARTED PETITIONING TO HAVE

HAWAII ANNEXED AND GROVER

CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT WHO WAS

FRIENDS TO SEVERAL ROYALTY OF

HAWAII BLOCKED CONGRESSIONAL

ANNEXATION.

BUT THEN HE LOST OFFICE TO

MCKINLEY AND MCKINLEY DIDN'T

HAVE THE SAME TIES SO HAWAII WAS

SUCCESSFULLY ANNEXED AS A

TERRITORY IN 1898.

DAMIAN HAS BEEN A PROLIFIC

WRITER AND THERE HAD BEEN

OTHERS.

HE WROTE TO KINGS, POPES, HE

WROAP TO BISHOPS, HE WROTE TO NO

BILLTY IN EUROPE, HE WROTE TO

EVERYTHING THAT WAS A BIG

MERCHANT IN THE UNITED STATES.

MY POOR LEPERS, MY LP LEPERS ARE

SUFFERING.

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH

HOUSES FOR THEM, CAN CAN YOU

PLEASE DONATE MONEY FOR MY LEPER

S?

HAWAII AT THAT TIME HAD A REAL

PR PROBLEM.

THERE IS IN CONGRESS A RECORD OF

THE CONGRESS DEBATING WHETHER

ALL THE LEPERS OF THE UNITED

STATES SHOULD BE SENT TO HAWAII,

BECAUSE AFTER ALL, IT WAS

2300-MILES FROM THE CLOSEST

LAND, THE MOST REMOTE ARCIPELAGO

IN THE WORLD.

THEY DIDN'T REALIZE IN THAT MAP

OF HAWAII THAT YOU SAW, THAT ALL

OF HAWAII WASN'T JUST FULL OF

LEPERS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE

DAMIAN.

IT WAS ONLY THIS TWO MILE BY TWO

MILE TRIANGLE OF LAND IN WHICH

ALL THE LEPERS LIVED.

THEY TRIED TO REVERSE THIS PR

PROBLEM AND SURGEON GENERAL

WALTER WYMAN DETERMINED A

CONCERTED AND -- THIS WAS THE

AGE OF SCIENCE, THE DAWN OF

SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC ATTACK ON

LEPROCY SHOULD BE MADE.

IN 1904 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

RECOMMENDED A HOSPITAL AND

LABORATORY TO STUDY GIVEN THE

850 PLUS CASES IN THE TERRITORY

ALMOST ALL OF WHICH WERE IN

KALAUPAPA.

IN 1905 CONGRESS APPROPRIATED

$150,000 TO BUILD THIS PLACE.

$150,000, 110 YEARS AGO WAS A

HECK OF A LOT OF MONEY.

THEY BUILT THIS HUGE FACILITY

THAT WENT ON FOR A QUARTER OF A

MILE.

IT WASN'T AS BIG AS THE NIH BUT

IT WAS PRETTY BIG.

AND THEY SAID YOU CAN EAT ON

CHINA.

YOU CAN HAVE CRYSTAL GLASSWARE

AND SILVER FORKS AN KNIVES.

YOU WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF

IMPECCABLY.

YOU WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST

STANDARD OF LIVING.

THE ONLY THING, WE'RE GOING TO

USE THIS SCIENTIFIC METHOD SO

YOU MUST BE ISOLATED.

HAWAIIANS WERE A SOCIAL PEOPLE.

THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL INTIMACY

OF THE CULTURE SURVIVES TODAY.

AND SO THEY ASKED FOR

VOLUNTEERS.

THEY SPENT WHAT TODAY WOULD BE

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

OF THE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE

SETTLEMENT, THEY HAD NINE

VOLUNTEERS.

IT WAS OPENED IN 1909, IT WAS

CLOSED FOUR YEARS LATER

UNSUCCESSFUL IN ITS MISSION AND

SOME YEARS LATER THE BUILDINGS

WERE TORN DOWN TO BUILD ENOUGH

HOUSES FOR EVERYBODY.

THE KEY HERE IS WE CAN HAVE THE

BEST SCIENCE AS MOST OF YOU

KNOW.

BUT IF WE DON'T TEMPER THAT

SCIENCE WITH ART AND HUMANITY OF

CARING AS NURSES, NURSE

PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIANS

ASSISTANTS, SOCIAL WORKERS,

PHYSICIANS AND OTHER HEALTHCARE

PROVIDERS, WE MISS THE BOAT.

HOW DO WE LEARN THAT?

HERE WE ARE IN KALAUPAPA.

THIS IS THE HEAD OF THE PATIENT

COUNCIL.

TEACHING OUR STUDENTS ABOUTE/s

CULTURAL SENSITIVITY.

SHE'S TELLING THE MOLELO THAT I

TAUGHT THE STORIES ABOUT THIS

PLACE.

SO BY THE TIME YOU GRADUATE

TWO-THIRDS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HAVE

BEEN TO KALOPAPA FOR A RUGGED

EXPERIENCE, SIMILAR BUT MORE

RUGGED BECAUSE WE HAD MORE

TROUBLE WHEN DR. LINDE BERK

CAME, HE CAME OVERNIGHT AND SAW

KALAUPAPA AS DID MANY OF THE

TEAM FROM NLM, BUT THEY COME AND

SPEND A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND

SEE THE BACK -- MONTHS, THEY SEE

THE BACK COUNTRY, THEY HEAR

THESE STORIES AND HOPEFULLY THEY

LEARN BETWEEN CURRICULUM OF THE

MEDICAL SCHOOL AND THE ON-SITE

CURRICULUM THAT WE HAVE TO BE

MORE CULTURALLY SENSITIVE.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT AGENDA IS ONE

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

HAS LED WITH THE VOICES

EXHIBITION HERE.

THIS IS A PICTURE ON THE RIGHT

THIS IS (INDISCERNIBLE) WHO YOU

SAW IN THE VIDEO.

ON THE LEFT IS PROBABLY THE

GREATEST PRACTITIONER NATIVE

HAWAIIAN HERBAL HEELER IN THE

LAST CENTURY.

IN TODAY, IN HAWAII,

PRACTITIONERS TRACE THEIR

LEARNING GENEALOGY TO A TEACHER.

AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL

PRACTITIONERS AND THEY ARE HERE

OFFERING BOTH SIDES OF HEALING.

BECAUSE WESTERN MEDICINE DOESN'T

HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.

SO THIS TRULY IS A NEW ERA, HELP

AND HOPE FOR OUR HAWAIIANS.

MAHALU.

[APPLAUSE]

>>

(OFF MIC)

>> I FOLLOW YOUR LEAD.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS I WOULD BE

GLAD TO ANSWER.

IF YOU HAVE PRIVATE QUESTIONS I

WOULD BE GLAD TO ANSWER THEM.

(OFF MIC)

>> A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION

TREATED SERIOUSLY BY THE

NATIONAL PARKS.

THE KALAUPAPA NATIONAL PARKS LED

DISCUSSIONS ON EACH EYE LAND

WITH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE

HANSON'S PATIENTS AT EACH OF

THESE DISCUSSIONS AND COLLATED A

GREAT DEAL OF MATERIAL ABOUT

WHAT THE COMMUNITIES OF HAWAII

SHOULD FEEL, SHOULD HAPPEN TO

THIS PLACE.

WHAT WE DON'T FEEL, I'M SORT OF

A MAY FLY.

IN 20 YEARS MY JOB WILL BE DONE.

KALAUPAPA IS A VERY SPECIAL

PLACE.

I HAVE HAD THE UNIQUE HONOR OF

BEING THERE WHEN THERE HAS BEEN

A LIVING COMMUNITY.

WHEN THE LIVING COMMUNITY IS NO

MORE MY PLACE WILL NO LONGER BE

THERE.

HOWEVER, THERE IS DISCUSSION

ABOUT SHOULD IT BE LIKE THE

PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO?

A MONUMENT TO WHAT HAPPENS?

KALAUPAPA HISTORIC NATIONAL PARK

IS ATTEMPTING AT THIS TIME TO

CREATE THAT KIND OF THING EVEN

WHEEN IT'S A LIVING COMMUNITY.

SHOULD IT BE RESORT?  AND THE

ANSWER BY ALMOST EVERYONE IS

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

THE LAND IS OWNED BY CROWN

LANDS, WHAT USED TO BE

(INAUDIBLE) LANDS.

SO SHOULD IT BECOME NATIVE

HAWAIIAN HOMELANDS WHICH IS

ADMINISTRATED BY ISLAND, WHICH

THE PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTRATE

HOMELANDS.

SOME ONE OF OUR LEADERS AT

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE AT

LUNCH WAS TALKING HOW THEY LIVED

RIGHT NEXT TO HAWAIIAN HOMELANDS

ON HONOLULU SIDE.

BUT THE ANSWER OF THAT QUESTION,

THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION HAS

NOT BEEN DETERMINED YET.

I THINK NO MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IS

WHAT THEY SAY IS A CAUTION.

>> DR. BRADY WOULD BE HAPPY TO

TALK WITH YOU AT THE SOCIAL

HOUR.

YOU'RE ALL INVITED AT THAT

SOCIAL HOUR, I WILL DESCRIBE HOW

YOU FIND YOUR WAY (INAUDIBLE).

YOU'RE ALL INVITED.

PLEASE JOIN US.

>> FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE

VISITORS TO NLM, THE -- WE

DECIDED TO HAVE THE RECEPTION AT

THE NATIVE VOICES EXHIBITION,

JUST OUTSIDE OF IT.

THAT'S A DIFFERENT BUILDING.

SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO FOR

ALL OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO GO

TO THE RECEPTION WHO DON'T KNOW

HOW TO GET OVER TO THE

EXHIBITION AREA, GATHER HERE IN

THE LOBBY AND WE'LL HAVE A GROUP

OF PEOPLE THAT WILL ESCORT YOU

OVER THERE.

OKAY?

WE WILL GATHER OUT THERE IN

ABOUT FIVE MINUTES IS THAT

AGREEABLE WITH EVERYBODY?

OKAY.

WE'LL SEE YOU OUTSIDE IN ABOUT