If you don’t know this remote Maui region, its tricky to fully understand the obstacles of off-the-grid living. The Kahikinui Hawaiian Homestead does not have water. Homesteaders must drive 30-45 minutes one way to an Ulupalakua water source. This feat alone is laborious and costly. The region suffers from hydrophobic soil, which makes growing anything […]
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The Zenuru Ho‘olako farm ranch story starts like this. Two guys meet on the homestead mountain, they talk story and laugh. One is a retired disc jockey and the other a farmer phenom. About a year passes and they reunite. The location, one of Hawai‘i’s most remote Hawaiian Homesteads with wild cattle, axis deer and […]
Kahikinui Hawaiian Homestead, Maui – Hawaiian Homesteads across Hawai‘i have had their issues, no one will deny that. With the sluglike pace that the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) has taken in providing ‘aina (land) and housing to beneficiaries, it’s a wonder that Homestead Associations even had a chance. After completing an astonishing course of […]
One day you are hunting for food for your family in your lifelong hunting grounds and the next day you are told, you can’t. Many Hawai‘i subsistence hunters have faced obstacles of hunting on their own ‘aina (land). This unfortunate debate has been a three year journey for the Maui southeastern Hawaiian Homestead of Kahikinui. […]
PARENT WARNING: Disturbing pictures of animals included later in this article. It started a year ago. Department of Hawaiian Homelands granted a commercial operator Right of Entry and thus, exclusive hunting rights in the southern remote Maui area of Kahikinui. This contradicts policy on commercial activities of this sort by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL). DHHL sent […]
On April 21st, 2018 Kahikinui Hawaiian Homestead lease holders met at Hale Pi‘i. Many of the 84 adults in attendance had heard about the meeting through word of mouth. Many lease holders did not receive communication from Department of Hawaiian Homelands about the meeting. Many more lease holders did not receive communication on other Kahikinui […]
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