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K.anawai Mamalahoe
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Kanawai Mamalahoe,or Law of the Splintered Paddle(also translated Law of the Splintered Oar), is a
precept in Hawaiian law,originating with King Kamehameha 1 in 1797. The law, "Let every elderly person,
woman and child lie by the roadside in safety," is enshrined in the state constitution,Article 9,Section 10
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has
become a model for modern human rights law regarding
during battle[citation xeededl. It was created when Kamehameha was fighting in Puna. While chasing two
fishermen(presumably with the intention to kill them),his leg was caught in the reef,and one of the
fisherman, Kalel ' hit him mightily on the head with a paddle in defense,which broke into pieces. Luckily,
Kamehameha was able to escape. Years later,the same fisherman was brought before Kamehameha. Instead
of ordering for him to be killed Kamehameha ruleds that fathe fisherman had only been protecting his land and
family, and so the Law of the Splintered Paddle
The complete original 1797 law in Hawaiian and translated to English:
Matnalahoe Kanawai:
E na kanaka,
E ma lama 'oukou i ke akua
A e malama ho`i ke kanaka nui a me kanaka 1ki;
E hele ka 'elemakule, ka luahine, a me ke kama
Amoelkeala
`A`ohe mea nana e ho`opilikia.
Hewa nä, make.
—Kamehameha I
English translation
Law of the Splintered Paddle:
0 my people,
Honor thy god;
respect alike[the rights our ofl men our children
See to it that our agedtOe roadside
men
Lie down to sleep by th
Without fear of harm.
Disobey,and die.
(Note that the translation is not direct-the law has been interpreted into the present English form.)
References
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-e- at Ka Ohuwalu Sherrie Foster makes a shave ice at Uncle Sam's Shaved Ice in
KALELEIKI Drive, about Uncle Sam's Market Place.
a half-mile
toward Pahoa from the Makuu doesn't charge for the stalls but a popular market open weekly
Farmers Market,started renting accepts donations. However, on Sundays. Makuu Farmers
out covered stalls to people to after calls to the DH1-IL office• Association President Paula
sell their wares to the public in Hilo on Aug.23,East Hawaii Kekahuna said she doesn't see
on Aug. 1. Kaleleiki said he's DHHL Superintendent Louis any harm in Kaleleiki's yen-
trying to provide an avenue for Hao notified Kaleleiki that he lure, but said Kaieleliki didn't
local people:to put a few extra needed to have plans approved contact her about it before 1
bucks in their pockets. by DNHL before operating his opening.
"I'm just trying to help business. The Makuu Farmers Asso-
my people," said Kaleleiki. a "I advised him to stop." Ilao elation has ambitious plans 1
Hawaiian sovereignty activist. said to raise $9.3 million to build
Since opening, Kaleleiki has Kaleleiki planned to be open a cultural center on nine of
had several people occupying Monday through Saturday so the 33 acres it leases from the 1
stalls, selling old bottles, hot he wouldn't conflict with the k
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but fundraising has stalled, require the lease holder to tarps, the framework and the property.
a ��said P fits fr apply for a zone change and some ground "
the market were supposed obtain a mercantile license, in advance of his tentative doe sa trailer the
wasl inspected •i
?t help hulid the a.ulturai and that it took years for the opening. Several booths recently and found to have '1+1'
center.she said but increas- Makuu Farmers Association were occupied on Monday all of its required permits, f 1
ingly higher operating costs to get the necessary approv- despite Hao's admonition to so it was allowed to remain.
are eating into the set-aside als.She said the commission stop.Kaleleiki said Monday Hao said he would have Z
funds. Makuu officials granted the Makuu Farmers he would defy DHHL until to look into whether the 0 --'
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have met with state Rep. Association "Community he gets permission to oper- trailer's owner could set up
Fay Hanohano in an effort Village" zoning to operate ate legally.
to jumpstart its fundraising the market,which draws up `
on Hawaiian Home Lands
efforts,she said. p "(Kaleleiki)has not made under another person's t
to 125 vendors and 15,000 a proposal to us," said Hao, lease, and whether there
. Complicating things for visitors on Sundays. who wants to know what was a traffic and safety plan
Kaleleiki is that he doesn't "We're all legal," Keka- plans have been made for for the cigarette sales. ;
own the lease to the 5-acre huna said, and the Makuu vehicle access to the mar- Kaleleiki said he oper a
kIS property he's lived on for 25 Farmers Association board ket,public parking and rest- ates the way he does to hel p of
years.The Hawaiian Homes could have let Kaleleiki use rooms. "Safety comes first." Hawaiian people overcome 't
lease-holder needs to submit Makuu on weekdays, she Kaleleiki also allows a drug and alcohol abuse and
the plans,Hao said, Kalelei- said, but "he never really trailer on the property which become more productive .ty +
ki doesn't think that will came to us." ,
be a problem, however, and Kaleleiki, a former ser- Up in Smoke Shoe Sam's the they can take care of
will seek permission from geant major in the Marine varieties of loose ptoba selling their families."
the children of a Hawaiian- Corps who retired after 30 cigarette rolling machines, a Hawaiian," Kaleleiki aid
Japanese family that inkier- years, chafes at being told rolling papers and smok- "I'm going to push this to
ited the lease and allows him to ask permission from a ing pipes. Kaleleiki said he the end. It's money well-
to live on the property. state agency.
"They're nice people;it's "W gotta go through this but also doesn't charge rent spent:'
the gov ernment that's no channel, through that chan- to the tobacco vendor and hb; ,r„peePhravl t teibrrrr eh rafri at
good,"he said. nel. Why do I have to ask accepts donations for use of coin.
Kekahuna. however, permission to use Hawaiian
.. doubted that Kaleleiki land?" he asked. "Nobody, ,
would ever get the plan NOBODY, cares about the ' 6995+ oava availability.
approved. Based on rate ava(la4"ity nights+tax I-I.
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