The founder of the Na ‘Aikane O Maui Cultural Center, which taught traditional art and helped families fight for ancestral land, said it will be rebuilt, but not be the same.
a network of community leaders, elders and organizations here have protected and passed down traditions and cultural practices, prime among them the Na ‘Aikane O Maui Cultural Center on Front Street, which helped young people learn traditional art and longtime families fight for rights to their ancestral lands.
It will be impossible to replace all that burned, Kapu said from beneath a tent in an aid distribution hub he set up outside a pharmacy in downtown Lahaina. He said he was counting on ohana, the Hawaiian word for family, to ease the loss. And he will rebuild. “This place was radiant,” said Kaipo Kekona, Kapu’s stepson and the president of Hawaii Farmers Union United, which held the monthly meetings of its Lahaina chapter at the center.It’s a fitting description for a building in the middle of a town whose name roughly translates to “cruel sun” in Hawaiian.
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