Kahana Valley Service/Learning Project

On December 9, 2010 all the History 202 students participated in a Service/Learning Project. We traveled down to Kahana Valley, where the State of Hawaii owns a traditional Hawaiian land-division (ahuapuaa) and Native Hawaiian families still work their traditional lands as established by royal decree in 1850. One family invited the World History to come and prepare a taro patch for planting. We stomped down the paddy in three feet of glorious mud. Then we cleared overgrown areas of the river banks. Kahana Valley is only twenty minutes south of Laie and used to have one of the oldest LDS Chapels in the islands. You can learn more in Lance Chase's essays and a book by Robert Stauffer, entitled Kahana: How the Land was Lost.