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Re-enactment of Ka Lei Maile Alii (Nov. 25)

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Hawaii Island residents are invited to a re re-enactment of “Ka Lei Maile Alii – The Queen’s Women” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25 at Kuhio Hale (Waimea’s Hawaiian Homes Hall).

This celebrated one-act play recounts a now famous meeting held in Hilo in 1897 regarding the historically significant Ku’e Petition. This extraordinary petition — discovered in the National Archives of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1997 and returned to Hawaii by Dr. Noenoe Silva — revealed what had been forgotten — that more than 90 percent of the Native Hawaiians living at the time signed the petition protest annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

The play is based on a newspaper article written at that time by Miriam Michelson from San Francisco who attended the auspicious 1897 meeting in Hilo.

The play, written by Didi Lee Kawai and performed by members of the Ka Lei Maile Alii Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, re-creates what it was like to participate in the signing of the Ku’e Petition.

Also on view this Sunday will be the original Ku’e Petition Sign Display that toured the U.S. and was exhibited on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Large poster prints also will be exhibited highlighting names of kupuna of North and South Kohala and Hamakua who bravely signed the petition.

This program is free and all are welcome.

Attendees are invited to dress in period clothing of the late 1800s as the Waimea friends in the attached photo are shown wearing as they search through a reprint of the Ku’e Petition for signatures of their ‘ohana.

For more information, call Pua Case (938-5550) or email puacase@hawaiiantel.net.

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