#Kauaʻula Valley
Lahaina family’s land struggle featured in new documentary
A new feature-length documentary following a Lahaina family’s 20-year legal battle to protect ancestral kuleana lands in Kauaʻula Valley premieres this week at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival. The film, “EA (SOVEREIGN),” focuses on Kanaka ʻŌiwi community leader Keʻeaumoku Kapu and his family’s efforts to reclaim and steward valley lands. Directors Noah Keone Viernes […]
Supreme Court hands win to Kauaʻula Valley kuleana family; case continues on Maui
The Hawai’i Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Keʻeaumoku Kapu and his family regarding his claims to a kuleana parcel that his house sits on in Kauaʻula Valley, but the case is not over as it returns to the Circuit Court on Maui.