Kalama Valley

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Toward the head of Kalama Valley from the community park.

Lower Kalama Valley from the western ridge (Hao Street)

Kalama Valley is located on the eastern end of the island of Oahu. The shore s fronting the valley is popularly known as Sandy Beach.

In a Honolulu Weekly article entitled, The Future of Kamilo Nui, dated November 23, 2005, Kevin O’Leary wrote the following of Kalama Valley:

"Kalama Valley, minutes away from Kamilo Nui to the east, became a political battleground in 1970 when Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate began evicting long-time leaseholding farmers to make room for a subdivision. Pig farmer George Santos held out against the bulldozers for months, supported by a coalition of environmental groups and a nascent Native Hawaiian rights movement. Today the valley is full of tract homes. “The beginning of the sovereignty movement is generally taken to be the struggle against Kamehameha Schools at Kalama Valley, when the people were evicted so that the estate could build those fancy houses,” says Professor Haunani-Kay Trask of the UH Center for Hawaiian Studies. Trask, who says she was unaware of the Kamilo Nui controversy, nevertheless finds KSBE’s position “no surprise.” “They [KSBE] are nothing more than a development corporation, and we who are the grads (Trask graduated from Kamehameha in 1967) and the Hawaiians and the heirs of Bernice Pauahi have been fighting that approach since the post-statehood era of development began.” [1]

External Links

• The Future of Kamilo Nui (Honolulu Weekly, 11-2005)
• Kalama pig farmer Santos died in ’78 (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12-30-96)
• Kalama Valley Evictions (Ed Greevy's Photograph Collection)