Kāhi Hāli'a Aloha Memorial — Attraction in Honolulu

Kāhi Hāli'a Aloha Memorial The inscription reads: Kahi Hali'a Aloha. "The Place of Loving Remembrance" Waikiki, today a busy and vibrant international travel destination, has a centuries-old Hawaiian heritage. Inhabited by Native Hawaiians for some 2000 years, Waikiki was the preferred playground and royal residence of generations of ancestors who once walked these very sands. As the very bones of deceased Hawaiians come to light today, th byproduct of ongoing excavation and construction in modern Waikiki, the lineal descendants search for ways to dignify and honor the final remains of those who preceded them. As the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Punchbowl Crater and the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor honor America's fallen heroes, so this memorial provides an honorable final resting place for hundreds of Hawaiian ancestors who once lived in Waikiki. The burial monument, situated at the corner of Kalakaua and Kapahulu Avenues (fronting the Honolulu Zoo,) now contains about 200 iwi kūpuna (skeletal ancestral remains.) Currently, the remains fill only the west-facing side of the...

What an absolute disgrace to Hawaiians! You take our ancestors bones, found in Waikiki while building your million dollar high rises & hotels, and bury them in a hole with a “memorial” next to the zoo?!?!!!? Appalling &...

Not quite sure what to think of this memorial, but it’s here already. Maybe tourists will see it and learn something of the messed-up history about the place that they...