Lahaina is a sacred place to the Hawaiian people. King Kamehameha designated it the capital of the Hawaiian kingdom in the 1800s becoming the home and burial place of the Hawaiian royal families. The oceanfront town is also a highly desired property in one of the most expensive states in the U.S. It's why there's so much angst about the future of Lahaina and affluent investors moving in.
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00:00 emotions are understandabl
00:03 of Maui and many are worr
00:06 being left out of the con
00:08 to rebuilding Lahaina tow
00:11 have already started to a
00:14 But others say we are now
00:16 to talk about rebuilding.
00:21 Front Street devastated t
00:23 Its significance goes bac
00:26 brought tourists to this
00:29 historic town. I hope to
00:34 Lahaina is a sacred place
00:36 King Kamehameha designate
00:38 the Hawaiian Kingdom in t
00:41 the home and burial place
00:44 families. The chairwoman
00:46 Affairs said it holds som
00:49 significant cultural prop
00:52 ranking sacred remains of
00:55 oceanfront town is also a
00:57 in one of the most expensi
01:00 It's why there's so much
01:03 of Lahaina and affluent i
01:06 It's always like that any
01:07 any open piece of land th
01:11 they can snatch it. Yeah,
01:13 on Maui and just hope the
01:17 people out of there becau
01:20 lost their homes. It's es
01:23 displaced 4500 people in
01:26 Biden addressed concerns
01:29 will mean for indigenous
01:31 all of you to know the co
01:33 you stands with you and w
01:36 possible to help you reco
01:40 culture and traditions wh
01:42 place. We've made it very
01:46 FEMA and others that we w
01:49 we are very sensitive to
01:53 people here and that the
01:55 to be as I said through u
01:59 values, rebuilding should
02:03 and our voices. That's go
02:05 as we go forward. Governo
02:07 to work with government o
02:09 any predatory land grabs,
02:12 he directed the state's a
02:14 on a moratorium on the sa
02:16 by the fire because of th
02:19 of people are vulnerable
02:22 sell or don't don't sell.
02:27 shared their fears that t
02:29 meeting since the fire ex
02:31 is being mapped out witho
02:34 this aid to a councilmemb
02:37 of meetings in the first
02:39 disaster where people are
02:41 folks without them in the
02:44 really gross. Um, so I ju
02:48 it. So I went west side w
02:51 were operating and I've b
02:52 every day since. And whil
02:55 next in rebuilding Lahina
02:58 thing on many minds. It's
03:02 went to the Children and
03:03 missing are found and put
03:06 it's highly disrespectful
03:08 about building over these
03:11 actually still laying the
03:14 Georgia. Scripps News Maui.