“Efforts have been underway to restore Mokuʻula in Lahaina and revitalize its history as a Native Hawaiian sacred place,” Rosalyn R. LaPier writes. “These efforts, however, will be dramatically impacted by the devastation of the Lahaina fire.”
Rosalyn R. LaPier
Rosalyn R. LaPier is a professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. LaPier is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian and ethnobotanist. She is the author of "Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet." LaPier is also an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe and Métis.