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Transcript: Clarence "Boogie" Kahilihiwa

When the last patients are gone, a local person should tell their story

[Kahiliwa:]
After we are gone—I don’t want to see a mainlander, just like you. You are a mainlander. I don’t want to see a mainlander come down here and work for the national park and say, “Oh, this is where patient Boogie live.” He doesn’t know anything about me. You have to meet a local person. Can be Hawaiian, or Japanese, or Portuguese, someone in Hawai‘i, you know. That’s what I’m afraid of.