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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Well it's all depend how you fold the nets, you see the you fold it and you throw it.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Some, uh some people they just throw that way and it goes that way.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And you have to try and spread them out.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
For him it looks easy
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[[laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I, uh. I'd hate to have to uh, survive with the fish that I caught.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Well, well I do. Maybe tomorrow sometime, I'll do every hour out there, every hour now and then.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
The uh, uhm, Uncle Willie has been working next to the Khmu from Laos, and they too are net makers.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Some of them are net makers and trap hunters, and they have been having a terrific time comparing different ways they trap small animals and fish in these things.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Related to all of this. Related to the getting of food, which is the primary activity of most traditional peoples, is of course an important issue which has become very very important to native Hawaiians as to people here in the in the mainland, and that is the preservation of the natural environment.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Because in that environment are things that are important to a way of life that is significant to the past, and is significant to the present and future.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Um, and that is preservation of native plants. And in Hawaiian culture, historically and now, the use of many, many, many, many plants has been terribly important to native people.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We wanted to talk a little bit today about one plant in particular, just to give you an illustration of how, how many different uses a couple of plants have, and how important they are. Uh, let's talk a little bit about Pandanus.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
We've talked a little bit about fish and other things.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Pandanus root, uh, or Pandanus plant is one of the essential plants to native Hawaiian people,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
and Minnie is, uh, sort of major, uh, artist with the Pandanus leaves, and she wants to talk a little bit about this remarkable plant that does so many things.
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{Speaker name= Minnie K.}
Back home we have so many Pandanus trees. We go out and get our Pandanus along the oceanside, along the shoreside, and pick up all the Pandanus leaves to weave. The reason for that is because the ones that grow along the shoreline is much softer and pliable to use for, for, weaving.
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{SPEAKER name="Minnie K."}

And the leaves comes from a tree that is known as a Screw pine also known as a Pandanus and to our visitors on the island, is also known as a walking tree and an upside down pineapple because of the fruit on the tree.
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{SPEAKER name="Minnie K."}
Now that tree alone is very useful. Every part of the tree is used.
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