"We do our best to safeguard our kūpuna, to leave them sleeping peacefully through all seasons. When they are disturbed, we cry over them, pray over them, apologize to them, negotiate for their preservation in place whenever possible. When preservation in place is not possible or appropriate, we do our best to reinter them nearby with as much care and dignity as we can manage.These decisions are never easy, never without the kaumaha of having to deal with the breaking of moe kau a hooilo; and our decision-making always seems to come back to the single question posed regularly by one of our senior members, Louie Mahoe: ‘What if this were your grandmother?'” – Kīhei de Silva