For the Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), palena - or place boundaries - consist of ahupua'a, land subdivisions that traditionally extended from the top of a mountain range to the sea and traditionally include the variety of resources therein. For Kanaka Maoli who observe ahupua'a systems, individuals note which ahupua'a they are from, distances can be measured in the number of ahupua'a you would pass through, and ahupua'a would be used to denote claims to resources. The impositions of miles and mile markers, or towns and citites, were used in the colonization of Hawai'i, thus to truly imagine a decolonized Hawai'i, we cannot just address the harm of indigenous land dispossesion but also note the systems of measurement and colonial understandings of townships that made that possible.