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The properties in the Breakthrough in ceded lands settlement include: dispute up for legislative approval

By Crystal Kua Board of Trustees Director of Communications Kewalo Basin n historic agreement struck between the Office Area of detail Haunani Apoliona, MSW Chairperson, Trustee, At-large Aof Hawaiian Affairs and O‘ahu the State Administration to settle Tel: 808.594.1886 ceded land revenue claims dat- Fax: 808.594.1875 ing back 30 years is now in the A portion of Kaka‘ako Email: [email protected] Makai hands of the state Legislature for Kewalo An 18.5 acre propertyBasin zoned for John D. Waihe‘e IV approval. commercial and mixed use in urban Vice Chair, Trustee, At-large Under the settlement announced Honolulu that includes the site of Area of detail by Gov. Linda Lingle and OHA the John Dominis Restaurant. The Tel: 808.594.1838 parcelArea would of detail remain underO‘ahu the juris- O‘ahu Fax: 808.594.0208 Chairperson Haunani Apoliona diction of the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority Kewalo and as part Email: [email protected] on Jan. 18, OHA will receive a Basin mix of land and cash valued at of the agreement, another seat would be proposed to be added to the Rowena Akana $200 million to settle the question Area of detail OHA Trustees, Gov. Linda Lingle and others gather in the governor’s office for the announced HCDA board and that person would Trustee, At-large be nominated by OHA.O‘ahu of how much revenue remained ceded lands deal. - Photo: Blaine Fergerstrom in “dispute” following the partial Tel: 808.594.1860 Fax: 808.594.0209 settlement on revenues to OHA in Area of detail Email: [email protected] 1993. The question of how much four state administrations back to approved by the OHA Board of O‘ahu revenue remained to be paid stems the formation of OHA. Trustees, is driven by the objective Donald B. Cataluna from disputes between 1978 and Also part of the settlement, the of protecting and preserving our Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau 2008. minimum amount of proceeds lands and their cultural signifi- Tel: 808.594.1881 “It’s fair to OHA, it’s reason- OHA would receive from the pub- cance while creating financially Area of detail Fax: 808.594.0211 able for taxpayers and it’s the lic land trust would be fixed at viable property investments,” O‘ahu Email: [email protected] right thing to do,” Gov. Lingle $15.1 million going forward. Apoliona said. Area of detail told reporters during a news con- “The settlement today is just, As part of an effort to educate Robert K. Lindsey Jr. ference. “It’s a fulfillment of an fair and reasonable for all the peo- the public about the ceded lands Trustee, Hawai‘i Hawai‘i obligation that we have had since ple of the State of Hawai‘i, and, issue, OHA produced a one-hour Tel: 808.594.1855 statehood and then specifically in my view, clearly for the benefi- live broadcast on KITV, “Ceded Kalaeloa Makai Fax: 808.594.1883 This property, the site of the with OHA since 1978.” ciaries of the Office of Hawaiian Lands: The People’s Legacy,” former Campbell feedlot in West Email: [email protected] The parties reached a settle- affairs,” Attorney General Mark which featured University of O‘ahu, includes 110 acres of indus- ment on the amount owed to OHA Bennett said. “This is not … a Hawai‘i professors Davianna trial-zoned property in Kalaeloa with Walter M. Heen the highest solar energy potential on Trustee, O‘ahu after four and a half years of nego- matter of an option for the state. It McGregor and Jon Van Dyke, and the Areaisland of whichdetail is another possible tiations and mediation. is a matter of a legal requirement Apoliona, Meheula and Scheuer. sustainable use of that parcel. Tel: 808.594.1854 “OHA and the executive branch embodied in our constitution.” OHA commissioned Ward Hawai‘i Fax: 808.594.0210 have achieved mutual agreement OHA Attorney William Meheula Research to conduct a poll of Email: [email protected] to resolve these disputed issues. said during the press conference: Hawai‘i residents on the questions And we are now joined together, to “I think we intelligently came up of back-due payment owed to Area of detail Colette Y. Machado request that the 2008 Legislature with a resolution that I think is OHA over ceded land revenues. Trustee, Moloka‘i and La¯na‘i Hawai‘i enact a statute to implement this going to be long-lasting.” More than two-thirds polled Tel: 808.594.1837 agreement,” Chair Apoliona said. “The focus, first of all, was not (68%) by Ward Research believe Fax: 808.594.0212 The land parcels in the settle- only on properties that could be the Legislature should approve a Email: [email protected] ment include commercial and developed in a culturally sound settlement that both the state and industrial properties on O‘ahu and way but also on producing out- OHA have agreed to. Boyd P. Mossman Hawai‘i Island totaling 209 acres. standing revenues that can be put When told that OHA and the Trustee, Maui The state will also pay OHA just into beneficiary programs,” OHA state have been negotiating for Tel: 808.594.1858 over $13 million in cash. Land Management Hale Director years on a fair amount for back- Fax: 808.594.1864 This settlement completes reso- Jonathan Likelike Scheuer told due payment, 45 percent of those Hilo Kahua Email: [email protected] lution of the “disputed revenue reporters. polled said the state should pay This 80-acre resort/hotel-zoned property that includes hotels, condos Oz Stender issues” that were not completed The land transfers in this settle- what is legally owed, 38 percent and a golf course along Banyan Trustee, At-large by the partial settlement between ment will add to OHA’s recent said the state should pay whatever Drive is home to 80 percent of the the State and OHA in 1993. The purchase of Waimea Valley on it can, and only 8% favored pay- hotel units in East Hawai‘i Island. Tel: 808.594.1877 long-standing disputes related to O‘ahu’s North Shore and Wao ing nothing. Fax: 808.594.1853 payment of ceded lands revenues Kele O Puna on Hawai‘i Island. For further information on Email: [email protected] to OHA have involved the state “OHA’s Real Estate Vision, the settlement, visit the OHA Courts, the state Legislature and Mission and Strategy Policy, as web site at www.oha.org.  | Pepeluali2008 aupuni • government

KWO caught up with Native Hawaiians at the opening day of the Legislature and asked: What is the No. 1 issue you would like ‘Sustainable’‘Sustainable’ lawmakers to address this session? Wallace Ishibashi Jr. Hundreds International Longshore & Warehouse sseessssii o o n n Union Local 142, business agent rally to Hilo protect kalo Our workman’s comp issue is one of the big ones, protecting the workers, protecting our presumption from genetic clause, in which it is presumed under the law currently that if you modification get hurt it did happen on the job. We’re one of the few states that beginbeginss have that presumption clause. Maile Hallums Nä Küpuna o Wai‘anae, member Nänäkuli The proposed Native Hawaiian Child Welfare Act is being reintroduced this year by Rep. Maile Shimabukuro. The Act is established to stop the involuntary termination of parental rights for Native Hawaiian chil- dren. We discovered through research that for a large majority, their parental rights have been terminated and children have been adopted out in non-Hawaiian families. They’re taken from here to the main- land and nobody knows where they are. That is totally against our culture. We never had a termination of parental rights; we always had a hänai system, and it’s alive today.

Ikaika Hussey DMZ Hawai‘i/Aloha ‘Äina, a network of demilitarization groups, member Käne‘ohe To stop the momentum toward federal recognition, Students of Ha¯lau Lo¯kahi charter school and others rally in support of a bill that would put a moratorium on genetic modification of kalo. which will close off our native and national rights. - Photo: Lisa Asato Aaron J. Salä By Liza Simon | Public Affairs Specialist Recording artist Kailua ustainability will be all the I would like to see more monies and more rage during this year’s state resources appropriated to students in the public SLegislature, House and schools system, both Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian. Senate leaders declared last month I’d like to see more things happen for public school children, charter on the opening day of the session school children to prepare them for life after high school whether amid the customary spectacle of they decide to go into the workforce or on to college. food, entertainment and lei. The 21st century buzz word Lilikalä Kame‘eleihiwa once simply meant “planning for University of Hawai‘i, Kamakaküokalani the future,” but the “lightning rod” Center for Hawaiian Studies, professor controversy over the Superferry He‘eia underscored the question of Today I am supporting more regular positions sys- who has power in building the Demonstrators on opening day seek support of Hawaiian issues. - Photo: Lisa Asato temwide for Hawaiian studies, Hawaiian language, future, Senate President Colleen Hawaiian student services. Another very critical issue is free tuition Hanabusa told the standing-room- In the equally packed House is sustainable,” he said. for Native Hawaiians at the university system. We still have more only crowd in the Senate chambers. chambers, Speaker Calvin Say (D- While both lawmakers pledged Hawaiians in prison than we have in the UH system, so we feel it’s a Hanabusa (D-Ko ‘Olina, Wai‘anae St. Louis Heights, Pälolo) charac- action on sustainability this ses- cost saving for the state — open up the doors for Hawaiians in educa- Coast) said the real conflict over terized the Superferry confronta- sion — Hanabusa citing Senate tion, we won’t be in prison. We spend $3,500 dollars a year on a stu- the Superferry was “about people tion as running counter to long- majority bills to meet housing and dent in school; we spend $35,000 a year for a Hawaiian in prison. feeling irrelevant, ignored and term solutions. “The right choice education needs and Say urging a Also, we should do all that we can do to mälama ‘äina helpless. It was about communi- is for Hawai‘i to find a balance united embrace of local renewable — to have sustainable energy in the State of Hawai‘i. This is ties dividing, positions hardening between our environmental and an issue that’s not only for Hawaiians, it’s for all of us. and people losing hope.” economic concerns, a balance that See SESSION on page 05 aupuni • government Pepeluali2008 | 

ity problems involving kalo or SESSION luxury development, Waimea any other environmental element Continued from page 04 State of the State Valley is now managed by can’t be solved as stand-alone OHA following a collaborative Hawaiian-only issues. “We are a energy development as a way for Governor proposes state partnership purchase agreement involving dependent set of islands, and 99 geographically isolated islands to for public land purchase on the city, OHA, the U.S. Army, percent of everything is imported. better control their own destiny State Department of Land If everyone out there grew some — neither mentioned the sustain- North Shore and Hawai‘i Natural food and reduced dependency, that ability of conventionally farmed Resources and National is the strongest statement you can kalo. By Liza Simon Audubon Society. make about self-determination. Lawmakers’ failure last year to Public Affairs Specialist Lingle conceded that You reduce your dependency on hear a bill that would ban genetic her proposal for Turtle welfare, on fossil fuel, on the dol- engineering of the crop that is both n her sixth State of Bay, which includes the lar, on the car. Suddenly, you are a traditional Native Hawaiian diet the State address, formation of a working self-sufficient,” said English, who staple and a cultural symbol was IGov. Linda Lingle group, might face oppo- described Hanabusa’s speech as a the focus of a protest rally that urged residents to adopt sition by lawmakers positive call to action for people filled the Capitol rotunda with “Native Hawaiian cul- concerned about a pre- to take everyday steps to maintain supporters, including küpuna from tural values of aloha dicted slowing of growth their precious quality of life. “For Hawaiian Civic clubs, kalo farm- ‘äina and respect for the in the state’s economy. example, after years of wasting so ers, activists and students from ocean” in order to help In January, the State much paper (in the Senate), we’ve Hawaiian charter schools. preserve an attractive Council on Revenues now gone paperless,” English said, Many carried potted kalo plants lifestyle that is identi- adjusted downward by reffering to on-line publication of and delivered a stirring oli. fied with Hawai‘i. $59 million projections legislative notices and bills. “We learned in school that we Citing a need to for the general fund Meanwhile, many in the Capitol have a direct ancestral link to kalo change the base of Rich cultural site of Waimea Valley now under OHA. tax revenues available rotunda said they will be hoping and so genetic modification brings the state’s economy - Photo: Blaine Fergerstrom through fiscal 2009. that this year’s Legislature will up the issue of who has the power from a narrow focus Despite this, Lingle follow up a spirited first day by to modify our identity,” said Imai on land development, sounded the theme of walking the talk throughout the Winchester, a senior at Hälau Kü she announced her intention to by keeping them in public “long-term” solutions in say- session, which hasn’t always been Mäna charter school. “So we are push for the state to purchase hands, Lingle said at the Jan. ing that the public acquisition the case in the past, according to here today with more voice, more the 850-acre Turtle Bay prop- 22 speech at the state Capitol. of Turtle Bay would benefit Meleanna Aluli Meyer, a Native kalo, more people, more haumana, erty on O‘ahu’s North Shore While she made no men- the next generation in Hawai‘i. Hawaiian teacher and artist who more ‘öpio, to show lawmakers to halt further resort develop- tion of OHA, Lingle said one “It is as certain as night fol- said often lawmakers disconnect that this not only affecting us, it ment. This proposal has been example of successful public lows day that we cannot spec- from the people they represent. could be affecting our future, the inspired by recent success- land preservation is Waimea ulate or sell ourselves into “Lawmakers really need to get to kids we will care for someday.” ful efforts to preserve lands Valley. Once proposed for prosperity,” Lingle said. a place where they can feel the Genetic modification aims to issues and what is not working. create crops with desirable traits That’s hard for people when they like disease resistance, but critics are removed — unless they are in say the practice might pose risks a taro patch, unless they are in a to availability and safety of the “So we are here today with more voice, more kalo, more school without pencils, unless they natural food supply. are dealing with young children While University of Hawai‘i people, more haumana, more ‘öpio, to show lawmakers from drug-affected families or par- researchers last year responded ents in prison. ‘Feel our pain,’ I to these criticisms by agree- that this not only affecting us, it could be affecting our would say. It’s the pain in so many ing to drop the patents on three communities and it’s not just the genetically engineered varieties of future, the kids we will care for someday.” Hawaiians.” kalo, some demonstrators at the However, after surveying the Legislature were disturbed by the — Imai Winchester, a senior at Hälau Kü Mäna charter school scene in the rotunda, where UH news that the university is con- athletes — including the mem- sidering opposing the moratorium bers of the champion Warrior measure set to go before the House a former running mate of four- demonstrators in their cause, just able, then why not go back to football team, mingled with high again this year. “They want to time presidential candidate Ralph as the Bureau of Indian Affairs some practices that were sustain- school TV crews in action, Meyer claim (the ban on research) vio- Nader. A Native American from helped support a policy ban on able in Native Hawaiian tradition became optimistic. “It’s a great lates academic freedom, but there the White Earth Reservation in genetic engineering of wild rice in long ago. That at least gives us a thing to see all the children here needs to be government oversight northern Minnesota, LaDuke suc- Minnesota. foundation to start from, instead of because the children are learning if our health and safety are at risk,” cessfully led a fight to ban genetic Several House and Senate reinventing the wheel,” said Rep. to see and feel in different ways. I said Moanikeala Akana, a former modification of wild rice. “Wild members of the Native Hawaiian Faye Hanohano (D-Puna, Pähoa, really believe that makes a differ- OHA Trustee of Hawai‘i Island. rice is part of our migration story caucus viewed the kalo rally as Hawaiian Acres, Kalapana). ence,” she said. “They are telling The demonstrators, who and a nutritionally significant food positive and in line with the theme Hawaiian caucus member their story with cameras. They brought their concerns to a three- that is as unique to us as kalo of sustainability expressed by leg- Sen. Kalani English (D-Häna, are motivated. We need to witness day encampment at nearby ‘Iolani is to Hawaiians,” said LaDuke, islative leaders on opening day. East Maui, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, for each other and bear witness to Palace, included Winona LaDuke, adding that OHA should join the “If we are going to be sustain- Kaho‘olawe) said that sustainabil- the things that we believe in.” 6 | PePeluali2008 aupuni • gOVeRnMenT OHA pushes for progress, cultural preservation

By Liza Simon | Public Affairs Specialist packages for the new year. In the past, Hawaiian Caucus mem- uring the 2008 Legislature, bers waited until the session was the Office of Hawaiian underway to prioritize bills for DAffairs will seek to intro- their own package drawn from duce bills that would preserve agencies that advocate for Native Hawaiian culture and promote Hawaiians. health, housing, education and “By having a meaningful dis- social services for the agency’s cussion at an early stage, we can Native Hawaiian beneficiaries. understand the common themes This comes on the heels of recent and bring them to the forefront of legislative success. Lawmakers last our various committees for fur- year approved two OHA measures ther action,” said caucus chair, that provide increased funding for Rep. Mele Carroll, (East Maui, Alu Like Inc. and Nä Pua No‘eau Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, Kaho‘olawe). — community service organiza- “So far we are seeing many com- Pictured in center: Mele Carroll, Chair of Hawaiian Caucus, flanked by Reps. James Tokioka; Tommy Waters (on left); and Karen Awana and tions aligned with OHA’s mission mon themes in bills that raise the Angus McKelvey. - Photo: Courtesy of Tony Moon of bettering the quality of life for question of how Native Hawaiians Native Hawaiian beneficiaries. can best preserve their precious on creating a level playing field input gave us ideas for the 2008 • Related to land management, OHA’s hopes for progress this quality of life,” Carroll said. for new economic and educational OHA legislative package,” said two new OHA measures call for session may get some bolster- OHA Administrator Clyde opportunities, while still perpetu- Nämu‘o. protection of Hawai‘i’s biodiver- ing from the bipartisan Legislative Nämu‘o agreed Native Hawaiians ating the traditions that help pre- Nämu‘o presented highlights of sity. One would protect the natu- Hawaiian Caucus, which convened have concerns about new and nega- serve the environment and per- the OHA package to the caucus at ral environmental resources on Hawaiian agencies — including tive impacts of rapid development. petuate Hawaiian identity. “We a mid-January meeting, including ceded lands, even if the lands OHA, in early January, to “pre- To address this, OHA’s 2008 legis- heard from our partner nonprofits the following: are sold; the other would regulate view” their respective legislative lative package is strongly focused and our beneficiaries, and their • Two bills relate to child pro- bioprospecting. tection: both would make it easier • Related to conservation of land for the biological grandparents of and tradition, OHA has drafted a children in foster care or state cus- new measure that would establish HomeStreet Bank has been tody to assume responsibility for a cultural preserve commission childcare. The bills cite research that would manage the cultural financing homes here since 1980, that says ‘ohana placement pro- treasures of Ha‘ikü Valley. so we know what it means to motes the nurturing bonds of the Nämu‘o also discussed with call Hawaii home. Family- and Native Hawaiian extended family Hawaiian Caucus members a top system. OHA priority contained in a carry- employee-owned and operated by • Two education bills aim over bill from 2007 that is aimed at people from the community, we directly at raising the bar for getting partial state funding for the Native Hawaiian quality of life: construction of the agency’s office Hawaiian have a deep understanding of one would increase funds for building and Native Hawaiian Home Lands Loans Hawaii Home Lands loans. Our teaching positions in Hawaiian cultural center on state land on staff of experienced professionals language immersion schools; the waterfront between Kaka‘ako the other would make it easier Park and Waterfront Harbor. 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January 18, 2008

Aloha mai käkou e nä ‘öiwi ‘ölino mai Hawai‘i a Ni‘ihau a puni ke ao mälamalama. Aloha e nä kama‘äina a me nä malihini kekahi. Aloha nö käkou a pau loa. Greetings to Native Hawaiians from Hawai‘i to Ni‘ihau and around this brilliant world. Greetings to longtime residents and newcomers alike. Greetings to us all. Every year for a hundred and fourteen years, January 17 is a day marked with sadness as we remember the wrongful over- throw of our monarchy which resulted in the loss of our Hawaiian government and seizure of its lands. But this year, January 18, 2008, we step forward from our “kaumaha” into a new day of hope. The Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs have reached a settlement with the State of Hawaiÿi over the balance of past due revenue amounts owed from 30 years ago. These revenues that assist the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to fulfill its mission are derived from the State’s use of ceded lands and are payments due to OHA as required by the State constitution and Hawai‘i statute. Finality in settling the dispute over these past due amounts owed to OHA from income and proceeds of the public land trust from 1978 to 2008 comes in the combination of lands and cash payment. On behalf of the Native Hawaiian people, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs extends our sincere appreciation to those who remained steadfast through this final phase of negotiated efforts to reach this fair and just settlement related to revenues. Thirty years ago the voters of Hawaiÿi approved a constitutional mandate to establish the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as a means to correct a history of past injustice. For three decades OHA has engaged the Legislature, the Courts, and the Executive branches of government on the issue of ceded land revenues. The OHA Board of Trustees is grateful to those who legislated in good faith, those who opined in good faith, and those who continued to negotiate in good faith on this complex and often misunderstood issue. We now await successful action on this settlement by the 2008 Legislature. We, at OHA, pledge to continue our mission to advocate for the well-being of Native Hawaiians and in that process perpetuate our cultural values and traditions that strengthen Hawaiians and all of Hawai‘i. We will continue to be diligent, prudent, disciplined and methodical in acquiring and managing lands for Native Hawaiians and the State of Hawaiÿi. And, we are committed to seek input from all stakeholders before making plans for the land. On January 17, 1893, Queen Lili‘uokalani, faced challenge to her authority and the illegal overthrow of her government in the presence of armed military. Hawai‘i lands were taken as political control and governance shifted. Today, 115 years later, OHA is taking the deliberate step to start to resolve this unfinished part of the thirty year-old dispute regarding OHA’s right to income and proceeds from the public land trust. Indeed, the journey is a long one. The Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs thank the people of Hawaiÿi who have stood with us through these thirty years and who will continue to stand with us as we take this next step to bring positive closure to this phase. We ask for your support of this settlement.

Haunani Apoliona Walter M. Heen Rowena Akana

Donald B. Cataluna Robert K. Lindsey Jr. Colette Y. Machado

Boyd P. Mossman Oswald Stender John D. Waihe‘e IV - 8 | PePeluali2008 nu HOu • neWS OHA plans for poi ‘Victory’ for Native production, kalo education Hawaiians in Moloka‘i

By Liza Simon | Public Affairs Specialist OHA is in the process water rights case he West Side of Kaua‘i is of acquiring one of the few places where these assets By Lisa Asato Hawaiian practitioners regarding Ta poi mill operator is deemed of Makaweli Public Information Specialist the impact on their exercise of “an essential worker.” Just ask any- Poi Company. - customary and traditional rights; one there who experienced the dev- Photo: Courtesy oloka‘i Properties and had ignored the closure of astation of Hurricane ‘Iniki in 1991. of Makaweli Ltd. said it expects to Kaluako‘i Hotel and golf course Up went green plastic tarps as jerry- Poi Mill Mresubmit its application when it evaluated the applica- rigged cover for lost roofs, but noth- for a water permit “in the next tion’s “existing uses.” ing so quick or handy could replace few months,” following a recent “This decision represents a the blown-to-splinters Waimea Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruling in substantial victory for OHA and Poi Mill, which served consumers a case that pitted the landowner Native Hawaiians in protect- with its famously sweet product, against the Office of Hawaiian ing Native Hawaiian rights as ground from the deep purple-col- his 12-acre wetland kalo farm near plan is to increase profits of the Affairs, two homesteaders and well as the ‘life-giving water’ of ored taro or kalo, endemic to west the Waimea River, said that what poi mill by doubling productiv- state Department of Hawaiian Moloka‘i for OHA’s beneficia- Kaua‘i. A resulting shortage of poi cinched the deal with OHA was the ity. A‘ana, who will be retained Home Lands. ries and all who reside there,” was one more lousy bump on the way the agency folded in cultural as a consultant, will help orga- The refiling “will be heard as a said OHA Chairperson Haunani road to post-hurricane recovery. and educational programs, as spear- nize a kalo farmers’ cooperative new water application, but it will Apoliona. “OHA is hopeful this This is when veteran West headed by OHA Trustee Donald to increase crop supply to the mill, be based on existing and current Supreme Court ruling will rein- Side Kaua‘i kalo farmer John Cataluna, who began consider- which currently operates only two uses for the residences, for the force our position as it relates to A‘ana stepped up to the poi- ing the poi mill venture in 2002. days a week with a staff of nine. agricultural activities, for the golf the contested-case hearing before less plate, bought equip- “The Westside for me has Despite the part-time opera- course and whatever uses are cur- the State Water Commission for ment from a Kalihi business, been the most blighted side of tion hours, the Makaweli Poi Mill rently going on out of that system,” Maui County at Nä Wai ‘Ehä.” and in 1993 opened Makaweli Kaua‘i ever since the hurricane. makes a 12.5 percent profit on said Daniel Orodenker, general Jon Van Dyke, who represent- Poi near the old Waimea mill. So I wanted to do something to sales, said Trustee Cataluna, cit- manager for land and entitlements ed OHA during the contested- Business has been good ever bring light there,” Cataluna said. ing feasibility studies OHA con- and general counsel for Moloka‘i case hearing and the appeal to since for Makaweli Poi, but A‘ana “Nothing has been formalized ducted before the acquisition. Properties Ltd., commonly known the State Supreme Court, said the recently made the decision to sell yet, but we envision programs for “Now if we can double produc- as Moloka‘i Ranch. ruling means that “the allocation it to Office of Hawaiian Affairs, students in the lo‘i patch, where tion and get a 25 percent rate of Because of the “very technical” of water permits on Moloka‘i is mostly because in addition to run- they can just feel it,” he said, return, that’s unheard of in any nature of the decision, he said the back to square one, and it can be ning the mill and farming, he has a his voice full of enthusiasm. agricultural entity,” said Cataluna. company is “trying to ascertain anticipated that another protracted real “essential worker” day job — A former CEO and manager “Plus, we will be supplying poi from the (State) Commission on contested-case hearing will prob- as a Kaua‘i Fire Department cap- of several Hawai‘i agribusi- that is delicious,” he said, smiling. Water Resource Management ably be held in the future to deter- tain. “I needed to free up more of nesses, Cataluna also speaks “For all the people on Ni‘ihau, how we can file this in an appro- mine how much water Moloka‘i my time, but I was cautious about from experience about the value this is the poi they eat. OHA has priate manner.” Properties Ltd. is entitled to.” selling to the right party, because of so-called outdoor class- an obligation to keep it going.” The Supreme Court ruled Dec. Water rights granted under the I wanted to make sure operations rooms; he taught classes in tropi- Cultivation of kalo has a pan- 26 that the water commission had 2001 allocation were less than the would continue,” said A‘ana. cal agriculture at both Kaua‘i Pacific history and also holds a erred in issuing a water use per- applicant had sought but more OHA’s purchase of Makaweli Community College and Kaua‘i place in the pantheon of indig- mit in 2001 to Kukui (Moloka‘i) than should have been allowed Poi for $185,000, approved in Community Correctional Center. enous Polynesian spiritual tradi- Inc., later bought by Moloka‘i in light of evidence showing that December by the OHA Board of Of the inmate students, he said tions. Harvests in Hawai‘i have Properties. The permit allocated Kukui had never used the amount Trustees, is intended to serve West most were of Hawaiian blood and suffered recently from bad weath- 936,000 gallons a day for “exist- of water it claimed and that the Kaua‘i as both an economic stim- were in prison as a result of drug er, invasive pests and urban devel- ing uses” and 82,000 gallons a day allocation would negatively impact ulus and an outdoor classroom. abuse problems. “I taught them to opment of farmland. A‘ana said he for “new uses” for Kukui, which DHHL’s ability to deliver water to The agency is currently in the grow vegetables for a garden for has protected his crop by relying at the time owned lands including its Moloka‘i homesteaders, accord- process of acquiring the assets of their kitchen, and I could see some on knowledge passed on to him by the now-closed Kaluako‘i Hotel ing to arguments presented by Makaweli Poi, which will become of them coming around from mak- his grandfather and uncle—vet- and the once closed and now- OHA and Native Hawaiian groups. Hi‘ipoi LLC, (although it may ing that connection (with the land) eran kalo cultivators, who started reopened golf course. The court also reaffirmed and continue to do business under the just a few hours a week,” said the kalo farm on family “kuleana In a 56-page ruling, the court clarified other principles estab- current name). The venture also Cataluna. Of his college students, land” in 1976 when A’ana was remanded the case to the com- lished in its previous decisions, becomes the latest nonprofit sub- Cataluna said many would jump just 20 years old. A‘ana said that mission, which the court said including that public trust pur- sidiary of OHA’s limited liability at the chance to “get back to the planting taro is hard work. “But had failed to impose the burden poses include the protection company known as Hi‘ilei Aloha, land” — including the lo‘i patch. you just got to love it for what it of proof on the applicant that of: waters in their natural state, which OHA formed in 2007 as the Amid a persistent labor short- is,” he says. “Back here in Waimea its water allocation would not domestic uses particularly for parent company of Waimea Valley. age on Kaua‘i, employees who Valley I look up and see Köke‘e interfere with the water needs of drinking purposes, and the exer- A‘ana, who had considered want to “get back to the land” and off in the distance, there’s DHHL; had improperly shifted cise of Native Hawaiian tradi- other offers for Makaweli Poi and will be needed because OHA’s Mokihana Ridge. It’s beautiful.” the burden of proof to Native tional and customary rights. AKANA STANDS STRONG AFTER RUBIN’S SUCKER PUNCH

AUWE! Mrs. Rubin fails to disclose that she is currently Chair Apoliona’s Chief-of-Staff and previously served as her administrative aide, not to mention Apoliona’s boss at Alu Like. It would seem that the texting term “BFF” (Best Friends Forever) directly applies. It is deplorable that she would not disclose her conflict of interest and biased opinion. We see your “Bolo Punch” Mrs. Rubin, stop embarrassing yourself with poor excuses.

• Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain in detail, the expenses • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain why Haunani for legal advice from attorneys who have not been able Apoliona’s sister has been put in charge of the mainland to deliver in any success in moving federal legislation registrations and flying first class each time. forward. • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain how Chairperson • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can justify why there was no Apoliona’s sister received a charge card from OHA and evaluation done on their performance, before extending accumulated $10,000 in charges before the card was their contract for the past three years? taken away. • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can justify all of the millions of • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain, how when the charge trust dollars spent on our Kau Inoa registration done card was taken away from the Chair’s sister, she on the mainland where OHA spent money on nonprofit continued to charge expenses for travel, receptions and groups and others to sign up people, and paid for various other charges on her personal charge account, each person they signed-up. Because there has been then was allowed to submit for reimbursement for no accurate account distributed to OHA trustees who those charges, even though in some instances she had have requested this information, estimated to be about no receipts. $10.00 a signature for mainland registrations, which cannot possibly justify the millions of dollars that we • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain why this employee was have spent trying to collect those signatures. not fired for these egregious actions. If she were not the Chair’s sister, would she have been fired? • Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain why for the past two years, more effort has been spent getting signatures IF Mrs. Rubin wants positive things to occur at OHA on the continent instead of focusing on Hawai’i, where in 2008, she needs to begin with addressing some 80% of the Hawaiian population reside. of the pressing internal issues and be honest in her assessment and not blinded by conflicts of interest. 10 | Pepeluali2008 Ma¯lama ‘a¯ina • caring for the land

put it back into agricultural Healing the hurt production,” with predomi- nantly taro, sweet potato or Plans for H3 mitigation include other crops. an education center Besides healing the land, the effort also helps By Lisa Asato proposed plan describes vari- to mend once contentious Public Information Specialist ous impacts the freeway has on emotions over the free- Working Group members and others on a site the surrounding area, including way’s construction, which visit to Luluku, foreground from left, Donna n effort to heal the lands increased noise and carbon mon- was completed in 1997 at Bullard, Sharon Lum Ho and Mahealani Cypher. and cultural sites affected oxide emissions, modified stream a cost of $1.3 billion. “It’s - Photo: Courtesy of Ha¯lawa-Luluku Interpretive Aby O‘ahu’s H3 corridor is courses, damaged portions of a healing process basically Development a step closer to becoming a reality ahupua‘a walls, access reduction, for Native Hawaiians in the now that a mitigation plan has been and destruction of cultural and sense that to some extent something Nahinu and Ella Paguyo. Affairs, the state Department of unveiled for public comment. worship sites. is being done,” Akana said, noting H3 is the biggest construction Transportation, state Historic Affected areas described in Proposed actions range from that people were arrested years ago and the largest public works proj- Preservation Division and the the Hälawa-Luluku Interpretive constructing a learning center to during protests against the freeway. ect ever undertaken by the state. Federal Highways Administration. Development Plan by a 14-mem- accommodate up to 50 people in a Members of the working group Funding for the plan comes from The interpretive development ber community working group are classroom environment using hälau- were chosen from among those HLID’s budget, which has $8 mil- plan is required by a 1987 mem- North Hälawa Valley, Luluku agri- type structures in Hälawa Valley to who had opposed the freeway, he lion remaining of its original $11 orandum of agreement signed cultural terraces, Ha‘ikü Valley and restoring lo‘i, lo‘i walls and ‘auwai said, because they cared about million allocation in 2000. Akana by Federal Highways, the State Kukui o Käne heiau, the largest at Luluku agricultural terraces, the the area. Working group mem- said the total cost of the plan Historic Preservation Officer and known heiau in the Ko‘olaupoko parcel of land within the loop of the bers are: Donna Bullard, Wali is “much closer to $30 million, the Advisory Council on Historic district. Likelike off ramp. “If you clear the Camvel, Mahealani Cypher, Lela but this $8 million will get them Preservation, with concurrence “We’re all about mitigation,” land in the loop you would see there Hubbard, John Talkington, Laulani started. They will have to continue by OHA and the state DOT. For said Kahikina Akana, project is a very awesome, still existing Teale, Donna Camvel, Marion the search for funding.” more information, visit www. coordinator for Hälawa-Luluku terracing,” Akana said, adding that Kelly, Clara “Sweet” Matthews, Before design and construc- hlid.org, call 587-4391 or write Interpretive Development, which the terracing dates back to the early Robert “Boot” Matthews, Havana tion can occur, the plan has to be to: 677 Ala Moana Blvd., Suite is facilitating the process. The 1900s. “We want to restore that and McLafferty, Vienna Nahinu, Jodi approved by the Office of Hawaiian 811, Honolulu, HI 96813. - NU HOU • NEWSBRIEFS Pepeluali2008 | 11 Barack, Clinton pledge support of the Akaka Bill

Hawai‘i Obama was out of the gate first, arch, whose reign ended in 1893. said. “He’s in a good position” issuing a statement saying, “This “Given the fact that the Akaka to correct misperceptions about Democratic is an important bill, and if it is not Bill represents a continuation of Hawai‘i history, which are com- caucus set for signed into law this year, I will com- a policy that is the product of mon among the opposition, said mit to supporting it as president,” the first Clinton administration, I Meheula, an attorney with a Feb. 19 the Hawai‘i-born Obama said. believe that Hillary Clinton would background in Native Hawaiian Responding to Obama’s not only sign the bill, but would be issues, including the Akaka Bill. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. By Lisa Asato announcement of support for the an absolute champion for its pas- “The process set forth in this - Photo: Courtesy of George Wai‘ale‘ale Public Information Specialist bill’s passage, the local Clinton sage,” Hanabusa added. Clinton important legislation empowers campaign went a step further, say- is a U.S. Senator from New York. Native Hawaiians to explore and has promised to veto the Akaka Bill. he Democratic front- ing Clinton would “be an abso- Meanwhile, Obama has been address the longstanding issues So far this election season, runners in the race lute champion for its passage.” “consistent with his support of resulting from the overthrow of the Obama has won Democratic Tfor the White House “I don’t think there is any ques- the Akaka Bill,” passionately sup- Kingdom of Hawai‘i,” said Obama, nominating contests in Iowa, said they would support the tion that Sen. Clinton would sign porting it on the Senate floor in a Punahou School graduate. “As and Clinton has won in New Akaka Bill if elected president. the Akaka Bill if she is president,” 2006 and working closely with Americans, we pride ourselves on Hampshire and Nevada. Clinton As Sens. Barack Obama and said state Senate President Colleen Hawai‘i Sens. Daniel Inouye safeguarding the practice and ideas also won in Michigan, but the Hillary Rodham Clinton cam- Hanabusa, Hawai‘i co-chair of and Daniel Akaka for its pas- of liberty, justice and freedom. National Democratic Party had paigned for votes in key states the Hillary Clinton presidential sage, said Bill Meheula, a self- “By enacting this legislation, we stripped the state of its delegates including the primary contests campaign. Hanabusa said “the described “strong supporter” with can continue this great American for scheduling its vote prior to in “Super Tuesday” this month Akaka Bill grew out of the 1993 the Hawai‘i for Obama campaign. tradition and fulfill this promise Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, when more on the U.S. continent, both came Hawaiian Apology Act,” which Obama would also be a bet- for Native Hawaiians and ensure than 20 states will hold primaries out backing the Native Hawaiian was signed into law by then-presi- ter presidential advocate for the that they are not left behind as or caucuses. Obama and former Government Reorganization dent Bill Clinton, Hillary’s hus- bill because he better understands Hawai‘i continues to progress.” North Carolina Sen. John Edwards Act, which would grant fed- band. The 1993 bill apologized Hawai‘i history, having graduated The bill is pending in the U.S. had earlier removed their names eral recognition of a Native for the U.S. overthrow of Queen from high school in Hawai‘i and Senate after passing the House in from the Michigan ballot. Hawai‘i’s Hawaiian governing entity. Lili‘uokalani, Hawai‘i’s last mon- spent many years here, Meheula October. The Bush administration Democratic caucus is Feb. 19.

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traditional scholarships is March funds, she said, allowed her to Häpai Pü 1, and for vocational scholarships, quit one of her three jobs she When: Feb. 6, July 1. had been working in order to pay Time: 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Among the $4 million in schol- for school. “It helps a lot,” said Where: University of Getting arships the foundation awarded Fernandez, adding that her fam- Hawai‘i at Mänoa, last year were scholarships spe- ily earns too much to qualify for cifically for Native Hawaiians, federal grants, but too little to pay Campus Center Mall ahead including an Office of Hawaiian for tuition, supplies and living Annual fair offering infor- mation on tuition waivers, Scholarships help financial aid and scholarship Native Hawaiians opportunities. Features infor- mational tables from organi- further their zations including OHA, state education Department of Hawaiian By Lisa Asato Home Lands, Alu Like Inc., Public Information Specialist Ke Ali‘i Pauahi Foundation and more. For more infor- his time last year Lipoa mation, call Kua‘ana Student Kahaleuahi was the stu- Services at 956-2644. Tdent body president and a 4.0 student athlete at Häna High College Goal School. Today, she’s a freshman at Sunday the University of California, Santa When: Feb. 10 Barbara, thanks to a prestigious Time: 1 p.m. Gates Millennium scholarship that Where: Locations in will pay for her entire undergradu- Kona, Kaua‘i and Maui ate education. Offers free step-by-step “The application was sort of a help completing the FAFSA, long process, but it not only helped or Free Application for Federal me to realize the accomplishments Student Aid, which is used by that I already made, it helped institutions across the nation me to be more determined, and First recipients of the OHA Ka¯pili Pu¯ scholarship for Native Hawaiians are recognized for their accomplishments in the Pre-Apprenticeship Con- to help determine qualification it greatly helps me now because struction Training program at the Building Industry Association of Hawai‘i’s general membership dinner meeting in January. From left are: OHA for grants and scholarships. without it I wouldn’t be able to Education Hale staff member Kalani Akana, students Kyle Unciano, Kirkwood Manoha, Dayna Lovell, Derrick Galindo, Ezra Matsushige, Daryllyn Bring your parents and their go to college,” said Kahaleuahi, a Gandaoli, Joyce Elaban-Unciano, and OHA Education Hale Director Hau‘oli Akaka. - Photo: Courtesy of Donna Ho 2007 IRS tax return, W-2 form, member of her school’s surf team year-end pay stubs or other ’07 and Polynesian dance club. income and benefits informa- Kahaleuahi said she is the sec- expenses. “Your No. 1 priority as tion. Kealakehe High School ond Gates scholarship recipient a student should be (school) and Library; Kaua‘i Community from Häna in several years, and her not having to work in order to be College, Fine Dining Room; East Maui community showered there, so it does relieve stress in Maui Community College, her with congratulations. “It was that way,” she said. Pä‘ina Building, Maui Culinary amazing to have that support, and For Native Hawaiian students Academy. No registration it helped me further realize how interested in certain medical pro- needed. www.cgshawaii.org special and amazing this oppor- fessions — doctor, nurse, social or call Frank Green at 591- tunity and this help was,” said worker and others — the merit- 2708 or Lorraine Teniya at Kahaleuahi, who was nominated based Native Hawaiian Health 593-2262. by her counselor, Moani Aiona. Scholarship Program offers full Scholarship applications for tuition, a monthly stipend and ON THE WEB post-high school studies are now required school costs, like books. , for Gates Millennium Scholar Lipoa Kahaleuahi, on left, and friend Lily Howard helped their Univer- > www.oha.org being accepted for the coming In return, the federal program more information and a school year, and because many sity of California, Santa Barbara surf team beat out some 10 other Southern California colleges requires service in a site serv- at a January surf contest. - Photo: Courtesy of Lipoa Kahaleuahi list of scholarships for deadlines are in early March, ing Native Hawaiians, primarily Native Hawaiians, click on it’s important to get started now, in rural, undeserved areas. “The “Education” under “Programs” said Rona Kekauoha, scholarship arships will ask for some type Affairs Scholarship Fund, which ideal candidate would be some- > www.fafsa.ed.gov, officer for Hawai‘i Community of recommendation or personal awards an average amount of one whose personal and pro- for more information on Foundation, which administers statement. They’ve got to do a $2,000 to about 110 recipients. fessional goals line up with the the Free Application for more than 150 scholarship funds. little bit of work, but it’s so worth Pomai Fernandez, a junior at the intent of the scholarship, which Federal Student Aid “I just know based on history and it when they receive something.” University of Northern Colorado, is to bring culturally competent > http://gearup. past trends that finances are a huge The foundation’s web site received a total of four scholar- health care to Native Hawaiians,” hawaii.edu, to learn barrier for Native Hawaiians to go allows students to apply for mul- ships from OHA, Kamehameha said Palama Lee, director of about financial aid and to school,” she said. “There are tiple scholarships using a single Schools, Ka‘iulani Home for the program and a past recipi- scholarships. funds out there. … Most schol- application. Deadline for HCF’s Girls Trust and her university. The ent. Deadline is April 25. Sweet tasting moi are the catch of the day. - Photo: Sterling Wong

Constructed an estimated six to Good eats! eight centuries ago, the Windward O‘ahu fishpond saw the revival of fish cultivation within its walls in Harvest day at the 1990s by another group, and He‘eia fishpond most recently by Paepae o He‘eia, which received its first batch of nets 700 pounds moi fingerlings from Oceanic of prized moi Institute in November 2005. As for the moi being harvested By Lisa Asato on this day, they “came to us as Public Information Specialist little babies” 14 months ago, said Keli‘i Kotubetey, coordinator of board a boat at He‘eia fish- ‘Äina Momona, the nonprofit’s pond, Mehana Makainai economic development program. Acalls out the weights of As the catch was being placed into baskets of freshly harvested moi: a cooler chilled with 500 pounds “15 … 25 … 20 … 17 … 15 … of ice, he added, “They’re warm- we’re over 400!” blooded animals, so you want to Placed in red baskets for weigh- get them cold as quick as possible ing, the silvery, slippery moi — just to keep them fresh.” just then culled from the brackish About an hour’s worth of work waters with a seine net — flipped produced a comfortable stopping and flopped incessantly, and point: 707 pounds of moi, approx- Makainai seemed to relish the imately half-pound to three-quar- experience. A fiscal manager for ter-pound each, the perfect size Paepae o He‘eia, Makainai and for one meal. Executive director seven others had new assignments Hi‘ilei Kawelo welcomed the har- on the morning of Jan. 11 — to vest as a respite from the endless help harvest enough moi to fulfill physical work of restoring the 670 pounds of pre-sale orders for fishpond’s 6,500-foot-long rock its third big community sale. wall. “It’s frosting on the cake,” “The fish harvest is everybody’s she said. “It’s the culmination job,” said Taani Wolfgramm, of of all the work we do here.” the Kü Hou Kuapä program of Paepae o He‘eia, which recently received a $65,250 grant from the COMMUNITY Office of Hawaiian Affairs to sup- WORKDAYS port wall restoration and commu- February-May, nity workdays. “It doesn’t matter every second and what program you work under, we fourth Saturday all work together when it’s time to 8:30 a.m. – about 1 p.m. harvest fish.” Dress appropriately With the moi sale, Paepae o for dirty work, lunch He‘eia was fulfilling part of its provided mission to provide food for the Call 236-6178 to sign up community using values and con- cepts from a traditional fishpond. - 1 | PePeluali2008 nu HOu • neWS Bioprospecting on the front burner for Native Hawaiians

By Liza Simon | Public Affairs Specialist bers — a mix of Native Hawaiian many believe that Hawai‘i’s sup- cultural specialists, biotech indus- port of bioprospecting activ- fter a year of islandwide try representatives and government ities will attract more meetings to gather pub- environmental agency managers, companies and boost Alic input, members of the heard from many Native Hawaiians the state’s econ- governor’s Temporary Commission worried about the possible nega- omy. But some on Bioprospecting are readying a tive impact bioprospecting might say that gains report for lawmakers that will like- have on native rights and natural in such a highly ly become the basis for regulating resources. Heen agreed that there specialized field activities that are now governed is cause for concern, especially will only benefit by neither rules nor definition. if bioprospecting eventually leads a few professionals Bioprospecting involves collect- to the patenting of a native plant and would come at the ing samples from living things to derivative; this could create a legal Bioprospectors research living substances from nature to isolate useful substances. cost of the island’s fragile envi- search for biochemical or genet- barrier that would deprive lä‘au - Photos: File photos. ronment — which would also ic resources that can be used to lapa‘au practitioners from using be a detriment to native culture. manufacture commercial prod- a plant with patented substances cial ventures that the state permits beforehand and how the proceeds At a meeting in Hilo, internation- ucts, including pharmaceuticals. for their own traditional purposes. to take place on so-called ceded of ventures will be distributed. al human rights attorney and former “This is not a highly visible “One of the underlying tasks for lands — Hawaiian Kingdom lands In 2004, the University of OHA Trustee Mililani Trask told activity. You don’t see a bulldozer the Legislature is to figure out just that passed eventually into the Hawai‘i signed a profit-sharing commissioners: “As a Hawaiian, or backhoe digging up the earth, so what role the Native Hawaiians administrative control of the state. agreement with Diversa, a San the biodiversity of things in nature people might not visualize that it is as indigenous people will play However, there is currently no state Diego-based biotechnology is the basis of my culture, as it is of damaging to our environment until it in this entire process of regulat- agency with permitting authority company to develop new prod- any native culture. The sustainabil- is too late,” said Office of Hawaiian ing bioprospecting,” said Heen. over bioprospecting, and there are ucts from marine substances ity of this diversity is necessary for Affairs Trustee Walter Heen, the Native Hawaiians are in a posi- also no administrative rules to say harvested from underwater or our food, our medicine, our cultur- Bioprospecting Commission Chair. tion to be the legal beneficiaries of where bioprospecting can be con- submerged lands, which are also al livelihood, even our sacred plac- Heen said the 11 appointed mem- a portion of revenue from commer- ducted, who needs to be consulted ceded lands. The deal was eventu- es and our everyday well-being.” ally halted, but not before OHA International law under the 2002 accused the university of illegally Convention on Biological Diversity giving up ceded land revenues guarantees indigenous people a and marketing the state’s biodi- fair share of benefits and unlim- versity. OHA and several Native ited access to the natural resources Pauahi Keiki Scholars Hawaiian groups then pushed for of their lands. The United States a legislative bill opposing simi- declined to join the 180 coun- lar deals, and called for a state ties that signed the United Nations KINDERGARTEN Bioprospecting Commission. A agreement — a move that Trask 2006 House concurrent resolution calls “deplorable.” Bioprospecting authorized the all-voluntary body. isn’t necessarily bad, if indige- Program Out of the six commission- nous people can control it in their ers of Native Hawaiian ancestry homelands as some have, Trask Keiki Pua-Dancil is the only one said, by using the U.N. convention The Pauahi Keiki Scholars Kindergarten (PKS-K) program is who also wears a scientist’s hat to successfully press their claims. Apply now for the a need-based scholarship program open to keiki applying to kindergarten at participating private schools. The program is as a researcher and vice presi- OHA Trustee Heen stressed that 2008-2009 school year one of the ways Kamehameha Schools is reaching beyond its dent of the biotech company the commission’s policy recom- campus walls to offer educational opportunities to Hawaiian children. Hawai‘i Chitopure. What’s good mendations for bioprospecting Download the PKS-K scholarship application form, guidebook for the industry is also good for aren’t just about monetary compen- and list of participating schools at www.ksbe.edu/finaid. Native Hawaiians, Pua-Dancil sation. “We aren’t just talking about Applicants will also need to complete a School and believes: “Any legitimate compa- proceeds at the end of the project. Student Services/Parents’ Financial Statement online at www.nais.org/financialaid/sss. ny wants to be held accountable We want prior informed consent. for its impact (on the environ- We could require a prospector to For more information, please call (808) 541-5300 or toll-free from the neighbor islands at 1-800-842-4682 (press 9, then ext. 48080). ment). Regulation is the answer hire Native Hawaiian students to we are all looking for,” she said. assist or develop training programs Bioprospecting helps support for the research to be conducted.” the biotechnology industry, which Heen also added that legislative has led to many medical advances, policies and administrative rules KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS Pua-Dancil explained, adding that would not likely put an end to the recent round of public meet- Native Hawaiian concerns about Application Kamehameha Schools' policy is to give preference to applicants ings raised awareness of the pos- bioprospecting. “Like so many of Hawaiian ancestry to the extent permitted by law. postmark deadline: Those who wish to be considered under this policy must have their sible benefits of industry growth. Native Hawaiian issues,” he February 29, 2008 Hawaiian ancestry verified by the KS Ho‘oulu Hawaiian Data Center. Because biotechnology also said, “this one is really a meta- For more information, visit www.ksbe.edu/datacenter or call (808) 523-6228. offers many high-salaried jobs, phor for self-determination.” olakinHAwaiiano • yo• uErng hlishealth Pepeluali2008 | 15 Protecting new life through prenatal care

Family Systems of Ka‘ü, Pukui to the unborn child and can cause By Claire Ku‘uleilani writes: “Prenatal care was prac- a baby to be born too small. Hughes, ticed long before the advent of It may even cause infant death. Dr. PH., R.D. Western medicine.” Alcohol can permanently dam- The diet of the wahine häpai age the child’s brain and physical I pa‘a ke kino ke was carefully supervised. In about development. Babies of parents keiki i ka lä‘au. the fourth month, special dietary (both) who use illegal drugs can The herbs build up the regulations began. The expectant be born too small, have serious body of the child. mother ate taro, sweet potato, heart problems or may die. An — ‘Ölelo No‘eau breadfruit and a lot of greens. The infant who is exposed to drugs greens were mainly lü‘au, palula while in the womb can suffer the awaiian children are (taro and sweet potato leaves), pains of withdrawal, permanent viewed as links in a chain pöpolo, and ‘äheahea and sea- nerve damage, and retardation. Hof heredity and heritage weed. To avoid the difficulties of Use of over-the-counter drugs is from the ancestors. The newborn giving birth to a baby that was equally responsible for serious is connected to the ancestors as too fat, the mother was cautioned complications. For example, aspi- he joins the family. During their not to eat too much after the rin and ibuprofen taken during lifetime, children gather knowl- sixth month. During the last two pregnancy can cause problems for edge and skills, they apply the months, she ate some ‘ilima or the infant or bleeding complica- knowledge and skills as adults hau tree flowers, which both act tions for the mother. All these fac- and gather wisdom, and then in as lubricants. Mild ko‘oko‘olau tors threaten damage to the chain death they rejoin the ancestors or akiahala teas and plenty of of heredity and heritage forever. with increased mana. In turn, they fresh water were prescribed. Salty Becoming and being a parent become ancestors and perhaps foods were limited. The mother- is an awesome responsibility, and even ‘aumakua. In the ancient to-be was allowed very little raw one cannot be cautious enough culture, respect for the ancestors fish and was given cooked fish. in protecting the new life. and ‘ohana, as well as the desire These dietary requirements were Our Hawaiian ancestors teach us the ways of prenatal care. - Photo: KWO archive for a perfect infant, dictated designed for the mother’s health, special care during the prenatal but our ancestors knew that the period — a dictate that should unborn child would benefit as continue today. well. Mary Kawena Pukui tells us This same dietary regimen is that there was much preparation still very useful today. Greens, in the family to welcome a new approximately three to five cups child. Senior women in the family of cooked greens daily, provide paid close attention to the expect- vitamins A, C and generous amo- WEÕRE MOVING! At our new address on Jan. 2, 2008 ant mother’s progress, assuring unts of B vitamins, as well as physical and mental development. the minerals calcium and iron. They were watchful for signs of Modern science has linked a birth discomfort and potential prob- defect, spina bifida, to inadequate lems during the various stages folic acid intake. We get folic of pregnancy. Hawaiians believe acid from greens, fruit and whole that parental behavior affects grains. Inadequate iron is linked the child’s nature and character, to iron-deficiency anemia. and food cravings of the mother The caution about gaining too would indicate a child’s nature. much weight during pregnancy The culture’s strict and exacting is still useful today. A number concern for a sound mind and of serious problems and dangers physical body necessitated the occur when women gain too special consideration for both the much weight during pregnancy, mother and baby during preg- not to mention that the excess nancy. weight is difficult to lose after the A pale keiki or kahuna pale baby is born. Many women gain keiki, someone trained in obstet- more than the recommended 25 rics, would be engaged if the to 30 pounds. ‘ohana did not have its own. The Alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and pale keiki’s primary responsibil- poor food choices are major New Address: 1050 Queen Street, #201, Honolulu, HI 96814 ity was to care for the expectant threats to the health of both the mother and carefully watch over mother and baby. Smoking reduc- her progress. In The Polynesian es the oxygen and blood supplies n the first day back from winter break, 12 stu- took care of their environment in extremely profound plans include a $4 million early childhood complex. Q & A dents of Hälau Kü Mäna charter school wasted and important ways, and our students are learning the “Bottom line is this is going to be a $25 million-easy Ono time in getting their hands dirty. At a lo‘i in wisdom of that way as well as coming to understand total figure once we’re finished because we have to get Mänoa Valley, they cleared weeds, checked out the western scientific away from looking at any of this as a school. We’re RD: We have heard in our office as well as at the review panel the condition of the kalo, and when it was their model,” she said. “They talking about Hawaiian communities — empowerment, that there have been some very focused kükäkükä on the Wai‘anae ‘The turn for an outdoor science lecture, they gathered Ku‘i Ka Lono are just as comfort- sustainability and designing and controlling our own Koa Alaka‘i Coast about making either part or all of the coast into a charter in small groups around one of their three kumu, Indigenous able working within the models of education. In that way it’s self-determination district. Now, of course, this is the coastline on O‘ahu that has the Lïloa Dunn, an ethnobotanist at Lyon Arboretum. Education Hawaiian traditional sci- and education.” eshela DuPuis was named executive director of the state highest percentage of Native Hawaiians. If that community chooses The day’s topic: genetic engineering. Conference ence and turning around Kahakalau, a public school teacher since 1985, said Charter School Administrative Office in December, over- to become a charter district, what you’re going to see is even more “What exactly is combined in genetic engineer- When: Fri-Sat., and entering their data on she doesn’t doubt that mainstream teachers care, but Rseeing a system that boasts high enrollments of Native native Hawaiian activism in public education. ing?” Dunn asked the March 14-15 a computer.” they’re hindered by a system that is too big and imper- Hawaiians, who make up 96 percent of students in Hawaiian-culture students, who found seats on the grass or a Where: King Charter schools are sonal, and the students suffer. “I know plenty of my focused charter schools and as high as 40 percent of other charter KWO: In your job, you work with many diverse groups: the large rock. public schools within colleagues then and now that do care for the kids, she schools. Total enrollment statewide is around 8,000 students in 28 charter schools, review panel, Board of Education, lawmakers, the Kamehameha’s best “Plants,” a student answered. the state Department of said, adding, “The difference between coming to our schools on five islands. governor’s office, media and the public. I once heard you compare Kona Beach Hotel, “What part of the plant?” Education that have more Native Hawaiian charter schools and public DOE, is the Along with an undergraduate degree from the University of your job to doing the hula, can you elaborate? “DNA,” the answer came. Kailua-Kona autonomy in curriculum students feel this is the first place they experienced in Hawai‘i and master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of RD: That’s my metaphor for doing the job I do. ‘Uwehe is a move- of “Exactly,” the kumu said. Annual conference and other matters than their career that somebody cares.” Michigan, her 20 years in education and advocacy include teaching ment in hula where you bend your knees and you move your hips and Among the state’s 14 Hawaiian-culture focused offers student-led work- mainstream schools and That’s part of the reason Nani White of Ka Waihona at the college level and administering programs for Kamehameha step with the beat. And because my office sits at a point of contact or immersion charter schools, Hälau Kü Mäna shops and adult-led face the same standards o ka Na‘auao drives from her home in ‘Äina Haina to Schools, Alu Like Inc. and Good Beginnings Alliance. between a lot of different groups, my job sometimes feels like I’m melds a conventional curriculum with hands-on workshops field trips, as any Hawai‘i public Nänäkuli every day, where she teaches science and her Under her watch at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Education Hale, dancing on lava, on Pele, and she’s shaking and she’s rocking and outdoor learning, Hawaiian language, culture and best practices, strate- school, including the husband, Paul, also teaches. The teacher-student ratio the Board of Trustees approved a two-year $4.4 million supplemental rolling, and I gotta keep my knees bent and my feet light and keep values like mälama ‘äina and aloha ‘äina to foster gies and solutions in federal No Child Left at Ka Waihona is around 1:22 compared to 1:33 at her funding initiative to support Native Hawaiian charter schools. The that beat. learners who think about the community as well native education. Behind Act, which can previous mainstream school, Kapolei Middle. “There is effort was done in cooperation with Kamehameha Schools, which We gotta keep the dance going whether the ground cracks or both as academics. Besides having a campus in Makiki, Friday night music and impose restructuring if a little more attention to the students’ needs,” she said. decreased administrative costs and streamlined the process for char- shakes beneath our feet. So it’s a huge hälau that I get to mälama, students spend time in the lo‘i, at He‘eia fishpond, hula extravaganza. a school doesn’t meet “I find that they’ve become more involved because of ter schools. DuPuis, who was born in Indiana and grew up attending and I’m certainly not the kumu for that hälau. My job in some ways or aboard Kanehunamoku, the school’s double- Organized by Nä Lei Annual Yearly Progress, that.” public school in Wahiawä, also had a previous life as a foodie. She is to be alaka‘i, to be a leader, or koa alaka‘i in some ways, a warrior hulled canoe. or AYP. Ka Waihona, which succeeds in a district that strug- sat down with KWO to discuss what’s ahead for charter schools and leader, because my job is to go out there and advocate and fight for Na‘auao – Native “I like it because I see it as I get the best of In northern Hawai‘i gles with educational success, is considered a stellar why she compares her new job to “dancing on lava.” justice for the schools. Anything that I do has to be directed by the Hawaiian Charter worlds’ both worlds,” said 14-year-old freshman Anthony Island, Kü Kahakalau, example of the potential of a Hawaiian-culture focused schools themselves and by the review panel because that’s who I “Kekoa” Lynch, as he worked in the lo‘i. “I get School Alliance, with principal of Kanu o ka charter school. Since opening its doors for 58 students KWO: Following Maunalei Love’s interim term, you’re stepping serve and the people of Hawai’i, and I feel very strongly about that. A look inside By Lisa Asato the education that we need and the education that of 11 Hawaiian-cul- ‘Äina charter school, was in a renovated chicken coop, the school now occupies in as CSAO’s first full-time, permanent director in 15 months. Does Hawaiian-focused Public Information I want. I enjoy hula and ‘ölelo, but being that we ture focused charter among the state’s char- the former Nanaikapono Elementary campus, where its that pose special challenges? KWO: Your life before education was food-related. You worked Specialist need math and language arts and reading skills, schools on three islands. ter school pioneers who enrollment is 499 in grades K-8. About 400 more are on RD: Coming in as Maunalei did on the heels of a director who was for Paul Mitchell, the hair guy? charter schools we get that too.” Scholarships avail- brought Hawaiian lan- the waiting list. fired by the Board of Ed in a closed executive session meeting, it was RD: I lived on his estate on Diamond Head. I had my own little Native Hawaiians make up about 96 percent able. For registration guage, culture and val- “I want you to know, that even though we have a so difficult. She healed a lot of bridges that were broken or rocky, house on his estate, I was his private chef for almost three years. of enrollees at Hawaiian-culture focused charter forms, visit www.kalo. ues into a western model cultural component, essentially we started off as an aca- she opened doors for the system in ways that had not been opened I did all his big parties, and before working for him, I did wed- schools, and up to 40 percent at other charter org. Contact Ka‘iulani around 2001. She has two demically rigorous school,” said Ka Waihona principal previously, so she really deserves a huge mahalo from all Native dings for 500 people with a seven-tiered wedding cake (laughs). schools. “There is no charter school in the entire Pahi‘ö on Hawai‘i school-age daughters and Alvin Parker, chairman of the newly created Charter Hawaiians and from the charter school system. When I worked for Paul Mitchell, he shaved my head. He’s the one system that doesn’t have Native Hawaiian Island at 808-887-1117 calls herself “the proud- School Review Panel, which authorizes new charters. who encouraged me to go to school, so I went to the University of students,” said Reshela DuPuis, the new est public school parent.” “In other words, academic rigor was important for us to KWO: For the new legislative session, besides funding, you said Hawai‘i, took a couple of courses, found I loved it and decided I or [email protected]. executive director of the state Charter “We have shown it can implement as a cornerstone of our curriculum. … It was your top priorities include facilities. didn’t want to spend the rest of my life standing on my feet in a hot, Left: A Ha¯lau Ku¯ School Administrative Office. Some of work for the kids, not just not until this year that our Hawaiian language compo- RD: Almost all of the Native Hawaiian charter schools are start- sweaty kitchen. Ma¯na student pulls the strengths of the Hawaiian-focused on an academic level, nent entered the curriculum.” ups, where facilities are a major issue. Start-up schools don’t have weeds at a Ma¯noa schools are teaching subjects like the which is crucial, but also on a cultural and Hawaiian While other charter schools have struggled with a per- facilities, and they’ve never had equitable facilities funding. We KWO: Can you share a little about your family and back- lo‘i, where ‘o¯pio environment and values like mälama language level,” she added. pupil funding below what mainstream schools receive, have students who are still being educated in tents, in Quonset huts, ground? learn science and ‘äina, she said. In addition to meeting AYP for two years in a row, Ka Waihona has overcome that hurdle. “The magic in very temporary kinds of lodgings and this means that Hawaiian RD: I’m Cherokee- Irish-French. We moved values like ma¯lama “Hawaiians took empirical Kanu o Ka ‘Äina is going through accreditation, “which number is 200 students,” Parker said, “that’s where you students are being educated without full funding for facilities by the to Hawai‘i from Indiana when I was 2. I went to ‘a¯ina. - Photo: Blaine observational science, they is a very exciting process and speaks to our ongoing can be financially strong and sustain your programs.” state because they go to a public charter school. Leilehua High School. In those days before Fergerstrom growth,” she said. But she’s also proud that her students “We have 500 students and our financial stabil- H3, Wahiawä was country. I was a chant, dance hula, volunteer in the community, can dis- ity is very, very good.” The school just re-roofed its KWO: Do you see much external support for Hawaiian culture- country girl. My first boyfriend was from cuss issues like genetically modified kalo, and on top of cafeteria, and plans to have P.E. facilities built and focused charter schools? K a m e h a m e h a though (laughs). that know their culture better than she did growing up. shipped from Oregon. In a year, the school receives RD: I think there is increasing support in the Native Hawaiian He was president of his senior Like many charter schools, Kanu has struggled with about $8,000 per pupil, plus more than $1 million in community as well in the general Hawai‘i community for Native class. substandard facilities — its enrollment hasn’t budged combined grants through the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Hawaiian charter schools and for the cultural job that they’re doing much from its original 150 because it couldn’t afford and Kamehameha Schools, as well as substantial Title I in perpetuating and maintaining the culture. bigger, better facilities. The school uses shipping con- funding, the nation’s free and reduced lunch program. One of the critical things is that two of our charter schools on tainers housing a library, cafeteria and teachers’ lounge. At Ka Waihona, success is measured in various ways: Kaua‘i — Ke Kula Ni‘ihau o Kekaha and Kula Aupuni Ni‘ihau a But now, she said, Kanu’s nonprofit, Kanu o ka ‘Äina eight tenured DOE teachers transferred to the school Kahelelani Aloha — are the only two formal instruction sites for Learning ‘Ohana, is constructing — not a school, but last year, nine students were accepted into Kamehameha Ni‘ihau dialect of Hawaiian language anywhere in the state and a “learning center for the entire ‘ohana,” in which the Schools, more than 90 percent of its faculty has master’s therefore the world. And not only are they preserving that dialect but school will rent space. degrees in education, 90 percent of its teachers are they’re teaching it to new generations. The first building, a $3.9-million multimedia resource licensed (compared to 60 percent in mainstream schools) center, is already under construction, financed largely by and it has passed AYP three of the last four years. Parker As far as what the future holds for charter schools, what ideas Reshela Dupuis is the new executive a U.S. Agriculture Department construction loan, a U.S. said he also measures success in another way, “It’s about do you hear that are exciting? director of the Charter School Adminstra- Ka Waihona o Ka Na‘auao. - Photo: Courtesy of Ka Waihona o Ka Na‘auao Department of Education Native Hawaiian Education the fact that we are Hawaiian people in a Hawaiian com- tive Office. - Photo: Liza Simon Photo: John Matsuzaki grant and funding from Kamehameha Schools. Future munity doing something they said couldn’t be done.” 18 | Pepeluali2008 N¯A P¯Apale • many hats

More New Year’s resolutions: changing It’s Your MOVE! attitudes, and health behaviors Here are some strategies to help you reach your weight and fitness goals. See which ones may work for you! Nutrition • Eat healthier foods at meals and snacks • Start reading food labels • Practice eating slowly and enjoy each bite • Write down what you eat every day — know the approximate number of calories of what you eat • Eat frequently (choose healthy foods) • Never go hungry • Don’t deprive yourself — just plan ahead (enjoy a small piece of wedding cake) • Shop from a grocery list and never go to the grocery store hungry • Know the correct portion size (count out 15 peanuts) • Enjoy a 150-calorie frozen yogurt cone

Avoid extra calories: Jeno Enocencio, wearing beret, joined the Veterans Affairs MOVE! program to help him lose weight, get active and regain his fit warrior physique. • Use light or fat-free salad dressings His January starting weight, blood pressure and pulse were: 324 pounds, 133 over 76, and 64. Stay tuned for updates. - Photo: Courtesy of • If you are a meat eater, Jeno Enocencio eat chicken and fish; view steak and hamburger as a treat By Jimmy F. “Jeno” Enocencio at Healthy. Be Active. Get Fit for Life.” That’s the message sent to • Remove one slice of bread from your sandwich all veterans from HealthierUS Veterans. Their campaign initiative • Share one dessert when eating with “Eis based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid. four or more family members/friends They can be found at www.healthierusveterans.va.gov. • Stay away from fast food most of the time In life, reality sets in the most common of places. Like when you get out • Skip the mayo — use of the shower in a resort hotel and see “ALL of YOU” in a misting 4-by- yellow mustard instead 8 mirror. That’s right, you’re not 18 anymore, and definitely not slim. • Drink water instead of juice What was once a lean, mean fighting machine is now a big laho (castrated boar). Reality sets in when your grandkids want to race Give up the you, or play hide-n-go-seek, and you’re huffin’ and puffin’ and following for now: wheezin’ wanting to pass out. • Butter, huge cinnamon The real test of endurance comes when it’s time for church and rolls, deep-fried bloom- you gotta bend down and tie your shoelace; or pullin’ up your pants ing onions, double-decker as the belt cuts grooves into your belly, forcing you to buy suspenders. bacon cheeseburgers, You put on your tie and suddenly realize that size 22-inch neck shirts and high-calorie desserts can only be bought from Kramers Big & Tall. By that time you realize • If you drink soft drinks, that your shirt doesn’t tuck in because it’s too short, and your pants are choose diet over regular sliding because you have no rear to hold it up. • Skip the cheese on your sandwich Still another reminder: that 30-year-old tie just barely passes your chest and exposes shirt buttons ready to pop. As for the tie, just throw At a restaurant: ’em away ’cause your boy isn’t gonna wear anything old-fashioned. • Tell the wait staff to skip the bread You realize having a tie is like having a hangman’s noose around your • Drink a big glass of water while waiting neck; in church you feel the pressure building in your head, shortness for your food of breath, eyes glared open and eventual snoring in the middle of the • Eat veggies or a side salad instead sermon. When you snore at night your wife realizes your breathing stops of fries/loaded potato for long periods of time; that is not you learning to dive under water, that • Eat half of your entrée and take the rest home. is sleep apnea. This is where you die in your sleep. That is not just anybody’s life. It’s been mine since hosting this Manitou within. On the www.move.va.gov website, a link is provid- ed to the USDA’s MyPyramid www.mypyramid.gov, Jeno Enocencio writes about the many hats he wears. This which has a MyPyramid Tracker tool. The tool allows is the second of a three-part series concerning our health. one to record food intake and calculate calories. pa¯HeOna • ARTS PePeluali2008 | 19 Voyages in art Prints by a Hilo artist visits. “I was so moved by the way the construction of the Maisu brought so many people together into a sail with Höküle‘a living cultural classroom,” says Belsky, explaining the across the Pacific inspiration for his Voyaging Series. Along with gifting the canoe, the Nä Kälai Wa‘a By Liza Simon | Public Affairs Specialist crew members also presented Belsky’s art to Mau as well as other Micronesian leaders along their route. t first glance, Tomas Belsky seems to occupy “I wanted to show the Micronesians that we see Mau a small corner of the art world — literally as a hero for connecting with Hawaiians and pass- Aspeaking. His home base for making and ing on his knowledge,” says Belsky. “To think that selling art is Ka Huina — that’s ‘ölelo for “corner” — Polynesians were fearlessly out there exploring at a and it’s also the name of a Hilo gallery with a grass- time when Europeans still feared the world was flat roots feel. But Belsky’s desire to honor Polynesian — now that took some courage and understanding,” navigational history has recently catapulted his work Belsky adds. throughout the Pacific. Belsky entrusted the illustra- Belsky, who is the creator of an outdoor Hilo mural tions of his newly created Voyaging Series to the depicting activities of everyday work, favors using Kawaihae-based canoe club Nä Kälai Wa‘a, as they art to honor great traditions of skilled labor. Using a set sail aboard the famed Höküle‘a last year from woodblock-like process, his Voyaging Series renders Hawai‘i Island to the Federated States of Micronesia the details of canoe-making in bold black and white with the goal of paying tribute to Mau Piailug, the images. Micronesian native who helped revive traditional Copies of the series are for sale at the Hilo Polynesian wayfinding across vast ocean distances. Ka Huina Gallery and via Belsky’s website at Nä Kälai Wa‘a crew members honored Mau with www.tomasbelsky.com. Half of the proceeds from the presentation of the Alingano Maisu, a voyaging all sales go to the Nä Kälai Wa‘a canoe club to canoe, which the local community collaboratively support continued efforts to educate Hawaiian One of a trio of posters in Tomas Belsky’s series honors islander navigator Mau Piailug. built in Kawaihae harbor, where Belsky paid several youngsters in the art of Polynesian voyaging. - Illustration: Courtesy of Tomas Belsky

OHA Consumer Director/Kumu Hula Patrick MakuakŠne and NŠ Lei Hulu I Ka W‘kiu present Micro-Loan Program The OfÞce of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Consumer $AUGHTERSOF(AUMEA Micro-Loan Program (CMLP) is designed to provide WARRIORS. ORACLES. MIGHTY RULERS. low cost loans to Native Hawaiians who are experiencing DRAGON GODDESSES. temporary Þnancial hardship due to unforeseen events, Priestesses in sacred ceremonies, or who need small amounts of funding to enhance craftswomen and guardians of ritual. their careers. Meet the women of ancient Hawai’i - long overlooked, misunderstood, Loans are available up to $7,500.00 (no minimum and shrouded in mystery. loan amount), with a maximum repayment term of 5 years (60 months) at a ßat interest rate of 5.0%. To be eligible for a Consumer Micro Loan, you must meet the following criteria: ¥ Applicant must be of Native Hawaiian ancestry ¥ Applicant must be at least 18 years of age and a resident of the State of Hawaii ¥ Applicant should have satisfactory credit history and the ability to repay the loan ¥ Loan must be for the primary applicantÕs beneÞt Loans are available to individuals only. Partnerships, corporations, sole proprietorships, etc., are excluded. FRI Mar 7, 2008 7:30pm 0''*$&
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PANIOLO EXTRAVAGANZA Sat. Feb. 2, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. To celebrate the Year of the Paniolo, Parker Ranch Historic Homes and the community-sponsored Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival are throwing a big town party, with tributes to the 100th anniver- sary of Native Hawaiian Photo: Courtesy of Kumu Kahua Theatre Ikua Purdy’s steer-rop- ing victory in Wild-West PELE PLAYS BIG AT KUMU KAHUA Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. matinees at 2 p.m., through Feb. 10 the Hawai‘i Island arrival Adapted by John Wat, Pele Mä, a witty theatrical ver- of selected cowboys of sion of the book Pele Mä: Legends of Pele from Kaua‘i Japanese descent (also by Frederick Wichman, presents the epic escapades of recent inductees into the Hawai‘i’s flamboyant fire goddess and her cohorts, played Parker Ranch Paniolo to the hilt by a cast of seasoned local actors. $5 to $13 Hall of Fame). See cultur- at Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu. 536-4441 or www. al presentations, musical kumukahua.org. Also runs Thurs.-Fri., Feb. 28-29, 7:30 performances and craft p.m., at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, McCoy Studio demos at several Waimea Theater. 808- sites, including Parker 242-7469 or Ranch. 808-885-5433 or www.maui Archive photos: Courtesy of Parker Ranch Archives www.parkerranch.com. Pictured above: Memorabilia of paniolo pride — on display in Waimea. arts.org.

KANIKAPILA SEASON which includes SPOTLIGHTS YOUNG continuous enter- AND OLD tainment, food Mon., Feb. 18, 6-9 p.m. booths, sporting E Kanikapila Käkou events at the is a spirited Hawaiian Old Waimea jam session led by Sugar Mill and Hawai‘i’s best musi- the kick-off cians, who teach event of the Local cast puts fire into their performace of Pele legends. - Photo: chords and lyrics of a Garden Island Courtesy of Kumu Kahua Theatre favorite song. At the Canoe Racing Creations from lei master helm for this particular Association. Hawaiian dance company Nä Brian Choy meant to inspire session: the popu- Not to be outdone by the Lei Hulu I Ka Wëkiu returns workshop participants.

Photos: Courtesy of www.honoluluparks.com lar recording group paniolo party at “the other to Hawai‘i to present the Puamana along with Waimea” (see above listing), visually captivating and the- 100-year-old ‘ukelele there’s plenty of paniolo fun, matically riveting Daughters LEI-MAKING WORKSHOPS virtuoso Bill Tapia. including the annual Waimea of Haumea, a theatrical Sat. Feb. 9 and 23, 9:30 a.m.-noon Free. Island School, Roundup Rodeo, a paniolo recreation of the traditional Masterful lei maker Brian Choy main hall on Puhi hat-lei contest and the first- roles of Hawaiian women, as will demonstrate the artistry that campus. 808-245-2733 time induction of Hawaiian described in a groundbreak- has made his creations the top or www.gardenisland cowboys and cowgirls into ing new book. The company’s winners at the annual Honolulu arts.org. Nä Paniolo O Kaua‘i A Me kumu and choreographer, May Day Lei Competition for the last 30 years. Plan Ni‘ihau, the Garden Island’s Patrick Makuakäne, has a ahead to catch the judges’ eyes with the help of Choy’s KAUA‘I’S WAIMEA paniolo hall of fame. Free. trademark “hula mua” style special tricks and techniques. Free. Makiki District Park TOWN CELEBRATION Waimea town. 808-338-1332 or — hard to explain, but the fact administration building, 1527 Ke‘eaumoku St., Honolulu Feb. 22-23 www.wkbpa.org/events.html. that his Hawai‘i performances (Feb. 9); Käne‘ohe Community Center, 45-613 Pü‘öhala 4:30-11 p.m. Fri., play to SRO crowds speaks vol- St. (Feb. 23). Sponsored by the City and County of 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Sat. 21ST CENTURY HAWAIIAN umes about his ability to move Honolulu. 768-3041 or www.honoluluparks.com. Seemingly sleepy Waimea DANCE MOVES our imaginations with an evolv- town pulls out all the stops Fri.- Sat., March 7-8, 7:30 p.m. ing art form. $25-$35. 528-0256 for this annual celebration, The San Francisco-based or www.hawaiitheatre.com. Hanana • eVenTS PePeluali2008 | 21

doors in 1985, and this year’s our school would close. So we’d sion schools is that they are MUSIC FOR Class of 2008 will mark the 10th throw together a bake sale or sell inherently at a disadvantage from high school graduating class. Portuguese sausage. There was no conventional schools in terms A lot has changed since the burn out back then. If you burned of funding. Because a Hawaiian days when each school held its out, your school burned out.” immersion school’s entire curricu- EDUCATION own concert. “We used to all book lum is taught in Hawaiian, teach- Tenth Ho‘omau to benefit all the top bands in Hawaiian music,” continuing funding shortages ers cannot just pick up a normal says ‘Aha Mele o Ho‘omau presi- While school administra- school catalog and purchase text- O‘ahu Hawaiian-language dent Kau‘i Keola, who has been tors have become savvier about books. Immersion schoolbooks immersion schools an immersion school parent since obtaining grants and other finan- need to be translated or developed. 1987. “So in one year, there could cial assistance to cover basic Oftentimes, the schools or parent immersion program, called ‘Aha be four concerts, and Mäkaha school infrastructure, grassroots groups also need to pay for teacher By Sterling Wong Pünana Leo, in which young chil- Sons would be headlining each fundraising is still as important to positions or professional develop- dren were taught completely in one. Then we would hit up the the Hawaiian immersion move- ment courses for school staff. enefit concerts have been Hawaiian, with no English. There same people to buy tickets for ment as ever. That’s where Ho‘omau comes critical to the survival were many challenges along the each concert. And back then the The difficult part about immer- into play, filling in the funding gaps. Bof Hawaiian immersion This year’s concert will feature the schools since the beginning of Hilo-based Hawaiian rap group the movement to save Hawai‘i’s Sudden Rush, Nä Hökü Hanohano native language from near extinc- award winners Maunalua, Pilioha, tion. When the movement was Hema Pa‘a and ‘Ike Pono, as well in its fledgling stages some 20 as performances from Hawaiian years ago, nearly every immer- immersion school keiki. sion school throughout the state Ho‘omau 2008 will also serve organized its own benefit con- as the launch for the new Hawaiian cert. But the problem with this language website of go! Hawai‘i’s was that the schools on O‘ahu Low Fare Airline, the presenting ended up competing with each sponsor of this year’s concert. Other other for the same Hawaiian musi- sponsors for the event include Kau cians and went through the same Inoa, and Royal Hawaiian Center/ work of putting on virtually the Kamehameha Schools. same event, with many of the For more information on concerts sharing the same name, Ho‘omau, visit hoomau.org. Ho‘omau, which means to per- severe. In 1998, all the schools Editor’s note: Sterling Wong is on O‘ahu finally decided to pool a former publications editor of Ka their resources together to create Wai Ola o OHA and is currently ‘Aha Mele o Ho‘omau, a nonprof- Ho‘omau volunteering on Ho‘omau. His it group dedicated to organizing Benefit Concert oldest daughter attends Pünana a single Ho‘omau concert, held When: Sun., Feb. 17 Leo o Kawaiaha‘o Preschool. at Waikïkï Shell, to benefit the Time: Gates open entire Hawaiian language immer- at 4 p.m. sion movement on O‘ahu. Where: Waikïkï Shell On Feb. 17, Ho‘omau will Tickets: $10-$20 celebrate its 10th concert, with at the door, the 2008 event benefiting all of Discounted, precon- O‘ahu’s 11 immersion schools, cert tickets available, which combine to serve nearly 1,000 students from preschool to Keiki under 4 free high school. Students of Pu¯nana Leo o Kawaiha‘speakinogoto will not only benefit from this month’s Neal Blaisdell Center Ho‘omau concert — they’ll perform too. - Photos: Sterling Wong Ticket Box Office language nearly lost Web: Hoomau.org While the state’s 1978 Constit- way, most notably having to repeal Hawaiian language community utional Convention established an 1896 law prohibiting Hawaiian was a lot smaller than today.” Hawaiian as one of Hawai‘i’s two from being spoken in schools. Back then, there was also much official languages, by the early Despite the setbacks and fund- more of a sense of urgency. At 1980s, many feared the language ing shortages, however, the the time, parents were expected would be lost forever. The number Hawaiian language education to raise money to pay for basic of native speakers was quickly movement on O‘ahu has made school infrastructure, like teacher dwindling, and few keiki under great strides in the last 20 years. salaries. “It was all about sur- the age of 18 were fluent in the The first Hawaiian immersion vival,” Keola says. “They’d tell language. A small group of edu- school on O‘ahu, Pünana Leo o us we needed ‘X’ amount of dol- cators intervened and created an Honolulu Preschool, opened its lars by the end of the month or - 22 | Pepeluali2008 NU HOU • NEWSBRIEFS

Notice list debuts the U.S. Geological Survey and asked to step down. In a letter National Park Service. to colleagues, Waihe‘e said he A new notification list that the • About 70 U.S. Fish and Wildlife remains “steadfastly committed to federal government will use to Service scientists and managers the mission and leadership of the better inform Native Hawaiian attended a Dec.11-12 training ses- Office of Hawaiian Affairs.” groups of proposed federal action sion at Hawai‘i Island’s Mauna Also at the Jan. 3 meeting, – such as reburying iwi – made Lani Resort to learn about Native Chairperson Haunani Apoliona its online debut last month with Hawaiian resource management, appointed Trustee Robert Lindsey seven groups, including OHA and history and consultation require- as Vice Chair of the Asset and Hawai‘i Maoli, a nonprofit arm of ments. Moderated by Dr. Emmett Resource Management Committee. the Association of Hawaiian Civic Aluli, the session offered mana‘o Lindsey replaces Trustee Rowena Clubs. from various cultural practitio- Akana, who resigned the vice The voluntary Native Hawaiian ners and experts, such as Pualani chairmanship. Waihe‘e and Akana Organization Notification List Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kanoho remain on the nine-member Board. will provide mailed announce- Helm, Mac Poepoe, Davianna ments to individuals or groups. McGregor, Fred Cachola, Noelle Lä‘au Point EIS Previously, notice was published Kahanu, Hannah Springer and in the Federal Register. View OHA Trustee Walter Heen. the list and application informa- The public has until Feb. 22 to Commemorating her 176th birthday on Dec. 19, Kamehameha Schools dedicated a bronze tion at www.doi.gov/ohr/native submit comments on the new draft New OHA leadership statue of benefactor Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center’s hawaiians/list.html. environmental impact statement Royal Grove. Kahu Kordell Kekoa presided over the program, which included a rare ka¯hili proces- In other U.S. Interior Department for a proposed luxury development sional, 40 members of Hawaiian royal societies, students, Kamehameha leaders Dee Jay Mail- news: Walter Heen was unanimous- at Lä‘au Point. Moloka‘i Properties er, J. Douglas Ing and Nainoa Thompson, and representatives of The Festival Cos., the shopping • The latest in satellite technol- ly elected 6-0 as Vice Chair of Ltd. released the more than 1,500- center’s manager and developer. Named “Ka ‘Ikena Ho‘oulu a Pauahi,” or “The inspired vision ogy will be used to track nënë OHA’s Board of Trustees at the page draft EIS on Jan. 8, starting of Pauahi,” the statue by Kamehameha graduate Sean Kekamakupa‘a Ka‘onohiokalani Lee to better understand their habitat Board’s Jan. 3 meeting. the 45-day comment period. Loy Browne depicts the princess seated, denoting her humble demeanor, patience and aloha. needs, under two grants totaling Heen, who abstained from the Moloka‘i Properties is request- - Photo: Courtesy of Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center about $285,000. The two-year and vote, fills the position vacated by ing the state Land Use Commission four-year grants were awarded to Trustee John Waihe‘e IV, who reclassify about 1,400 acres of land on Moloka‘i from agricul- Area, or ORMA. The designation tural to rural so it can develop can restrict certain activities, like 200 2-acre lots for luxury homes. thrill crafts, to certain areas. The landowner rescinded its previ- A meeting is planned for March 5 ous draft EIS in November after from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Wai‘anae two days of emotional testimony District Park Multipurpose Room. before the commission. Supporters For more information, call William say the development — part of the Ailä, Wai‘anae Boat Harbor Master, Community-Based Master Land at 697-7095. Use Plan — will bring money, The state Legislature in 2005 jobs and a return of lands; oppo- authorized the state Department nents say it will infringe upon the of Land and Natural Resources to Dem?YWdijWo_djekY^X[YWki[?gkWb_\o$ island’s rural landscape and natu- conduct the baseline environmen- M_j^CeX_F9IWdZ<[Z[hWbB_\[b_d[%B_daKffhe]hWci" ral and cultural resources. tal study to address safety issues Mail comments to: Moloka‘i and impacts on the area’s tradi- >WmW__\Wc_b_[iWh[demWXb[jeijWoYedd[Yj[Z$ Properties Ltd., 745 Fort Street tional uses and marine life due to gkWb_Ó[ZYkijec[hih[Y[_l[0 Mall, Suite 600, Honolulu, HI increased use by tourists, fisher- 96813. Copies should also be sent men, whale watchers, commercial '+E<< .$(+E<< to the State Land Use Commission, and private boaters and other ocean d[mWYj_lWj_ed cedj^bofbWdiijWhj_d]Wj*& P.O. Box 2359, Honolulu, HI users. Tetra Tech EM Inc. is con- f^ed[i 96804; and to the Office of tracted to perform the study. ijWhj_d]Wj Environmental Quality Control, 235 S. Beretania St., Suite 702,  OekcWoX[[b_]_Xb[ C[Z_YW_Z Kamehameha Schools */ Honolulu, HI 96813. \ehZ_iYekdj[Z

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Mahalo Trustee Mossman Thank you Mr. Mossman for people,” to quote Hawai‘i Senate foreign nation without a treaty. comes to the so-called Superferry, addressing and rekindling serious Resolution No. 118 SD1. Statehood represents an attempt by a lot. Kudos to all the OHA Trustees issues in the Native Hawaiian The laws are in place, the desire the United States to impose U.S. It’s a ferry all right, but who who consistently provide us community. is there, but the pa‘ahao remain laws on a foreign state without gets to decide if it’s “super” or updates related to OHA. One betrayed. Where are the stewards, having to negotiate a legal treaty. not? I’ve heard it called a few specific column caught my Keoni Kealoha O. Devereaux Jr. the ‘ohana advocates? Who’s in This is what is called belligerent other things, some of which are attention, Maui Trustee Boyd Mo¯‘ili‘ili charge? People of Hawai‘i, I beg occupation in law because the not suitable for readers under the Mossman’s January column, you on behalf of your ancestors, essence of its claim or jurisdiction age of 100. “What to expect in 2008.” It truly Pa‘ahao in Arizona your forgotten sons, and the world is through raw military might, not The self-described “Superferry” targeted the most critical gaps in waiting for the aloha that only you by treaty, etc. arrived in Hawai‘i like Godzilla or the Hawaiian community. I do I recently visited the for- can give. Take up their cause, for it King Kong beating his chest, did want add a bit more. profit prisons that operate under is your cause. Noa Napoleon pretty much what it wanted to at HOUSING: Native Hawaiians contract with the State of Hawai‘i Honolulu first, and only stopped to ask what of all blood quanta are suffering to house your incarcerated sons Mike Thompson the people and the law thought from homelessness. It impacts their in Arizona. I saw a clean, secure Mesa, Arizona Blood quantum lawsuit about it later. The most recent state of mind, feelings and self- facility. My complaint is not with instance of this arrogance is the esteem. Feelings of hopelessness the Corrections Corporation of Un-civil rights movement I have never written in response Superferry’s decision to make a are very strong and cause the America staff or the prison itself. to any type of issues that deal with second daily trip to Maui without, breakdown of family, culture and My complaint is with the State Regarding the U.S. Commission Hawaiians until now. I read with as Mayor Tavares said, consulting future generations. The state is not and people of Hawai‘i, who pay on Civil Rights, I note that the anger and dismay that Hawaiians with the community first. The equipped with genuine culturally strangers to care for their troubled distortions discussed in the OHA with 50 percent or more blood Superferry has since postponed based interventions and the sons. These men are abandoned analysis of the commission’s quantum are suing OHA for using the addition of the second trip. problem appears to be massively when they need their community report are evident in both camps monies for Hawaiians with less Perhaps if the Superferry escalating. the most. unfortunately. If the commission than 50 percent. HEWA on those changed its name to something HEALTH: Let’s not forget The Hawaiian people so failed to understand OHA’s people who think like selfish less “in your face,” like the our küpuna, many of whom are esteemed the aloha spirit that you historical perspective (restorative foreigners. “Alohaferry,” for instance, and suffering from various types of enshrined its definition in law. justice etc.), what about OHA? Do I use angry words because I am then tried to live up to the name, dementia especially Alzheimer’s Hawaiians are still Hawaiians, Trustees really want to confront 50 percent and to hear those who a sea change is possible. disease, epilepsy and seizure even in prison, and aloha spirit of historical inaccuracy even while are fortunate to have something disorders. I used to be the vice these men exists and is palpable they accept as fact the slew of and use it against our own people Bill Brundage president of programs for the in their presence. Most are drawn distortions imbedded in the Akaka who have less than 50 percent is a Kurtistown, Hawai‘i Island Alzheimer’s Association and to, and hunger for, their cultural Bill regarding Hawaiian history? shame. When will the Hawaiians executive director of the Epilepsy roots. Yet by some twist of law Are we ready to accept the premise learn not to be like the ‘a‘ama Foundation. During my outreach the teaching of Native Hawaiian of this bill, which states that (black crab)? Your Thoughts… activities in rural areas in Hawai‘i, culture is deemed a “religion.” Native Hawaiians are indigenous Hawaiians with 50 percent Send them to Ka Wai Ola. I found this to be true and If a man chooses “Hawaiian” as to the American continent? And and more, WAKE UP. Let the All letters must be typed, signed and alarming. his religion, he must forgo church does the Indian commerce clause foreigners continue to divide us not exceed 200 words. Letters cannot EDUCATION: During my services. in and of itself confer citizenship and one day you will find that all be published unless they are signed lectures in public schools, I Recently the State of (or recognition)? the benefits that we ARE entitled and include a telephone contact for discovered many DOE staff who Hawai‘i adopted the principle Statehood was premised on a to will be part of the past. Laws verification. 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Federalization Philip Abraham Hokuokalani Akiu III serious, as untrained staff cannot with “self worth and pride in of native rights is rooted in the Honolulu Ka Wai Ola provide genuine compassion and their culture by increasing their Indian Commerce Clause, which 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500 empathy to Native Hawaiian knowledge, providing a purpose is a domestic law of the United Rename the Superferry Honolulu, HI 96813 students in the face of challenges for themselves, their families, for States. Congress has no authority email: [email protected] and entitlements. future generations of Hawai‘i’s to impose domestic laws on a What’s in a name? When it

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What is considered lawful Tyranny and iwi exposed or acceptable has changed The only mention of TCP in dramatically throughout State of Hawai‘i law is purposely history, as exemplified in hidden in environmental law. This By Alika Poe Silva the Ku‘e Petition of 1897-1898 is this 1829 slavery ad. is not an insignificant issue. It is solid consensus against the illegal a lack of morality by the United Editor’s note: Alika Poe Silva occupation. Times change, what States deliberately playing their is Kahu Kuläiwi, Koa Mana, is considered lawful or acceptable shown above, how- shell game to force assimilation of Kupukaaina o Wai‘anae wahi has changed drastically through- ever, the definition of Hawaiians. pana, O‘ahu, Hawaiian National. out U.S. corporate and military TCP occurs in both Dear ‘ohana, what would our The views expressed in this com- history. (See photo.) HAR 13-275 and HAR Queen Lili‘uokalani say? Set munity forum do not necessarily For example, at the start of 13-264. To reiterate, Hawai‘i free, America! ‘Ohana, reflect the views of the Office of the illegal military occupation of according to both sets raise your voice and call upon Hawaiian Affairs. Hawai‘i by the U.S. government of rules, a “historic OHA to ensure that the term “tra- Re: Federal law Section 106 in 1893, it was illegal for African- property” may be eli- ditional cultural property” (TCP) traditional cultural property Americans and women to vote. gible for inclusion on be written into their administrative (TCP) Model Paradigm versus the One can think of similar examples the historic register rules (HAR 13-275, 13-264 and Sites Model, and why TCPs are of once-legal practices that are no under criterion “e,” 13-284) and, note their specific hidden in the State of Hawai‘i’s longer acceptable to society (cf. which states that it has status and importance into their Environmental Law! Brown 1970; Churchill and Venne; (HAR), which act as guidelines to “an important value to law until our Hawaiian Kingdom loha and mahalo ‘ohana Pakenham 1991). implementing the law. the native Hawaiian people or to is restored. We have more to talk for your support in our State TCP language — contrary There are two relevant sets of another ethnic group of the state about regarding TCP law and facts Aseries of concerns. to widespread opinions, TCPs are historic preservation rules in the due to associations with cultur- about morality. Mahalo nui to KWO. Original inhabitant küpuna prac- defined in the SOH historic pres- HAR: 13-275 and 13-264. It may al practices once carried out, or Remember, ‘ohana, call OHA and ticed aloha ‘äina, they lived it and ervation and environmental law, surprise the reader to learn that still carried out, at the property or raise your voice, for our Hawaiian knew and taught us traditions and although the relevant language the term “TCP” does not appear due associations with traditional Nation State, illegally occupied moral values that would benefit needs to be revised, tightened up in either of these two sets of rules, beliefs, events or oral accounts — in 1893 and to date! Akua lako the entire world. and clarified. As with federal law or anywhere else in HRS 6E or these associations being important ‘ohana. Stay tuned for part four. Both the U.S. military and State and guidelines, upon which the any other set of historic preserva- to the group’s history and cultural This is the third in a of Hawai‘i play an immoral shell state laws and administrative rules tion rules in Hawai‘i. As we have identity. series of commentaries. game concerning our ‘ohana’s are based, TCPs are simply another burial sites and national treasures. kind of “historic property” that The procedures of historic preser- must be assessed and documented. vation in Hawai‘i are an ill illusion, As with all other types of “his- which is conducted according to toric property,” mitigation may be what they call the Sites Model. It necessary if a TCP is adversely E Kui Lima Ka¯kou! does not truly serve the interest of affected by a proposed undertaking the Hawaiian people and/or envi- (i.e., development project of some Let us come together as a community! ronment. As it is practiced in the kind). Project redesign and avoid- State of Hawai‘i (SOH), in fact, ance is one kind of mitigation. “historic preservation” should be The ironies of the current situ- more accurately called “historic ation are that the State Historic mitigation.” Facts show, the Sites Preservation Division is so hap- Model primarily serves the inter- hazard, we are unable, in a timely ests of corporate developers and and efficient manner, to quantify prolonged illegal military occupa- the following statement, which we Free entertainment! tion — not Hawaiians, preserva- know by experience to be true: Free activities for tionists or preservation. that is, virtually only one TCP has the whole family! We are not suggesting that all been documented in Hawai‘i, and developers or developments are there are approximately 30,000 bad, simply that we should once historic properties that were and for all dispense with the illu- assessed and eligible for inclusion sion that the system is designed on the State Register of Historic primarily to preserve and protect Places to date. cultural and natural resources! Hawaii Revised Statute Chapter Rather, it is designed to immorally 6E (“Historic Preservation”) — the facilitate development for corpo- purpose of HRS 6E is to declare rate profits and militarism by way and describe the state’s constitu- of “mitigation.” (See TCP Model tional commitment to a Historic Study by OHA.) Preservation Program in Hawai‘i. We certainly have a global and Specific language regarding the a realistic perspective of what is procedures and practice of historic possible and at stake for genera- preservation is located not in the tions to come. Remember, ‘ohana, law, but in the administrative rules 26 | Pepeluali2008 Leo ‘Elele • Trustee Messages

A step at a time with OHA Kö‘ele Workday focus and discipline Haunani Apoliona, MSW Colette Y. Machado Chairperson, Trustee, At-large Following lengthy negotiations and Trustee, Moloka‘i and La-na‘i ation of the culture, the enhance- agreement by OHA and the Executive ment of lifestyle and the protection branch, the 2006 State Legislature of entitlements of Native Hawaiians, passed Act 178, signed on June 7, 2006, while enabling the building of a that affixed income and proceeds from strong and healthy Hawaiian people the prorate portion of the Public Land and nation, recognized nationally Trust under Article XII, Section 6 of and internationally. loha e nä ‘öiwi ‘ölino, nä the State Constitution for expenditure He aliÿi ka ÿäina, he pulapula a Häloa, mai Hawai‘i by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from kauwä ke kanaka. With such a comprehensive and far- Aa Ni‘ihau, puni ke ao mälama- 2005-2006 forward to be $15 million; Land is the chief, humans its servants. reaching mission, retreat organizers felt lama. Aloha e nä küpuna kahiko, näna e as well as a one-time payment of $17.5 — ÿÖlelo Noÿeau, Pukui (1983) it important to do a ceremonial küku- ho‘oulu mai nei, iä käkou e holopono, a million for revenues underpaid OHA lu kumuhana. A practice still found in loa‘a e ka lei lanakila. from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2005. ebruary marks the beginning of a many Hawaiian families today, kükulu new era for the Office of Hawaiian kumuhana is described as the pooling of Over 30 years, the issue of what por- Act 178 improves accounting by all FAffairs, for the first time, we’ve strengths, emotional, psychological and tion of the revenues derived from the State departments relating to public expanded to become land managers. spiritual, for a shared purpose. Public Land Trust pursuant to Article XII, trust land revenues. Section 5 says, OHA’s nonprofit LLC, Hi‘ipaka, will OHA staff participated in the sharing Section 6 of the Hawai‘i State Constitution “not later than January 1 of each year, assume management of Waimea Valley by bringing in small amounts of sand are due to OHA has been a work in prog- the department of land and natural on Feb. 1. The kuleana, responsibility of from their respective moku, or island. ress. History of this issue ranges from resources, with the cooperation of the a land tenant or steward, is a considerable In small groups, individuals were asked vaguely crafted legislation neither clear department of budget and finance and one that cannot be taken lightly. The task to add their sand to a collective wooden nor justiciable by the Hawai‘i Supreme any other state department or agency at hand is to successfully integrate tradi- bowl while sharing histories, goals and Court to the 1990 Act defining sovereign that uses or manages public lands, shall tional and customary land management other mana‘o. At the end of the brief and proprietary revenues, which was ter- provide an accounting of all receipts values with contemporary techniques time together, a mound of sand, from minated by the Hawai‘i Supreme Court from lands described in section 5(f) of and best practices. every corner of Hawai‘i nei, compiled following strategic political and legisla- the Admission Act for the prior fiscal To celebrate this momentous event, the mana, or essence, of each member tive intervention. year.” OHA has organized a workday for of the organization, for a shared pur- Trustees, staff and volunteers to perform pose…OHA’s mission. In 1987, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court “With respect to each receipt, the general maintenance and cleanup of the Armed with these core principles: in “Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian department of land and natural resourc- Valley. OHA’s workday in Waimea is Käkou, Aloha Kekahi I Kekahi, Pono Pau Affairs v. Yamasaki” concluded that the es shall identify: 1) the total gross named “OHA Kö‘ele Workday,” said ‘ole, Mälama Kekahi I Kekahi, Kuleana, issue was a political question. In 1990, amount; 2) the amount transferred to Kaiwi Nui, OHA’s Oahu Conservation Külia, Po‘okela, and Ho‘omau, the orga- the Legislature addressed the political the office of Hawaiian affairs; 3) the Land Manager. “Kö‘ele refers to a work- nization moved into 2008 with a renewed question with the passage of Act 304. amount retained by the State; 4) the day (usually a Friday) in which the focus and sense of commitment. account or fund in which the amount maka‘äinana farmed plots of land for OHA has been honored with the In September 2001, in “Office of specified in paragraph (3) was trans- the ali‘i and refers to an area where fish opportunity to be on-site practitioners. Hawaiian Affairs v. State of Hawai‘i” ferred or deposited; 5) the parcel of land can be kept and fed until it is ready to be “The OHA Kö‘ele Workday gives us a the Hawai‘i Supreme Court ruled that subject to section 5(f) of the Admission harvested.” chance to set aside time and resources Act 304 was “effectively repealed Act that generated the receipt, whether Kaiwi Nui adds, “extracting meaning for one another as ‘ohana and as equal by its own terms.” Fortunately, the by tax map key number, department of from these two hana lima (working with caretakers to give back to something far Hawai‘i Supreme Court opined the land and natural resources inventory hands) examples of kö‘ele, the basic greater than ourselves: ‘äina. This basic obligation as firmly established in our number, or other recognizable descrip- intent of kö‘ele is to set aside time and understanding reminds us that we are Constitution. The Court stated, “how tion; and 6) the state department or resources to give back for the greater but servants to ‘äina, as ‘äina has always the State satisfies that constitutional agency that received the total gross good. And, in order to do so, one must nurtured our needs and continues to do obligation requires policy decisions amount identified in paragraph (1). The plan smartly until the time is ready.” so. This basic understanding uniquely that are primarily within the authority accounting shall also indicate whether In a way, OHA has been preparing helps define us as Hawaiian — the inti- and expertise of the legislative branch.” any parcel of land described in section for the assumption of Waimea for sev- mate and unconditional aloha for ‘äina,” Nonetheless, armed by this 2001 judg- 5(f) of the Admission Act was sold or eral months now. On Oct. 8, 2007, OHA concluded Kaiwi Nui. ment of the Court, the Cayetano admin- exchanged in the prior fiscal year and, held a first-ever organizational retreat. 2008 brings with it a daunting list of istration ended payments to OHA in if so, the amount of consideration that “Envision Pu‘uhonua — a place of ref- undertakings, from Washington, D.C., July 2001. In 2003, prior to the legisla- the state received for the respective uge, in which we shall live our Values all the way to Kaua‘i, from land man- tive session, the Lingle administration parcel.” and Principles.” The all-day event helped agement to economic business loans. and the State Attorney General restart- employees renew the commitment, the Many tasks are new to OHA, many ed annual payments of approximately In the 2008 Legislature, the vision and principles of OHA’s Mission: have been on-going struggles. With $9 million, and the 2003 Legislature Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian hope and anticipation, OHA moves authorized back payments to OHA for Affairs take another deliberate and To malama Hawaiÿi’s people and forward, with Waimea Valley as a the annual payments ended by the methodical step toward fair applica- environmental resources and OHA’s physical reminder of what defines us Cayetano administration in 2001. tion of revenue payments. 39/48 assets, toward ensuring the perpetu- as an organization and a culture. Leo ‘Elele • Trustee Messages Pepeluali2008 | 27

Nothing but excuses… Pauahi’s Inspiration Lives On Oz Stender his students would have the opportunity Trustee, At-large to write poetry that expresses what they feel in their na‘au. Each poem would be Rowena Akana Apoliona recommended that their presented to invited guests as they honored Trustee, At-large contract be extended for a third time. Pauahi just before her birthday on Dec. 19. Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can justify all Today, the students plan all aspects of this of the millions of dollars spent on the presentation, including the creation of the continent for Kau Inoa registrations, invitations and the guest list. At the end of done by nonprofits and others, to reg- Editor’s note: E kala mai, Trustee Oz each presentation, guests are given a gift of ister Hawaiians and paid as much as Stender’s column was inadvertently omit- their writings. no‘ai käkou… As those of $10 for each application. ted from the January issue of Ka Wai Ola. Todd expresses that his greatest hope is you who read my columns Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain That column is published here. that the na‘au of his haumana will resonate Areligiously are aware, because why, for the past two years, more within our hearts and that we will gain of the article I wrote in December of effort has been spent getting sig- ast month, I had the privilege of much from them as they have put to paper 2007 criticizing OHA Chairperson natures on the continent instead of attending “He Makana no Pauahi” at “truth” taken from their na‘au. As he shares, Haunani Apoliona’s leadership of focusing on our own state where 80 Lthe Kamehameha Schools’ Heritage “I think it is safe to say that our Princess is OHA, I was pressured by five of my percent of the Hawaiian population Center in honor of our beloved Princess the life and inspiration of my haumana.” colleagues to resign as vice-chair of resides. Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Three years ago, Mahalo, Todd, for your insight and the budget committee. Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain Speech Communications instructor Todd passion; but most importantly, mahalo for The other thing that occurred was why Chairperson Apoliona’s sister Takahashi, with the help of ‘Alohi Ae‘a sharing your students with all of us. I mua, a paid article written by Mrs. Winona has been put in charge of mainland and Tiare Ahu, created a class in which Kamehameha! Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou! Rubin in our January 2008 Ka Wai registrations and flies first-class each Ola newspaper in which she tried to time she travels. The Last A Dopey Cinderella Story discredit my criticisms. While I could Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain By Kara Yoshida By Keoni Kailimai go down the list of her ridiculous how Chairperson Apoliona’s sister A civilization once stood tall. In the beginning … excuses and disqualify and negate was able to obtain an OHA charge Kamehameha, the warrior chief, I thought it would be a fun filled journey everything that she said, it would card for $10,000 when not even Ruled over all the islands. And then it hit me, The natives were superior, only end up being a waste of your Trustees have charge cards. This is for real, no turning back with strength, I must admit, it was TORTURE time. Let me simply say that Mrs. Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain endurance and Unbearable Rubin is in a great deal of conflict of why, when Chairperson Apoliona’s intelligence. Unforgivable Hawaiians joined hands with the gods, Undesirable interest and everything that she said sister maxed out the charge card, she Using the waters from mauka to makai, And that doesn’t even begin They made the islands resourceful. in her ad should be looked at in that was allowed to continue making pur- To skim the surface Respecting Papa and Wäkea, light. chases with her own credit card and Hawaiians understood the patterns of the stars, Of my experience with this horrifying place First off, Mrs. Rubin is the chief- have OHA reimburse her in the five- And the usefulness of the land. I’d wake in the middle of night for no reason, Where’s my family? of-staff for Chairperson Apoliona. figure range and still counting for A Hawaiian prodigy in its glory days Where’s my house? Before that, she was her administra- hotel, air fare, receptions, car rentals, soon came to an end Where’s my life? tive aide. Before that, she was her etc., even when in some instances Missionaries took over the islands, I’d cry every day boss at Alu Like, Inc. They have had there were no receipts, and in some Changed everything about this indigenous culture, Just for a chance to have my old life back from the language, I couldn’t take it any longer, a very close relationship for over 30 cases the travel was not authorized. to the government. But just before I gave up hope years. Her biased opinion should be Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain Hawaiians weren’t allowed to be Hawaiians. The sun came out to play viewed as just that, biased. why Chairperson Apoliona’s sister Forced to the strict grammar of English and I finally realized, To the practices of the western ways, That this really was a fun filled journey What I would like to know is why was not fired for these egregious These natives lost their culture and forgot their roots. I just had to look a little harder for the fun part Haunani Apoliona cannot speak for actions using Native Hawaiian Trust Westerners became the dictator of the islands, All of a sudden, Who turned paradise into plantation fields. herself. After all, I personally hold Funds. Would she have been fired The people got nicer The food got better her responsible for all of the turmoil if she were not the Chairperson’s Hawaiians were taken advantage of, And the word homesick was that is going on inside of OHA: sister? Lost their rights to live on their lands, erased from my dictionary And stripped of their culture. the low morale, turnover of employ- To date, no grand total of expen- I’ve come to love Westerners unjustly overthrown the Hawaiian This six-year journey monarchy. ees, favoritism, nepotism and distrust ditures have been given to Trustees Of love, fear, and adrenaline The natives’ hearts beating with anger rebelled, Every single day brings among employees. Mrs. Rubin should regarding the Kau Inoa registrations, But was deprived of their way of life. stop embarrassing herself with her or the total amount OHA spent on Hawaiians had nothing, Something exciting And was robbed of everything. Something worthwhile poor excuses and provide all of us federal legislation. Something new with real answers. Finally, if Mrs. Rubin wants posi- As soon as the natives had figured out the puzzle, What do you call it? Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can explain, tive things to occur at OHA in 2008 The foreigners took away the pieces. One of those in detail, the expenses thus far for she needs to begin with addressing All they were left with was a frayed memory of Dopey Cinderella stories? something that was, Wanna know what I call it? the legal advice from the attorneys some of the more pressing internal The land of the natives were stolen. Boarding at Kamehameha. we hired who have not been able to issues within OHA and be honest in Tables turned and tornadoes started. deliver in any success in moving our her assessment and not blinded by Hawai‘i, a place that was once peaceful became a thing of the past. federal legislation forward. conflicts of interest. How can the Hawaiians move on? Perhaps Mrs. Rubin can justify For more information on important We are the last Hawaiians, why there was no evaluation of their Hawaiian issues, check out Trustee Akana’s And need to stand proudly hand in hand, performance before Chairperson website at www.rowenaakana.org. To correct a hundred years of injustice. 28 | Pepeluali2008 Leo ‘Elele • Trustee Messages

Picking up the gauntlet to justify OHA’s support for a broad range seems to find fault with the grant because of activities. Certainly, the restoration of a Partners said “they were the only nonprofit historical site of such cultural significance that specifically targets Native Hawaiian to Native Hawaiians as Kaloko-Honoköhau foster children.” I can’t determine whether Walter M. Heen she charges that the Board has been irre- can be viewed as improving their condition she is upset because Partners made the Trustee, O‘ahu sponsible because we approved a grant by maintaining a connection with their claim or because the Board awarded the to support a program at Pauoa School ancestors. grant. But the real question is whether to improve the literacy, critical thinking Trustee Akana also expresses a belief Partners’ claim is true. If so, and the staff and comprehensive skills of its students. that some nonprofits are more successful at and Trustees were convinced it was, then Additionally, she challenges a grant to help obtaining OHA funding for their projects the program clearly helps to improve the restore the historical fishpond at Kaloko- because they are better able to “play the condition of Native Hawaiians. Pray tell Honoköhau. She believes that the Pauoa system.” She asserts they are better staffed me, who in our Hawaiian world needs help n her last two columns, although aim- School program is the State Department of and more savvy about applications and more than Hawaiian foster children? ing her arrows mostly at the Chair and Education’s responsibility, and the Kaloko- how to complete them to the satisfaction Trustee Akana finally asserts that there Ithe Administrator, Trustee Akana has Honoköhau project should be funded by of OHA’s grants staff. She claims that, should be strict rules applicable to all impugned the integrity of the majority the National Park Service. as a result, “Hawaiian organizations” are grantees regarding evaluation and that every of the OHA Board. Like the knights of But what was the alternative to granting deprived of access to grant funds. Again, I applicant should be required to have other medieval Europe, she has “thrown down those awards? Apparently, Trustee Akana believe that she is “off-track.” sources to provide funds to match OHA’s the gauntlet” by tacitly charging the Board would have told the applicants: “This is It is my understanding that every grant grant. She doesn’t believe OHA should with failing to fulfill our trust responsibili- not our kuleana; this is the responsibility application, and its supporting material, is award a grant to an applicant who cannot ties. In keeping with the ancient custom, I of the DOE and the NPS. Go see them.” carefully scrutinized by the grants staff. obtain “matching funds” from elsewhere. reluctantly pick up the gauntlet. In the case of Pauoa School, I believe They work closely with the applicants, She doesn’t like the practice of counting When Trustee Akana resigned as vice chair that would have been the height of irre- and if they discern a weakness in any area salaries and expenses of the applicant as of the Assets and Resource Management sponsibility. Had we done so, we truly of the presentation, they suggest ways part of matching funds. Again, I believe she Committee a few weeks ago, she remarked would have failed as OHA Trustees. Pauoa in which it may be rectified. Ultimately, is missing the boat. Who else but Hawaiian that her action should not be taken personally School’s student population is 50 percent for the Trustees, it comes down to the organization applicants would be unable to by the other Trustees. Similarly, I wish to Hawaiian. Without OHA’s assistance those question, in every instance, of whether get matching funds? How do we perform assure her and all of you that there is nothing students would have ended up without any the assistance applied for comes within our kuleana if we don’t support them? personal in my remarks here. I seek only to program to help improve their educability. OHA’s kuleana of bettering the condition Finally, every Trustee has expressed point out a difference in reasoning regarding Restoration of the Kaloko-Honoköhau of Native Hawaiians. concern with the questions she voices the matters she has discussed. fishpond is also clearly within OHA’s kule- For example, Trustee Akana is critical about sustainability and repeat requests. In last month’s article, Trustee Akana ana. OHA was established to “improve the of a grant to Partners in Development Again, however, we need to bear in mind asserts that “OHA’s spending is out of condition of native Hawaiians.” That kule- Foundation, a nonprofit that assists home- that we have a kuleana against which control.” In support of that declaration, ana has been interpreted by prior Boards less children and foster families. She we need to measure those questions.

fused as to what ceded lands are or mean and hopefully to be confirmed by the A milestone in OHA’s history to our people, this edition of Ka Wai Ola Legislature will finally extinguish OHA’s contains a full page of information for claims to past due ceded lands payments your perusal. In short, the former govern- and will allow the people and not the in 2007 to $15.1 million per year for ment and crown lands once meant for the courts to make this decision. Boyd P. Mossman current revenues. The issue regarding the Hawaiian governing entity, were trans- I wish to express my appreciation to Trustee, Maui past revenue payments took all of four ferred from the Republic to the United Trustees Apoliona, Carpenter and Stender years and hundreds of hours of work States after the illegal overthrow of the along with our attorneys, Bill Meheula by the Attorney General and Governor’s Hawaiian nation by the culprits whose and Robert Klein, and OHA staff headed staff and the committee created by OHA. descendants today continue to make life by Clyde Nämu‘o for their work on the The resulting product is now before the miserable for Hawaiians in the courts and OHA committee and Trustees Akana and Legislature, which will hopefully concur in Congress. The remaining ceded lands Waihe‘e as well as my prior aide Kalei loha käkou, with OHA and the State Administration were again transferred in 1959 to the Rapoza for their advice to the ad hoc Five years ago I was intro- that this is a fair and just resolution to State with the Admission Act, which pro- committee in 2003. This has been a united Aduced to ceded lands when asked the past due payments from ceded lands vided for use of a portion of the revenues effort on the part of the Board and should by our Chairperson, Haunani Apoliona, revenues. from those lands for Native Hawaiians. In demonstrate that much can be done by to head an ad hoc committee to provide The Board has been kept apprised by 1980, with the creation of OHA, enforce- Hawaiians when they put aside their per- a report and give the Board direction as the committee throughout and has voted ment of that provision was initiated and sonal agendas and work for a just cause. to how OHA could resolve the issue of on important issues as the years and eventually Governor Waihe‘e approved Ceded lands have always been of concern ceded lands past due payments, which months passed by. To finally reach agree- payments to OHA only to be followed by to OHA and the efforts of prior Trustees had been discontinued by the Cayetano ment with the State and to present to Governor Cayetano, who decided to dis- are to be commended also. As we continue administration. Almost immediately, the the Legislature a means to pay off what continue payments. Governor Lingle then to build a legal foundation to preserve our new Lingle administration arranged with has been long overdue, is indeed a mile- reinstated payments and now the people people and fulfill our mission, we trust that OHA to reinstitute payments starting with stone in the history of OHA as well as a of Hawai‘i have the opportunity to settle all Hawaiians will understand that we need $9 million per year in 2003. Later, after solid foundation for the future of Native a long unresolved debt rationally, reason- to work together, with the greater good in numerous meetings with OHA and legis- Hawaiians. ably and fairly for the benefit of all. mind, and that OHA is doing its best to lative approval, that amount was increased Since some of you may still be con- The agreement reached with the State provide for the betterment of us all. Leo ‘Elele • Ttrusstee Messages Pepeluali2008 | 29

Hawaiian scholars at UH Hilo lecture hall.” Ryan’s interests outside attend UH-Hilo “because it was the of school have one thing in com- closest university to home (Kawaihae) mon. “If I had to say I had a hobby, and I was tired of being away from the ocean would be it. Anything in home since I was a boarder since sev- the water is fair game diving, fish- enth grade at Kamehameha. However, Robert K. Lindsey, Jr. everything in it. It has been a passion ing, surfing, paddling.” Ryan also I also liked the fact that the school Trustee, Hawai‘i for me and UHH has helped me to serves as an OHA intern/volunteer. had a Hawaiian Studies program. … become a better marine scientist, and “I really like this new direction OHA I’m currently undecided, but I want to now it’s becoming my lifestyle.” is going by purchasing lands that are major in something that will allow me culturally beneficial to the Hawaiian to do conservation work like environ- Ryan Kanakaole was born in people. Here are my suggestions for ment studies. No matter what I decide Honolulu, raised in Wai‘öhinu, OHA: Buy more significant land like in that area I definitely will minor or ü ‘Oli” (Good News) Ka‘ü, graduated from Kamehameha- Punalu‘u, Käwä, maybe the entire major in Hawaiian Studies as well.” will always be the fun- Käplama and is majoring in Political Ka‘ü coastline.” Who has been a “nudging force” in “Ndamental cornerstone of Science at UHH. After earning a her life? “I’ve been pushed and sup- the columns I write to share with you. B.A., he plans to attend UH-Mänoa’s Oakalani Miyamoto-Ruddle, born ported by many people in my life … Our January column was the first of Richardson Law School. Like and raised in Hilo, graduated from but after some thought it’s clear that two parts about four gifted, talented Trishann, he says, “The driving force Waiäkea High School. Oaka is work- my best friends were ‘driving forces’ and very special Hawaiian scholars in my life is my entire family. They are ing on a double major, B.A.s in in my life. The girls that I am closest at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo what keeps me determined, keeps me Philosophy and Political Science at to are the ones that I’ve lived with at (UHH): Trishann Bambico, Ryan focused. They keep me rooted, keep- UHH. His plan is to pursue a doctorate Kamehameha for all the six years we Kanakaole, Oakalani Miyamoto- ing me from forgetting who I am and in Political Philosophy and to teach at were there. We all had that mindset Ruddle and Pohai Patterson. where I came from. Family experi- the university level. The driving forc- instilled in us by our parents, and that Trishann, Ryan and Oakalani are ences taught me that the only measure es in his life are “my family, friends was we must stick it out and gradu- Presidential Scholars. Pohai, the of success is how hard you worked to and teachers who have motivated me ate from Kamehameha for our fami- youngest of the UHH quartet is a achieve it. Family experience has also to do the best I can.” Why did this lies.” Outside the classroom, “I enjoy Regents Scholar. taught me that opportunity is rarely young man who probably had a long horseback riding, running, hiking, given and you are better off making list of universities to choose from anything else that includes being out- Trishann Bambico was born in your own opportunity. My family choose UHH? “I decided to attend the side, and reading.” As to the future, “I Honolulu, raised in Waipi‘o Gentry drives me in all that I do because I University of Hawai‘i at Hilo because never want to move from this island. and graduated from Kamehameha- believe when I succeed, they succeed, it was close to home and economi- I plan to live the rest of my life here. Kapälama. Majoring in Marine and when I fail, they fail. And every cal.” And after UHH? “I would like I want to work outdoors in conserva- Science with minors in Biology and success of mine opens up more oppor- to remain on the Big Island, I love it tion probably for some kind of envi- Hawaiian Studies, she also plans tunity to all the younger generations. here, but unfortunately, if I want to ronment agency like DLNR, DOFAW to seek a certificate in the Marine I try to work very hard in everything pursue a terminal degree in my area (Division of Forestry and Wildlife) or Options Program and in time a mas- that I do because I want them all to of study, I will have to leave.” the Nature Conservancy.” Reflecting ter’s degree from either UH-Mänoa or be proud of me. I want my parents, From Oaka’s perspective, his con- on her first semester at UHH, this the University of San Diego. The driv- grandparents, everyone above me in tribution to the future of our Hawaiian is what she had to say: “I’m an ing forces in her life are her parents my family to know that they raised Nation will be in the academic arena. intern with Kealoha STEM program and ‘ohana. “They have supported me right and that I can work hard “As far as projects to benefit the and this past semester I worked in me and inspired me to do anything I for them.” How did Ryan decide on Hawaiian people go, academic suc- Geo-archaeology with Professor Peter put my mind to. They tell me they are UHH? “I initially went to Syracuse cess is my project. If I do well in Mills analyzing stone tools with an proud of me and it pushes me through University for my first year of col- school then one day I might be in EDXRF spectrometer. The work I each semester. I want to succeed, lege. At Syracuse, I got a taste of the better position to bring about mean- did simply added to the great deal of not only for myself, but also for my large school, large class environment, ingful change.” He has a very clear data Mr. Mills has already collected ‘ohana. I love them very much, and not to mention the extremely long dis- view on the blood quantum defini- on adze-like trade patterns, and thus I wouldn’t be able to go through this mal winter of the Northeast. During tion established in 1920 by the U.S. benefits the Hawaiian people in the without them. They have molded me my summer back home, I decided to Congress where a Native Hawaiian sense that we are interpreting what into what I am today.” Why did she take a few classes to fill some require- is one who is able to demonstrate Hawaiians left behind.” decide on UH-Hilo? “I came to the ments back at Syracuse. I soon real- 50 percent koko. Oaka says this is best university in the world because ized that UH-Hilo was a better fit for “simply not right. There are only I want to extend best wishes to I wanted to pursue an education in me. The classes were much smaller Hawaiians.” Outside of academics, Trishann, Ryan, Oaka and Pohai and both Marine Science and Hawaiian and the professors know your name his interests are aikido, swimming, our UHH ‘ohana. I want to extend Studies. What better place than at and are always willing to help you building and painting models and well wishes to all of our Hawaiian UHH? There are small classes and all outside of class. It is this intimate watching movies. scholars wherever you may be: UH- of my professors know me by name. atmosphere in which the student is Mänoa, HPU, BYU-Lä‘ie, University The students and staff are so friendly given the opportunity to interact with And finally, Pohai Patterson, our of Washington, Kapi‘olani Community and ‘local’ that I feel right at home. the instructor that I believe is most UHH Regent Scholar, is the youngest College, Harvey Mudd, or a trade I don’t think I can get this type of conducive to learning; not sitting in of the group and in the second semes- school to learn how to install dry experience anywhere else.” Outside a packed auditorium listening to a ter of her first year at UHH. Born in wall or to service and repair trans- of school, “I love to go snorkeling professor who hires assistants to take Hilo, raised in Waimea-Kohala Hema missions. We wish all of you well in and spend time near the ocean. … I their attendance, a professor who will and graduated from Kamehameha- pursuit of your dreams. “May each love the ocean and I want to protect never recognize you outside of the Kapälama in 2007, she decided to day of your life be a good day.” 30 | Pepeluali2008 ho‘ohui ‘ohana • family reunions

E na- ‘ohana Hawai‘i: If you are planning a reunion or looking for genealogical information, Ka Wai Ola will print your listing at no - charge on a space-available basis. Listings should not exceed 200 words. OHA reserves the right to edit all submissions for length. Clyde W. Namu‘o - - Administrator Send your information by mail, or e-mail [email protected]. E ola na mamo a Haloa! Crystal Kua Green — Seeking information on our ances- with open arms. To participate in month- Askew (children: Benjamin John, Marry (w) (Mrs. Ihu-nui), and Maka Ihu-nui (k). Communications Director tor we know only as Lepeka Kahalaunani. ly ‘ohana reunion meetings, call Pualani Ann [Molly], William Jr., George, Elizabeth Please write to Joyce Kainoa, P.O. Box 664, She had children from Barrass, Green and (McKee) Orton at 235-2226 or Ronnie Jane, Edward Joseph, Isabella Mae, Charles Kaunakakai, HI 96748-0664. Lisa Asato Cleghorn, and later married someone by McKee at 263-0681. Schmidt Walker). The celebration will be at Schubert — I am trying to find any infor- Publications Editor the name of Larush, but had no children the Wai‘anae Army Beach Club from 10 a.m. Kahoolemana — I am seeking information mation on Wenzel (Paul) Schubert, whose with him. With Barrass, she had a daughter, - 4 p.m. Cost of $15 (adults), $10 (keiki 5- on Luka Kahoolemana and her children, who brother was my grandfather Jules Schubert. John Matsuzaki Grace, who married Rose and had three 12) will be collected for buffet lunch. RSVP were born in the years 1893 through possibly Wenzel came to Hawai‘i, the island of Kaua‘i Publications Specialist/Art Director children, Gustave, Helen (married Hedeman) by July 1, 2008, is appreciated. Payment also 1920. Family surnames include Kaholokula, in the 1890s from the former country of and Alexander. With Wm L Green, she accepted upon arrival to event. Genealogy Nelson Gaspar Koa, Makekau, Saffrey, Machado, Brown, Bohemia (Austria/Germany) as a shoemaker had a daughter, Elizabeth (married Freeth), information will be available for viewing. Paahana, Kaumaoha and Kaanaana. Luka and became a saddle maker. Any knowledge Production Specialist/Graphic Designer and a son, Wm L Green Jr. With Archibald All participants are encouraged to bring any Kahoolemana is my great-grandmother. She of his marriage, death or family would be Cleghorn, she had three daughters, Rosie family charts, pictures, stories and info to be Liza Simon was born around 1878 and had at least greatly appreciated. Contact J.W. “Kimo” (married Roberts), Helen (married Boyd) shared. If anyone is interested in working Public Affairs Specialist one sister. Any information regarding these Wilson at P.O. Box 1971, Kealakekua, HI and Annie (married Woodenberg). We don’t with us on research, planning our gather- children or families will be greatly appreci- 96750, or at 808-323-2305. think Kahalaunani is a last name. If anyone ing or for more info, please contact Uilani Blaine Fergerstrom ated. Contact Helen by email at pangus01@ could kökua us with information, it would Tacgere at 808-696-6843, [email protected]; Tau‘a-Kaheluna — A reunion is being Media Production Specialist/Webmaster yahoo.com or call 808-249-0087. greatly be appreciated. Please email Judi or Kaipo and Reatha Awana at 661-942- planned for July 19, 2008, in honor of Francine Murray Weatherwax at [email protected]. Kamana/Kapele — The descendants of 5794, [email protected]. the past and present ‘ohana of Tau‘a (k) Lily Keliihuli (Kamana) Keliihoomalu, and Kaheluna (w). Descendants include: PIO Support Assistant Hewahewa — The committee organizers Lovell/Holokahiki — Plans are under- Frank Kaui Kapele, Elizabeth Mae Lahapa their children Falo, Benjamin, Steven, are notifying all families that the Hewahewa way for the Lovell a me Holokahiki family Charles Ogata (Kamana) Keliihoomalu, Maggie Keola Paliilii and Josia; Falo Tau‘a and Benjamin reunion for 2008 will take place in October. reunion. The ‘ohana of Joseph Lovell and Volunteer (Kamana) Kuikahi, Obed Kamana, and Hubbell (children: David Kaua, Thomas, They are looking for volunteers for various Mary Holokahiki will gather on Kaua‘i for Sarah Kahaleaulani (Kamana) Ke, are plan- Hannah, Caroline, Julia Kapihenui, Susan committees. The next two scheduled meeting a week during July 9-16, 2008. The children ning a family reunion for Aug. 30 and 31, Kawahinekuliauole); Hannah Hubbell and HONOLULU dates are for Saturday, Feb. 9 and 23. Visit of Joseph and Mary were Loika, John, 2008, in Pähala, on the island of Hawai‘i, at Tong Kan Akana (children: Elizabeth Bessie 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500 http://hewahewa.reunion2008.googlepages. William, Daniel and Jennie Lovell. Please Pähala Community Center. For more infor- Nohoanu, Emma Rose, Con Lee, Mahealani com for time, place and a schedule for future visit our website at www.lovellameholokahi- Honolulu, HI 96813 mation, please contact one of the following Julia, Akana); Hannah Hubbell and Theadore meetings, or call Na’mi Kama at 927-6764 ki.org. For more information, contact Kellie Phone: 808.594.1888 ‘ohana: Mabel Wilson at 982-7645, Paulette Awana (children: Harriet Wainuhea, (cell). Reunion correspondence may be sent Pleas on Kaua‘i at 808-337-9953, skpleas@ Fax: 808.594.1865 Ke at 217-5654, Harry Kuikahi at 329-0611, Josephine Keala, Lucinda, Mikahala, Rosie, by email to: hewahewa.reunion2008@gmail. hawaiiantel.net or Louise (Kaiona) Killebrew Keamalu Waltjen at 928-8028 or Bernie Grace Keahunani, Hannah Irene, Fook Tin com, or by mail to: Hewahewa Reunion on O‘ahu at 808-262-1884, lkillebrew@ EAST HAWAI‘I (HILO) McKeague at 933-1495. [Theadore], Fook Chee, Fook Ned [Fred]); 2008, P.O. Box 72, Waimänalo, HI 96795. halekipa.org, or Kalani at 808-538-3046. 162-A Baker Avenue Theadore Awana and Jennie Kamanoulu Kanakaole/Aipoalani/Poikauahi — The Hilo, HI 96720 Ka‘auhaukane — Our fourth annual family Makuaole — A reunion is being planned for (children: Theadore Kalei, Harriet Hannah descendants of John Keali‘i Kanakaole reunion and potluck is scheduled for Sunday, July 11-13, 2008, in honor of those who came Makia, William John, Benjamin Kauanoe); Phone: 808.920.6418 Aipoalani will hold a reunion April 11-13, May 4, 2008, at Bellows Air Force Base, before us. We would like to reunite with the Jennie Kamanoulu Awana and Daniel Ezera Fax: 808.920.6421 2008, in Kekaha, Kaua‘i, at the Kekaha picnic area/Pavilion B, Waimänalo, O‘ahu, present ‘ohana of Opuweuweu Makuaole (child: Daniel Onaona Jr.). The celebration Community Recreation Center. For more WEST HAWAI‘I (KONA) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit, talk story and and Kainuki Hina. Descendants include their will be at the Wai‘anae Army Beach Club information, updates and how you can help, enjoy being with family! We need a list of children: Mary Makuaole, Hapaikamalii from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost of $15 (adults), 75-5706 Hanama Pl., Ste. 107 please contact Mike Aipoalani on O‘ahu those attending and the license plates of Makuaole, Rebecca Makuaole, Kamekona $10 (keiki 5-12) will be collected for buffet Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 at 808-342-0308 (cell), 808-668-1298 their cars to ensure that you can enter the Makuaole, Kamuela Makuaole and Mele lunch. RSVP by July 1, 2008, is appreciated. Phone: 808.327.9525 (home) or at [email protected]; military base. Makuaole. The reunion will be in Waimea, Genealogy information will be available for Gwenette (Nakaahiki) Cardejon on Kaua‘i Fax: 808.327.9528 Ana Lumaukahili‘owahinekapu Kaua‘i, at Lucy Wright Park. We are seeking viewing. All participants are encouraged to at 808-337-9241 (home), 808-651-4749 Ka‘auhaukane was the daughter of all family descendants. Please contact us via bring any family charts, pictures, stories and MOLOKA‘I (cell) or [email protected]; or Joy - Kamokulehu‘opanaewa Ka‘auhaukane (k) e-mail, [email protected] or mail info to be shared. If anyone is interested in Ku-lana ‘Oiwi Aipoalani on O‘ahu at 808-630-8453 or and Pailaka Hoohua (w). She was born on your contact information (name, mailing working with us on research, planning our [email protected]. P.O. Box 1717 March 3, 1845, in Ka‘auhuhu, North Kohala, address, e-mail address and phone numbers) gathering or for more info, please contact Kaunakakai, HI 96748 Hawai‘i Island. Her sister was Kealohapauole Ka‘olelopono — I am seeking any family to: Dominic Acain at POB 924, Kekaha, Uilani Tacgere at 808-696-6843, Uipua@ Phone: 808.560.3611 Kalauhi Ka‘auhaukane. Ana married Joseph of Harry Ka‘olelopono, born April 6, 1910, Kaua‘i, HI 96752, or call 808-346-2196. aol.com; or Kaipo and Reatha Awana at 661- Kaimakini Kanoholani and Jon Von Iseke. and died April 19, 1984 in Wai‘anae, O‘ahu. 942-5794, [email protected]. Fax: 808.560.3968 Nahooikaika — Descendants of Obed Her three Kanoholani children were: He was married to Elizabeth Kahunanui Nahooikaika please call Olinda (Reyes) Victor/Akoi — The fifth ‘ohana reunion LA¯NA‘I Joseph Kaiamakini Kanoholani, Makini and then to Rose Winona Williams. Please Shefte at 808-572-1873 or Warren (Black) of the descendants of Kamukai Victor and P.O. Box 631413 Kanoholani and Mary Kaiamakini. Her 13 contact Roz Solomon Kaplan 808-575-5065, Nahooikaika at 808-242-4450. We would Amelia Akoi will be held Aug. 15-17, 2008, Iseke children were: Maria Iseke, Elizabeth email [email protected] or write to P.O. Lana’i City, HI 96763 like to find family members in hopes of hav- on O‘ahu. All family are warmly encour- Kapuaakuni-McKee, Theresa Kapiko-Quinn, Box 1291, Ha‘ikü, HI 96708. Phone: 808.565.7930 ing a reunion sometime in the near future. aged and welcomed, “E Komo Mai!” The John Isaacs, Joseph Iseke, Antone Iseke, Fax: 808.565.7931 Love-Hoopii — A reunion is being planned reunion steering committee is planning an Henry Iseke, Louis Iseke, Joseph Iseke, Frank Nakoa — The descendants of Kalawaianui for July 20, 2008, in honor of the past exciting weekend of sharing, aloha, geneal- Iseke, Charles Iseke and Katherine Sing. Nakoa will host its very first family reunion KAUA‘I / NI‘IHAU and present ‘ohana of James Robert Love ogy, historical field trips, Kau Inoa registra- The ‘ohana would like to update all gene- Aug. 1-3, 2008, at Hale Nanea Hall in 3-3100 Ku¯hio¯ Hwy., Ste. C4 and Hoopii. Descendants include their chil- tion, health screening and more. We’ll have alogy information, records of birth, marriage Kahului, Maui. The children are: Samuel Lihu‘e, HI 96766-1153 dren Annie Kaniniu, James R. K., William a hö‘ea/wala‘au dinner Friday night, our and death, photos and contact information. Paakaula, Joseph Kahiki, James Kaula, Kaliko; Annie Love and Edmund Hart (chil- lü‘au hanohano Saturday night and an aloha Phone: 808.241.3390 For more information, call one of our O‘ahu Rebecca Peke, David Kalawaianui, Susan dren: Louise Keohiokalani, Edwin K. Henry, breakfast Sunday morning. Details are still Fax: 808.241.3508 contacts: Conkling McKee Jr. at 734-6002; Kumaia and Joseph Napuunoa Nakoa. For James Kawohikukahi, Llewellyn Leialoha, being finalized and logistical information Colleen (McKee) Tam Loo at 398-1600; more information, contact co-chairs Winifred MAUI Mary Kaniniu, Gladys Ululani, Edmund will be announced soon. Registration forms Peter (Kapiko and Quinn) Machado at 689- (Nakoa) Cockett at 808-244-5678 or Mary Jr., St. Elmo, Henrietta Hoopii, Annie will be mailed out shortly and will also 140 Ho‘ohana St., Ste. 206 0190; Jackie Kapiko at 235-8261; “Boss” Ann (Nakoa) Barros at 808-573-9339 Kaniniu, Robert Bruce, Helen Adwina, be available on our ‘ohana website, www. Kahului, HI 96732 (Iseke) Strula at 664-9795; Louie (Isaacs) Henry Haleola); Louise K. Hart and George Namau‘u/Nihoa — I am seeking any victor-ohana.org. For more information, con- Phone: 808.243.5219 Peterson at 216-9331; Pauahi (Kapuaakuni William Weight (children: Ethlinda Ululani, family connections to John Henry Nihoa, tact: Chairperson Dwight Victor, 808-688- and McKee) Kazunaga at 842-7021. We Fax: 808.243.5016 Llewelyne Blaisedell); Louise K. Hart Weight Keluhaleole Kaihupelelani (w), Mahua 2349 or [email protected], or Pa‘ina are also planning the fifth family lü‘au and and George Noa Weight. Also invited are the Namau‘u (k), Naioma Luukia Opio (w), Lin Committee Co-chairs Joe and Nickie Hines, WASHINGTON, D.C. reunion for 2009. We welcome your help descendants of William Weight and Isabella Chung Akuna/ Lum-Ten Chong (k), Paao-ao 808-259-8406 or [email protected]. 50 F St. NW, Suite 3300 Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone: 202.454.0920 Fax: 202.789.1758 HAVE YOU & YOUR ‘OHANA

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