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Appendix E A Ka Paʻakai O Ka ʻĀina Analysis for the Longroad Energy Management, LLC Mahi Solar Facility ASM Affiliates December 2020 A Ka Paʻakai O Ka ʻĀina Analysis for the Longroad Energy Management, LLC. Mahi Solar Facility TMK: (1) 9-2-001:020; 9-2-004:003, 006, 010, and 012; 9-4-003:001 Honouliuli Ahupua‘a ʻEwa District Island of Oʻahu DRAFT VERSION Prepared By: Lokelani Brandt, M.A. and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, M.A. Prepared For: Longroad Energy Management, LLC 1 Longroad Boston 330 Congress Street, 6th Floor Boston, MA 22101 December 2020 ASM Project Number 29450.05 A Ka Paʻakai O Ka ʻĀina Analysis for the Longroad Energy Management, LLC. Mahi Solar Facility TMK: (1) 9-2-001:020, 9-2-004:003, 006, 010, and 012; 9-4-003:001 Honouliuli Ahupua‘a ʻEwa District Island of Oʻahu Table of Contents CHAPTERS Page 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 1 2. IDENTIFICATION OF CUSTOMARY AND TRADITIONAL PRACITCES .................................................................................................................. 5 Select Historical Description of Honouliuli ................................................................... 5 Traditional Moʻolelo of Honouliuli ................................................................................ 7 Ka Hana Paʻakai (Salt Production) ............................................................................. 14 Precontact Battles in Honouliuli................................................................................... 14 Early Historic Descriptions of Honouliuli.................................................................... 15 Māhele ʻĀina of 1848, Summary of Kuleana Claims .................................................. 21 Ranching and Rice Cultivation..................................................................................... 26 Oahu Railway and Land Company and the Oahu Sugar Company ............................. 29 Military Development .................................................................................................. 35 World War II and the Establishment of the Honouliuli Internment Camp .................. 37 Residential and Commercial Development .................................................................. 41 INOA ʻĀINA (PLACE NAMES) SURROUNDING THE PROJECT AREA ................... 41 Ekahanui ....................................................................................................................... 42 Huliwai ......................................................................................................................... 42 Kaaikukai/Kaaikukui .................................................................................................... 42 Kupehau........................................................................................................................ 43 Palawai ......................................................................................................................... 43 Puu Kuina ..................................................................................................................... 43 Puu Kuua ...................................................................................................................... 43 Puu Moopuna/Namoopuna ........................................................................................... 44 3. CONSULTATION ....................................................................................................... 44 INTERVIEW METHODOLOGY ...................................................................................... 45 THOMAS LENCHANKO ................................................................................................. 45 DOUGLAS MCDONALD PHILPOTTS ........................................................................... 46 DIETRIX JON DUHAYLONSOD .................................................................................... 46 GLEN KILA AND CHRISTOPHOR OLIVEIRA ............................................................ 48 4. ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATIVE MEASURES ................................................. 49 IDENTIFY WHETHER ANY VALUED CULTURAL, HISTORICAL, OR NATURAL RESOURCES AREA PRESENT WITHIN THE PETITION AREA, AND IDENTIFY THE EXTENT TO WHICH TRADITIONAL AND CUSTOMARY NATIVE HAWAIIAN RIGHTS ARE EXERCISED .............................. 49 Pohakea Trail ................................................................................................................ 50 Traditional Hawaiian Agricultural Practices and Endemic Plant References and Uses .............................................................................................................................. 50 Aliʻi Battle Sites............................................................................................................ 50 Cultural Sites and Resources in the Vicinity of Puʻu Kuʻua ........................................ 51 Possibility of Remnant Cultural Sites in Gulches, Ravines, and Along Ridgelines .... 51 Freshwater and the Waiāhole Ditch ............................................................................. 51 Ka Paʻakai O Ka ʻĀina Analysis for the Mahi Solar Facility, Honouliuli, ʻEwa, Oʻahu i Table of Contents IDENTIFY THE EXTENT TO WHICH THOSE RESOURCES AND RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED OR IMPAIRED BY THE PROPOSED ACTION ....................... 51 SPECIFY ANY MITIGATIVE ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN TO REASONABLY PROTECT NATIVE HAWAIIAN RIGHTS IF THEY ARE FOUND TO EXIST. ......... 52 REFERENCES CITED ................................................................................................... 53 FIGURES Page 1. Proposed project area and Tax Map Key parcels shown on a USGS map. ............................................... 2 2. Satellite aerial image showing project area within various Tax Map Key parcels. .................................. 3 3. Google Earth™ satellite image showing project area location. ................................................................ 4 4. ʻEwa district with ahupuaʻa and project area in Honouliuli Ahupuaʻa (Sterling and Summers 1978). ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 5. Hawaiʻi Registered Map 640 by Lt. Malden shows trails in the Honouliuli vicinity ca. 1793, project area not shown. .......................................................................................................................... 16 6. “Trails of leeward Oahu as described by Ii. Map by Paul Rockwood” (Ii 1993:96). ............................. 18 7. 1920 map of Pearl Harbor and adjacent lands by W. E. Wall showing LCAw 112616 to Kekauonohi (Department of Accounting and General Services)........................................................... 22 8. The 1873 Hawaiʻi Registered Map No. 405 by W. D. Alexander of Honouliuli Ahupuaʻa showing the project area and the location of Kuleana lands (Department of Accounting and General Services). .................................................................................................................................. 23 9. Hawaiʻi Registered Map No. 630 by M. D. Monsarrat from 1878, project area not shown (Department of Accounting and General Services). .............................................................................. 24 10. Undated map showing the location of kuleana in Honouliuli with associated ʻili names, project area not shown (Department of Accounting and General Services). ..................................................... 25 11. A 1913 Oʻahu Fisheries map by M. D Monsarrat, project area not shown. ......................................... 27 12. Residence of James Campbell in Honouliuli (James Campbell Company 1978:10). ........................... 28 13. Residence of James Campbell in Honouliuli (James Campbell Company 1978:11). ........................... 28 14. Map of completed OR&L railroad on Oʻahu. ....................................................................................... 31 15. 1913 Terriitory of Hawaiʻi Survey map, Schofield Barracks Quadrant. .............................................. 32 16. 1951-52 aerial photo of the project area showing Waiahole Ditch and associated reservoirs in the project area vicinity. ........................................................................................................................ 33 17. A portion of the 1953 USGS map, Schofield Barracks Quadrant showing project area and Waiahole Ditch and associated reservoirs. ............................................................................................ 34 18. 1944 aerial of the project area showing continued agriculture. ............................................................ 36 19. 1959 Oʻahu military installations map. ................................................................................................. 37 20. Honouliuli Internment and POW camp ca. 1945 (from Hawaiʻi Plantation Village, Waipahu in Burton and Farrell 2011:26). ................................................................................................................. 38 21. Abandoned Honouliuli Internment Camp with the Waiahole Ditch in foreground (Hashimoto Collection in Farrell 2017:31)................................................................................................................ 39 22. Project area located north of the Honouliuli National Monument (Farrell 2017:268). ........................