2007 September

KA WAI OLA THE LIVING WATER of OHA OFFICE of HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS • 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500 • Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813-5249 Kepakemapa (September) 2007 Vol. 24, No. 09 Ultimate Fighter BJ Penn uses the limelight to promote Hawaiian unity Civil unrest Th e uproar over Hawaiian Hawai‘i’s new civil rights panel page 08 warrior page 12 I mua Kau Inoa Registration effort moves forword despite threat of legal attack page 06 Blood quantum suit against OHA revived page 06 Voices of Ni‘ihau page 07 Wilikoki page 15 BJ Penn lifts his hand in victory after his big fight in The Ultimate Fighter Finale in June. - Photo courtesy of Ultimate Fighting www.oha.org Championship. KAU INOA means that we all get together and speak up. �� Hawai‘i Maoli (808) 394-0050 hawaiimaoli.org - KA LEO KAIHAWAIIANAULU • LETTERS• ENGLISH TO THE EDITOR KEPAKEMAPA2007 | 3 OHA reserves the right to edit all letters for length, defamatory and libelous material, and other objectionable content, and reserves the right not to print any submission. All letters must be typed, signed and not exceed 200 words. Letters cannot be published unless they include a telephone contact for verification. Send letters to Ka Wai Ola, 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500, Honolulu, HI 96813, or email [email protected]. Dividing ourselves I have read his testimony to the Ayau’s public claim that no one blood. In fact, we are doing the NAGPRA committee on this, and a would ever find it after they sealed things we have been doing for the I read with great sorrow the full- transparent reason for his creating the cave was a gross falsehood, past 10 years or so to make sure that page ad concerning the Kawaihae this story is so that he and others and anyone knowledgeable about Hawai‘i remains the kind of place it Board of Trustees artifacts, published in the August can make claims to these astonish- stonework would have seen their has been over the years for all of us, edition of Ka Wai Ola. ing artifacts from the cave’s hidden complete alteration of the cave face, non-Hawaiians and Hawaiians alike. Many did not agree with Hui chamber and “stack the deck” on which was made, no doubt, for easy We believe, and the Supreme Mälama and the reburial of the pre- what happens to this unique lega- access into the cave. Its entrance Haunani Apoliona, MSW Court agreed with us in Rice v. cious artifacts of Kawaihae. cy of all Hawaiians. Ayau’s story, was previously small and very hard Chairperson, Trustee, At-large From the case’s publicity and our Cayetano, that there is a racial over- though romantic, is not the truth. to find. Tel: 808.594.1886 tone to the Akaka Bill and much of talking stories, we understood that In 1876, Mahi’s widow, Their interpretation of moepü Fax: 808.594.1875 Hui Mälama was not always acting Kaneahiku, gave testimony, stating is adjusted to fit their cause. Hui the activities associated with today’s Email: [email protected] in good faith or with the agree- that her husband was buried “in Mälama has led a whole new set sovereignty efforts. Hawai‘i has ment of all the groups or of all the the pali of Honokoa.” That is the of Hawaiians to believe that their never been a place that separated Hawaiian people. John D. Waihe‘e IV key. Forbes Cave is not in the pali ancestors commonly placed grave people on the basis of race. Unlike Vice Chair, Trustee, At-large Mr. Ayau was sanctioned for his of Honokoa – the pali is farther up goods with burials, like those of American Indian tribes – who in Tel: 808.594.1838 refusal to cooperate, spent time in the gulch. Egypt or Peru. This is quite untrue. order to get recognized by Congress jail, a settlement was reached and Fax: 808.594.0208 No Hawaiian of her time – or Grave goods of any extent were pre- as Native Americans, must have a the objects were returned to the Email: [email protected] even an objective person today viously very uncommon in Hawai‘i, history, among other things, of non- “proper” authorities. – would call the location of Forbes and this changed after Christian assimilation – Native Hawaiians As a highly intelligent people, we Cave a pali, because it is in the concepts to do this came into use. Rowena Akana welcomed and intermarried from read, share, talk story and know what lower part of the gulch where that My concern stems not only from Trustee, At-large is happening among our people. All side has tapered down. In fact, it is the need to have an accurate his- the very beginning with every race Tel: 808.594.1860 do not have to be in agreement, but very near the gulch floor. Ayau has tory, but also because of my descent that came to these islands. Fax: 808.594.0209 we agree to disagree, around the failed to tell the family this for his from the Mahi family through my Our desire to play a part in the mas- Email: [email protected] table, face-to-face, with ha‘aheo. own reasons. Kawaihae grandfather. sive changes in Hawai‘i that would Ho‘omana‘o, and let us not do I have seen one very secure cave come about if the Akaka Bill were to Donald B. Cataluna this to ourselves. ‘Ohana do not in the actual pali of Honokoa, which Melvin Lonokaiolohia Kalahiki, Sr. pass is a voluntary effort on our part. Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau divide and conquer, for it is only is perhaps the true resting place of Nothing sinister. We just think Native Tel: 808.594.1881 ourselves we divide and they who K¯aneohe, O‘ahu Konohiki Mahi. Hawaiians and the interracial families Fax: 808.594.0211 conquer. Email: [email protected] The public airing of our kükae Kau Inoa that make Hawai‘i a treasured place B. Ka‘imiloa Chrisman, M.D. to live are making a tragic mistake to and pilikia shakes the very founda- I read with interest Rowena Cottonwood, Arizona Robert K. Lindsey Jr. tion of who we are as a people. Akana’s comments on the request destroy the welcoming spirit that has Trustee, Hawai‘i Ho‘opono, on bent knees. Nothing by me and four of my associates to prevailed here. means more than who we are, and Invented burial practices register on the Kau Inoa registration Tel: 808.594.1855 we are ‘ohana kahi. ‘Onipa‘a, i mua, Hui Mälama has indeed become list. I assure you we are NOT trying Thurston Twigg-Smith Fax: 808.594.1883 i hope ‘a‘ole. a fundamentalist organization that to be harmful to those of Hawaiian Via the Internet Email: [email protected] forces or coerces others to conform Bobi Olmos Arnold to their beliefs. They have skill- Walter M. Heen Honolulu, O‘ahu fully used the federal NAGPRA law Trustee, O‘ahu to their own advantage, acquiring Tel: 808.594.1854 Forbes Cave over a million dollars in grants, yet Send your mana‘o to Ka Wai Ola. Fax: 808.594.0210 they have balked completely when Email: [email protected] As a longtime scholar of things this same law ran against them. I All letters must be typed, signed and not exceed 200 words. Letters cannot Hawaiian, with perhaps unique was amazed last year to read Pua be published unless they are signed and include a telephone contact for Colette Y. Machado knowledge of Honokoa Gulch and Kanahele’s admission that she and verification. OHA reserves the right to edit all letters for length, defamatory Trustee, Moloka‘i and La¯na‘i the caves in question, L. La‘akea her late husband made up the burial Suganuma’s expose on Hui Mälama protocols Hui Mälama has so wide- and libelous material, and other objectionable content, and reserves the Tel: 808.594.1837 in the August issue of Ka Wai Ola ly touted. Even more “protocol” has right not to print any submission. Fax: 808.594.0212 has inspired me to confirm that he been added to the inventions. I hope Email: [email protected] is fully correct. that other Hawaiians will now speak Send letters to: Also, the Mahi family has been out and reaffirm their own family Ka Wai Ola • 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500 • Hon, HI 96813 Boyd P. Mossman misled by Edward Ayau’s grandly Trustee, Maui practices. email: [email protected] fabricated story that their konohiki Hui Mälama did defile Forbes Tel: 808.594.1858 ancestor was buried in Forbes Cave. Cave. I saw this myself. Eddie Fax: 808.594.1864 Email: [email protected] Notice to Readers Oz Stender Ka Wai Ola o OHA will accept for consideration news releases and letters to the editor on topics of relevance and interest to OHA and Hawaiians, as well as special events and reunion notices. Ka Wai Ola o OHA reserves the right to edit all material for length and content, or not to publish as available space or other considerations may require. Ka Wai Ola o OHA does not accept unsolicited Trustee, At-large manuscripts. Deadline for submissions is the 15th day of every month. Late submissions are considered only on a space-available basis. Tel: 808.594.1877 Published monthly by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 711 Kapi‘olani Boulevard, Ste. 500, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813. 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