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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) 2006 Vol. 23, No. 09 Getting Waimea Kau i ka Hano out the Waimea is Honored Hawaiian vote page 09 Showdown at the palace Statehood event sparks confrontation page 07 Judge dismisses blood-quantum suit against OHA page 08 Hawaiian opera page 17 E aloha ÿia a pülama ÿia këia HAWAI‘I PRIMARY ELECTION ÿäina kapu no nä kau ä kau Sept. 23 – may this sacred land be Donʼt forget loved and cherished for to vote! all ages. –From a plaque to be displayed at Waimea. valley Words and pictures from the Aug. 12 Waimea rededication ceremony Page 14 www.oha.org Photo: Derek Ferrar Primary Election Voter RegistrationHAWAIIAN Deadline: VOTE 2006 August 24 MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS GeneralAssociation Election of HawaiianVoter Civic Clubs Community Planning and Engineering RegistrationCouncil for Native Deadline: HawaiianʻIlioʼulaokalani Advancement October 9 Imua Group Kamehameha Schools Office of Hawaiian Affairs PAʻI Foundation Partners in Development Relevant Data www.hawaiianvote.org State Council of Hawaiian AssociationsHomestead SAVE THE DATE! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 •SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4 HAWAIIAN VOTE 2006 VOTE by mail or walk-in at Honolulu Hale or Auhea ʻoe? Kapolei Hale on either day and then join us for the As a Native Hawaiian, do you think HAWAIIAN VOTE 2006 RALLY AT THE your vote makes no difference? Hawaiian Vote 2006 is a group of Please think again. Native Hawaiians Native Hawaiians, just like you, IOLANI PALACE • 10AM – 4PM make up twenty-percent of our State encouraging other Native Hawaiians Music • Talk Story • Bring your voter stub for a free lunch. population, and yet we are not using to come out to register and vote in this our power to make a difference by yearʼs Primary and General elections. voting. Only about 70,000 of the This effort is non-partisan – we 154,000 eligible Native Hawaiian endorse no particular candidate(s) or REGISTER & VOTE! voters are registered to vote. And political party. We are only committed among that small number, even fewer to Hawaiian empowerment through – only about 20% - actually vote. our voting numbers. Mahalo. YOUR HAWAIIAN VOTE COUNTS. Offi ce of Hawaiian Affairs Higher Education Scholarship Program The Offi ce of Hawaiian Affairs is pleased to offer higher education scholarships for the 2006-2007 academic year. The OHA Higher Education Scholarship Program assists Hawaiians who are pursuing higher education, in accordance with OHA’s Education Goal, “to assure Native Hawaiians access to all KE‘ENA KULEANA HAWAI‘I educational opportunities.” Program funds are administered through the Hawai‘i Community Foundation. To apply,visit www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org DEADLINE (POSTMARK DATE):OCTOBER 16, 2006 For more information about the Offi ce of Hawaiian Affairs Higher Education Scholarship Program, eligibility requirements and application process, please contact the Hawai‘i Community Foundation at (808) 566-5570. 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Proud mainland Hawaiian to the great 10th century Tahitian Ehren Watada’s singular stand Hawai‘i politics priest Pa‘ao, who, according to refuse deployment to Iraq, I Kalani Hackett (September, to Hawaiian historian David appreciate OHA publishing the This is in response One Co lorto Logo:Rowena The logo can be reproduced in one color; black, green (PMS 574 or process equivalent) or blue (PMSBoard 282 or process of equivalent). Trustees Logo can be used with or without "Office of KWO) seems upset that we Malo, was also a “light-skinned import of this junior officer’s Akana’s article concerning theHawaiian Affairs" text. “mainland Hawaiians” are not Polynesian/kanaka.” So, small gesture. As MidWeek columnist Akaka Bill and it’s “supporters.” aware of the problems in Hawai‘i. world, indeed. Bob Jones states, Lt. Watada has We recently moved back to That is a broad statement, and it I would also like to an open and shut case facing Hawai‘i after a long (40 years) Haunani Apoliona, MSW Chairperson, Trustee, At-large may offend those of us who are congratulate Trustees Haunani him in September. If military stay on the mainland. Aside from aware and concerned. He also Apoliona and Rowena Akana for justice is similar to that meted yearly visits with our ‘ohana, we Tel: 808.594.1886 questions OHA in its effort to sign their outstanding political and out to Capt. James “Yusef” Yee, basically saw our loving islands Fax: 808.594.1875 Email: [email protected] up and register Hawaiians that historical analyses of the U.S. of Guantanamo Bay, this officer, through the eyesReve of rsed visitors. Out Logo: We The logo can be reproduced reversed out in any color as long as the logo remains reside outside of Hawai‘i. Senate boondoggle in blocking under a great deal of personal now see things quite differently. while. Logo can be used with or without "Office of Hawaiian Affairs" text. As a young man with a high the Akaka Bill again. As a retired challenge at this moment, might Wow, when did all this happen? John D. Waihe‘e IV Vice Chair, Trustee, At-large school diploma living in Keaukaha Hawaiian expatriate of 45 years get less than seven years of prison Who are these people in office in the late 1950s, the employment residing in Arizona, I understand time. Let us hope for leniency. making decisions for Native Tel: 808.594.1838 situation on the Big Island was the frustration of our OHA As stated in the song “A Hawaiians? We have a governor Fax: 808.594.0208 Email: [email protected] limited. Relocating to California leadership and know the efforts Universal Soldier” by Buffy who “seems” to be making the for economic reasons created a they have put forth. I support Saint Marie, the wars of history right moves, but is she really? Rowena Akana future for me. Being a “mainland them 100 percent. U.S. Sen. Jon were fought by the “grunts” and The jury is still out Forfor additional me. I’ve info rmation contact the OHATrustee, Publications At-large Specialist at 594-1888 Hawaiian” has also given me the Kyl (R-AZ), who placed several the foot soldiers. As long as most been watching politics from opportunity to share my talent “anonymous holds” preventing of them give their acquiescence, another view for the past 40 years Tel: 808.594.1860 Fax: 808.594.0209 as a musician and entertainer on the Akaka Bill from getting out wars will never cease, and we with the same results. Everyone Email: [email protected] the mainland, cruise ships and of committee for an up-or-down will never learn how to wage jumps onto the bandwagon of Hawai‘i. Believe me, I am proud vote, is up for re-election this peace. It takes men of courage, some politician because they Dante Keala Carpenter to be a Hawaiian living on the November. Our local Native like Muhammed Ali (Vietnam seem to be doing what we feel is Trustee, O‘ahu mainland. No matter where we American and Hispanic minorities War era) and Lt. Ehren Watada, the “right thing.” Tel: 808.594.1854 Hawaiians are or live, we need to in Arizona are out to get him. Sens. to challenge our Commander in Please everyone, take a step Fax: 808.594.0210 stress education and aloha. Kyl, John McCain, Bill Frist and Chief’s justification for going back and think before casting your Email: [email protected] Lamar Alexander, all of whom are to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, votes this coming election. This Henry Lipinekilikaokoololou Bray Jr. Republicans representing districts and now whether to engage Iran, election, I believe, will dictate how Donald B. Cataluna Alameda, California in Arizona and Tennessee, should North Korea and other unfriendly we progress as a people within Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau all be politically dealt with, in nations. this political system. Believe me, Tel: 808.594.1881 my view. Here in Hawai‘i, I would like we are different from all other Fax: 808.594.0211 the economy to be less dependent states, and those “newcomers” Email: [email protected] Skin tones Bill Kuamo‘o upon the federal government’s who think there’s some “racist” Scottsdale, Arizona military spending. There should ideas being thrown around are Linda K. Dela Cruz This is in regard to a recent letter be less devastating spending that just out of touch with the true Trustee, Hawai‘i titled “Pale-skinned Kanaka.” My the USA can do here other than heart of Hawai‘i. I am part Tel: 808.594.1855 late grandfather, Reverend bomb it to pieces in preparation Hawaiian and don’t physically Fax: 808.594.1883 Kaipo Kuamo‘o (1886-1973), of Ehren Watada for a future war.