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Volume II , Number 2 Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs HAWAllAN The Hawaiian Sovereignty Elections PROGRAMS UNDER Council has been denied funding in the Senate. SIEGE Finally, there was a proposal passed in the As a result of severe economic times with House and supported by the Governor, to in our Nation and our State, programs have the Office of Hawaiian Affairs pay fo r designed to uplift the Hawaiian People 20 per cent of the improvements on ceded have come under attack in 1995. At the lands. Had this proposal been adopted, it federal level, President Clinton has eliminated would delete the total annual revenue of the funds for current educational programs in Office of Hawaiian Affairs. What a horrible his budget proposal and the House of thought! Representatives has deleted funding from cur rent Hawaiian health programs in their Readers are urged to contact your budget. Our only hope to save these pro elected officials and register your protest grams rests with the United States Senate and about their conduct relative to the above Senators Inouye and Akaka. programs. More alarming and frightening has been the conduct of the State Legislature and the Governor of Hawai'i. First of all, the Hawaiian Homes Settlement is fl oundering What's Inside as legislators attempt to find a funding source. President's Message 2 Additionally, the Health Department disband Convention News .3 ed the Office of Hawaiian Health, with, we o Kale Keia .4 assume, the support of the Governor. A pro Current/Future Events .5 posal to disband the King Kamehameha Features 6-12 Celebration Commission was supported by Historic Sites 14 the Governor. This legislation failed, but the Editorials 15 funding for the Commission is still in doubt. "Na Kanaha Maoli, the Hawaiian people, are by Professor-Kame'eleihiwa. TIle panel discus a people nurtured for twenty centuries by the sion, which had been planned as a presentation spirit and beneficence of these islands. No hard of "a fairand comprehensive overview of the dif ship of the past has robbed them of their essen ferent perspectives of sovereignty to allow sym tial character. They are a people of aloha." posium participants to formulate their own opin My friend, Mahealani Kamau'u opens her ions on this issue through an open exchange of article published in The Honolulu Advertiser of ideas" dissolved into a cat fight. Even the mod June 2, 1994, with this paragraph and continues: era tor, Professor Besnier, was subjected to abuse "Without aloha, any restored nation will be an when he tried to get the panelists back on track. empty political contrivance, without mana, the Symposium coordinators, Gregory K. W. Lam true spiritual power, of its people." To make her (Iolani (92) and Clare Connors (Punahou (92) point, she continues:"It is culturally abhorrent, told me the next day that they had received for example, to sayone embraces aloha, then go numerous negative comments from students to make bitter and false public denouncements attending the symposium. The students, coming against those perceived as political rivals." from every major institution of higher learning in I was honored with an invitation to be part the Northeast, the of the "faculty" for Ho'ike 'ike Kekabi i Kekahi, a likes of Harvard, symposium on Native Hawaiian Sovereignty held Princeton, Brown, April 7 and 8, 1995, at Yale University. The sym Tufts, Dartmouth, posium, conceived, planned and organized by Cornell and others, Na Keiki Ke Aloha (the Hawai'i students' club at voiced concern over Yale) featured a panel discussion on Friday the racial overtones evening and a series of four workshops on and rude behavior of Saturday. the panelists. TIle panel discussion featured Dr. Kekuni Comments ran from Blaisdell, Professor Lilikala Karne'eleihiwa, "very negative" to Trustee Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i and Publisher "rude" and "childish." Thurston Twigg-Smith. The moderator was Yale One student from H. K. BrossKeppeler Anthropology Professor Niko Besnier. Tufts University confided:"My generation is try Mr. Twigg-Smith, through an exchange of ing to establish a kinder, a gentler world. We drawn lots, went first. Almost immediately, his were shocked by the adversarial and venomous comments were subjected to derisive laughter diatribe." and comments from the Hawaiian panelists, led In stark contrast, the aloha exhibited by the 2 Yale student committee members was warm and 11/7 • Mainland Council Meeting at 7:00 true of heart, their bo'okipa overwhelming. p.m. Special mahalo must go to Gregoryand Clare, as 11/8 • Na Pa'ani/Golf (day); howling well as Jonathan ada, Jonathan Scheuer and (evening) Trever Asam of Yale, for their unstinting hospital • Association Board of Directors ity. Moreover, the aloha exchanged between all meeting of the collegians from Hawai'i who attended and 11/9 • Workshops; Committee Meetings which spilled out to all of us was pervasive. • Opening ceremonies at sunset at Mostly non-Hawaiian, these young people • Kailua Bay pier: George Naope, have been imbued with the values all Hawai'i has Director/Producer of opening adopted, values which spring from our ancestors, ceremony yours and mine, na kupuna kahiko • 50 pahu drums, That's what made it so poignant. Our hosts, na halau (traditional performers) so full of aloha, subjected to the bitterness and and several Hawaiian benevolent hostility demonstrated by the panelists. So much societies;100 outrigger canoes; for role models. Who do you suppose appeared Polynesian Voyaging Society crew more mature? with Hawai'iloa, E'ala, Makali'i voyaging canoes • Ho'olaule'a to celebrate the forties CONVENTION at the Thurston Estates 1995 • Health screening to include la'au SCHEDULE lapa'au and other traditional health healers and practioners The following information is from Nubou 11/10 • Opening Plenary • 'Aha Mele (evening) Kuloho, Na Keiki a Hawai'i Hawaiian Civic Club Newsletter 11/11 • Closing Plenary • 'Aha'aina (evening) at Hulihe'e Palace with horse and carriage TIle Association of Hawaiian Civic Cluhs' transportation for the romantic at 1995 Convention will be held from November heart 7 to 12, 1995 at the King Karneharneha Hotel in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. 3 Yale student committee members was warm and 11/7 • Mainland Council Meeting at 7:00 true of heart, their bo'okipa overwhelming. p.m. Special mahalo must go to Gregory and Clare, as 11/8 • Na Pa'ani/Golf (day); bowling well as Jonathan ada, Jonathan Scheuer and (evening) Trever Asam of Yale, for their unstinting hospital • Association Board of Directors ity. Moreover, the aloha exchanged between all meeting of the collegians from Hawai'i who attended and 11/9 • Workshops; Committee Meetings which spilled out to all of us was pervasive. • Opening ceremonies at sunset at Mostly non-Hawaiian, these young people • Kailua Bay pier: George Naope, have been imbued with the values all Hawai'i has Director/Producer of opening adopted, values which spring from our ancestors, ceremony yours and mine, na kupuna kahiko • 50 palm drums, That's what made it so poignant. Our hosts, na halau (traditional performers) so full of aloha, subjected to the bitterness and and several Hawaiian benevolent hostility demonstrated by the panelists. So much societies; 100 outrigger canoes; for role models. Who do yousupposeappeared Polynesian Voyaging Society crew more matu re? with Hawai'iloa, E'ala, Makali'i voyaging canoes • Ho'olaule'a to celebrate the forties CONVENTION at the Thurston Estates 1995 • Health screening to include la'au SCHEDULE Iapa'au and other traditional health healers and practioners The following information is from Nubou 11/10 • Opening Plenary Kuloko, Na Keik i a Hawai'i Hawaiian Civic • 'Aha Mele (evening) Club Newsletter 11/11 • Closing Plenary • 'Aha'aina (evening) at Hulihe'e 111e Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs' Palace with horse and carriage 1995 Convention will be held from November transportation for the romantic at 7 to 12, 1995 at the King Kamehameha Hotel heart in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. 3 Hokule'a, Hawai'iloa and Makali'i are '0 KALE KEIA doing exciting things. They are now in the Kudos to South Pacific and expected back mid-May. Toni Lee, During the months of June and July, they will As s o ci ati o n be touring the west coast from Canada to Sa n Director and Diego, bringing Hawaiian culture to the main Pearl Harbor land. Good luck to all... Heard from Lavern leader for chair Hatch of the Kapolei Club. She liked our last ing the 1995 issue of Nubou. Thanks Lavern....I call to H o 'ik e 'ik e . your attention the Historic Sites article on Great fun for all Page 14. It seems that many people are now and a job well leaving Pohaku (stone) Laulaus at various done... Special historic sites statewide. This is a no-no and thanks go out to members are urged to discourage this practice when we visit sites...In March, Hawaiians Cha rles Rose Sus a n Malterre-Htun, state-wide celebrated the birth of Prince Hawaiian Civic Cl ub of Honolulu Club mem Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole, the person cred ber for her tireless efforts on behalf of ited with the creation of the Hawaiian Homes Nuhou...Loved the article about the Queen's Lands Program, among other things. Civic portrait by Wini Smith of the Lili'uokalani Club members remember the Prince as the Club featured in the last issue. We need more founder of the fi rst civic club, the Hawaiian like it.. .1 participated in the vigil at the Civic Club of Honolulu. Without his foresight, Iolani Palace on my birthday. What a mov we would not exist...Good news! The ing experience.