KA WAI OLA THE LIVING WATER of OHA OFFICE of HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS • 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500 • Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813-5249 Pepeluali (February) 2006 Vol. 23, No. 02 Ceded lands deal reached on revenue bills page 06 OHA legislation land, resources, housing, education and more page 07 Kawaihae burial dispute goes to mediation page 09 Hawaiian artists seek trademark page 12 Has ‘awa gone too SAVED! commercial? page 13 OHA to assume ownership of Waimea Valley in landmark conservation deal page 8 www.oha.org - 2 | PEPELUALI2006 KA LEO KAIAHAWAIIANULU • LETTERS • ENGLISH TO THE EDITOR 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 o OHA, 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Ste. 500, Honolulu, HI 96813, or email [email protected]. Focus Letter ‘O¯ lelo on KCCN responsibility to pronounce words correctly, no matter We take our jobs and responsibilities very seriously, what the language – but especially the native language especially since we also work shifts on KKNE A.M. I would like to praise the letter that was sent in by of Hawai‘i. I continuously try to correct our clients’ 940, which only plays traditional Hawaiian music. While J.F. Choo (KWO, January 2006), chastising those in the mispronunciation of Hawai‘i, but sometimes to no avail. we occasionally mispronounce words in Hawaiian broadcast media who are käpulu in their pronunciation They say they want it in a way that is not correct. and English (it happens from time to time no matter of Hawaiian words. I too get aggravated when I hear J.F. Choo, however, is not correct that all radio and what the language), we make it a point to do our jobs the name of our own Queen Kapi‘olani mispronounced television personalities (except for those on KHUI) fail as best we can in any language. E ola mau i ka ‘ölelo in the radio and television commercials for Kapi‘olani miserably in their pronunciation. Our program director Hawai‘i! Medical Center (sounds like Copiolani) or when at KCCN F.M. 100 reminds us of the importance of Bill Van Osdol people say Kapälama with the emphasis on the first using correct Hawaiian. Davey D., Lina Girl and I have KCCN F.M. 100 syllable. I think that those who are in the media have a all taken Hawaiian language classes. Via the Internet Forbes Cave Military’s toxic dumping to us and restored, it is far better Hawaiian waters, one could takes us. The Middle East is I am not writing this letter that our sacred objects be hidden Funny how time can change say my dad was an early rife with war, and our world has as an advocate or member of from others. I do not consider the one’s viewpoint on matters. In champion for the environment, a history of religious warring Hui Mälama. I am an individual preservation of these objects by my dad’s youthful days he was a steward of the blue waters that brings us back to nearly who strongly feels that the those who wish to retrieve them a real hell-raiser. Times were for the youth of tomorrow and the dawn of our species. Our artifacts and all items retrieved to be of vital importance for the tough during the days after protector of our fragile shore own country, the United States, from Forbes Cave should not be education of future generations. the war. He and a few of his life. Sure, his main concern is split down the middle and returned to Bishop Museum, but Bishop Museum has studied and friends took it into their heads at the time was getting a good has somehow become a chasm should remain in the caves and photographed these objects and to make a little beer money by Primo buzz. But was anyone between Christian evangelicals locale from which they were has documented their findings. boosting and selling some fire else doing anything or has and supposed non-believing taken. One did not have to see the extinguishers being dumped done anything since to deter liberals. As a Hawaiian, I find it actual canoe of our ancestors to into the ocean by the military. the military machine from And yet, we still see people especially troublesome that build the Höküle‘a. They were Heck, it was garbage anyway, conducting their malicious – heck, entire countries – archeologists, as was the able to do so by the writings they thought. plot? with a belief that their god, case with David Forbes and and research available. It was Apparently, the military their way, their direction in his exhibition, desecrated iwi a practice to hide objects of thought otherwise. My dad John Kapanui life is absolute. Life would kupuna at the Wal-Mart site on cultural value in caves to protect and his friends were caught, Papako¯lea, O‘ahu seemingly be better lived with Ke‘eaumoku Street. This kind them against destruction. It roughed up like infiltrators less assumption and ignorance, of desecration is continuing was done in anticipation of the and tossed into a cold jail and much more acceptance throughout our state, and resurgence of our culture and cell. It’s a wonder I’m here at Religious beliefs of different religious ideals, not enough is being done to practices. all to tell his story. In those ways of life and beliefs. discourage it. Here is a Hawaiian Uphold the law, yes, but days, the locals didn’t argue This is in response to a letter Whether Christian, Muslim, group that had to take matters whose law are we to follow as with the military, especially printed last month entitled Jewish or Buddhist, I think into their own hands because Hawaiians? I believe in this case after the Massie Affair in the Pagan Hawaiian religion, in it is wonderful that people the law could not protect nor the law was wrongfully applied 1930s and the establishment which the writer expressed their are reconnecting with the reverse past wrongs, and now due to lack of understanding of martial law over Hawai‘i vexation with the resurgence of Hawaiian religion. It may not they are being punished. Bishop in regard to our practices and in the 1940s. No doubt the Hawaiian religion. be one I believe in – but I Museum should be punished for beliefs. We are not Native parents and families of these Religion for far too many certainly don’t pretend that I accepting stolen objects, and American Indians, and until boys were ashamed by their people is a catalyst to impose know which way you should not the other way around. such time that our issues are misdeeds. Assuming a good a continually strange ideal: that live your life. Mälama pono. We, as Hawaiians, must have taken from our prospective, whipping capped their ordeal there is only one way to live and a place of our own in which to there can be no justice. is not a far stretch. only one thing to believe in. In house the sacred objects and In light of recent news our world, you need only turn artifacts of our küpuna. 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