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Comment by Pomaikaiokalani 18 hours ago

Damage Done to Queen Liliuokalani Statue

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 16, 2010 at 7:47pm

Updated at 1:48 p.m., Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Honolulu Advertiser

300 Acres of Kalaeloa Land Going to the StateAssociated Press

HONOLULU — The state is in line to get about 300 acres of land in Kalaeloa, the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station on Oahu.

The land consisting of six parcels will be conveyed to the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

The agency's chairman, Scott Bradley, said Monday that the parcels contain irreplaceable Hawaiian archaeological and cultural sites. He says most of the parcels will be designated as preservation and open space with minimal development.

The air station closed in 1999. Three years later, the authority assumed responsibility for planning the redevelopment of the 3,700 acres at Kalaeloa.

Special legislation authorizing the Navy to convey the land to the authority was signed in October by President Obama.

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 15, 2010 at 11:24am

Drum for our Sacred Sites and our Kupuna - Hawai'i State Capitol - Friday, March 19th 12pm-1pm - Please join us

Aloha,

In the Fall of 2009 a simple kahea (a call) came from Hawea Heiau in Maunalua and was heard worldwide. The kahea went out for us to all join together to drum to ensure
our sacred cultural sites are properly protected and respected throughout Hawai’i nei --- AND the drumming was done to let the State Historic Preservation Division hear that
throughout our islands we have lost faith in their ability to properly protect and respect our priceless cultural areas.

We now again put out a kahea to you all. The State Historic Preservation Division in Hawai'i continues to not properly protect and preserve our sacred sites and
our Kupuna. The time is short for us to get our message heard by the State Legislature. Please help us.

The recent news from Nau'e, Kaua'i that SHPD has approved a developer's burial treatment plan which allows the developer to build concrete pilings for his home on top of
30 burials of Hawaiian women and children, is outrageous and disrespectful. This has to end! It is a plan the Kaua'i Burial Council unanimously rejected. The very agency entrusted
as an advocate to protect and preserve sacred, historic, cultural and burial sites for the people of Hawai'i is failing all of us: Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians.

Resolution HCR 50, introduced by Rep. Lyla Berg, requests an audit of the State Historic Preservation Division, and is currently still in the House Committee on Water,
Land and Ocean Resources.

The audit calls for an objective evaluation of SHPD so that measures can be enacted to correct the deficiencies and to assess if other legislation needs to be enacted
to strengthen the protection and preservation of our sacred sites and our Kupuna.

Many across the State have major concerns about SHPD's operating procedures over the past several years. The destruction of sites and the desecration of Kupuna have
been increasing at an alarming rate. Under SHPD's mismanagement major bulldozing incidents have occurred at sites containing heiau, petroglyphs and springs. SHPD's pattern
of permitting the desecration of Kupuna has even extended to the breaching of Queen Kapiolani's family burial plot in Kawaiahao Church Cemetery on O'ahu.

It is time for us, Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians alike, to voice our concern. SHPD is the ONLY agency that addresses preservation and protection of Hawaiian sites and our Kupuna.
If the agency is not functioning appropriately, what little is left of our cultural connections to the past will be destroyed --- what we leave for the generations to follow will be paltry, at best.

The resolution has been heard in the House by Water, Land, Ocean resources Chair Rep. Ken Ito and Vice-Chair Rep. Sharon Har. The resolution needs to be passed out of their committee
and moved into the Legislative Management Committee chaired by Kaua'i Rep. Jimmy Tokioka and Vice-Chair Blake Oshiro.

Where the drums will beat: The Hawai'i State Capitol Rotunda

Date & Time: Friday, March 19th from 12pm-1pm

Please support our efforts by joining us on Friday at the Capitol! Use the pahu, the ipu, ohe pu or whatever instrument you need to join us. This can be as simple as tapping gently over your heart,
but most importantly come with the beat of our hearts, the beat that unites us all as Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians.

All those who participate will do so to create a positive environment with the purpose of creating positive change. For those of you who cannot attend, know your support can be given by
going to your sacred sites and drumming, or by your choosing to simply tap over your heart in unsion with us at the designated time so our kahea will be sent as a unified voice for change.

As in all things we do, we ask our ancestors for their wisdom and guidance on this day to ensure the message will be heard by those who have the power and authority
to enact positive change.

Our kupuna are with us always, in the sky, the land, the sea and in our hearts and we will fight to make sure they know we are with them and we have not forgotten how important
they are to all of us - Hawaiian and non-Hawaiian.

Please join us.

Mahalo,

Kaleo Paik, Cultural Keeper

Chris Cramer, East O'ahu Historian, Maunalua Resident

Ann Marie Kirk, Maunalua Resident


Please email or call Rep. Ito and Rep. Har to pass Resolution HCR 50 out of their committee ASAP and moved on to the Legislative Management Committee.

Rep Ken Ito 586-8470
repito@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Rep. Har 586-8504
rephar@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Please email or call Rep. Jimmy Tokioka to let him know we want HCR 50 to be heard in his committee and passed ASAP!

Rep. Jimmy Tokioka 586-6570
reptokioka@Capitol.hawaii.gov

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 13, 2010 at 9:35pm

Saturday, March 13, 2010 Honolulu Advertiser


Iolani Palace Adds Tours On Mondays Associated Press'Iolani Palace on Friday announced it will be open for tours an additional day each week to meet growing demand.

The palace now will be open on Mondays, in addition to Tuesdays through Saturdays.

It will continue to be closed on Sundays except for Kama'aina Sundays on the first Sunday of the month, when admission is free for those with a valid state ID.

A record 80,362 people visited 'Iolani Palace last year, a 4.5 percent increase over 2008.

Palace officials said last year's ticket revenue of more than $930,000 was the highest since the historic landmark reopened for public tours in 1978.

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 12, 2010 at 3:42pm

Friday, March 12, 2010 Honolulu Advertiser

State Approves Building Kauai House Atop Ancient Hawaiian Graves
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LIHUE, Hawaii — A landowner on Kauai has at last received state permission to build his house atop 30 ancient Hawaiian graves.

The approval of Joseph Brescia's 16th draft of his burial treatment plan by the State Historic Preservation Division came this week, after it was rejected by the Kauai/Niihau Island Burial Council.

Division Administrator Pua Aiu says the 16th draft provides "adequate protection" to the burials. She cited concrete caps over a number of them and special vertical buffers for one burial that sits under the spot that will one day be the home's driveway.

The state's decision is opposed by Hawaiian cultural practitioner Puanani Rogers, who called it "outrageous." She says everyone except the division knows you're not supposed to build on a graveyard.

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 12, 2010 at 4:24am

Thursday, March 11, 2010
AKAKA BILL HEARINGS IN HAWAI`I CALLED FOR

Honolulu Star-Bulletin - February 25, 2010

Gov. Linda Lingle's reversal of her long-standing support for the Akaka Bill indicates how fundamentally the Hawaiian sovereignty measure has changed over the course of this Congressional session.

Any future attempts to pass the measure -- assuming the current bill dies in the Senate, as is now predicted even by many supporters -- should include full public hearings in Hawaii to explain why the 2010 version is so different from the versions that have preceded it since 2000.

The measure, which would grant federal recognition to native Hawaiians, has been approved three times by the House since then, but never by the Senate....

"...This structure will, in my opinion, promote divisiveness and litigation, rather than negotiation and resolution," the governor said. "I do not believe such a structure, of two completely different sets of rules -- one for 'governmental' activities of the native Hawaiian governing entity and its officers and employees, and one for everyone else -- makes sense for Hawaii."

Hawaiian nationalists also oppose the bill, albeit for different reasons. They say native Hawaiians who support it are being duped into relinquishing their inherent sovereignty as descendants of the independent Hawaiian kingdom overthrown by U.S. interests. To them, federal recognition is a land grab disguised as recompense.

That the opposition includes such diverse points of view is further evidence that the Akaka Bill needs a full airing before rising again.

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 10, 2010 at 2:33pm

Honolulu Star Bulletin March 10, 2010 Letter To The Editor
Shark Fin Soup Decimates Sharks

I commend state Sen. Clayton Hee for trying to pass a long overdue ban on shark fin soup.

Up to 40 million sharks a year are being brutally killed simply for the prestige in Chinese culture of eating this soup. It is taking a tremendous toll on shark populations. Any tradition that decimates an entire species should be stopped; besides, when living in Hawaii, shouldn't we be sensitive to the traditions of the Hawaiians who see sharks as their aumakua?


Ellen Kemp
Honolulu

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 10, 2010 at 1:04pm

Aloha Luella Leonardi aka Kaohi

I have these questions needing to be answered by you. Can you answer them?

I would like to know what is your understanding of the Crown and Government Lands?
Also, what did you mean in your last message about my mention of Jon J. Chinen's book? Did you know him?
What did you mean by, "she's (me) using the parking lot...?" Please share you mana'oi'o because as you know I have will forever, until our government is restored to stand with my ancestors as na kanaka maoli and reject the American garbage they teach...He Hawai'i Au. I've been involved since I was 20 years old and learned alot on my journeys and want to share them with the younger and older generations, as we get older I realize that this is my kuleana and should be for all who are in this movement towards restoration of our government.

The things I learned that really bothers me is that alot of our people with the koko have to get over their prejudices that have been learned by the white man who came to Hawai'i, have polluted many of our people and it sounds like you have been affected by the white man's disease when I read your responses to my blogs. Do you see that? I do and that sort of bothers me, but that can be overcome with a large dose of "facing the truth" and to oki all the "bad" thoughts, learned ways and prejudices that have been instilled in our people by the foreigners who bring their pollution to our islands.

As I said in my previous writings, "when our people are ready they will unite and take seriously their roles in the restoration of our government" until then, we will lose many of them along the way. I don't want to lose you in this transition of mind, body and soul. Granted I don't have a "degree" but what I learned I am willing to share and lot of what I learned comes to me by the spirits of my ancestors and people in the living as well as those who have passed on in the last 40 years.

Overall, life is good as long as we are willing to share them and do it with truth and aloha.

Onipa'a,
Kawehi

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 10, 2010 at 5:59am

Regarding Crown and Government Lands.

(I couldn't sleep because our cat gave birth a week ago and her babies were making alot of noise so I woke up and and found Surfkick's response to the blog on Crown and Government lands, so I'm trying to answer it now.)

E kala mai. I have a hard time trying to relate to someone who uses a "pen name" and not a real name as I have here because I have nothing to hide and can hold my own. I apologize if I'm coming off rude, I feel you were rude to criticize Chinen and speaking derrogatively because he is American when he wrote on, The Great Mahele. Two words, so what? The point is, does he have his facts together? I say he does, from studying other books on the same subject but Chinen's research was clean and clear, many cases, historical maps, documents, 1839 Declaration, 1850 Treaty, Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 1920 and 1864 Constitution...not to mention oral history from my kupuna.

Not to mention you alluded to in trying to say that I don't know my own genealogy especially as it relates to Konia and her other half brothers from her biological mother, Luahine Kahailiopua Kailipakalua-I-Kanaka Hao, who married her uncle, Awili Hao after Kaoleioku died and had her three sons (there may be more) whose names were; Kaholi, Kananananale and Kuakini...matters to me. You cannot say that I don't know what I am talking about I have done, with my cousins, the genealogy of Konia... it's flawless.

You should have said, that from Kaoleioku's first marriage he had other children and name them, that's all good. I believe that Paki and Konia took care of them if I'm not mistaken and they inherited something from their father at least. My father's great grandfather and his brothers did not receive a penny, although according to Hawaiian law they should have gotten something, not that they wanted anything. They were prosperous in their knowledge and their ability to pass on the oral history about the truth and that is priceless and the fact that our family are well off because we still have each other we are rich in that sense. In a nutshell, I can say that the only class living is the native tenants and that's where we are at today and in our hands lay over 4 million acres of lands, not the State, not OHA, not the federal government, BUT that is the purpose of the Akaka bill, to pull another, "Joint Resolution" to reclaim something that is not theirs so they can take our lands to the bank and get money for it, like monopoly. It's not going to happen without cheating and that's what these Americans do to give the other true Americans a bad name.

The purpose of why I pointed to Jon J. Chinen's book is for the INFORMATION, which I feel is one person who at least wrote something, whether he got his clerk's to do the research he needed to finish this book, granted it's a thin book and very easy to read. I suggest everyone read it. I beleive that Chinen passed on already, I had not had the pleasure of meeting, talking or hearing him speak. That's doesn't mean anything. I'm not praising him in a personal way. I'm saying, if there is anyone out there in maoliworld who wants to know, I merely pointed out where they could go and read about it in his book, as well as to go to the archives for more information on the particular lands mentioned in Chinen's book, on the division of the lands to whom, how much and it's uses. It's all there.

So what, if he was American...OHA paid Linda Delaney hundreds of thousands of dollars to do an audit and the research on the Crown and Government Lands and came up with nothing...while Chinen's book was already done. She was a Hawaiian, bless her soul, she didn't finish her research to audit and identify where all of these Crown and Government lands were, what happened to them after the illegal overthrow of our Queen in 1893.

I was present at the University when Jon Van Dyke busted out his book in a slideshow presentation and personally, I have heard him speak, spoke to him and sat and listened to his one hour presentation which I felt that what he presented was very much incomplete, and written in such a way that he wished the people of Hawai'i would gravitate to, but they didn't and probably won't once they know the truth and do their own research. Politically, his facts are missing very important dates, laws and people who do matter. I did raise my hand during the Q & A portion and pointed out my disappointment in those things and clearly, he is a true American who is living in my community in the Crown Lands, do you think he has any guilt about that? On the beach side, right next to the beach. That pisses alot of people off because he hasn't done anything to "give back" to our community, while taking from us our identities.

In his presentation Van Dyke tried to say that we should support the Akaka bill and take what we have now and work towards independence. As far as I am concerned, Van Dyke coordinates his work with the US military and Daniel Inouye, to get jobs and funds for himself. He has done nothing for the community he lives in and he serves "the power that be" to remain with a job to live a lifestyle he is used to. Both he and his wife have benefited off of the backs of us, na kanaka maoli...and now, their son? Jesse? pushes the Akaka bill and is the mouth piece for his parents, who would never come out and do what he is doing on behalf of OHA's positions. I have never seen the Van Dyke's win a court case for the Hawaiians in a subtantive way. It's really all a self serving family, which is very American I must say. I don't hate them, I hate what they are doing and trying to make us into indians with the Akaka bill. I can go on and on about why Van Dyke and his book will be just another book and NOT THE BOOK that people will follow. His book for me is made up of stuff already written by others from other books. He didn't write anything new except to push the Akaka/Inouye Bill. I'm so done with these misleaders we don't trust them.
Sorry.

However, David keanu Sai did extensive study on the history of Hawai'i and he continues to talk about Hawaiian Kingdom law...read his website and see his presentations. I have heard him many times over the years and found him to be very informed and factual, at the same time he is not a very open person. Some people call him a snob and a know it all. That is there problem. He unlike Inouye, Van Dyke, Waihe'e and OHA did take our case to the Permanent Court of Arbitration known as the world court, with Ninia Parks who did at 26 put a feather in her hat in her first and last case by defending plaintiff, Lance P. Larsen in a competent court of jurisdiction, which I know that this case will go down in the hisotry of Hawai'i as a case to learn from. Keanu will have his books coming out on, Land Titles and other issues which will put the facts together for the good of the generations yet to be born, who will learn the truth and defend Hawai'i from anymore occupations of foreigners.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know where to find the information on Crown and Government Lands. It takes time and an open mind to view the facts in order to make our own choices in life, as the usurpers try to keep us off balance, confused and poor. The fact that Kamehameha III, granted from His Royal Domain over four million acres to His people, says alot about the love he had for His people, government and lands, enough to divide it up and give it freely to His people...was so unlike, a "monarchy" did pass laws, kept records of the lands, amounts and uses is why many are jealous of the Hawaiian people. Like my son said, "don't hate, appreciate" clearly speaks to jealousy that exists amongst all the other people who feel that they have a right because of the words, "Public Lands" is another lie the State of Hawai'i tries to brainwash people into believing. The facts are; ONLY the Hawaiian with the blood and nationals (non-Hawaiians) can lay claim to these lands, unless everybody else naturalizes themselves and becomes nationals under our government. Everything going on in Hawai'i are based on lies on a poor foundation and the only way that is going to get better, is through education and correction of the terms, history and ho'oponpono between the native Hawaiians and the State of Hawai'i...before our government can be restored. We are on a spiritual journey is how I see this work before us, without keakua we would never have come this far and we thank Him for his aloha towards us.

As for all these other people you mentioned, I have no relationship with them or knowledge of who they were or what their contributions were to Hawai'i or her people, that is your kuleana, not mine. For me, I was not impressed with all the names and people you mentioned. Granted, Hawai'i had to put up with the impositions of; American laws, by Americans, American thinking, American this and American that...I can't wait for the Hawaiians to unite and form our own government to bring to an end the continual US occupation and put everything back in the spiritual order that it should be in without further distractions.

Sorry for being so long winded. It was important for me to break it down, break it down and answer your concerns.
I tried to answer all your concerns, if I offended you, I apologize and extend my hand of aloha and ask that you and I should have a face to face talk. I'm sure you have your own opinion of our lands. I would like to hear them in person.

Onipa'a,
Kawehi

Comment by Pomaikaiokalani on March 9, 2010 at 12:27pm

Aloha Ke Akua,

When is the US occupation going end?

In every nation there are good and bad people.

The US military must be more positive in how they use their energies...as a Hawaiian woman I am against the US occupation in Hawai'i and the other countries that are or were independent. Such events includes Indonesia, Louisiana, Chile and other countries that feel the affects of earthquakes, tsunami and any events caused by natural disasters.

To use the military to "take over" another's country, is HEWA! This is what I hate and despise. I also hate when the military is given breaks in housing, while people on welfare who cannot afford to pay their rent are not accepted by land lords because they don't get as much from them then they do from the military.

A recent bill passed third reading in the legislature for example: SB 2595 S.D.1 are exmpted as much as $1,555-as much as $3,401 (80%) while those on welfare have a waiting list and subject to only as much as the land lord is willing to settle for, which in most cases are 1/2...not 80%, as what the military gets. The Housing Development Corporation can give the military more than the welfare people? Because the military "serves their country" and "goes to war to protect us?" Let's be fair.

The military personnel gets more breaks in Hawai'i then the welfare people do and I believe that is NOT FAIR to those who call Hawai'i their home and will probably die here. What is going on? If the State can look the other for the military, it's time the look the other way for the welfare people and those on the "HUD list" still waiting. What is up with that?

These are issues that boils my blood and seek balance in Hawai'i for ALL the people of Hawai'i...not just for those who go into other independent countries and kills innocent women, men and children...what sick person thinks that that is fair? IT IS NOT!.

That's my two cents.

Onipa'a,
Kawehi

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