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2.5 MILLION REASONS WE LOVE HAWAII.

First Hawaiian Bank has a tradition of giving that dates back to our founder, Charles Reed Bishop.

For over 153 years, we have invested in and helped nurture this special place we call home. Last year First Hawaiian — through our Foundation, 2,200 employees and retirees — contributed over $2.5 million to more than 400 community agencies and causes in Hawaii, making us the largest corporate contributor to charity in Hawaii. Some call it donating money. We call it doing the right thing.

Service. Solutions. Security.

Yes, We Care.

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Work to build a multipurpose center at Kawaiaha‘o Church has uncovered more than 700 burials. - Photo: Francine Murray

mea o loko table of contents Kamana‘opono M. Crabbe, Ph.D. Ka Pouhana, Chief Executive Officer Community Engagement

Ke¯haunani Abad, Ph.D. Director Communications

Garett Kamemoto

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MO‘OLELO NUI/COVER FEATURE

MO‘OMEHEU/CULTURE

By Lisa Asato and Garett Kamemoto

By Kekoa Enomoto

Two court cases regarding the protection of iwi ku ¯puna, or Native Hawaiian remains, halt development

Forty kapa makers from around the state gathered in Maui to practice their art and plan future kapa events

Bones of our ancestors Page 18

Kapa resurgence Page 7

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Lisa Asato Communications Specialist

John Matsuzaki Communications Specialist

Francine Murray Communications Specialist

Nelson Gaspar Communications Specialist Email/Websites

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By Lisa Asato

The 11th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention nurtured partnerships to advance Hawaiian communities

HO‘OKAHUA WAIWAI/ ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY

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Celebrating La¯ Ku¯‘oko‘a (Hawaiian Independence Day)

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he most celebrated Hawaiian Kingdom national holiday marks the events of 1843 when, on Nov. 28, the British and French governments signed a joint agreement bringing the Hawaiian Kingdom into the small family of mutually recognized independent nations.

Hawai‘i was the first non-European country granted entry into this family of nations.

The landmark accomplishment occurred through a formal declaration, which, in part, stated: “Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage, reciprocally, to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, neither directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.”

U.S. President Tyler affirmed the same in personal communications with Hawaiian Kingdom emissaries Timothy Ha‘alilio and William Richards. And later, U.S. recognition was formalized through numerous U.S.Hawaiian Kingdom treaties.

From 1844 through the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, Lä Kü‘oko‘a was a Hawaiian national holiday.

As we gather with our ‘ohana this holiday season, let us not forget a most important Hawaiian holiday, Lä Kü‘oko‘a. Take a moment with your ‘ohana on Nov. 28 to consider what our küpuna accomplished in 1843 and what that suggests for our lähui today. 

Convention aims to move natives forward

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ust as a global fund has had “tremendous impact on the HIV/ AIDS epidemic,” a global fund is needed to combat racism, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation vice president said at the recent Native Hawaiian Convention.

Racism affects how our children are taught in schools, which communities house garbage dumps and which are polluted, said Gail Christopher, program strategy vice president with the foundation, which has a multibillion-dollar corpus supporting civic engagement, healthy and educated children, and secure families, Gail Christopher, vice president of program strategy among other areas. at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, gave the opening Christopher said Hawaiians’ 1970s canoe-voyaging resurgence day keynote address. - Photo: Nelson Gaspar was a fine example of a community defining itself on its own terms and not being limited to what others say they are capable of. “They had the courage to say any statement about the lack of our capacity Roll Commission in Hawai‘i. “The amendment removes the sections of our people, that’s a lie, and we will correct that lie,” she said. of my bill about creating and certifying the roll of qualified Native Christopher gave the keynote address at the Oct. Hawaiians, because that process is already under way 3 opening day luncheon to a crowd of about 1,000 here in the Islands, and streamlines my bill down to people. its essential parts,” said Akaka.

The Kellogg Foundation undertook a $100 million “As chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, this initiative in 2010 to combat racism. Called America version of the bill represents my best mana‘o on how Healing, it works to “uproot the fundamental fallacy to secure the future of our people. … I truly believe that somehow human beings differ in their value based that as the indigenous people of Hawai‘i, our ability on their physical characteristics,” she said. to chart our own course and define our future will Philanthropy was a major focus of the 11th annual never be sure until we have parity with all other native convention at the Hawai‘i Convention Center, which peoples.” attracted national foundation leaders from Kellogg, Additional highlights from the two-day conference Ford and Kresge foundations. included talks by: A separate policy roundtable discussing needs and >> Kaua‘i Mayor Bernard Carlvalho Jr., who priorities brought together various groups representing described various projects and successes on both youth leaders and Hawaiians in homesteads, financial Retiring U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau as part of his Holoholo 2020 plan, organizations, and state bodies like the Department gave his final speech to the which aims to grow Kaua‘i responsibly. of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Office of Hawaiian Native Hawaiian Convention as >> Nä‘älehu Anthony, a captain on the Höküle‘a Affairs, as well as leaders from Pacific nations like the an elected official. He is step- and founder of Palikü Documentary Films. He disFederated States of Micronesia. ping down in January. - Photo: cussed the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s worldwide In a speech to the gathering on opening day, U.S. Lisa Asato voyage, which departs in spring 2013 and will visit 21 Sen. Daniel Akaka pledged to continue his push for countries in four years involving 25 canoes. the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act >> Kamehameha Schools CEO Dee Jay Mailer, until he retires in January. who urged people to press the Legislature to amend state law affectThe Senate Indian Affairs Committee passed an amended bill in ing the state’s youngest learners. In 2014, she said, 5,100 keiki will September, reflecting the state’s creation of the Native Hawaiian “no longer get the opportunity” for early education. 

Danner nets Visionary Leader Award Hawaiian community leader and advocate Robin Danner has received the Visionary Leader Award from the Colorado-based First Nations Oweesta Corp. and Opportunity Finance Network.

Danner, founding president of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, is the first Native Hawaiian to receive the award recognizing an individual’s long-term contributions to the Native Community Development Financial Institutions industry and whose local financing and asset-building efforts are an inspiration to

others. “This is truly an honor for me, but so much more so for the field of Native Hawaiian organizations that are making positive waves of change all across our homeland Danner in the Pacific,” Danner said at the awards ceremony, according to a news release. “Access to capital isn’t a challenge, as much as it is the solution. Every time a loan or tax credit transaction is made in our community, something big is happening for a household, for a farm, for a business – and

that means something big is happening for our state and our country.”

The award, which included a $10,000 check, was presented Oct. 17 at the 2012 Native CDFI Awards ceremony in San Antonio, Texas.

Among other accomplishments, Danner founded the Native CDFI network to unify community-based lenders serving native populations, and founded the first statewide nonprofit loan fund serving Native Hawaiians. Together with Alaska Natives, she spearheaded the first ever deployment of new market tax credits in the State of Hawai‘i. 

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1. The convention opened Oct. 3 with hula and chant. Robin Danner, president of convention organizer Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, is third from left in the back row. 2. Pacific Island Forum Steering Committee members Michelle Kauhane, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands deputy to the chairperson, left; Dee Jay Mailer, Kamehameha Schools CEO; and Maile Meyer, Hawaiian Way Fund chair, participate in an armchair dialogue. - Photos: Nelson Gaspar; 3. Hawaiian Homes Commissioner Joe Tassill, recognized with the inaugural Joe Tassill Award of Courage, was overcome with emotion when given a framed photo of him as a young man playing ‘ukulele. - Photo: Lisa Asato; 4.

Kuali‘i Lum of Na¯ Mea Hawai‘i sold Hawaiian-inspired shirts at the convention marketplace. - Photo: Nelson Gaspar; 5. Alan Murakami of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. called for Hawaiian advocates to support getting a qualified member on the state Water Commission who has “substantial … expertise in traditional Hawaiian water resource management techniques” as state law requires. Two seats on the commission will open up in 2013. - Photo: Lisa Asato

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6. Blossom Feiteira, president of the Association of Hawaiians for Homestead Lands, left, addressed the Oct. 4 policy roundtable. 7. Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chairperson Colette Machado provided updates on the agency’s lands in Kaka‘ako. - Photos: Lisa Asato

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Native speakers tout ‘New Old Wisdom’ at TEDxMa¯noa

By Treena Shapiro

Schools, talked about innovative teachhroughout the state, Native Hawai- ing practices that expose today’s students ians organizations are finding to Hawaiian language, culture and history solutions to contemporary issues through traditional knowledge and wisdom.

Their innovative thinking is reshaping classrooms, restoring resources and creating models for a more sustainable future.

Last month’s daylong TEDxMänoa event brought together 16 native speakers from across the community to share ideas on applying traditional Hawaiian wisdom to 21st century problems. The independently organized event, licensed by the nonprofit TED, explored the concept of “New Old Wisdom,” or NOW. In an early presentation, Rick Barboza, cofounder of the Native Hawaiian plant nursery Hui Kü Maoli Ola, turned a popular saying on its head, asking, “Do you think Hawai‘i feels lucky that we live here?”

The conservationist, who focuses on Hawai‘i’s natural history and flora and fauna, described how native plants and birds are disappearing, often due to introduction Accompanied by ‘ukulele virtuoso Taimane, Hawai‘i’s of invasive species or the destruction of first poet laureate Kealoha Wong, pictured, explored Hawaiian origins in “The Story of Us.” - Courtesy photheir habitats. tos: TEDxMa¯noa Since the 1800s, 31 native bird species have gone extinct.

Some 118 native plants have disappeared, and 400 others are endangered. Barboza used the endangered Kahuli snails to illustrate how good ideas can go bad, such as importing the mongoose in an ineffectual attempt to control the Polynesian rats, which still feast on the native snails.

As he discussed the threats to Hawai‘i’s lowland dry forest, Barboza observed that Hawaiian culture, like indigenous plants and animals, is tied to the land. “If we lose our surroundings, which help to develop our culture, we get pushed over the edge to the point where we lose our cultural identity,” he warned.

Barboza follows up with a solution. “We can change this by restoring our land through the ‘äina. through our landscaping and bringing back It’s not a new concept, Ledward pointed the plants that should have been there. We can out. Indigenous learning took place outdoors transform man-made places and spaces into until about 200 years ago when schooling habitats,” he proposed. moved into the classroom. Bringing students Brandon Ledward, manager of the ‘Äina- back outside for culture-based learning can Based Education Department at Kamehameha help close the achievement gap for indigenous

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students, empower the Native Hawaiian community and help restore native landscapes, Ledward suggested.

As education reform sweeps the country, experts are looking for ways to make education relevant, practical and meaningful to today’s

Manu Boyd, cultural director at the Royal Hawaiian Center at Helumoa, focused his TEDxMa¯noa talk on finding a balance between cultural consciousness and resort retail.

Rick Barboza, co-founder of a native plant nursery, warned that a loss of indigenous plants and animals would lead to a loss of Hawaiian cultural identity. children. ‘Äinabased learning is one way to engage students and ignite their curiosity, Ledward said.

“You can see it when it happens. It’s as clear as day for a teacher. It starts with a smile.”

Though this education model, students are preparing for the future by taking water samples, observing marine life, restoring landscapes and

using inquiry-based learning to develop skills that will serve them in the next century. They are also learning about teamwork and collaboration through project-based learning.

Building on this blended concept of new and old wisdom through place-based learning, Mahinapoepoe Paishon Duarte discussed how revitalizing fishponds can help prepare Hawaiians for selfdetermination.

Paishon Duarte, president of the Paepae o He‘eia board, described herself as a fishpond practitioner and enthusiast. In her eyes, fishpond restoration offers more than a glimpse at past practices, and even more than a thriving source of sustenance. She thinks the work can help create a model for a more sustainable level of living.

Taking it a step further, she said, “Fishponds are vital training centers, vital academies, important places where we as känaka, känaka maoli, can train ourselves to regain our ability and our capacity to self-govern and to self-determine our future.”

Restoring fishponds will allow Native Hawaiians to feed themselves, but Paishon Duarte also sees the effort as a path to a preferred future. Successful collaboration in managing and governing resources at fishponds can serve as a model for selfgovernance, she said.

If Native Hawaiians learn how to work together toward common goals in managing and operating fishponds, they’re creating a model for self-governance, and when the time comes, they will have had a dry run, she said.

“We know how to organize ourselves. We know how to make decisions. We know how to engage in discourse and how to disagree. We can see how when we make a poor decision, there is a direct effect, because ‘auwe, there’s not enough fish,” Paishon Duarte said.

An Office of Hawaiian Affairs grant helped fund TEDxMänoa at the East-West Center.

Licensed by the nonprofit organization TED, the independently organized event is intended to spark discussion and bring together thinkers and doers to share ideas. The Oct. 5 talks were filmed and will be uploaded to the TEDx YouTube channel for public viewing.  Treena Shapiro, a freelance writer, is a former reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Honolulu Advertiser.

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As kapa makes a comeback, practitioners gather on Maui

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AILUKU, MAUI — Kapa making continues its resurgence in the fabric of life of Hawaiian cultural practitioners.

Witness: Some 40 kapa makers from various islands gathered at a Maui kapa retreat last month to pound ‘ulu bark, extract plant dyes and plan future exhibits, performances and conferences statewide.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts sponsored the mid-October event, whose purpose was “to reach out to include kapa makers who have not participated in the past in our activities or to those who are less experienced, so that we can extend our sharing and knowledge of the art,” said Ka‘iulani deSilva of O‘ahu, a retreat organizer.

She said Wesley Sen of O‘ahu led participants beating ‘ulu fiber, and Lisa Schattenburg-Raymond of Maui taught how to make natural dyes.

Meanwhile, deSilva worked on wa‘u, or shell scrapers, carving lines for i‘e kuku, or kapa-beating implements.

Kapa maker Ka‘uhane Heloca of La‘i ‘Öpua, Kona, remarked, “With Lisa’s extensive knowledge of dyes, it helps us even more so to step it up, because we have to make it (dye) more durable and lasting.” A handful of men at the retreat included Heloca and Greg Kamana‘o Garriss, both kälai pa‘ahana kapa, or carvers of kapa tools: i‘e kuku and ‘ohe käpala, or bamboo stamps.

Kau‘i Podlewski of Häli‘imaile, Maui, basked in the event’s sharing, learning and inspiring work. A practitioner of hula, oli (chant) and lei hulu (feather work), she is not a kapa maker, “but I’d like to” become involved, she enthused.

DeSilva referred to past kapa activities, particularly a 2011 Merrie Monarch performance by Hälau O Kekuhi dancers clothed completely in kapa for the first time in 200 or 300 years. Twenty-three volunteer artisans statewide had made, dyed and designed the kapa in an unprecedented yearlong project.

The artisans seek to replicate and expand their efforts for a Maui Arts and Cultural Center kapa exhibit in November 2013, followed on-site by a 2014 reprise by kapa-clad Hälau O Kekuhi dancers.

DeSilva noted, “Our Maui presentation in January-February of 2014 at MACC has been tentatively named “Pa‘i‘ula” by Nalani Kanaka‘ole,” co-kumu hula with sister Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele of the Hilo-based Hälau O Kekuhi.

DeSilva and project principal Dalani Tanahy

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indicated the exhibit and performance will require 20 pä‘ü, or skirts; 10 kïhei, or one-shoulder capes; and 10 malo, each 12 inches by 18 feet long.

Moreover, the kapa must be soft and pliable yet

B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook, Hawai‘i island. The event will offer hula, music, food and kapa sessions for experts, beginners and visitors. Call Peter Van Dyke at (808) 323-3318.

Meanwhile, the Valley Isle retreat culminated with a tasty lunch of blackened mahi with mango/ tomato salsa beneath shady kukui and ‘ulu trees at Maui Nui Botanical Gardens. The fragrance of herbs grown and gathered for dyes pervaded. One heard whispering breezes as gentle and inclusive as the gathering of 40 cultural practitioners.

During a Maui kapa retreat, kumu kapa Kawai Aona-Ueoka wields a carved wooden i‘e kuku, or kapa beater, as she pounds ‘ulu bark Oct. 13 at the Bailey House Museum in Wailuku while surrounded by other kapa practitioners. - Courtesy photos

Greg Kamana‘o Garriss and Ka‘uhane Heloca collaborated on this design “using ka¯pala on kapa and natural dyes” for Kaloko-Honoko¯hau National Historic Park on the Kona coast. “The image represents the life in the fishponds and movement of the currents, wind and sun,” Heloca said.

Ha¯lau O Kekuhi dancers perform in a Merrie Monarch ho¯‘ike April 26, 2011, in Hilo while attired completely in kapa, the first such event in possibly three centuries, kapa makers estimated. They wear kapa made, dyed and designed by Verna Takashima, foreground, and Ka‘iulani deSilva. Takashima and deSilva are among 23 volunteer kapa artists statewide who toiled in a yearlong project unprecedented in modern times.

strong, and colored with strong dyes to endure the movement and sweat involved in the hälau’s bombastic hula style.

Still more kapa will unfurl when Kaua‘i hosts Ka ‘Aha Hula ‘O Hälauaola World Conference on Hula in July 2014, said retreat attendee Sabra Kauka of the Garden Isle.

More immediately, a three-day Moku O Keawe Kapa Festival will unfold 9 a.m. Nov. 8 at Amy

And, as the art of kapa continues its resurgence, devotees persist in ancient rhythms of cultivating wauke and pounding, dyeing and printing kapa.

As deSilva said, “We’re all volunteers. We’re doing this for love of kapa.  Kekoa Enomoto is a retired copy editor and staff writer with The Maui News and former Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

To strengthen identity, Native Hawaiians will preserve, practice and perpetuate their culture.

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OHA in the community Parade fun in the sun The 66th Aloha Festivals Floral Parade showcased the people, customs and flowers of Hawai‘i as marching bands, motorcycle units, floats and flower-bedecked pa¯‘u¯ riders wound their way through the streets of Honolulu from Ala Moana Park and down Waikı¯kı¯’s main drag, Kala¯kaua Avenue, on Sept. 22. Among the participants was a group of spirited OHA marchers and trolley riders, who shared their aloha along the route and passed out hand-held fans to the sun-drenched crowd. - Photos: Alice Silbanuz Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa President Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa surrounded by fifth-grade teachers at Kamehameha Schools-Kapa¯lama campus in 2011. The ‘Ohana worked with the teachers and students to produce the play Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa. - Courtesy photo: Mara Bacon Chang

Kalaupapa group receives OHA grant for school outreach, providing ancestor information

By Valerie Monson

Pa¯‘u¯ Queen Terri Dinubilo Murray led the procession of pa¯‘u¯ riders representing 10 islands. (This year saw the return of units for Nihoa and Molokini islands). The Hawai‘i Island unit earned big awards for most outstanding pa¯‘u¯ princess, most outstanding pa¯‘u¯ page, the Mayor’s Award, and the John and Lita Cook Perpetual Trophy for most outstanding pa¯‘u¯ unit.

Above, OHA Research Director Lisa Watkins-Victorino handed out OHA fans to the crowd along Ala Moana Boulevard. The OHA fans were a hit at the parade, as dancers on floats and riders in parade cars used them to stave off the heat.

Left, Cabrinalyn Bonilla danced her way down the parade route along with the Wai‘anae Intermediate School marching band and color guard.

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ALAUPAPA, MOLOKA‘I – The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded a grant of $53,665 to Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa for school outreach and the restoration of family ties.

“The ‘Ohana thanks OHA for having confidence in us to help teachers include the history of Kalaupapa in their classrooms and to continue our efforts to assist descendants of the people of Kalaupapa obtain information about their küpuna,” said Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa, president of the ‘Ohana and a resident of Kalaupapa for more than 50 years.

When the ‘Ohana traveled around the islands a year ago to hold community presentations and workshops, one of the most common comments was from adults who had grown up in Hawai‘i but had never learned about the history of Kalaupapa in school. Teachers who attended those events said it was difficult for them to know what information about Kalaupapa was truth – and what was fiction.

“We felt this was an immediate need,” said Kahilihiwa. “The children of today are our tomorrow. We want our students to learn about this important history – and we want to provide teachers with the proper tools to be able to include the history of Kalaupapa in their classrooms.”

The ‘Ohana has developed a historical exhibit that will visit the different islands as part of the schools program. This exhibit, “A Source of Light, Constant and Never-Fading,” emphasizes the strong relationship between the people of Kalaupapa and Hawai‘i’s royal family, a chapter of history often overlooked.

This exhibit, a traveling version of an exhibit

created by the ‘Ohana that is on display at ‘Iolani Palace, features historical photos, excerpts from letters originally written in Hawaiian, quotes and lyrics of songs written by the people of Kalaupapa.

The ‘Ohana program will begin by reaching out to the Hawaiian-focused charter schools, but it will also include other schools.

Any teacher can contact the ‘Ohana to receive materials to help them include Kalaupapa in their curriculum.

For the past few years, the ‘Ohana has been assisting descendants of the people of Kalaupapa learn about their ancestors who they might never have known by gathering information from various public archives in Honolulu, the continental U.S. and Europe.

The ‘Ohana has already compiled the names of everyone listed in the Kalaupapa Admissions Register from 1866-1932 and assembled those names in a searchable database. That database also includes information the ‘Ohana has compiled by searching public records, letters, petitions and church minutes.

“One of the most exciting things that the ‘Ohana does is help a descendant learn about their Kalaupapa ancestor or ancestors,” said Kahilihiwa. “We have been able to tell families when their küpuna were at Kalaupapa and provide other details about their lives here and if they have a tombstone here.”  Valerie Monson is the coordinator for Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa. To obtain school materials or help in finding a Kalaupapa ancestor, email info@kalaupapaohana.org; send a letter to Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, P.O. Box 1111, Kalaupapa, HI 96742; or call Monson at (808) 573-2746.

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OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS (OHA)

PROGRAMMATIC GRANT FUNDING

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT –

TRANSITIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

REQUEST FOR SOLICITATIONS FOR FISCAL BIENNIUM 2014 – 2015 (JULY 1, 2013 - JUNE 30, 2015)*

Notice is hereby given of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ solicitation of community grant requests from qualified applicants pursuant to Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, Chapter 10-17, and its administrative rules, to provide the following service activities for the fiscal biennium funding period from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2015. Applications and solicitation details will be available at www.oha.org on November 21, 2012. Preliminary funding availability and orientation sessions for each solicitation are: SOLICITATION NUMBERS

SERVICE ACTIVITY TITLES

GRANT AMOUNTS

PROGRAMMATIC GRANT FUNDING OHA 14-01

Housing Services for Native Hawaiians

$ 900,000

Friday, December 7, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon OHA 14-02

Employment Core and Career Support Services for Native Hawaiians

$1,250,000

Monday, December 3, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon OHA 14-03

Obesity and Physical Health Improvements in Native Hawaiians

$2,000,000

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon OHA 14-04

Improving Middle and High School Testing Scores of Native Hawaiians

$ 600,000

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon OHA 14-05

Perpetuating Hawaiian Culture

$1,400,000

Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon OHA 14-06

Pae ‘Āina Sustainability

$1,400,000

Thursday, December 6, 2012 from 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

OHA 14-07

Prenatal Services for Native Hawaiians

If applying for programmatic grants, the deadline for submission of written questions is 4:00 p.m. Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST) on Friday, January 4, 2013. OHA will address all written questions with a written response by Friday, January 11, 2013. Written questions may be submitted to OHA by facsimile or e-mail. However, all applicants who submit written questions by facsimile or e-mail bear the full and exclusive responsibility for assuring the complete, correctly formatted, and timely transmission of their questions.

All applicants must submit (1) original proposal PLUS (4) copies to OHA on or before 4:00 p.m. HST, Wednesday, January 16, 2013 to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd, Suite 500, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, 96813. Any proposals received after the deadline, but with a postmark date of January 16, 2013 or prior will be considered timely received. As of November 21, 2012, proposal forms, specifications and special provisions can be obtained: • At the OHA website at http://www.oha.org/; or • By emailing grantsinfo@oha.org; or • By phone at (808) 594-1986.

If this solicitation was downloaded from the website, each applicant must provide contact information to the Sole Point of Contact for this solicitation to be notified of any changes. Any questions or inquiries regarding each specific solicitation should be directed to the Sole Point of Contact listed in Section 2 of each individual solicitation, by mail, or e-mail or by telephone.

Proposals delivered by facsimile transmission, e-mail, hand delivered, or postmarked after 4:00 p.m. HST on January 16, 2013, will be considered late and rejected. There will be no exceptions.

All applicants will be notified in writing regarding OHA’s decision on his/her proposal(s) in late March – early April 2013. Agreements are expected to be in effect from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015.

$1,000,000

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 from 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

COMMUNITY EVENT FUNDING OHA 14-08

‘Ahahui Event Grants (FY 15 dates – To be announced later)

COMMUNITY EVENT FUNDING $ 400,000

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Thursday, July 25, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

*All funding amounts subject to availability and final OHA Board of Trustee approval of its fiscal biennium budget. Source(s) of funding are subject to change. Agreements are expected to be in effect from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2015. OHA reserves the right to reallocate funding amounts within or between solicitations based on the best interests of OHA and/or actual proposal applications received.

OHA will conduct the above orientation sessions at its office located at 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd, Suite 500, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96813.

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s the Christmas and New Year season begins, KWO takes some of the guesswork out of the season’s gift giving with our annual holiday guide highlighting products from Native Hawaiian-owned businesses. Not only are these gifts beautiful, functional and fun, but supporting these businesses also translates to supporting the economic self-sufficiency of the Hawaiians behind them. These featured businesses also share another common bond. Each has received support from an OHA Mälama Loan along the way. As loan recipient Mark Nobori says, “Support the local bruddahs.”

And, we might add, the sistahs too. 

Dog owners’ delight

Day care for dogs isn’t an entirely new phenomenon but it can mean peace of mind for their “humans,” providing them with worry-free workdays and weekends. Known as “Playcare” at Tails of Hawai‘i, doggie day-care activities include exercise, socialization, meals and rest. A $50 gift card will cover one nine-hour day of play and a “supreme bath” treatment to boot. Gift cards can be purchased online and are also good toward boarding and other services, or for buying grooming supplies, dog food, toys and treats in the retail shop. Locations in Waipi‘o, Mäpunapuna and a new grooming-only shop in Kapolei. tailsofhawaii. com. —Kay Watanabe and Lisa Asato

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Sweet cravings

If Mom-and-Pop goodness is what you’re looking for, Makiki Bake Shop has been satisfying the sweet tooth of more than a generation. Its butter mochi and biscuits make great holiday omiyage for loved ones on the continent. And for family parties, its signature Queen Emma cake – think triple layers of haupia, passion and guava – hits that holiday sweet spot. Or, bring one of the colorful cakes to the office and get ready to feel the love from grateful co-workers. Available at the Young Street bakery and a variety of retailers. $3.50-15. See makikibakeshop.com. —Andrew Pezzulo and Lisa Asato

To have choices and a sustainable future, Native Hawaiians will progress toward greater economic selfsufficiency.

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Fashion forward

Young fashion designer Kanani Miner merges culture with fashion in her KüHina collection. Featuring her original prints, she makes clothing that is comfortable yet fashionable in a variety of colors for the entire ‘ohana.

And we love that she has kept all body types in mind, with men’s and women’s sizes going up to 3x. $25-$52. Online ordering available at hinahawaii.com. —Alice Silbanuz

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Mark “Story” Nobori loves shoyu poke; in fact, he loves all kinds of poke. Having outgrown his go-to party cooler (your basic ice-filled aluminum tray), Nobori invented the lightweight and compact Püpü Cooler.

Made of gel ice insulated in foam, it keeps appetizers chilled for up to 10 hours, indoors or out. It also has slots for utensils. Need more incentive? Every three months, Nobori awards one customer a $100 gift certificate for a return trip to the store of purchase.

Send in the survey card (included with your cooler) for a chance to win. For a list of retailers, visit sachikitchenware.com. $24.99 list price. —Lisa Asato

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Gems of the ocean

Run your fingers through a basket of thousands of shells, tiny as a pinhead. Imagine you’re an artisan on the Hawaiian island of Ni‘ihau, walking a mile before dawn to sit every day, searching for enough red kahelelani and white momi shells to pierce with a needle and sew into a 10-strand lei that reaches the waist. Try one on. All conversation stops. Heads turn. Instantly you’ll feel like royalty. Find the handcrafted lei at Nä Mea Hawai‘i in Ward Warehouse.

Priced from $995 to $3,500. Funds go to the artists. nativebookshawaii.com. —Lynn Cook

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The classic bottle of wine gets a touch of edge with Antigal’s 2009 Uno Malbec.

Sourced from the world’s fifth-largest winegrowing region, this Argentinian red has flavors of black, red and blue fruits melded with coffee, smoke and baking spices. The bottle, too, is attractive – its label is crafted from hardware from barrels in which wine is aged. $18.50. For something more fun and flirty, Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale – dressed in a bright pink, artsy bottle – is a seasonal beer originating from that Pacific Northwestern brewery haven known as Oregon. Pairs well with burgers, steaks and other good-to-grill eats. $15. thewinestop hawaii.com. —Lisa Asato

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t the bustling corner of Halekauwila and Cooke streets in Kaka‘ako, cars zip past a stretch of sidewalk covered in steel plates and orange traffic cones, where the first human remains has been uncovered in the city’s ongoing $5.3 billion rail transit project. Since the September discovery, more human remains have been unearthed along the intended route, including an intact burial in the “flex,” or fetal-like position indicative of a pre-contact burial.

Less than half-mile away, a parallel story is playing out at another project, at Kawaiaha‘o Church, which in the process of constructing a $17.5 million multipurpose center has uncovered more than 600 burials since 2009.

Construction on both projects have stopped as a result of recent actions by two state courts favoring Native Hawaiian plaintiffs who sued. The courts determined the State Historic Preservation Division had erred in approving the projects without first requiring an archaeological inventory survey for historic properties, including unmarked burials – putting protections of iwi küpuna, or Native Hawaiian remains, at risk.

The laws in question are designed to protect unmarked burials. In the Hawaiian context, disturbing burials is seen as doing spiritual harm to the küpuna and their living ‘ohana, said Kai Markell, compliance manager for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and former burials program lead at the State Historic Preservation Division.

Before Western contact and well into the 19th century, ‘ohana would kanu, or plant, the remains of loved ones.

Mana concentrated in iwi küpuna, ancestral remains, would imbue the ‘äina and spiritually nourish the living community. Under the protection of their ‘ohana, iwi küpuna and ‘äina would become one.

Such connections are why the Hawaiian community most often seeks to keep iwi küpuna in place.

“Generally you don’t want to move a burial,” Markell said. “Even the law recognizes the priority is for preservation in place.”

didn’t want to allow us to do. They had already determined that this alignment would be the best.”

Since then, the city has hired Dan Grabauskas as CEO of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, or HART. Wong-Kalu described Grabauskas as a positive influence on the project.

He has shown a sensitivity, sincerity and “depth of understanding” to Hawaiian community concerns, she said. “I feel like he’s the best thing that happened to the project” as far as leadership style, approachability and his “genuine concern for anything that could come under the auspices of a Hawaiian context.”

Grabauskas said he will continue to work with the state “and other stakeholders to ensure that iwi küpuna are treated with sensitivity and great respect.”

Ashley Obrey, a Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. attorney on the rail case, called the court actions a victory for küpuna and the Hawaiian people. “The courts’ decisions are a direct result of Native Hawaiians living up to their kuleana to mälama iwi, protect our ancestral foundation and ultimately preserve our identity,” Obrey said. NHLC, with lead attorney David Kimo Frankel, represented both cases.

On rail, the state Supreme Court in August unanimously ruled in favor of plaintiff Paulette Ka‘anohiokalani Kaleikini, saying the approval process was flawed and the project shouldn’t have been allowed to begin. Construction has stalled until an archaeological inventory survey, or AIS, is completed for the entire 20-mile route. (The city had been taking a phased approach, saying it would do an AIS for the final phase – which runs through iwi-rich Kaka‘ako – while construction was ongoing in the initial phases on the project’s west end.)

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, chair of the O‘ahu Island Burial Council, which has decision-making powers on whether iwi found during an AIS are preserved in place or relocated, said the city had stated on several occasions that the phased approach would “afford the greatest protection to the iwi.”

“However, what exactly constitutes that protection to the iwi?” she asked. “And that’s where we differ. When we participate in a project, we look forward to the project having done their homework determining that there are iwi resources here, here and here. If it turns up all the iwi that it should, it allows us to say you need to redesign your project. That’s what they

The Kawaiaha‘o Church case, on the other hand, isn’t described in similar terms of aloha.

Plaintiff Dana Naone Hall, a former chair of the Maui/ Läna‘i Island Burial Council, said the State Historic Preservation Division, among others, shares responsibility with the church for the hewa (wrong) that’s resulted.

“One would think that when the burial numbers started to mount into the several hundred that there might have been some twinges of conscience and a desire on the part of the parties supporting the disinterment to reassess further excavation,” she said. “And the fact that that never occurred and that it took three years of legal pursuit to finally stop the disinterments, at least for the time being, is one of the most shocking aspects of this case.”

In September, the state appeals court granted an injunction stopping construction at the historic Kawaiaha‘o Church until a ruling is made on Naone Hall’s appeal of a circuit judge’s dismissal of her lawsuit. Any work that could disturb iwi must stop, the court said in its unanimous Sept. 28 order, which cited the high court’s ruling on rail.

The site of the first discovered iwi, on Cooke Street. - Photos: Lisa Asato

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“It gives me a great sense of relief that in the interim no more burials will be disturbed at Kawaiaha‘o,” said Naone Hall, a cultural descendant to Native Hawaiian burials in the area. She said she’s grateful to the Intermediate Court of Appeals for reaffirming that there is “a vital public interest in protecting burial sites and human skeletal remains regardless of race, religion or cultural origin.”

Naone Hall, who has family buried at the cemetery but outside the project footprint, said the church has dug up “close to 700” burials – 69 during sewer-line trenching in 2009, after which the church halted work, and 620 more found at the multipurpose center site since work resumed in 2011.

In addition, thousands more “unassociated bones” have been dug up, according to her tally culled from archaeologists’ weekly reports: “I noted down for every week the number of supposedly unassociated bones and bone fragments that were collected, and that number exceeds 4,000,” she said.

David Kauila Kopper, an NHLC attorney who represented Naone Hall, said the church’s use of an exemption to state burial law as a “known, maintained, actively used cemetery” is erroneous. The cemetery distinction doesn’t apply to the construction site, because burials had been removed from there in 1940 in order to make room for Likeke Hall. “The building of Likeke Hall served to terminate any cemetery function of the area,” he said, adding, “It was a meeting hall. They had dances there.”

Likeke Hall was razed in 2007 to make room for the larger multipurpose center.

A Kawaiaha‘o Church attorney did not respond to requests for comment.

SHPD administrator Pua Aiu, asked to respond to critics of SHPD’s handling of the two cases, wrote in an e-mail that the agency has “a very broad mandate that is required to balance the needs and wants of several different constituencies.”

“Our goal is to preserve, to the extent that we can, historic properties. At the same time, the law allows for continued development to meet the needs of the population in general, and of individual landowners.”

As far as guiding principles the agency uses in weighing and approving projects where iwi are expected to be found, she said: “SHPD follows the laws to the best of its ability. In rail, in the absence of state law, the agency looked to the federal law for guidance. The Supreme Court read the law differently, and now we have better guidance.”

She said neither case should affect how SHPD handles future projects: “Kawaiaha‘o is a unique case and the rail decision was limited to the issue of phasing. While we obviously will not be allowing phasing under our current rules, other aspects of our work should not be affected.”

Before the project began, OHA had provided a $1 million grant for the multipurpose center’s construction.

Kaleikini, the rail plaintiff, says Kaka‘ako, on O‘ahu’s southern shore, once served as a “breadbasket” for Native Hawaiians. “There were many fishponds in the land; the land was fertile,” she said.

“There was a lot of Native Hawaiians living in (what is now) the urban corridor. The ali‘i compound was in this area.

“In those days, where they lived was where they died and where their families buried them.”

There is general agreement that Kaka‘ako is an area rich in burials; past projects have indicated as much.

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O‘ahu Island Burial Council Chair Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu visited a site on Halekauwila Street to observe archaeological survey work.

A po¯haku marks the site of relocated burials dating from an older, unrelated construction project.

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Paulette Kaleikini at Mother Waldron Park in Kaka‘ako, where nearby archaeological work has unearthed iwi.

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everal years ago, OHA launched Kau Inoa, an effort to gather the names of Native Hawaiians interested in creating a Hawaiian governing entity. OHA contracted with HawaiÔi Maoli to serve as a data processing service and repository for the Kau Inoa applications. With the conclusion of Kau Inoa, the data has been returned to OHA. Last year, the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission (NHRC) was created by a State law that declared Native Hawaiians the only indigenous, aboriginal, maoli people of HawaiÔi.

On July 20, 2012, the NHRC launched KanaÔiolowalu to create an ofÞcial list of Native Hawaiians who want to reorganize a governing entity. We are contacting you because KanaÔiolowalu is the next step in selfdetermination. Because you originally placed your name with Kau Inoa, we urge you to enroll with KanaÔiolowalu. Those who enroll will have an important role in shaping our future, and in designing a reorganized governing entity.

To enroll with KanaÔiolowalu, please visit www.oha.org/enrollment.

Mahalo, The OfÞce of Hawaiian Affairs

By Claire Ku‘uleilani Hughes, Dr. PH., R.D.

Without machinery or pack animals, our ancestors had to carry heavy burdens and move heavy stones and tree trunks. They had to do it all. To avoid injury when lifting or carrying something heavy, body alignment, muscular power and endurance are all important.

Our ancestors also knew which

“The Natives of these islands (Hawai‘i) are, in general, above the middle size, and well made; they walk very gracefully, run nimbly, and are capable of bearing great fatigue…”

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hese words described Hawaiians, in March 1779. They were written by Capt. James King, who accompanied Captain Cook on his third voyage to Hawai‘i. King recognized that Hawaiians were taller than average, they walked with grace and displayed obvious athleticism, strength and physical endurance.

Remember that King had already seen South Pacific islanders, as well as South American natives.

Thus, this description compared our Hawaiian ancestors with Europeans, as well as the other natives.

Interesting, isn’t it?

Is this description reasonable for Hawaiians today? Auwë, I truly wish it were. We know that Native Hawaiians today no longer possess the height, fitness nor good health that our Hawaiian ancestors exhibited. We seem to have lost the traditional focus on health, illness prevention, as well as schooling in posture and alignment that our ancestors had. Do we still have it ... somewhere? Have we have just put it aside for awhile? A couple of things are certain. The remarkable stature (height), strength and fitness of our ancestors resulted from their diet, focus on healthy living (absence of illnesses), lots of hard, physical work, followed by a long night’s rest. Their graceful movement resulted from mäkua and küpuna keeping a sharp focus on the posture of keiki during early childhood.

The old ways have been put aside ... or, replaced. Obviously, these changes have not yielded good results. Our Hawaiian ancestors set high priority on staying healthy and strong; it meant their survival.

We, too, can eat more taro, poi and greens, get adequate sleep and focus on keeping our families healthy. We

food plants, herbal medicines and building materials were needed to survive, and they brought these to Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i’s fertile soil and abundant fresh water supported large crops of kalo, sweet potatoes, other vegetables and sugarcane.

And, Hawai‘i had an ocean filled with fish, shellfish and limu. These all resulted in a dietetically complete diet to nourish our ancestors. When the sun went down, they rested. Our ancestors flourished in Hawai‘i.

can exercise daily to regain fitness and endurance. Mäkua and küpuna can again focus on teaching cultural values to our keiki as once was done.

We need to channel the determination and wisdom of our Hawaiian ‘aumäkua and küpuna and make changes to save our children from the health problems of our generation. Solutions will come with our help. It means our survival. We have to just do it! 

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bones Continued from page 18 â&#x20AC;&#x153;With rail, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very expensive project,â&#x20AC;? Kaleikini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because the public is paying for the rail, they would say move the kĂźpuna, move that iwi because we need to finish this rail. That would be the public demand at that point, so what option do the iwi have?â&#x20AC;?

But Grabauskas said doing the archeological surveys now â&#x20AC;&#x153;allows us to make any necessary design changes along the rail alignment â&#x20AC;Ś to avoid potential burial sites or culturally sensitive areas.â&#x20AC;?

For Kaleikini, preserving in place is always the goal â&#x20AC;&#x201C; no matter if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a single burial or a concentration of them. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participated in so many reburials that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost count. And, she said, even though sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s against relocating iwi kupuna, if they have to be relocated, she participates in their reburial. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the other side of our kule-

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ana,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to fight to preserve in place, and if it turns out they get relocated, the next turn Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to fight for is to put them back as soon as possible.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like we look forward to handling iwi kĂźpuna because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very sensitive spiritual thing to touch the iwi,â&#x20AC;? said Kaleikini. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to just get up and go do. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we press for preserving in place so we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to go and touch their bones, disturb them and disturb everything around them.â&#x20AC;?

When relocations occur, she said, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential that those responsible for the relocation also â&#x20AC;&#x153;come out to mihi (to seek forgiveness) â&#x20AC;Ś before we rebury them.â&#x20AC;?

But for every case that receives public scrutiny, many others are settled without public controversy. Some developers reach out to the community early in the process.

In mid-October, when the Howard Hughes Corp. presented its new vision for its 60-acre Ward Village in

Kakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ako to the Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Community Development Authority, Wong-Kalu told the authority the corporation has shown a â&#x20AC;&#x153;great degree of integrityâ&#x20AC;? in dealing with cultural descendants and soliciting their input.

For its part, the corporation said it has been meeting with various organizations and cultural descendants for months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While it is exciting to be part of the transformation of Kakaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ako, we knew that with this opportunity comes a great responsibility to be good stewards of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;äina,â&#x20AC;? said Nicholas Vanderboom, the corporationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vice president for development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are committed to treating all burial sites with respect, recognizing the personal significance they hold for descendants.â&#x20AC;?

Such early consultation is often key to having successful outcomes, said Markell, OHAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compliance manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many cases where the landowner working with the descendants or working with â&#x20AC;Ś the burial council came to successful resolution of their projects.â&#x20AC;? ď&#x201A;˘

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Bettering the conditions of our Hawaiian veterans Editor’s note: This community forum reflects the views of the individual writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

By Ernest Kimoto

As America honors its veterans with a national holiday Nov. 17, this article is dedicated to the memory of William Kilauano, who passed away a year ago. Bill was a Hawaiian warrior, he was a patriot, he was called “Doc” by the Marines whose lives he saved in combat in Vietnam. Later he was a healer of veterans damaged by war, and to everyone he was a caring and valued friend. This column describes the experience of a friend of mine who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, much like those who were helped by Bill.

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n a Memorial Day, 15 years after the Vietnam War ended, I ran into a friend at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. He asked me if I would pray with him. On the steps of the memorial, this was his prayer as best as I can recall: “Dear God, I don’t know what to do. My wife is leaving me after all these years. My children need my help but don’t want to be around me because they are afraid of me.

Since I came back from Vietnam nothing good has happened to me.

I have a hard time keeping a job because I drink too much and now, I don’t have a driver’s license. I’m losing touch with myself and when I look in the mirror, I don’t know the person looking back at me.

The smell of diesel and helicopter exhaust makes me think about being in Vietnam and going on another mission. I have the feeling again that someone is watching me and will shoot me or frag me with a

grenade. I am really tired, but I have tain types of crimes committed by System. The full report of the study a hard time staying asleep. I want to veterans, the idea is to “divert” vets can be viewed at the OHA website: stop the dreams I have about the VC with PTSD, brain injuries and cer- oha.org/page/native-hawaiianswe killed. Help me, God, so that my tain service-related conditions from criminal-justice-system. ‘ohana will love me again. I need the criminal justice system into a Linked to the study was a summit to have something to live for and I state or VA treatment system. of the Native Hawaiian Justice Task don’t want to die alone.”

This was about 25 years ago when I had just retired from the Marine Corps.

This friend had two combat Kilauano tours in Vietnam as an infantryman and was thinking of ending it all.

It was commonly believed by Vietnam vets in the 1970s and 1980s that the VA would not do much to help with their physical and mental injuries from the Vietnam War. As a matter fact, it was not until 1980, seven years after the end of the Vietnam conflict, that the Diagnostic and Statistical Veterans Day, Nov. 11 is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, which ended World Manual of Mental Disorders, Third War I in 1918. The federal holiday honors veterans. - Photo: Blaine Fergerstrom Edition published by the American Psychiatric Association, first listed In Hawai‘i, these efforts are Force created by legislation hosted criteria for the diagnosis of the dis- enhanced with the Veterans Justice by OHA on June 7 and 8, 2012, order called combat post-traumatic Outreach Initiative of the Veterans in Honolulu. I am hoping that our stress disorder, PTSD. Health Administration. Its goal is Legislature, our judiciary and our Also in the 1970s, some physical “to avoid the unnecessary crimi- citizens support the recommendaailments and conditions would not nalization of mental illness and tions that come out of the task force have been linked to the 20 million extended incarceration among to better the conditions for Hawaigallons of herbicides, including Veterans by ensuring that eligible ian vets.

Agent Orange, sprayed by Ameri- justice-involved Veterans have Over the years since the 1970s can forces in Vietnam to control timely access to VHA mental health and 1980s, the VA has changed for vegetation. Today, there are now and substance use services when the better and has improved access 11 physical conditions, including clinically indicated, and other VA to its services. I am encouraging Type 2 diabetes, recognized by the services and benefits as appropri- veterans to take advantage of the Veterans Health Administration as ate.” The VA is also recognizing linked to Agent Orange. the transgenerational effects of While many Vietnam vets, combat on the families and friends including myself, got to use their of veterans.

VA education benefits, our experiUnfortunately, even with the ences in seeking help from the VA overwhelmingly positive experifor physical, medical and mental ences in more than 20 other states problems were very negative and in the country, the Hawai‘i Legmany of my friends gave up, even islature has yet to pass necessary to this day, seeking treatment from legislation to move forward in the the VA. Veterans Treatment Court project in On a positive note, there are Hawai‘i. efforts in Hawai‘i to create a OHA had commissioned a study Veterans Treatment Court in the and published a report titled The jurisdiction of the First Circuit Disparate Treatment of Native Court, which covers O‘ahu. For cer- Hawaiians in the Criminal Justice

VA benefits that you may be entitled to – if not for yourself, then for your ‘ohana.

For our incarcerated veterans, I recommend that you obtain a copy of A Guidebook for Incarcerated Veterans – Hawai‘i, prepared by the VA here in Hawai‘i, which can be downloaded at: va.gov/homeless/ docs/reentry/09_hi.pdf. If you are not able to download a copy, contact me, Ernest Kimoto, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, 12th Floor, 711 Kapi‘olani Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96813.

U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka said at a 2012 field hearing of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee in Honolulu: “Caring for those who have sacrificed so much to defend our country is a continuing cost of war, and our nation’s sacred commitment. A commitment that we must see fulfilled.”

Let’s help our Hawaiian vets get back in touch with the aloha and ‘äina of Hawai‘i.  Ernie Kimoto is corporate counsel of OHA. He retired from the Marine Corps after combat tours in Vietnam and Thailand. He became an attorney while in the Marines and served as a judge advocate at many bases in the U.S. and Japan. After retirement, he participated in the National Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Study with the Veterans Health Administration in Honolulu and was for brief time a consultant at the Honolulu office of the National Center for PTSD of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Q&A: Alice Walker and Meleanna Meyer Truth-telling as medicine that heals

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ruth and beauty have the power to heal. On this powerful premise and a personal leap of faith, kanaka maoli filmmaker and artist Meleanna Aluli Meyer embarked on her upcoming work, a film that expresses the boundless love of homeland that spiritually unites Hawaiians past, present and future. Meyer’s feature-length film-to-be, Ku‘u ‘Äina Aloha: Beloved Land, Beloved Country, opts for a deeply personal – and emotionally present – form of storytelling.

An early concept “sketch” of the work-in-progress is layered with poetic imagery and music, including songs penned by Queen Lili‘uokalani, and the impassioned mana‘o of the queen, Meyer and other Hawaiian artists and activists bearing witness not only to the usurping of political power, but that of native lands, waters, culture, freedom and spirit – terrible shock waves of loss and inter-

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AW: Even before I met Mele, I was immediately moved by her extraordinary film Ho‘oku‘ikahi.

There are some of us whose destiny is to keep the ancestors in memory and in the heart, to bring them forward to bless descendants with what they’ve learned with

the land. If you love the land, then I love you. And love of ‘äina so precious to me is honored in this film. Using the queen’s songs to tell this story struck me as such a perfect way to encounter the history in a fresh way – also, to affirm the art of Lili‘uokalani.

Many people forget that she was an artist, and that an artist has a different way of recording events

The film is not ‘about’ something; it will be Lili‘u speaking, my aunt speaking, activists and artists like myself who are passionate about the Hawaiian cause speaking not about what happened but what is still happening today.”

‘Aima Näwahï, was a confidante of the queen. She and my uncle published a newspaper in Hilo, and she organized women to add their names to the petition opposing annexation. I was so thrilled to be made aware of these 40 letters that voiced my aunt’s questions, her doubts and commentary on the times. What she spoke of shocked me because they deal with our pres-

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Meleanna Meyer, left, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author Alice Walker, are collaborating with David Kalama on an upcoming film. - Courtesy: Ikaika Hussey generational trauma that reverberate to this day. However, Ku‘u ‘Äina Aloha also offers hope in portraying how Hawaiian community resistance and rebuilding has never ceased.

The film was inspired in 2000 by the discovery of letters Meyer’s great-grandaunt Emma ‘Aima Näwahï wrote from 1895 to 1897. She and her husband, Joseph, were royalist supporters of the queen and ran a Hawaiian-language newspaper in Hilo, Ke Aloha Aina. Meyer’s own path attests to her own walk-the-talk dedication to uplifting her community and creating a free Hawai‘i: from working with youth-at-risk to creating public murals showcasing the Hawaiian environment and culture, to nurturing the nascent talent of Hawaiian charter school students.

Of all her documentaries – including Puamana, ‘Onipa‘a and Ho‘oku‘ikahi – this is the first aiming to reach out to an audience beyond the Islands with its themes resonant of parallel indigenous struggles. Ku‘u ‘Äina Aloha is being produced in collaboration with noted Hawaiian filmmaker David Kalama, with the help of a $150,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The film is in production and currently seeks completion funding to be released next year, Meyer estimates, on or around the queen’s birthday, Sept. 2.

The film has attracted high-powered help, notably Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and human rights activist has contributed generously to the project and helped Meyer to shape the poetic approach of the film. Walker also serves as executive producer for the film.

During her recent visit to Hawai‘i, Walker and Meyer talked story about love of land and truth-telling as medicine that heals.

their long years. I realized that I was looking at a kind of medicine that indigenous people around the world use and need very badly. It is the medicine of going through the trouble of healing those places in history where we have done ourselves in, by war, by fratricide, by intrigue, lying, deception.

MM: Alice agreed years ago to kökua (help) me and this project by being the executive producer. She has been that courageous and committed soul who has stood by as my mentor not only with her time, but treasure, advice and counsel, to help bring Ku‘u ‘Äina Aloha into being. Her support is also such an affirmation. For me, to have a black woman on another continent get what we’re doing to heal, revive our protocols and language, was so profound. We are not alone in our struggle for justice; we’re not just talking to ourselves.

Q: Why are you involved in this project?

AW: I love anybody who loves

Want to kökua?

To get involved and support the completion of the film, contact Meleanna Meyer at meleanna@me.com. and encountering history. We just do. That’s just how it is, whether through poetry, music, literature or painting that the coming generations can bring into themselves, without being terrified, a history that can be sometimes be absolutely paralyzing. We need to encounter our histories through the art that is created by the people, by the ancestors and what they have to teach us.

Q: What was the genesis of the film?

MM: In 2000 Noenoe Silva was writing her book on the Hawaiian resistance to annexation and showed me letters that my greatgrandaunt had written to the queen after the overthrow. My aunt,

ent, not just 100 years ago: attacks on the ali‘i trusts, diminishment of native rights, continual taking of lands, the struggle so many of our people have with education and houselessness and incarceration.

Her commitment challenged me: “What am I doing?” These letters were my impetus to do another film that begged to be done. It’s my kuleana, something I have to do.

Q: What is the film about?

MM: How our love for our homeland endures and is our cry. And because the land persists, we persist. For me, it is speaking truth to our history, our genocidal trauma, our sorrows and our vision. The film is not “about” something; it will be Lili‘u speaking, my aunt speaking, activists and artists like myself who are passionate about the Hawaiian cause speaking not about what happened but what is still happening today. In terms of what went wrong, the historical facts are self-evident. They’re not debatable. But how we choose to

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heal and reconcile is the work of all of us to do. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not for one group to do something and the other to just sit there. We have to engage in discussion otherwise thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be no healing for anybody. Kuâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;u â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ă&#x201E;ina Aloha is that kind of exploration.

actually do anything with, usually.

So this way of coming at this, telling the story through the brilliance of the spirit, is truly remarkable and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just what we need.

Q: What are your hopes for this work?

Q: The film isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fiction but unfolds like a visual poem. Why this personal approach?

MM: Because our history is personal. The film tries to create an experience, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough to learn the facts but to feel, to engage in the story through the heart. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not talking about third person or conjecture, these things did happen, annexation that was illegal. Truth needs to be spoken. Work has been done about the telling of our history, but not the intimate first person truth-telling that will hopefully move peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s souls.

AW: One of the tasks of artists is to try to find the coating on the pill, you know? Because we often

Hawaiian marchers carry the Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i flag upside down in a sign of distress. - Courtesy photo encounter so much resistance and so much objection, and it can be quite daunting. But as artists, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in our power, if we have the will and the capacity, to figure out how to present this in a way that is healing, that will take us along the path.

Medicine that heals you often has to come in a song, it has to come in a melody, it has to come in a

poem, has to come in a story. It canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just come as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, this battle was fought on this hill and this descendant murdered this one and they took all the land.â&#x20AC;? This is the way some people think history has to be relayed to us, but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move the spirit to grow. It can make you close up and feel history is about struggle and holding on â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to more than you can

AW: Ultimately, all the work we do is to help the world. It is to help the mother, it is to help the Earth in her struggle to be whole and healthy and sustain life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not to have people exploding the heads off of mountains, despoiling the rivers, fouling the oceans. I was so moved by the story of George Helm and Kahoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;olawe and the whole coming to consciousness of the Hawaiian people that seems to me just part of the general awakening of the whole planet. I never think of Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i as being a state, I think of it as being a country. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m with you in reclaiming its roots and helping the tree come back into full expression.

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the outreach will be really broad and will reach all corners of the Islands and beyond. It will play in festivals and will have educational curricula attached to it as well as proper social media to create some really meaningful dialogue about healing and reconciliation in places where this kind of conversation needs to happen. I do this to honor our kĂźpuna for the reason of coming together. And you know, if we can come together and say â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? to one another in faith and trust in the good work that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all doing, we can move hearts, which is even more difficult than moving mountains.

Hawaiians want to move on; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that we want to live in the past.

We have so much joy and living to do today. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just grateful to be part of that movement, that shift of mind that really does need to happen in order for the planet to survive. ď&#x201A;˘ Naomi Sodetani is a freelance writer, documentary producer and former Publications Editor of Ka Wai Ola o OHA.

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Solo Sessions: Keali‘i Reichel Fri., Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.

See an up close and personal side of the amazing singer-songwriter and kumu hula Keali‘i Reichel, who shares his songs and stories in an intimate performance.

Audience interaction and impromptu mele have become a signature of this popular series, so be ready for anything! Maui Arts & Cultural Center, McCoy Studio Theater. $35; $65 VIP includes an artist meet-and-greet.

Tickets, (808) 242-7469 or mauiarts.org.

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An Evening of HI Fashion Sat., Nov. 17, 6-9 p.m.

Revel in the music, food and fashion of the 1950s and ’60s with a fashion show beneath the stars. Hosted by Aaron Salä, the show highlights rare vintage aloha wear

by Alfred Shaheen and contemporary collections by Project Runway’s Andy South and Reyn Spooner. Enjoy era-inspired cocktails, food tasting by Hale ‘Aina and Café Pülama and a silent auction of Shaheen originals. Bishop Museum. $75; $55 members.

(808) 847-8296 or bishopmuseum.org/hifashion.

Singer-songwriter Keali‘i Reichel offers an intimate performance Nov. 30 at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. - Courtesy: MACC Nä Lani ‘Ehä Sun., Nov. 11, 3-5:30 p.m.

Four hälau led by kumu hula Leina‘ala Heine, Manu Boyd, Snowbird Bento, and Karl Veto Baker and Michael Casupang join in the spirit of friendly “competition” in a fundraiser for Nä Pualei o Likolehua. This tribute to four musical royals – Kaläkaua, Lili‘uokalani, Leleiohökü and Likelike, features award-winning musician Hökü Zuttermeister as a special guest artist.

McKinley High School Auditorium. $25. Tickets available at Nä Mea Hawai‘i at Ward Warehouse or by calling (808) 676-0056.

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Houses Historic Site and Archives Holiday Craft Fair Sat., Nov. 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Find the special, made-inHawai‘i gift you’re looking for at one of the oldest craft fairs in the islands. More than 40 vendors will showcase everything from jams and jellies to glass-blown items, wood carvings, jewelry, ribbon lei, handdyed items and more. Indulge in ‘ono grinds, enjoy Hawaiian crafting demonstrations and listen to music by Maunalua’s own Bobby Moderow Jr. Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, and Kawaiaha‘o Church grounds.

Free. (808) 447-3923 or mission houses.org.

The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival travels to Kaua‘i in November, featuring kı¯ ho¯‘alu by Walt Keale, pictured, Kaua‘i’s own Paul Togioka and many more. - Courtesy: Milton Lau Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival “Kaua‘i Style” Sun., Nov. 18, noon-6 p.m.

This annual festival series by the Ki-ho‘alu Foundation brings together some of Hawai‘i’s top slack key guitarists. Kaua‘i artists Doug and Sandy McMaster, Michael Keale and Paul Togioka join the long list of performers, including Dennis Kamakahi, Brother Noland, John Cruz and Bobby Moderow. Enjoy island crafters and ‘ono food.

Kaua‘i Beach Resort. Free ($10 suggested donation).

(808) 226-2687 or slackkey festival.com.

Makahiki Nui Sat., Nov. 24, 8 a.m.8 p.m.

In ancient Hawai‘i, makahiki was a time of peace, thanksgiving, preparation for the new year and to honor the god Lono. It was filled with games and contests, dancing and feasting.

The Makahiki Nui event begins with the procession of Akua Lono and ho‘okupu at 8 a.m., followed by traditional games at 9 a.m. for käne 16 and up. The games continue throughout the day. The evening closes with a potluck dinner and awards presentation. Families are welcome to camp over from 3 p.m. Friday until 11 a.m. Sunday.

Bring your own food and supplies.

Kualoa Regional Park, Large Group Site A. Free. To reserve a spot, contact Umi Kai at (808) 840-5510 or ulupono1@gmail.com.

Christmas at Hulihe‘e Palace Sat., Dec. 1, 5:30 p.m.

This gala celebration honoring the legacy of Queen Emma, who founded Queen’s Hospital and St. Andrew’s Priory, features a royal holiday dinner, live and silent auctions, Christmas trees, entertainment by the Kealakehe Intermediate School Chorus and ‘Ukulele Ensemble, as

Alfred Shaheen’s vintage designs will rule the runway at An Evening of HI Fashion on Nov. 17. Courtesy: Camille Shaheen and William Turnberg

well as Nä Hökü Hanohano Award-winning Ho‘okena. The event benefits Habitat for Humanity West Hawai‘i and Daughters of Hawai‘i. Hulihe‘e Palace in Kona. $100. (808) 756-8928 or daughters ofhawaii.org.

MAMo Winter Market & Annual Member Mahalo Day Sat., Dec. 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

This holiday season, look no further than this winter market to find what you need for that special person on your list. Enjoy Native Hawaiian art, keiki Christmas crafts and unique holiday gifts at this event organized by Maoli Arts Month, a community-based effort that celebrates the diversity of the Native Hawaiian arts community.

Museum members also receive a special discount at the Shop Pacifica store. Bishop Museum. Free. (808) 847-3511 or bishopmuseum.org. 

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Lono engraving by Louis Pohl. The late artist’s work on Lono inspired this month’s Chinatown Makahiki. - Courtesy Image: Sandy Pohl

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Makahiki, a season for rejuvenation

> When: Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. > Where: Pauahi and Smith streets and SmithBeretania Urban Park > Cost: Free > Info: Sandy Pohl, (808) 521-1812

hinatown is known for drawing crowds on First Friday, for parades and lion dances of the multiethnic winter Chinese New Year celebrations, MAMo Arts in May, and concerts in the street pretty much anytime. The calendar of events entices visitors and local folks to visit downtown Honolulu.

But, why no Hawaiian celebrations in what was once the ancient village of Kou? Sandy Pohl, force behind many of the Chinatown events and owner of the Louis Pohl Gallery on Bethel Street, often looks up at her late husband’s painting of the procession of Lono, the god of abundance and prosperity. Renowned Hawai‘i artist Louis Pohl taught art at Kamehameha Schools. Every afternoon, after his students left, he would go to study with Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui. His paintings often reflected Pukui’s teaching.

Calling it “an ‘aha’ moment,” Sandy Pohl was talking with Barbara Hao, who gathered Hawaiian artisans to be represented in the gallery. The two women agreed on the need for a cultural event. Pohl says, “Our eyes went to Louis’ painting of Lono, and the Chinatown Makahiki plan was instantly clear.”

In a refreshing change from months

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of election mania, the festival will recall the ancient times when war and politics were kapu, not allowed.

Peace and abundance will be celebrated. On Nov. 17 the Chinatown Arts District will be filled with the energy of the makahiki. Honoring Lono, the daylong events, free and open to the public, will fill Pauahi and Smith streets and the adjacent Smith-Beretania Urban Park.

Lunch will be affordable and accessible all along Pauahi Street.

Food trucks, organized by Street Grindzs, include Local Stop, Five-O Ribs, Hawai‘i’s Fried Musubi, Hula Shrimp and Kona Ice. Some 30 quality crafters will also line Pauahi Street, organized by Art & Flea.

Cultural experiences, coordinated

by Ke‘eaumoku Kapu, include the making of pa‘i ‘ai, lauhala weaving, feather work, kapa, ‘öpae trap and warrior helmet weaving. The Hawaiian skill games and demonstrations, rarely presented in public, include lua, pähoa (clubs), pa‘a uma (arm wrestling), häkökö (upper body wrestling) and häpai pöhaku (stone lift).

At 7 a.m. an altar to Lono will be built in the park. Protocol begins at 10 a.m. Civic leaders will speak and at noon, a performance by the Royal Hawaiian Band will be followed by the command to “let the games begin.” —Lynn Cook

oday many view makahiki as a time for games and sport such as ‘ulu maika, mokomoko and könane – whose western counterparts are bowling, boxing and checkers, respectively.

But once, long ago, this season signified much more than what is celebrated today. “(Makahiki) was a reawakening of a time period in the year marked for rejuvenation,” says Umi Kai, a lua master, or ‘ölohe lua, with Pä Ku‘i A Lua, a nonprofit organization devoted to the perpetuation of the Hawaiian culture through the Hawaiian martial art of lua. Traditionally makahihi was a time of peace and revelry, when war and major projects would cease and elite competitors participated in sport.

Kai and fellow ‘ölohe lua Kamilo Lara and Kaha Toledo hosted a lecture on makahiki at Bishop Museum in September as part of the museum’s ongoing Traditions of the Pacific program, with hopes to share with other modern-day Hawaiians the ancient protocols associated with this sacred time of year.

“Within Hawaiian culture, (makahiki) is a tribute to Lono, the god of the rain and fertility, asking for help with next year’s crops and for healing,” Kai said at the lecture. “For the ali‘i, it also was a time for recognizing their resources – to recognize how many physical resources they had available” as well as how many top warriors, weapon makers and canoe builders they had.

Makahiki would begin in October or November and last about four months. Ancient Hawaiians followed a lunar calendar, not the Gregorian calendar we follow today, and so their months and ours do not perfectly match up.

However, Kai explains makahiki officially starts with the first new moon after makali‘i, the constellation Pleiades, appears in the

Traditions of the Pacific Lecture series In November, the lecture series will turn its attention to Läna‘i, with an exploration of the island’s history, culture and people, as told by Kepä Maly, executive director of the Läna‘i Culture and Heritage Center.

The lecture, Aloha Läna‘i Kaululä‘au, takes place Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. at Bishop Museum’s Atherton Hälau.

Admission is $10 for adults and free for members. RSVP to bishopmuseum.org/ visitors/rsvp.html.

eastern sky at sunset.

“And because you see things in the sky at different times depending where you are standing on Earth, the beginning of makahiki varied from island to island as well,” Kai noted.

When makahiki did arrive, Hawaiians would welcome Lono through protocol that began early in the morning, with kapu placed on haumana (students) partaking in the rituals – käne would partake in the ‘awa ceremony and blessing of the spiritual images, while wähine would gather ritual foods.

Those who would be in attendance at the protocol ceremony also were cleansed by pï kai, or sprinkling of water.

“The idea was to come to this protocol ceremony with pure intentions,” Kai explained.

A ceremonial procession then traveled clockwise around the island led by the pü kani (trumpet blower). The procession is flanked by two kähili kï (kähili made of the kï plant) – one in the front and one in the back – and followed, in order, by kahuna, ali‘i and the akua loa, also called akua Lono, flanked by two älia.

The älia are poles that mark areas

of kapu.

“As akua loa traveled, anything makai was kapu, so you wanted to make sure you were mauka, or else you would face a penalty,” Kai said.

The akua loa is a long notched pole, from 10 feet to 16 feet long, with a representation of Lono carved at the top. A crossbeam was draped with white kapa and dressed across the top with lei made from the hearty pala fern, or any other edible fern. Also hanging from the kea, the crossbar, are lei hulu and two ka‘upu, or large seabirds, on each side.

Some believe seabirds helped guide Lono during his journeys from Kahiki.

After the akua loa came the akua pä‘ani, in the form of a spear, or ihe, whose tip is covered with ‘ie‘ie basketry and two kapa streamers, one yellow and one white. Akua pä‘ani is the god of games. Others in the procession followed, and a second set of kähili kï designated the end of the procession.

Also important to the protocol was the akua poko, a small image that served as each ahupua‘a’s akua that would greet the akua loa upon its entry into the district at an altar, or ahu, where ho‘okupu was presented.

“Once a pule was called and the kapu was lifted, then the games could begin,” Kai said, concluding the lecture.

A Makahiki Nui, sponsored by ‘Aha Käne, Hale Mua o Kuali‘i and G. Umi Kai, will be held Nov. 24 at Kualoa Regional Park. Procession ofakua loa/lono is at 8 a.m., with games commencing at 9 a.m. for men and boys 16 and older, and a dinner/awards ceremony at 6 p.m. Gates open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Contact ulupono1@gmail.com or (808) 840-5510 for information.  Sarah Pacheco, an O‘ahubased freelance writer, is a former assistant regional editor for MidWeek.

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Escape with

Kamehameha Schools in 2012.

In 1883 Maria Hi‘o Adams Boyd of Maunawili, Manu Boyd’s great-great-grandmother, composed a tribute to Queen Kapi‘olani called “Aia i Nu‘uanu.” Its magic flourishes again with new music by Boyd.

Off to the perfect spot for stargazing, high on a hilltop in Kaimukï, the inspiration for the charming hula mele (song) “Pu‘u Kaimukï” composed by Boyd and his hula brother Keala Chock for kumu hula Maelia Carter.

Music brings people together as in “Kalaekilohana Kïnohinohi,” an old-style Hawaiian storytelling song about a party with Robert Cazimero’s Hälau Nä Kamalei O Lïlïlehua, which Boyd graduated from in 1995 as kumu hula. In a rare recording style with ‘ili‘ili in hand, this mele features Kapalai‘ula de Silva (who just had his ‘uniki as kumu hula in September) and Lilinoe Sterling, Miss Aloha Hula 2012.

Mount Hualälai to the beach at Kïholo, North Kona, the wahi pana are music to the senses when celebrated with the intricate piano stylings of Boyd coupled with his vocals in harmony with Moon Kauakahi of Mäkaha Sons in “Kona Aloha.”

For a spicy undertone, the fire goddess Pele’s home, Kïlauea, sets the stage where “Lei

‘Mele ‘Ailana’

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Mele ‘Ailana Manu Boyd Soul Sound Studio Available starting Nov. 1 at iTunes and manuboyd.com.

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very once in a while we just need to get away. So come along … just close your eyes and follow as we escape off the beaten track.

Manu Boyd, the two-time Grammy nominee and multi-Nä Hökü Hanohano Award winner, just released his first solo venture – Mele ‘Ailana – and it’s just the ticket, your passport to a celebration of island music.

Our journey begins at Mänoa Falls, the water source created by Käne, and flows to the surrounding area like a lullaby whispering to Kahalaopuna, the rainbow goddess, in the mele “Waiakeakua” with guest vocalist Robert Cazimero.

Over the Ko‘olau to Windward O‘ahu, Boyd composed the mele “Nani He‘eia” about the abundant natural resources of the area, in honor of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop and her father, Päkï, for the 125th anniversary of

Home holidays for the

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Pa‘iniu” unfolds in an unforgettable duet by Boyd and Kainani Kahaunaele.

The style many of these songs are written in is called “ku‘ina” or “ho‘oku‘i” (to connect) as verse or line endings suggest a similar sounding word to continue on.

“It’s mind boggling how much I’ve learned over the past four months about many things,” said Boyd. “I thank Teresa Bright for making it happen, and for introducing me to Shawn Moseley and Soul Sound Studio in He‘eia for mentoring me in true ‘less is more’ fashion.

This project has been one of the most enjoyable in my 50 years. This milestone year was the impetus for this project that I have been shaping with close friends for many years.

“Guest artists are all close friends. I wanted to try and present them in as good an environment as possible.”

From the rising sun at Kumukahi to its setting at Lehua, Mele ‘Ailana comforts like sunshine after rain, with lyrics that include nearly 60 place names, Akua names, kupua, ali‘i, winds, rains, plants and people, which make this truly a work dedicated to our lähui and kuläiwi. Its unique new style is sure to please.

Escape this hectic holiday season. Let yourself be transported to Mele ‘Ailana, a celebration of island music. 

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he 2012 Nä Hökü Hanohano Male Vocalist of the Year, Kuana Torres Kahele sings holiday tunes with raging hot vocals in his cool new album, Hilo for the Holidays.

Welcome as an old friend, the 10 tracks are a perfect balance of classics and originals with both festive and charming lyrics as in the title song written by Kahele, “Hilo for the Holidays.”

“It’s to Hilo that I go, back to the poi and hö‘i‘o,” he sings. “Where the ‘ohana hïmeni o kalikimaka ë. There’s no other place for me, not Kahului or Waikïkï. Oh it’s Hilo for the holidays for me.”

The fun continues with “Here comes Santa

in a Red Canoe” composed by Johnny Kamano, and “Iesu E Komo Mai” a composition from Ni‘ihau’s Mama Ane Kanahele, which makes you want to clap your hands and shake your hips.

“Christmas Don’t be Late” by Ross Bagdasarian is also featured in Hawaiian by Torres. “I Guess it’s Christmas,” a Torres original, is sure to one day be a classic.

In “ ‘Ekolu Mea Nui/Halelü,” the first song was composed by Robert Nawähine in 1925 based on a passage from Corinthians. To collaborate with the church song, Kahele wrote “Halelü” based on a passage from Psalms.

Together the two songs have formed an exquisite holiday medley.

There’s a familiar feeling of Christmas with traditional pieces like “Silver Bells” and “The First Noel,” but “Home for the Holidays” with a twist of Kahele in the lyrics is terrific.

A wonderful stocking stuffer, Hilo for the Holidays is available at music stores across the state and online at mountainapplecompany. com or napalapalaimusic.com.

P.S. we smile every time we see the picture of Kahele’s dog on the compact disc. Enjoy! 

Na¯ Ho¯ku¯ Hanohano Male Vocalist of the Year, Kuana Torres Photo: Nick Masagatani

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Alama sisters honored for dedication to hula

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n intimate Saturday morning awards luncheon turned into a full-blown, unscripted päâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ina Oct. 6, as sisters Leilani, 87, and Puanani, 82, Alama received Hula Grill WaikĂŻkĂŻâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth annual I Ola Mau Ka Hula Award.

Called â&#x20AC;&#x153;inseparable legends in the hula community,â&#x20AC;? the sisters are the oldest active kumu hula today and have taught thousands of students at their respective hula studios over seven decades.

On a day proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Puanani and Leilani Alama Dayâ&#x20AC;? by Governor Abercrombie, the two sisters wiped tears from their eyes as they were recognized through heartfelt speeches for living and exemplifying

Hawaiian traditions through hula.

But above all, it was a day of fun. And after a short welcome to the private gathering of some 50 guests from as far afield as Virginia and Japan, restaurant manager Cris Pasquil kicked off the party with the words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If anyone would like to sing, dance, the floor is yours.â&#x20AC;?

Puanani Alama joined in impromptu hula by a group of women, and everyone took turns dancing, including Hula Preservation Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Maile Loo, niece Te Moana Makolo and niece Tanna Hee, who thanked Leilani Alama for raising her as a daughter after her mom died. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She always says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Make me proud.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Today, Aunty, I am proud of you.â&#x20AC;?

Puanani Alamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Pua-

Sisters Leilani, left, and Puanani Alama are this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipients of Hula Grill WaikĹ¯kĹ¯â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I Ola Mau Ka Hula Award. Behind them are Maile Loo, left, and Puananiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Puanani Jung, far right. - Photo: Lynn Cook nani Jung, a kumu hula in Orange County, California, also danced with her 12-year-old twin girls, Kuâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;upua and Kuâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ulei, who earned the titles of Keiki Miss Hula 2011 and 2012, respectively, at their local E Hula Mau competition.

Adding to the fun with rascal, humorous speeches and uplifting hula were Robert Cazimero, Kimo Alama Keaulana and Ainsley Kelii Halemanu. The three kumu hula, along with Tony Conjugacion, were described as the auntiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;four

darlingsâ&#x20AC;? because â&#x20AC;&#x153;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always there to support them. They never say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? Makolo noted.

Keaulana told the crowd, â&#x20AC;&#x153;My hula life would not have been enriched if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for Aunty Pua and Aunty Leinani. They were the standard.â&#x20AC;? Cazimero said when it comes to the aunties, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;acquaintanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone is family. Everyone is friend. Everyone is loved,â&#x20AC;? he said.

As they have every year since 1940, the Alama sisters continue to anchor the Nä Hula o Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Festival at Kapiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;olani Park, and they regularly judge hula competitions.

Leilani Alama, a past Aloha Week queen, still teaches five days a week at the KaimukĂŻ studio she has taught at since 1943. Puanani, whose image graced the Lovely Hula Hands album cover, is the last living judge from the first Merrie Monarch Festival, which marks 50 years next year. To the crowd, Puanani pledged, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to teach till I go to Heaven.â&#x20AC;? ď&#x201A;˘

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KS opens its first residential project in Kaka‘ako The first residents are expected to move in this month into Kamehameha Schools’ first residential project of its master-planned development in Kaka‘ako.

The landowner began accepting rental applications Oct. 29 for the 42 studio apartments and 12 one-bedroom apartments at the former office and retail building now known as Six Eighty, located at 680 Ala Moana Boulevard. The building comprises three stories of apartments built above 8,600 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. Starbucks opened a store there in September.

Apartments feature an openconcept floor plan, stainless steel appliances, vinyl whitewashed floors, air conditioning and a water heater. Amenities include community laundry on each floor, a game room, media room, and barbecue and lounge areas. Monthly rents range from $1,100 to $1,400.

Income and asset restrictions apply.

Renters must live in their units and their maximum annual adjusted household income must not exceed Honolulu’s median income, or $57,890 for one person, $66,160 for two people, and $74,430 for three people. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The 54 apartments are the first of 2,750 units that KS anticipates building as part of its 29-acre master plan in Kaka‘ako, which will feature living units for sale and rent targeting various income levels, including street-level urban townhomes, work-live units and high-rise condominiums.

For Six Eighty applications, visit Cirrus Asset Management Inc.’s offices at 441 Walina St., Suite 100, in Honolulu or go online to 680alamoana.com, email 680alamoana@cirrusami.com or call (808) 226-9876.

OHA to preview grants program The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is seeking organizations working in culture or land to learn about

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OHA welcomes visit from funding partner

Office of Hawaiian Affairs executives and managers on Oct. 15 welcomed Nancy Jemison, third from right, a consultant with the Administration for Native Americans. OHA and ANA are funding partners in the Native Hawaiian Revolving Loan Fund, which provides low-interest Ma¯lama Loans for Native Hawaiians primarily for business, education and home improvement. During her visit, Jemison also met with OHA Ma¯lama Loan staff and members of its board of directors, and was hosted for site visits at various businesses supported by the loan program, including Keola Rapozo’s Fitted Hawai‘i and Malia Sanchez’s Makana Esthetics Wellness Academy. The five-year-old academy is a nominee for the prestigious Retail Merchants of Hawai‘i 2012 Ho‘okela Award for retail business of the year. Pictured from left are: OHA Transitional Assistance Manager Keith Yabusaki, NHRLF manager Winfred Cameron, OHA COO Aedward Los Banos, OHA Resource Management Director Hawley Iona, and OHA Ka Pouhana Kamana‘opono Crabbe. - Photo: Momilani Lazo funding opportunities. OHA will be previewing its grants program to such organizations at a series of meetings. Organizations will learn about the upcoming grant cycle, the goals OHA seeks to achieve through land and culture grants and the steps to apply for funding.

Reservations are required as there are a limited number of seats at each venue, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Here is the schedule: >> East Hawai‘i, Nov. 8, 6-8 p.m., Keaukaha Elementary School cafeteria, 240 Desha Ave., Hilo. For reservations, call (808) 920-6418. >> West Hawai‘i, Nov. 9, 6–8 p.m., Kanu O Ka ‘Äina, 64-1043 Hi‘iaka St., Kamuela. For reservations, call (808) 327-9525. >> Moloka‘i, Nov. 9, 2–5 p.m., Külana ‘Öiwi Conference Room, 600 Maunaloa Highway. For reservations, call (808) 560-3611. >> Kaua‘i, Nov. 13, 6–8 p.m., Lïhu‘e Neighborhood Center, 3353 ‘Eono St., Lïhu‘e. For reservations, call (808) 245-3390. >> Windward O‘ahu, Nov. 13, 6–8 p.m., Benjamin Parker Elementary School cafeteria, 45-259 Waikalua Road, Käne‘ohe. For res-

ervations, call (808) 594-1986. >> Leeward O‘ahu, Nov. 15, 6–8 p.m., DHHL, 91-5420 Kapolei Parkway, Kapolei. For reservations, call (808) 594-1986. >> Maui, Nov. 16, 6–8 p.m., Cameron Center, 95 Mahalani St., Wailuku. For reservations, call (808) 873-3364.

NHLC movie-night fundraiser The Australian film Murundak: Songs of Freedom will premiere in Hawai‘i as part of a double-feature benefit for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. at 5 p.m. Nov. 24 at Mamiya Theatre on the Saint Louis School campus.

The film “follows The Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia’s finest aboriginal musicians as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom,” says its website, murundakdocumentary.com.

Among other awards, the film was recognized by the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Awards in 2011 for promoting aboriginal reconciliation.

The second feature, Fishing Pono: Living in Harmony with the

Sea, tells the story of Native Hawaiians who live off the sea.

Admission is $75 general, and $25 for students. The evening also includes püpü, live music and a silent auction. For tickets, visit nhlchi.org or call (808) 521-2302.

Midway Atoll now on Google Maps’ Street View Midway Atoll, part of the federally protected Papahänaumokuäkea Marine National Monument, is now viewable on Street View on Google Maps, meaning that on-the-ground images of the historic atoll can be seen with the click of a mouse.

“The project team, consisting of PMNM staff and a Google technician spent two weeks on Midway this summer, capturing more than 9,200 panoramic images of 60 different natural and historic sites along 21 miles of roads and paths on the island,” the monument said in a statement. “This mapping effort provides a valuable interpretive tool for Papahänaumokuäkea’s unique treasures and demonstrates the need to protect this remote and special place.”

Calling it a “significant accom-

plishment” in its efforts to “bring the place to the people,” the monument said it hopes to add other sites in the monument to Street View.

Midway Atoll, now a national wildlife refuge, was the focus of the Battle of Midway in 1942 that changed the tide of war in the Pacific.

To see the atoll on Street View, visit Google Maps and type in “Midway Atoll.” Click and hold the orange-person icon that appears at the top of the zoom bar. Drag and drop the icon on any blue line that appears on the island. Further navigation can be done using a mouse or keyboard arrows. For information, contact Kalewa.Correa@noaa.gov.

Vintage book sale The Kaua‘i Historical Society will put on its final “Last Ever” Vintage Book Offering at 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 9 in the lobby of the newly restored Historic County building.

Offerings include rare and vintage Hawaiiana books, most published before 1950 and some dating to the 19th century, said Karen Ouye of KHS. Book prices will range from $5 to several hundred dollars. There is no admission fee.

Reproductions of rare and historic Kaua‘i photos will also be offered, as well as reproductions of a 1903 map of the island and a 3-foot-by-4-foot giclee of a Coco Palms lagoon, she said.

Last year, the society’s vintage book sale and pä‘ina attracted 300 people. This year’s event will be more intimate and will offer wine, cheese and a silent auction. The books being sold are duplicates from KHS’s collection and the sale is expected to be the last as the society clears out space to expand its collection, Ouye said.

KHS members will receive a 10 percent discount on all items. The society anticipates posting a list of items to be offered on its website, kauaihistoricalsociety.org. For information, call (808) 245-3373 or email info@kauaihistoricalsociety.org.

Voluntary flu vaccinations at schools The state Department of Health

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will be administering free flu vaccinations to Hawai‘i students in kindergarten through eighth grade at more than 300 public, private and charter schools statewide.

Vaccinations through the Stop Flu at School program is voluntary for schools and students. The Health Department said it expects to vaccinate more than 60,000 students between Oct. 15 and Dec. 7, the duration of the campaign.

“By vaccinating schoolchildren, we not only protect our keiki, but their families and communities as well,” the state epidemiologist, Dr. Sarah Park, said in a statement. “An annual flu vaccination is recommended for everyone six months

and older. Children not vaccinated at their school should go to their doctor to receive the flu vaccine.

Adults should be vaccinated at their doctor’s office or a pharmacy.”

The Health Department said: “Vaccinating each child born in the United States in a given year following the current childhood immunization schedule could prevent approximately 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease.” For information, visit stopfluatschool.com or call the Aloha United Way information and referral line 2-1-1. A list of flu-vaccination clinics statewide is available at hawaii.gov/health/flu-hawaii-gov/ Documents/flushotschedule.pdf or by calling 211. 

HE HO‘OMANA‘O IN MEMORIAM

OHA candidate Sharon Pomroy passes

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n Wailua on Oct. 17 after delivering remarks at a meet and greet for the Kaua‘i Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee candidates, Hawaiian cultural practitioner Sharon Pomroy suffered a seizure Pomroy and heart attack.

“All the candidates running the OHA Kaua‘i race came to visit her in the hospital,” recalled Onaona Maly, Pomroy’s sister. One candidate who visited told Maly that Pomroy’s remarks were full of “aloha and love. … She was passionate and it was amazing.” Never regaining consciousness, Pomroy died Oct. 23 at the age of 63.

Pomroy was the po‘o (head) of Mano O Kalanipö (Kaua‘i) for the statewide ‘Aha Moku Council, a Native Hawaiian natural resource management group working on a comprehensive set of Native Hawaiian best management practices. The council was integral in supporting House Bill 2806 that Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed into law in July, creating the ‘Aha Moku Advisory Committee within the Department of Land and Natural Resources to advise the Land Board on traditional practices and knowledge. Pomroy was also a member of the ‘Aha Kiole Advisory Com-

mittee, a predecessor body that crafted a report on best practices for managing the state’s natural and cultural resources.

Pomroy had lived on a 6-acre farm in Anahola, Kaua‘i, since 1985.

With a vast knowledge of native flora, Pomroy dedicated a large portion of the farm to restoring the native forest of the area, and helped others, including Kanuikapono charter school, with plantings.

Born Oct. 10, 1949, to Walter and Irmalee Pomroy of the Pukui ‘ohana, Pomroy began learning cultural practices like lawai‘a (fishing) at a very early age from her küpuna.

At the age of 10, her family moved to Waimänalo, where she learned about native plants, how to farm and the art of lei making.

“She just loved her Hawaiian people and culture,” elaborated Maly. “She worked full time on the farm. But she helped so many different projects and people, young and old. She was very passionate.

I think as our father and father’s father did, she passed away doing something she loved.”

Pomroy is survived by her brother, Paul, and sister, Onaona Maly. – Francine Murray

Cultural impact assessment notices Kuiaha-Pa‘uwela Homesteads and East Kaupakulua Ahupua‘a Information requested by Scientific Consultant Services, Inc. (SCS) on cultural resources or ongoing cultural activities on or near the proposed Nalu Ola Ranch subdivision and development, Kuiaha-Pa‘uwela Homesteads and East Kaupakulua Ahupua‘a, Makawao District, Maui Island, Hawai‘i [TMK: (2) 2-7-007:004 and 003 por]. Please respond within 30 days to Cathleen Dagher at (808) 597-1182.

Pa‘uwela Ahupua‘a Information requested by Scientific Consultant Services, Inc. (SCS) on cultural resources or ongoing cultural activities on or near the proposed Nalu Ola Ranch subdivision and development, Pa‘uwela Ahupua‘a, Makawao District, Maui Island, Hawai‘i [TMK: (2) 2-7-004:033, 022, and 007 por]. Please respond within 30 days to Cathleen Dagher at (808) 597-1182.

Public notice

Call for Claimants under Native Hawaiian Grave Protection and Repatriation Act

PÖHAKULOA TRAINING AREA This Call for Claimants is hereby given in accordance with the Native Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3002(d) and its implementing regulations 43 CFR 10.4 and 5, and is requesting claimants of lineal and/or cultural affiliation to determine treatment and custody for human remains in the control of the US Army Garrison, Pöhakuloa, Hawai‘i Island, Hawai‘i (USAG-Pöhakuloa).

On Sept. 28, 2012, archaeologists inadvertently discovered disarticulated and fragmentary human skeletal remains during an archaeological inventory survey at Pöhakuloa Training Area, Ka‘ohe Ahupua‘a, Hämäkua District.

The archaeologists determined the remains to be human and pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d) (1) USAG-Pöhakuloa has presumed the remains to be of Native Hawaiian ancestry based upon their location in a lava tube with traditional archaeological materials, including a hearth and kukui nut shells. The bones are located in two chambers of a lava tube and were left in place. No funerary objects, sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony have been recovered. No construction projects are ongoing in the area.

Representatives of Native Hawaiian organizations and/or individuals that wish to claim lineal and/or cultural affiliation with the human remains are requested to contact Dr. Julie Taomia, Archeologist, Environmental Division, U.S. Army Garrison, Pöhakuloa, P.O. Box 4607, Hilo, HI 96720 or by email at julie.m.taomia.civ@mail. mil before November 15, 2012.

———————————— Public Notice Regarding Section 106 Review of the proposed Puainako Street Widening Project, Hilo, Hawai‘i The State Department of Transportation (DOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration, is issuing this public notice as part of its responsibilities under 36 CFR Part 800, the regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended.

Project Background and Purpose The Section 106 consultation process is being conducted in conjunction with a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Re-Evaluation. In 2000, the DOT completed a Final EIS and Record of Decision (ROD) for the Puainako Street Extension and Widening. The upper portion has been constructed, and DOT intends to design and construct the lower portion of the Puainako Street corridor.

The project involves the partial realignment and widening of Puainako Street from the east

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side of Kïlauea Avenue intersection to Komohana Street. The segment from the vicinity west of the Waiäkea Schools complex to Komohana Street will consist of construction of a new four lane roadway along a new alignment.

The portion along the front of the Waiäkea Schools complex to the east side of Kïlauea Avenue will be a widening of the existing Puainako Street from two to four lanes.

Improvements within the corridor, which is approximately 1.5 miles in length, will include sidewalks and bicycle lanes, drainage structures, traffic signals, retaining walls, sound walls, raised and atgrade medians, and landscaping.

To construct this project, property beyond the existing DOT rightof-way will need to be acquired.

The approximate project limits extend from milepost 0.16 to 1.61 of Puainako Street.

Section 106 Consultations The regulations at 36 CFR Part 800 require the funding agency to identify historic properties that are listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic places; to assess any direct or indirect effects the proposed construction would have; and to seek ways to avoid, minimize, or mitigate any adverse effects.

Request for Information The DOT is seeking additional public input on the project, and would appreciate comments reflecting any knowledge of, or concerns with, historic properties in the proposed Area of Potential Effects (APE), including any issues related to the project’s potential effects on historic properties.

Any member of the public may submit comments by November 30, 2012, via e-mail to the DOT project manager at Robert.Sun@ hawaii.gov or by regular mail to: Robert Sun, State of Hawai‘i Department of Transportation, 601 Kamokila Blvd., Room 609, Kapolei, HI 96707. For a complete definition of “historic property” under the NHPA, you may access the following website: www.achp. gov/citizensguide.html 

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trustee messsages

Editor’s note: Beginning in June, certain trustees’ columns will not appear in Ka Wai Ola. In accordance with an Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees policy based on state ethics guidelines, any trustee running for re-election is suspended from publishing his or her regular column until the elections are complete, except for those trustees running unopposed. Trustees Haunani Apoliona, Robert Lindsey and Hulu Lindsey have filed nomination papers for re-election and, as a result, their columns are suspended pending the outcome of the election.

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Trustees Colette Y. Machado Chairperson, Trustee, Moloka‘i and La¯ na‘i Tel: 808.594.1837 Fax: 808.594.0212 Email: colettem@oha.org

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Peter Apo Vice Chair, Trustee, O‘ahu Tel: 808.594.1854 Fax: 808.594.1864 Email: petera@oha.org

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Rowena Akana Trustee, At-large Tel: 808.594.1860 Fax: 808.594.0209 Email: rowenaa@oha.org

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Haunani Apoliona, MSW Trustee, At-large Tel: 808.594.1886 Email: reynoldf@oha.org

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Donald B. Cataluna Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau Tel: 808.594.1881 Fax: 808.594.0211 Email: donaldc@oha.org

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Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey Trustee, Maui Tel: 808.594.1858 Fax: 808.594.1864 Email: hulul@oha.org

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Robert K. Lindsey Jr. Trustee, Hawai‘i Tel: 808.594.1855 Fax: 808.594.1883 Email: robertl@oha.org

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Oz Stender Trustee, At-large Tel: 808.594.1877 Fax: 808.594.1853 Email: oswalds@oha.org

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John D. Waihe‘e IV Trustee, At-large Tel: 808.594.1876 Fax: 808.594.0208 Email: crayna@oha.org

11th annual Native Hawaiian Convention

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n Oct. 2- 4, 2012, and to learn more about funding the Council for opportunities from federal, state Native Hawaiian and foundation entities. The Advancement forum featured presentations held its 11th on funding available through annual Native Hawaiian various foundations and was Convention. This year’s coordinated by the White House theme was “Moving ForInitiative on Asian and Pacific Colette Y. ward – Our People, Our Islanders, the Ford Foundation Land, Our Spirit.” The Office and CNHA’s Hawaiian Way Machado of Hawaiian Affairs was very Fund. There were special sespleased to be one this year’s sions with the Pacific Island Chairperson, sponsors.

Forum Steering Committee Trustee Moloka‘i This convention is the and national foundation leadand La-na‘i largest gathering of commuers. Samplings of Pacific Island nity members, organizations, projects and foundation-funded policymakers, legislative projects were presented. representatives and federal agencies interAttendees had a chance to sit in on ested in Native Hawaiian community concurrent sessions. The sessions were: development. This annual convention Oweesta First Nations Access to Capifeatures many different speakers, pre- tal, New Markets Tax Credits – Capital sentations, various policy reports, public for Building Facilities and Structures, policy plenary sessions, luncheons, ban- Native Hawaiian Education Act Fundquets, keynote addresses, roundtables and ing, Accessing CIP Funds, Workplace workshops that focus on issues related to Giving, DHHL Grant and Loan Procultural preservation, education, housing, grams, and DeSoto Brown’s Archival economic development and self-determi- Treasures from the Hawaiian Monarch nation. This year was no different. and Judd Collections.

The convention started on Tuesday The highlight of the convention was where participants chose from several dif- the opportunity to hear from Sen. Daniel ferent breakout sessions. Sessions such as Akaka, who will be retiring at the end of theAnnual Next Generation Leaders Forum this year. Senator Akaka has participated hosted by Lilikalä Kame‘eleihiwa and the in all of the Native Hawaiian ConvenUniversity of Hawai‘i Hawaiian Studies tions since they started and has spoken at Program focused on gathering emerging each event. This year he gave an eloquent Hawaiian leaders. Another session was the speech of his years of service for our state Hawaiian Home Lands Roundtable, which and how he has seen many changes happen was hosted by theAssociation of Hawaiians here in Hawai‘i and across the country. At for Homestead Lands. At this roundtable, the same time, he said the Native Hawaivarious issues were discussed such as the ian people, their culture and language have Native Hawaiian Roll Commission, the remained resilient. He encouraged all that Nelson v. HHC case, and water rights of we are on this voyage together to advance the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act our Hawaiian people, that we prepare ourbeneficiaries. The Pacific Business Partner- selves by learning new skills, work hard ship Summit hosted by the Native Hawaiian and make contributions to our community EconomicAlliance shared business policies, and extend aloha in all we do. strategies and networking opportunities. The Throughout the convention there was last of the morning sessions was hosted by the Convention Marketplace, where more the Native Hawaiian Health Consortium, than 70 vendors and booths featured local where they discussed and focused on health- fashion and small-business owners. This care challenges and solutions for Native was hosted by Nä Mea Hawai‘i and Hawaiians.

Native Hawaiian Economic Alliance.

On Wednesday those in attendance The convention was a great success, participated in the Philanthropy Forum. and I believe all who attended gained At the different sessions, technical and insightful information. As Senator financial information was provided. It Akaka stated, we should “grab our was a great way to meet program officers paddle and hoe a mau.” Till next year. 

Speaking on Hawaiians and Hawaiian issues

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ast week I spoke the Hawaiian community. to the Kapolei Worse, I observe that many Rotary Club. not only believe us to be The topic was irrelevant to their lives but “Hawai‘i, Hawaialso feel a little threatened ians, and the Hawaiian by our continuing calls for Economy.” A subtitle sovereignty and nationhood. would be “Are HawaiWhy is this? For over 30 Peter ians considered relevant years the public’s perception by the rest of Hawai‘i?” of the Hawaiian community Apo My presentation has been largely driven walked through the conby mainstream media. In Vice Chair, siderable operations of their reporting on HawaiTrustee, O‘ahu the Office of Hawaiian ians, mainstream media has Affairs, profiled the five been a messenger of gloom largest Hawaiian institugravitating toward the latest tions and the staggering institutional bad news from Hawaiians. We are wealth held jointly by these “top 5,” painted as being in a state of conexamined the profound impact of tinuous anger, constantly whining, a Hawaiian institutional spending on society of professional victims perthe Hawai‘i economy and the color- petuating government dependency blind way the money flows to every on handouts and entitlements, and community in the state. I went on to pursuing a future of exclusion and note the trend of diminishing public separation from the rest of the state. support for Hawaiians. I noted that it’s Let my intention here be clear. been 30 years since the in-your-face I’m not looking for an argument or Hawaiian political activism of the for anyone to agree with my view. It ’70s raised the bar on the Hawaiian is how I see things. So, I determined struggle for redress from the federal recently that we need to ramp up our government for a litany of injustices messaging, particularly to those who beginning with the illegal overthrow lie outside the Hawaiian community. of the monarchy and the unconstitu- Toward that end, I began seeking tional annexation of Hawai‘i. speaking opportunities to paint an Today the goal continues to be accurate and informed picture of how redefining the political relationship far Hawaiians have come and particubetween Hawaiians, the State of larly why people should care about Hawai‘i and the federal government, what happens to us. I ended with the and restoring some manifestation acknowledgement that Hawaiians of sovereignty. While the move- need to spend less time rehashing all ment was marked by frequent the wrongs of the past and more time public protests and spawned years on what a Hawaiian-driven future of civil tension, it also triggered a would look like, particularly addressremarkable cultural and spiritual ing the question as to whether such a reawakening. There ensued a quiet future will make life better for everybut determined rebuilding of the one – or just Hawaiians. The reaction capacity of Hawaiians and grew a from the Kapolei Rotary was a sense whole new generation of leaders in of relief and far better understanding every field – particularly in politics. that they have nothing to fear from Since becoming an OHA trustee, Hawaiians. I’m seeking to speak to as it’s been interesting for me to note many organizations as will have me. that my view of who we are today is I close with a humble appeal to readhighlighted by the vastly improved ers to communicate any interest in my state of our institutions, and the presentation to my office. important contributions Hawaiians To have Trustee Apo speak for your are making to make life better for community or professional organizaeveryone. But, auwë. The good news tion, contact his office at (808) 594-1893, goes mostly unnoted from outside or email makanac@oha.org. 

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Wrapping up a historic year for OHA

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ongratulations to all of the public servants elected in 2012. Campaigning can be a grueling process. I look forward to working with all of you in the 2013 legislative session to better the conditions of Native Hawaiians.

NEW MAUI TRUSTEE AND OHA CEO OHA began the year by welcoming new Maui Trustee Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey, who was appointed

by Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Trustee Lindsey brought a much-needed burst of new energy to the board with her knowledge, experience and willingness to give her all for our beneficiaries.

OHA’s administration underwent major changes with the appointment of Dr. Kamana‘opono Crabbe as its new Ka Pouhana/CEO. I have been impressed by his exemplary work over the past eight months, and I look forward to the positive changes he will bring to OHA in the coming year.

APPOINTED BAE VICE CHAIR AND SERVED AS A LEGISLATIVE LIAISON I was honored to be appointed vice chair of the Committee on Beneficiary Advocacy and Empowerment (BAE), one of only two subject-matter committees under the board. I worked closely with BAE chair, Trustee John Waihe‘e IV, on legislation and ongoing programs. I also continued to serve as one of two “legislative liaisons” appointed by Trustee Waihe‘e for the 2012 legislative session.

PROTECTING KULEANA LAND PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS On Nov. 22, 2011, the Star-Advertiser reported that the Real Property Tax Advisory Commission recommended that the City and County of Honolulu eliminate property tax exemptions for about 150,000 Oahu homeowners, including kuleana landowners.

On Jan. 23, 2012, I testified before the City Council’s Budget Committee hearing on the Real Property Tax Advisory Commission’s report. I explained the heartbreaking history of kuleana lands and stressed to the Budget Committee chair, Council member Ann Kobayashi, that OHA strongly opposed the proposal.

Thankfully the matter was dropped (for now at least). Upon Council member Kobayashi’s recommendation, I worked to get the state Legislature to pass a resolution supporting the protection and preservation of kuleana lands.

Rowena On April 10, Akana 2012, the state Senate adopted Senate ResoTrustee, At-large lution (SR) 33, which urged the counties to preserve property tax exemptions for kuleana lands. I would like to offer my sincere thanks to Sen. Malama Solomon, who introduced SR 33, and Sens.

Brickwood Galuteria, Gilbert Kahele, Donovan Dela Cruz and Michelle Kidani for signing on to the resolution. I would like to give a big mahalo to OHA staff members Breann Nu‘uhiwa, Sterling Wong, Jim McMahon and Luci Meyer for all their efforts to get this resolution passed.

I would also like to send a special mahalo to Rep. Faye Hanohano for introducing the House versions of the resolutions, HCR 117 and HR 89. However, Speaker Calvin Say killed both resolutions in the Finance Committee so we need to try again next year.

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SETTLEMENT BILL PASSES On April 11, 2012, in an emotional ceremony at Washington Place, Governor Abercrombie signed the historic $200 million settlement between the state and OHA. After many years of negotiations, OHA finally resolved all claims that were raised with the state relating to its portion of income from the Public Land Trust from Nov. 7, 1978, to June 30, 2012, on past-due amounts owed. The state has now fulfilled its constitutional obligations to Native Hawaiians by providing OHA with fee simple title to lands in Kakaako Makai. The proposal will not affect any other claims against the state.

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Information and registration forms are available at: www.kapuleohana.com. Watch for regular updates to be posted as planning continues.

Email kapuleohana@gmail.com, follow us on Facebook @ Kapule â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ohana, or contact Lui at (808) 281-7562 or Leni at (808) 357-5950.

THOMPSON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Charles Thompson, son of Lillian Eckart Thompson and Charles Edward Kealakekua Thompson, along with wife Momilani Thompson and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana will be holding a Thompson family reunion on Maui for the descendants of (Papa) Charles Edward Kealakekua Thompson this Dec. 14-16, 2012.

Papa Charles was married four times and we would be happy to see all of his children and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children attend. With his first wife, Annie Akuini, he had 11 children: Edward Kuâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ulei, Lena, William, Matilda, Mina, Violet, Emma, Frank, Alexander Gay, Otto and Herbert. With his second wife, Amoe Ahio, he had two children, Judith and Mary Ann. With his third wife, Isabelle Namauâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;u, he had four children: Charles, Sherman, Isabelle and Pikake. With his fourth wife, Lillian Eckart, he had 11 children: Charlene, Germaine, Gerard and Theresa, including adopted children Mary Elizabeth, Robert, Francis, Ann, Joseph, Charles and Adrienne Low. Contact Charles or Momi at 572-9079 or at P.O. Box 790534 Päâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ia, HI 96779. Or, email them at cassi_ kassen@yahoo.com.

2013 AKUNA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The descendants of Goo Tong Akuna/Puakailima Kaholokula and Goo Tong Akuna/Chang Shee (aka Chang Oe) will be holding their eighth family reunion in Las Vegas July 29-31, 2013. Check in is July 29.

This event will be held at the California Hotel.

Deadline to register is Dec. 1, 2012. All descendants of Ah Ki Akuna, Apiu Akuna, Ah Chuck Akuna, Mary Ah Pin Chung-Leong, Hannah Ah Han Ah Fong, Mabel Ah Lan Alana Wallace, Jack Pun San Akuna, Henrietta Ah Hong Apo, Malia Maria Naehu, Edward K. Akuna, Agnes Neki Igarta, Lawrence Goo, Yeh Wah Goo, Sing Kum Goo, Sim Goo, and Choy Goo are invited to attend. For info, contact Elsie Kali at 9208 W. Meranto Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89178; or (310) 606-0049. Or, contact Mev Igarta at 21129 Catskill Ave., Carson, CA; mevorligarta@ sbcglobal.net or phone (310) 830-8356.

KINIMAKA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A July 5-7, 2013, family reunion in Honolulu is being planned for Kinimaka descendants, and descendants of Hanakeola and David Leleo Kinimaka.

Kinimaka and his first wife, Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;aheo Kaniu, were the mäkua hänai of King Kaläkaua. In 1844, Kinimaka married again to Pai and from this union they had one daughter and two sons. Their son David Leleo Kinimaka (hänai brother of King Kaläkaua) rose to the rank of colonel and became the commander of the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guard at â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iolani Palace. David married Hanakeola in 1874 and their children were: Mary Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;aheo Kinimaka (m) John Atcherley; Alice Kehaulani Kinimaka (m) Samuel Mahuka Spencer; Rebecca Kekiionohi Kinimaka (m) Arthur Akina Apana; Fannie Kahale uki-o-Liliha Kinimaka (m) Joseph Kunewa, and Mathias Percival Hoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;olulu Kinimaka (m) Virginia Keawe. Descendants of John Kaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;elemakule Sr. (grandson of Kinimaka), descendants of Samuel Leleo and descendants of Matilda Leleo-Kauwe are all cousins invited to attend this family gathering. A highlight of the family gathering will be a guided tour of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iolani Palace and a family lĂźâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;au on the palace grounds.

Mainland and overseas travelers are urged to book air reservations early. For detailed reunion information, please visit the Kinimaka website at Kinimaka.com.

NAKAGAWA/AH PUCK/LAU KONG/ THOMAS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Descendants of the Nakagawa, Ah Puck, Thomas and Lau Kong families of Waipiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;o Valley will be having a family reunion July 26 and 27, 2013, on Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Island. Contact Yoko Lindsey (granddaughter of Rachel K. Ah Puck and Charles P. Thomas.) for more information. Email, lindsey.ohana@ gmail.com; phone, (808) 989-0854; mailing address, P.O. Box 463 Kamuela, HI 96743.

PAHUKOA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The descendants of Thomas and Marianna Pahukoa are having a family reunion July 4-7, 2013, at the Keâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;anae Peninsula on the island of Maui, Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i.

We have a committee of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana that are putting together a fun event. We are working on housing. Shirts and genealogy books are available for presale and donations are also being accepted. Please call 1-808-281-0040 if you are interested and want to come or email me at lpahukoa@hotmail.com or my mailing address is 1885 Launiupoko Place, Wailuku, HI 96793. Please make checks payable to Pahukoa â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ohana Reunion Fund. Order forms are being mailed out and we have been sending out newsletters. If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten one, please call me so that I can add you to the mailing list. Aloha and we hope to see all of our â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana there. There is also a website at www. pahukoa.ning.com and Facebook at Thomas and Marianna Pahukoa.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Imi â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ohana â&#x20AC;˘ Family Search AKANA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I am looking for descendants of Kamalii Akana and Akiona Akana. Akiona Akana was born in 1891 on Maui and Kamalii Akana was born 1895, also on Maui. Would greatly appreciate any information youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to find. Mahalo, Marilyn Kido, mkido10871@ hotmail.com.

EWALIKO/GRUBE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I am trying to locate family members on my motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side. Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was Harriet Kaehukaiopuaena (Ewaliko) Grube, married Edward Michael Grube Jr. and had five sisters (Ethel, Aileen aka Bess, Lilinoe aka Noe, Kuualoha aka Peachie and Kaui) and five brothers (William Jr., Otto aka Eddie, Valentine, Herbert, and David aka Boots aka Sonny Boy). Momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father was William Lonomakua Ewaliko Sr., husband of Elizabeth Kekumano and was born in Hilo, Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i. I believe that his father and mother were John Ewaliko and Kaanaana Ewaliko and siblings David, George, Kalei (w), Emily and James Ewaliko. They lived on Amaulu Road in Hilo.

I believe that George married Lizzie, and had four daughters (Ruth, Virginia, Mary and Elizabeth), a son and grandson named John and moved to Anahola, Kauaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i. Kalei married Rufus Lyman, had three children (Rebecca, Francis and Clarence) as of 1930 and stayed in Hilo. David married Julia and had two daughters (Margaret and Marjory) and lived in Hilo.

We met a Marjory at our momâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funeral in 2001. Any information is appreciated. Contact Ede Fukumoto at eafukumoto@hotmail.com.

KA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OHANA O KALAUPAPA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Has records and resources that could provide you with information about any ancestors you might have had at Kalaupapa. Contact us by e-mail (info@kalaupapaohana.org), mail (Ka â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ohana O Kalaupapa, P.O. Box 1111, Kalaupapa, HI 96742) or phone (Coordinator Valerie Monson at 808-573-2746). There is no charge for our research. All descendants are also welcome to become part of Ka â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ohana O Kalaupapa.

MEDEIROS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Doing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana research on Alfred B. Medeiros Sr. from South Kona, married Mary Kalani Kaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;alele, also born in South Kona, on April 6, 1907. Mary Kaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;aleleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, William Kalani Kaalele, born around 1883 married Annie Waikulani Burns, born June 12, 1883. Seeking additional information for Annie Waikulani Burnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; father, John Teewale Burns, born around 1856 in the South Pacific Islands.

Would like to have a family reunion in the near future in Kona. Contact Kimo Medeiros Jr. @ Kimomedeiros@yahoo.com.

NeÂŻULA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; My name is Kelena Kamamalahoe â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;o Kamehameha KĂŤpoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;o â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;o Kalani NĂŤula, and I am trying to locate family members on my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side. My dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is Glenn â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keikâ&#x20AC;?

Hoâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohuli-NĂŤula, and my grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name was William â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tuheitiaâ&#x20AC;? NĂŤula whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from Takapuna, New Zealand, one of the highest chiefs in rank. My grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is Queen Ella Kapaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ona-NĂŤula, who is from North Kohala, Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i. If anyone has information on my â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana or are my relatives, please write to me, Kelena â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keleiâ&#x20AC;? NĂŤula. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m currently locked up in Arizona due to Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overcrowded system. Please write: 1250 E Arica Rd., Eloy, AZ 85131.

connection between Daniel Puhi and Marine Lance Cpl. Keith Jon Puhi, a war casualty in December 1969. Both men are interred at the veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cemetery in Hilo. Any assistance and/ or leads will be truly appreciated. To see the Puhi remembrance pages, visit www.buildthecenter.org, click on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Search the wall,â&#x20AC;? then click â&#x20AC;&#x153;Start your search.â&#x20AC;? Scroll to the bottom and select Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i from the list of states.

Blossom T. Sullivan, tel: (910) 844-6184, sullivanwb4@embarqmail.com.

OWENS/KAINAPAU â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame (HMHF) is searching for the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana of Harry Owens and George Kainapau to honor these two gentlemen. Harry Owens was the music director at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and is credited with writing 300 hapa haole songs, including Sweet Leilani; Hawaiian Hospitality; Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Calls; To You, Sweetheart, Aloha; and Sing me a Song of the Islands. George Kainapau was a noted falsetto, and his Island Serenaders opened the Ale Ale Kai Room at the Kaiser Hawaiian Village Hotel in 1956. The next year, Kainapau was on the mainland performing and appearing in a number of Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hawaiian-themed films, where he brought falsetto singing to a worldwide audience. If you have any information on the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ohana of Harry Owens or George Kainapau, call Ann of HMHF at (808) 392-3649.

RAYMOND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Harriet Ulihala Raymond (Aug. 4, 1910-Feb. 11, 1939) was born in North Kohala on Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Island. She was my maternal grandmother. I am looking for any artifacts that belonged to her and/or any photos of her.

She died when my mother was 6 years old. My mother was told that a trunk containing her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possessions was given to someone from Kona with the last name of Kanakanui.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for info that can lead to finding any mementos of Harriet Ulihala Raymond. Please email Bernadette K. Newcomb at wahine onaona@yahoo.com.

PIO/KEPIO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; We are looking for descendants of Victoria Nakoaelua Pio (Kepio), born about 1867 in KaupĂś, Maui, and died May 15, 1928, in KaupĂś, Maui. Her father is Kepio aka Kelii Pio aka Kaawalauole Pio and mother is Keoahu. She married 1) Hale Kunihi and 2) Kahaleauki. Her children were Kalahiki; Lusiana Helela Kunihi Pio born about 1890, died about 1902 in Honolulu, Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i; and Nakoa, who married Henry Stuart. She is buried at St. Joseph Church cemetery in KaupĂś, Maui, under the name Mrs. V. N. Kahaleauki.

We are the descendants of Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s siblings: Kahaleuahi (k), Malaea (w), Kaukani (k), Ipoaloha (w), Kaleohano (k). Please contact Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i Peters at (808) 590-7186 or epeters95@ yahoo.com.

PUHI â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Looking for Puhi family members or friends of Army Cpl. Daniel Kimokeo Puhi, fallen Vietnam veteran, who might have a photograph of him. According to his military profile, Daniel was born in 1939, and a war casualty in December 1967. He is mentioned in the book Days of Valor and also in the movie of the same name. I am trying to put a face to his online remembrance page (www.buildthecenter.org) and also at the Education Center at the Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C. This is a nationwide project to extend the legacy of the men and women of that war.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also helping George Apo, a Puhi descendant on his grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, search for his Puhi relatives. We think there could be a family

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THE KULEANA LAND TAX ordinances in the City and County of Honolulu, County of Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i, County of Kauaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i and County of Maui allow eligible owners to pay minimal property taxes each year. Applications are on each countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s web site.

All personal data, such as names, locations and descriptions of Kuleana Lands will be kept secure and used solely for the purposes of this attempt to perpetuate Kuleana rights and possession.

RODRIGUES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Searching for the descendants of Mary, Oliver and Emma Rodrigues, who are the children of Alfred Rodrigues, born 1889 in Puerto Rico, and Mary Isabella Medeiros Pacheco, born 1886 in Päpaâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ikou.

Alfred and Mary married in Hälawa, Kohala, where their three children were born. Emma was born in 1911, and Alfred died in Honolulu shortly after that. Mary married a serviceman, Grover Runyan, in 1913, and after having two children in Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i, they moved to San Diego in 1917, leaving Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three children behind. Grover and Mary had five children: Victoria, Albert, Saul, Arline and Adeline (?). The 1910 Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i census places Alfred, Mary, Oliver and Emma in Kohala, where Alfred worked at the Kohala Sugar Co. The 1920 Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i census places all three children at the Kalihi Orphanage in Honolulu, aka St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Oliver left Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;i for California in 1927, where he took the name Oliver Hamlin.

Emma also moved to California and married a man named Pena. After Pena died, Emma married Penaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother. After the second Penaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, she married Archie Young and is listed as Emma Hamlin. Both Emma and Oliver lived in San Diego. Mary is purported to have lived on Maui. Contact: Clarence A. Medeiros Jr., CAMedeiros88@gmail.com, (808) 328-2074 (home), (808) 960-0179 (mobile).

TONG â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Aloha, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for any information regarding Agnes Kokai Tong, the mother of my grandmother, Elizabeth Kaehukui (Keaukai?) Akana. She was born approximately in 1867 in, we believe, Hilo and died approximately in 1907. Call (808) 870-7740 or email bob@livemaui.com. ď&#x201A;˘

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