Bloodquantum, bloodquantum, bloodquantum: I don't agree with Eric Poohina, but he is telling the truth!

from Eric Poohina:

Inresponse to Earl Arakai letter dated 11/19, Staradvertiser,
Homelands Get Tax Break.

Ignorant settlers from asia and the USA know little of the
political history of Hawaii but consistently give their
uneducated public opinions.
Hawaiians who reside on Hawaiian Homelands don't own the land
that their houses are on because they signed a lease.
In the lease they relinquished their claims to the original
Crown lands also known as Ceded lands.
RESERVING UNTO THE LESSOR THE FOLLOWING, is the clause in
the Dept. of Hawaiian Home Lands lease where Hawaiian homesteaders
signed off their mineral, natural resources, water rights,
sovereign rights
and all claims to the demised lands to the state of Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Homesteads are technically Indian Reservations
and the Hawaiians residing on the Homesteads are Indians
as defined under American Indian Law.
They signed off their claims to their cultural lands.
So that is the reason why homesteaders dont pay property tax.
The State of Hawaii is only in a managerial position realtive
to the Crown lands. The legal owners stipulated within the
Great Mahele Hawaiian land Tenure System of 1848 are the descendants
of King Kekaulike and King Kamehameha I.
Research , Kamehameha's Children Living Today by Charles Ahlo,
The U.S. Hawaiian Apology Law 103-150 of 1993,
the 2009 State Supreme Court Ruling on the Ceded lands, (CIV. NO
94-4207),
the 2009 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on the Ceded lands, (NO. 07-1372),
and 2009 State of Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals case
Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 (No. 28175) all acknowledge the fact
that Hawaiians with the genealogy connection still have a legitimate
claim
to the Kuleana, Konohiki, Ali'i Private Estate Trust Lands and Crown
lands
also known as Ceded lands.
The Great Mahele of 1848 is alive and well!

Eric Po'ohina
po box 744
kailua hi 96734
ph# 348-7550
aumakua@aloha.net

Eric and I graduated from the same school 'Kailua High School"

Eric is one year older I believe, I graduated in 1966.

Eric did not know who I was nor does he remember me. Why? Eric thinks like my Maunawili family uncles. There was two distinct Hawaiians those who found DHHL to be repulsive and those that had no choice, but to live on DHHL. I had to live on DHHL. My parents were rich in Na Kanaka and missionary, however, poor and at one point in poverty. Soon after the eviction from Manoa Valley Housing Authority, we moved to Waimanalo Homestead before statehood (fake). My mom gave birth at home in the housing with her last child. So dad had no choice,but to move to Waiamanalo. Believe it or not we were hated/disliked and thought of as 'pilau'.

Which is why I didn't go out with kanaka boys, too much conflict (I dated my husband and although little Hawaiian it really wasn't present) so I had the best of both worlds back then in this relationship. By the way my husband is on the side of Eric in this argument.

I am on the side of Haloa!

At a very early age I understood why my father went to Mr Abe Piianae to get a place at Waimanalo and that was to take care of my mom and his children. Most Na Kanaka men on Maoliworld do not have a sense of taking care of their children and women that do produce children that are Na kanaka. Nor do they have a sense of what Uncle Eddie Kaanana means when he talks about Haloa.

To add to the side of Eric, my dad now lives in the kitchen he was born in at 1845 Maunawili Road. In his yard there is a place for the practice of Haloa. This is unconscious in my dad's mind, however, very present in the yard along with other things that depict the 'niaupio' and Ali'i time in between. I have a strong understanding as to what really happened from Kam I to today! Much more than most of you on this Maoliworld. It is not an ideology or paper tiger with words, it's a way of life for me. But, one that is slipping away quickly. Do I care yes, do I side with Eric, hypocrtically, in part!

On the otherside of this coin which weakens our arguments on both sides because of super ego--is the fact that women needed to naturally give birth to children and the Hawaiian Kingdom stole that sense of place in their consciousness by daming the bloodquantum, and lost the responsibility to it's nation building. Nationalist lost the nation building! In otherwords, all talk, all paper, and all cyber. All U.S.!

I loath the very existence of CNHA and the Ray Soon's Ho'okako'o Corporation. When Ray Soon was the Director like most Directors he literally committed murder. Most people that participated in the 1974 Council of Hawaiian Organizations and the 1978 Con con committed murder. This is a deadly combination for Native Hawaiian women on DHHL lands. The only relief I found over the years was Uncle Eddie Kaanana. I never really sat and talked to him, in fact, I avoided 'verbal' conversation. I just sat and listened and watched the body language and too, follow directions.

Haloa is a corner of a house, dwelling and rockwall. There is two ends one on my dad's side has the taro and the other side has the Ulu tree. What is underneath the earthen soil is the babies, ones that died in infancy. Babies die and they are buried near the living mother so that she can raise that childre too in her mind. Wierd world, but what do all of you think Haloa is? Most of you come from the Haole version of Haloa.

There is much to say about Haloa, but more will come in time. My Uncle John 'Niaupio, Kahuna Sam Lono and George Helm these three men knew what Haloa was and practiced Haloa! Fortunetly, for me I was able to know Eddie Kaanana and John Lake that helped to maintain my sanity. Haloa builds the nation whether it's Nationals, Hawaiian Kingdom, or DHHL lands. If one doesn't have an understanding about Haloa--I don't know. Maybe one has a shopping center mindset--then I don't know too.

Try and listen to Walter Ritte on the "Kahoolawe Story" it's a documentation of the beginning. He gives a better detail about the start of 'Stop the Bombing' which I became part of soon after it started. Not by choice--by the order of my mother! And that is they way I approach Haloa. I have no fear on Maoliworld with 20,000 members all siding with Eric. I have more fear of not doing right by my Na Kupuna.

Unlike you guys, I cannot condem 'Haloa'. Birthing is a place where ever it is needs to be protected. DHHL is a place of birth, women and children. I loath the very existence of the Akaka Bill because of the military component and know that the 'bloodquanutme' keeps them apart and far far away.

So I was very lucky to have been there to say stop the bombing and have come to know all the Na Kupuna that had come out of their comfort during that time to work with the opio's. There was very little desrespect, I guess because most of us weren't from the shopping center mentality. We did not demand that our parents purchase all kine stuff for us like nowadays!

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Kaohi November 19, 2010 at 9:57pm

Eric and I graduated from the same school 'Kailua High School"

Eric is one year older I believe, I graduated in 1966.

Eric did not know who I was nor does he remember me. Why? Eric thinks like my Maunawili family uncles. There was two distinct Hawaiians those who found DHHL to be repulsive and those that had no choice, but to live on DHHL. I had to live on DHHL. My parents were rich in Na Kanaka and missionary, however, poor and at one point in poverty. Soon after the eviction from Manoa Valley Housing Authority, we moved to Waimanalo Homestead before statehood (fake). My mom gave birth at home in the housing with her last child. So dad had no choice,but to move to Waiamanalo. Believe it or not we were hated/disliked and thought of as 'pilau'.

Which is why I didn't go out with kanaka boys, too much conflict (I dated my husband and although little Hawaiian it really wasn't present) so I had the best of both worlds back then in this relationship. By the way my husband is on the side of Eric in this argument.

I am on the side of Haloa!

At a very early age I understood why my father went to Mr Abe Piianae to get a place at Waimanalo and that was to take care of my mom and his children. Most Na Kanaka men on Maoliworld do not have a sense of taking care of their children and women that do produce children that are Na kanaka. Nor do they have a sense of what Uncle Eddie Kaanana means when he talks about Haloa.

To add to the side of Eric, my dad now lives in the kitchen he was born in at 1845 Maunawili Road. In his yard there is a place for the practice of Haloa. This is unconscious in my dad's mind, however, very present in the yard along with other things that depict the 'niaupio' and Ali'i time in between. I have a strong understanding as to what really happened from Kam I to today! Much more than most of you on this Maoliworld. It is not an ideology or paper tiger with words, it's a way of life for me. But, one that is slipping away quickly. Do I care yes, do I side with Eric, hypocrtically, in part!

On the otherside of this coin which weakens our arguments on both sides because of super ego--is the fact that women needed to naturally give birth to children and the Hawaiian Kingdom stole that sense of place in their consciousness by daming the bloodquantum, and lost the responsibility to it's nation building. Nationalist lost the nation building! In otherwords, all talk, all paper, and all cyber. All U.S.!

I loath the very existence of CNHA and the Ray Soon's Ho'okako'o Corporation. When Ray Soon was the Director like most Directors he literally committed murder. Most people that participated in the 1974 Council of Hawaiian Organizations and the 1978 Con con committed murder. This is a deadly combination for Native Hawaiian women on DHHL lands. The only relief I found over the years was Uncle Eddie Kaanana. I never really sat and talked to him, in fact, I avoided 'verbal' conversation. I just sat and listened and watched the body language and too, follow directions.

Haloa is a corner of a house, dwelling and rockwall. There is two ends one on my dad's side has the taro and the other side has the Ulu tree. What is underneath the earthen soil is the babies, ones that died in infancy. Babies die and they are buried near the living mother so that she can raise that childre too in her mind. Wierd world, but what do all of you think Haloa is? Most of you come from the Haole version of Haloa.

There is much to say about Haloa, but more will come in time. My Uncle John 'Niaupio, Kahuna Sam Lono and George Helm these three men knew what Haloa was and practiced Haloa! Fortunetly, for me I was able to know Eddie Kaanana and John Lake that helped to maintain my sanity. Haloa builds the nation whether it's Nationals, Hawaiian Kingdom, or DHHL lands. If one doesn't have an understanding about Haloa--I don't know. Maybe one has a shopping center mindset--then I don't know too.

Try and listen to Walter Ritte on the "Kahoolawe Story" it's a documentation of the beginning. He gives a better detail about the start of 'Stop the Bombing' which I became part of soon after it started. Not by choice--by the order of my mother! And that is they way I approach Haloa. I have no fear on Maoliworld with 20,000 members all siding with Eric. I have more fear of not doing right by my Na Kupuna.

Unlike you guys, I cannot condem 'Haloa'. Birthing is a place where ever it is needs to be protected. DHHL is a place of birth, women and children. I loath the very existence of the Akaka Bill because of the military component and know that the 'bloodquanutme' keeps them apart and far far away.

So I was very lucky to have been there to say stop the bombing and have come to know all the Na Kupuna that had come out of their comfort during that time to work with the opio's. There was very little desrespect, I guess because most of us weren't from the shopping center mentality. We did not demand that our parents purchase all kine stuff for us like nowadays!

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