Aloha Miliaulani,
Yes, however the branch one is speaking of is Tony Yardly side. I'm on the otherside. My grandpa continued the Ku'e 'talk' at his house on Hollinger Street in Kapahulu. Mother, is a step (oldest) and was raised from infant by Grandpa Orlando Auld. I took on the responsiblilty hesitantly, because I wanted the whole quality of life with the white picket fence, instead. But--my mother in tears with the rest of the Hawaiian Homestead women (Lena Hoohuli) asked me to take over. I will not budge from this responsibility. But, I have my own opinion too. I loath the existence of the Akaka Bill!
First the Akaka Bill is the final blow to Hawaiian Homesteaders, we know it. The Bloodquantum is a multiplyer not a divider and it's on soil (John Wise). Secondly, on Sept 2, 2010 DHHL shifted the entire Bloodquantum qualification to general leases (no bloodquantum). Those of us on DHHL sepcifically--we are in lockdown. And because of the ten year period of lethal contamiantion to our community in Waianae, we need an exit plan from Waianae. DHHL recently, carved out the bloodquantum and turn it over to General Leases for homesteaders. We either foreclose (exit plan), or die painfully.
At this time these are our only options!
If we keep the mechanism of the 'bloodquantum' that had evolved into what it is today in place, we can stave off the military that are driving on to our lands--Lualualei, Pohakoloa etc.. with the right to use depleted uranium in their live fire training. I don't know just yet if the US Military Armed Forces received their license form the Atomic Energy Commission.
What does all of this got to do with the Orlando side of the Aulds? James and Orlando are brothers. A while back, Grandpa was downunder near the Marshall islands working during the US military atmosphere nuclear testing on Pacific Islanders. Grandpa called home and asked that my grandmother name two childred Kawajelin and Marshall. He never wanted his 'ohana' to forget ever the 'evil wrong doning' of what the military can do to Pacific Islanders as far as nuclear contamination. My brother's name is Marshall and this is the spirit I tend to fly on.
Grandpa was the Captain of the Hawaiian Dredging Company and worked with the Dillingham Brothers, I was born not too far from Lapietra at Diamond Head in my grandmother's house. Sadly, my grandmother became a midwife because doctors back then was giving synide pills to pregnant women. Today we have abortions thanks to many men that oppose the 'bloodquantum' during the early 70s.
The Auld's held a huge control state wide because of their relationship with 'Liliu'. On the Ku'e go to page 308 one will see both of my grandparents parents on this plate. This is the group that went to Washington with 'Liliu'. Tony can share more.
One need to ask, why was Tony's brother the first director of OHA?
My grandfather side had the land and I believe Tony's side had the clout, credibility and the intergrity of leading our people within a state entity. This is an important understanding to the Auld family and how come and why Tony and I are tireleesly working for our people. There was another family that held the Hawaiian Community together--Abe Piinaia son of Tutu Kaleo.
Abe Piinaia (sp) his father and mother Tutu Kaleo was the place one would go for everything, especially respect and authority within the entire Pacific Ocean. In this house my grandmother met Orlando Auld. All sea captains stayed at this house to speak of things that happened out in the Pacific Ocean. Nainoa Thompson dad-- Pinky had great respect for our families.
At the Bishop Museum one can locate some information of this beautiful family. I have wonderful cousins that I hold and revere because they carry this legacy and sometimes it can be very trying on the their families.
Now I don't know how close these brothers were, I only know what my mother did and she was a private person, until all hell was breaking on homestead. It was not like her to become political, but seeing the suffering--she steped away from the all the barriers that kept her 'proper' like a good missionary child.
I'm the wild thing!
My Uncle Mel Kalahiki was a Hawaiian Homestead Commissioner at the crossing period when things on the homestead was rotting between changes. Uncle Mel and his brother uncle Randy was very close to the Auld family. Their are many experiences the whole family carry. Uncle Randy was very close to my grandmother Edith Mitchel.
My grandparents--built a chain of churches across the Hawaiian Islands. It was called Gospel of Salvation, this is a legacy of the Haystack Committee that happened in Conneticut two hundred years ago. This is still alive and well! Americans (PGs, Republicans, not yet grouped) divided the businesses into two groups capitalism and charity. The Aulds chose charity, and it came with a price of many experiences of enduring and at times beyond ones imagination.
The bloodquantum is the only salvation that the people on DHHL have that can stave off the military stronghold on DHHL and possibly the enitre Pacific! If not than I am asking for an exit plan from any DHHL location to another and away from the lethal contamination in our community.
I can go into details as to how I see it coming down on our heads over time because it is unfolding very quickly.
Last night I was with Tane's sister for he was in the hospital and I was truly grateful to have met a person that too understand most of what I am saying. But, I didn't ask for her posiiton on the bloodquantum. Tane is against anything pertaining to the bloodquanutm and very tolerant of me at times.
Ask specific questions, I will try to drum up the evidence.
One such controversial problem that most scholars don't know or don't care about is the word 'part' and how it came to be on birth certificate when infact, Na Kupuna was pure Hawaiian. Lietenant Doi's office was a place to go to and get a change from 'part' to Hawaiin. He gave to our Na Kupuna certificates with the state seal as a proof of pure Hawaiians.
Again, scholars don't really care to know that Prince Kuhio and John Wise wanted a one-thirty second for a definition of a qualified person for the 200,000 acres and our Na Kupuna said 'no way'. They wanted the part of the mother that was Hawaiian and the part of the father that was Hawaiian (in other words a couple both with Hawaiian) to qualify for DHHL. Congress looked at this with great disdain because of the German Eugenics and used the Indian version of qualification which is 50% bloodquantum. I loathe this explanation with a passion like everyone else, but have moved on.
Things happened over a time and one can't run around with a hatchet chopping heads off, just because scholarships were available for studies in an academic setting. But that's basically what has happened and continue's as we speak. Students get their degrees on 10% dead bodies of a given population. In my Waianae community million dollar educational programs receive their degrees on quantifiable numbers based on teen suicide. Off the topic.
My grandfather's known position for DHHL is well known in our family and that he disapproved of my mother living on DHHL. It was a place of shame, because women were there to breed like a horse and not for the nation. Ironically, he was kinda right at that time--but when one answers my Uncle Mel Kalahiki's question today 'what does that got to do with building a nation?' I believe that DHHL fit's his model. For we exist in numbers on the soil. We just have to move away from the idea of military funding for the DHHL state office. Or, in my view exit!!
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You are very intuitive with strategic and tacticle means of communications which I feel are the 'ohana' traits which caused congress to not have a 'majority' for annexation. I will return to reread. It's important that the Auld's claim and maintain this integrity for the next generation. The Ku'e came to be in Wahsington because of the Auld's and I knew this from a very young age.
This Professor can give you details of the event. On Sept. 5, 2010 at the Iolani Palace he gave me details of Alexander Auld as a delegate to DC., and how he spoke before congress.
N. R. Schweizer, PhD—18th-century German classicism, Germans in Hawai‘i, Europeans in the Pacific at UH Manoa. Lynette Cruz said he wrote the book when I told her about the Star-Advertiser was interviewing him while they were doing the play that Dede wrote.
Dede was an Hawaiian Homesteader too at Papakolea before she past.
As for the bloodquantum hold on to ones convictions it's important. I 'loath' the whole aspect of the amendment to the Organic Act, thus, the Rehabilitation Act (DHHL). It' something that has caused much 'pain' in the native Hawaiian community.
We are in grave danger and with little support from the Academic community at UH Manoa that actually started this mess. Rattling bones in drama seems more appropriate than seeing the human enity of it. So, I thank you very much for taking care of the clarity, and the intergrity of Alexander Auld.
Did you know Rod Burgess son is also doing the same? Rod Burgess lives at the Senior Housing in Waimanalo.
Much aloha
Yesterday, I was at my favorite corner at the Iolani Palace with my own personal version of the area. I had an old pictures that I was sharing and the need to hug a tree. That's a different story-I also had a chance to meet other people with similar stories and are on the same page of the Ku'e Peitition.
The Auld's came through yesterday and I am so pleased! I was shocked-- meeting a Holt too. For three names that is concerning are Auld, Mitchel and Holt appear together on the same page of the Ku'e petition.
A Professor from UH Manoa came by just in the nick of time--N. R. Schweizer, PhD—18th-century German classicism, Germans in Hawai‘i, Europeans in the Pacific. Firstly, the Star-Advertiser was starting an interview with me and I was feeling uneasy for a moment, I looked to side and their was Professor Schweizer--unbelieveable.
Secondly, he knows every detail about the role of Alexander, Liliu, and the Ku'e Petition. I am still sketchy and trying to piece things together. Third, my grandparents preached the gospel of Saching Troy from the pulpit, but did not vote.
The whole notion of not registering to vote seemed odd to me. They my grandparents were so political, in nature--protest after protest. But I realized later if we registered to vote that was the plebisite to trick Hawaii into excepting State Hood thus the rest of the unlawful events--no treaty no annexation.
May all cousins and close relations come together to discuss the Ku'e petition and how the Auld delegate that swayed the decision making in Washington DC. for I am only the stepchild. But, I had a mother that lived the life of the Ku'e Pettion until her dying day. Unfortunately, I was only able to grasp bits and pieces and need to reach out for connections more than just sharing what I know. Knowing isn't enough to say what is--there has to be a process of validation.
Rod Burgess too was in the heart and thick of things with Eddie Auld and both men contributed the same amount of magnitude to the Hawaiian politics just as their ancestors did. I would like to encourage you to recheck the connection between Aulds and the Ku'e Petition--it's so powerful.
Mahalo for responding to my questions and especially for removing it from Pomai's discussion. Like I said previously, its very disdainful to read the accusations and name-calling and I don't want to be involved in that dialogue. So lets move on.
I appreciate reading the historical details of your ohana as it overlaps with mine. My tutu never neglected to attend services and celebrations in honor of the Queen and visited the Palace often. She had a strong affection for Lili'u. Her maternal grandfather George participated in the revolution to restore the Queen. Her grand aunt was a lady in waiting to Lili'u when she was imprisoned. Her maternal grand aunt married to Auld cared for her after her mother Frances Miliaulani Kaleikoa Townsend died at the age of 35. She attended St.Andrew's Priory and was able to speak in her mother tongue. It was after she went unwillingly to Kamehameha School for Girls that she was forbidden to speak Hawaiian thus beginning the insidious eroding of a connection to her kupuna. Her grandmother Abigail Kahai Kaleikoa with whom she conversed solely in Olelo Hawaii, died shortly thereafter, closing one more door to that connection. It is my belief that she held her loyalties to the Queen close to her heart but did not voice them. I think she accepted w/ resignation that Hawaii was part of the U.S. and there was nothing that could change that. She learned to "accept" her American citizenship but held fast to her culture in the ways that she could. She was not politically active the way your mother and grandparents were. It is no wonder that you have gone the path that you have. It is in your DNA.
Mahalo for sharing your thoughts about blood quantum. Instinctively, I have rebelled against it because it is written in to Hawaii's laws and therefore makes me non-Hawaiian. It disregards my genealogical connection to place and to my ancestors who have walked before. There is no other identity that sits right w/ me. Personally, I married my first husband who was 50%. I being 37.5% enabled my children to have more koko than me. Both children have gone on to be with partners that have 50%+, ensuring that my moopuna will have more of the koko than my own children. I have participated in reverse dilution and passed that on consciously or unconsciously to my children. Good or bad, that has been my reaction to blood quantum.
Being hapa haole or what others refer to as elite Hawaiian, I didn't have the kinds of life experiences you speak about when growing up in Waiamanalo and Waianae. For that reason, I don't resent my lack of qualification for DHHL. What I do resent is non-Hawaiians getting leases over hapa Hawaiians (who don't meet blood quantum requirements). The de-occupation of Hawaii by the U.S. will allow Kanaka Maoli to self-determine the policies of our nation and resolve those issues within. That should be the goal. Na kanaka are disenfranchised from the land because of U.S. policy. Leases should be converted to fee simple so that kanaka can live on their land in perpetuity. All the land that DHHL is sitting on should be freed up and open to all the "houseless" kanaka living on the beaches and elsewhere.
The entire Wai'anae coast has felt the affects of environmental racism. Na kanaka there are considered "dispensible". I cannot begin to feel your outrage and pain as I don't live it daily as you do. The issue of DU is most frightening of all as it is irreversible. The military can pull out of Pohakuloa, Wahiawa, Makua and Pearl Harbor, leaving the land and waters permanently contaminated and unlivable. As you say, time is running out or has it already?
Frank DeLima told me years ago that he's part of the Piinaia family..........yes, he's part Hawaiian............ the Piinaia genealogy may be in Edith Mackenzie's book.......basically translations out of the newspapers.......
Otherwise for researchers, there is a PUKUI book on unpublished genealogies which can be asked for at the reference desk of the downtown Hawaiian Section .......much genealogies are there........possibly many who cannot locate their genealogies too? Check with them for more information.............
************* I did find out that Hawaiian Homelands in the early years allowed non-Hawaiians in........... then a few years ago, the entity State of Hawaii passed a law which grandfathered in the early immigrants giving them a permanent stay on the lands...........it appears that they were those who supported those who helped to dethrone our Queen............some of the names were picked up in the past by researchers..........................
there's much information coming out of Queen Liliuokalani's families and friends research and did come across the Auld family name along with a court case by Queen Liliuokalani as well................till later.....
aloha nui.