What I have learned over 40 years that our Na Kupuna was the most harmonious people that lived in accord with nature. The intelligent community have not come close to our ancestors and their biology to warrant any type of rules in seeking understanding of their past. It is shocking to note that the bankers in a global sense are now governing all life on earth. Our classroom in any given setting have to teach many disciplines in order to build a functional society. As a na kanaka, one distinguishes oneself from a non Pacific Islander and an Islander with more than a thousand years of continuity living in an Pacific Island.
Unable to agree with the non Pacific Islanders 'blinding' perceptions of describing our ancestors in Hawaii, I started to gather, interpret and exchanging information with a diverse group that had similar intentions. We sat in monthly meetings to gather our thoughts and share our physical findings of our ancestors 'ukana' and their Hawaiian usages in everyday living environments. Our group consisted of 250 members with high energy that at times was astounding to conceive except when we were together and these meetings are still on going. What's in consistent, however, is the written information that was researched and documented. In a sense, a particular touch of research information are not the point of marketing ones trade. The earlier scientist team was not privy to striking an accord with their study setting and the inherent beliefs of somethings that are visibly observed. It's not possible for a non Pacific Islander to interpret his randomly sampled artifact and interpretation by signatures that are not grounded into what is observed, found and compared to other non Pacific Island measurements. Aside from changes of islands, one can assert that cultural significance should not be interpreted by an Egyptian artifact or large land mass one that a non Pacific Islander may use in his description of sorts. My dad can be used as an example in my explanations to what is being asserted as significant to classroom study and outcome of findings to a set of rules.
This past summer my dad past at the age of 87 in the very place he was born. The physical setting is 1845 Maunawili Road., Kailua, HI. He is pure Hawaiian and did not migrate to Hawaii from another place for at least two thousand years. The physical location is the fourth because his family of origin had to endure the influx of non native want of material things and their outpouring bankers credit. All four forced re-locations occurred within a mile where his ancestors 'iwi' was placed at time before.
The invasive culture of non Pacific Islanders that are performing studies of our Na Kupuna and their aina are the actual bankers, creditors and rulers that had abused my father's family for 200 years. There are many questions to be asked and answered by our ancestors. We, our heritage ought not be stolen, destroyed or passed over as insignificant by non Pacific Islanders observations by their standard of measurements.
The is the pathway of Non Pacific Islanders that does not hesitate to trade our na Kupuna and their ancestors land to the highest bidder or military procurement. We surely must find another way to interpret out cultural and sacredness of our ancestors and to begin to share their knowledge with the world that hunger's to gain knowledge of the Hawaiian ancestors.
This is not the way to go!
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