Kahea from Kaloman Keoki Fukumitsu: Rally to Stand and Work on the Aina
Aloha Everyone,
As I fight for my family Kuleana, I realize that I fight for all our kuleana and all our rights to live and practice our native culture. Every time I look around land is taken away from us. Water is taken away from us. Use of the ocean is taken away from us. Here I stand in Hakipu`u to save all these things not just for me and my family but for all of us.
I have asked for help before and I continue to humbly ask for your help to rally for the aina on the aina. By actually demonstrating what we do best upon the aina, we make a positive stand.
The courts have given us a stay of 6 weeks. During this time I and my family are working hard to build the funds to purchase back our lands - lands that we should have rightfully inherited without any pilikia.
So I ask your kokua once more to help me to raise this land up for the Glory of God. My body is broken and I will need double hip replacement soon. Because of the pain, I have not been able to work the land as hard as I have in the past. Everything I have is worn down, not just me - equipment, tools, even my family.
With your help, we can save the aina, and do good work to demonstrate our culture in action...
- Any day of the week, any time, any number of people.
- To start we huki all taro being overgrown by grass and drowned out by the rains.
- We plant the huli in pots so we don't lose the young shoots to snails and the weather.
- Then we clean up the land, cut and plow down and mulch to prepare it for the potted huli.
Again, any day of the week, any time, any number of people.
Even one person working alongside me and my family will help.
Please get back to me so I can put you in touch with a family member, or set it up myself.
Mahalo to all of you for all that you put out. We have to stick together and work together.
Keoki
Keoki Fukumitsu, Kaloman
Email: KeokiKaloman@aol.com
Cell: 554-7650
49-077 Johnson Road
Hakipu`u Ahupua`a ~ Ko`olaupoko ~ Moku O`ahu
Eia ke kalo kanu o ka 'ãina, ke kalo pa'a 'o Hakipu'u.
Here are the natives of the land from generations back, the firm kalo of Hakipu'u.
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Yes it's true Uncle Harry Mitchel was at the UH Manoa and there was an exchange after we all came home from stopping the bombing on Kahoolawe. We all made a commitment to plan taro, go back to the aina, and stand up for our children as Na Kanaka. So we came home and purged the American life style.
And we know that we going toil the land for our children to have a sense of values that our Na Kupuna practiced on their ancestral lands.
'O Kanaloa Kohe Malamalama'!