I don't have the answers to my dislike to this organization. What I do know in the very older years there opposing views in the family to the program. It's taken years to understand how Kuhio and his buddies followed their personal functions upon women and children. And those Anglo functions continue today with those of us that are living on DHHl. What's interesting to see and experience are people that I know or are very close to that simply lack, how their organization impacts DHHL communities.
Education is pounced upon, as a matter fact can wreck a child's economics from cradle to tomb. Harsh words--their functions wobble through the entire life span of a child. There are since 1998 a bit of breathing paths to opportunities, however, so did the growth of native Hawaiian children needing to further their education. The diversity population bug bit into the children's grants for education, demanding higher GPA hurdles, and greater and deeper personal information for future lock-down. It is the lock-down that I see happening in post education. What do I mean? Being used to lock-down opportunities for young people leave the poverty communities. thus, a cycle of generations remaining in place. True, education is not free and almost always not available to an independent thinking person. The control mechanisms exist and it's, unfortunately, my poor explanation.
It runs even higher today when it comes to 'aina'. I do not see the children today as living on soil. There is almost no voice opposing 'density' therefore it's an acceptable way of abode for the future generation in Hawaii. That's truly sad! What dug the the path to compartment living as oppose to living on soil (land) outside your window and front and back door? Hawaiian Civic Club (formerly known as the Hawaiian Club) players of changes to suit their social friends agenda's. Yes, Kuhio did die soon after the Organic Act was amended to include the Rehabilitation Act, however, regardless he did spend fourteen years prior to his death lobbying for 200,000 approx acres to be set aside for native Hawaiians with 50% bloodquantum (partly true). In my opinion, it was not intended to rehabilitate native people back to their lands. It was to cause reason for Hawaiian usage (common law) for water redirections to corporate plantations. In 1974, there was a smidgen of native Hawaiians living on DHHL (200,000 acres), and just 3,000 qualified applicants on the wait list. The idea of living on DHHL grew popular that and combined children births on DHHL--sent the wait list to what it reads today--40,000 individuals described to be 50% plus bloodquantum and having a family.
What's the problem? Not a problem--but many problems to the point of DHHL imploding. We have a childlike director at the helm steering the entire program to grounding-stuckness! Static solutions allows the outsiders to take chunks of land out of the inventory, disguised as 'general leases' for non native Hawaiians. The covenant (confusion) whose on first and whose on second and so on after decades of shuffling lands between players. Native Hawaiians 50% plus bloodquantum are not in the game.
The game rules means and the ends drives the multifaceted structured 19th century into the deep abyss. Loss of Hawaiian aina, no pegged history, and lacking in education sends our native children into a space and time zone. What is that space and time zone look like? By aesthetic design lots of color and unfunctional architectural structured forms. Hawaiian Civic Club members are now forming this scenarios from a weak sense or lack of ancestors knowledge. The question should be asked are Hawaiian Civic Club members connecting with community people that walk the talk on ancestral lands? If this is not their agenda, then what is their actual purpose? My guess is social gathering is 98% and their outcome are no different from the origin of the Organic Act itself and that is to divert drinking water to corporate entities via local structured system. Play the game and one play's by their rules.
It's always the same-- what resiliency does native people have? That's for the future generation to answer in their own form. Just on that note we ought to be exploring Regional Independence as a Pacific Island governing entity--to gain control of our destiny into the future. I don't think the days of the old political intent for plantation owners is a fair trade and exchange in living conditions for all Pacific Island residence regardless of blood ancestry and still more so bloodquantum. Our abode/abide includes our environment and that's how it should be well into the future generations in any Pacific Islander in ones senior years.
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